Shortly before the release of Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Capcom had a two piece manga to serve as the backbone behind the Umbrella's End and Dark Legacy scenarios in the game, both of which deal with the downfall of Umbrella. The first half of the manga debuted on November 8th 2008 in issue 50 of Akita Shoten's weekly Shonen Champion magazine. The second and final chapter was published on November 15th, the same day the game hit the Japanese market.
Plot Synopsis
Following the Raccoon City Incident, former S.T.A.R.S. Officers Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield formed their own private biohazard containment unit in order to investigate and contain any future incidents caused by the Umbrella Corporation's bio-weapons. While investigating a remote village in the heart of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in Southern Russia, the pair discovered that yet another T-virus outbreak had occurred, and that most of the inhabitants had already been infected. They located only one survivor, a young girl by the name of Anna.
After destroying a horde of zombies at the village's massive grain silo, they encountered the man who had once been their commanding officer, Albert Wesker. He revealed to them that the Umbrella Corporation had established several clandestine storage facilities around the world in order to disperse and conceal their developmental B.O.W.s. The village they were in was just such a location, and Anna's father was one of the head researchers in charge of overseeing the collected specimens. An explosive-rigged wall safe foiled Wesker's attempt at acquiring technical data on Umbrella's new Hunter Delta model, and he quickly fled the area.
His mission was not entirely unsuccessful, however, as he did manage to locate a digitally encrypted schematic of a nearby Umbrella research facility. Back at the village, Jill and Chris also learned of this facility after Anna revealed to them that her father had once been an employee there. As local authorities arrived on scene, they quickly left to rejoin the rest of their unit.