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Chris Redfield
Chris Redfield began
a career in the military at a young age. He enlisted in the
United States Air Force in 1995 where he learned how to pilot.
He gained a service record filled with both commendations and
disciplinary actions alike. He was often a source of frustration
for his superior officers yet his dedication and determinism was
unrivalled. He was also rigourously trained in hand-to-hand as
well as knife combat.
Commanding officers described him as 'uncompromising',
'possessing unwavering dedication', and 'having a high level of
adaptability.' It was these traits that saw Chris earn his
wings, but also these same traits that brought him into direct
conflict with his superiors.

Eventually, Chris began to gradually become disillusioned with
life in the military and was unceremoniously discharged from the
Air Force for exceeding the authority vested in his rank after
frequent disagreements with his superiors. Chris was the type of
man who placed human life at a greater priority than following
orders, which was not always in synch with the military mindset.
Chris became a drifer, aimlessly wandering from town to town
until he had a chance meeting with Barry Burton. Discovering
Chris' keen aim and previous expertise, Barry recruited him for
the Raccoon City S.T.A.R.S. There, he quickly proved his worth,
becoming the top marksman on the team and field testing the new
weaponry custom made for them. He soon caught the watchful eye
of Captain Wesker who could easily see the potential in Chris.
In the build up to the mansion incident, Chris put his heart and
soul into trying to uncover the truth into the brutal murders
and dissappearances in and around Raccoon Forest. At one point
he was even putting in 16 hour shifts.
On the night of July 24th 1998, Chris along with the rest of
S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team were dispatched to the Arklay Mountains
after contact was lost with Bravo Team. After being chased
inside the Spencer Mansion when their unit was set upon by a
pack of Cerberus dogs, Chris became seperated from the rest of
the team.
As he searched the mansion, he came across Bravo Team survivors
Rebecca Chambers and Richard Aiken. The three of them stove to
uncover the truth as one by one they came across the dead
S.T.A.R.S. members, slain by the unimaginable horrors that were
lurking in the mansion corridors. Eventually, Richard was killed
and Chris and Rebecca made it to the hidden labs and discovered
that Wesker had betrayed them and was apparantly working for
Umbrella.
Chris foiled Wesker's plans by slaying the Tyrant, rescuing Jill
and escaping alive from the mansion before it blew up.
In the weeks following the incident, Chris tried to convince the
R.P.D. to launch a full-scale investigation into Umbrella, yet
progress was hampered thanks to the efforts of Chief Irons. He
became frustrated and assaulted a junior officer. He even asked
a contact he had in the FBI to investigate Brian Irons.
Eventually, after doing some digging of his own, he discovered
Umbrella's plans for the G-Virus.
With Jill opting to stay in Raccoon City to investigate
Umbrella's facilities and Barry flying his family safely away to
Canada, Chris left America to travel to Europe to investigate
Umbrella's main HQ in Paris.
Once he arrived in Europe, Chris dropped off the radar. Neither
the R.P.D. or even his own sister, Claire, knew of his location.
The only person who had a clue to his whereabouts was his
trusted partner Jill Valentine who knew the address of the
safehouse he was staying at.
When Claire Redfield went missing, a concerned Leon Kennedy used
all the resources available in his new found position in the
government to track Chris down and let him know of his concerns
about Claire.
Leon was in contact sometime later when Claire had e-mailed him
from Rockfort Island. He relayed the co-ordinates of the island
and Chris set off by boat to rescue her, asking Leon to organise
a rescue mission.
Arriving at Rockfort by boat, Chris met injured prison officer
Rodrigo Juan Raval who informed him Claire had likely already
escaped from the island. After investigating further, Chris
discovered his former commander, Albert Wesker, was still alive
and kicking and was behind the original attack on Rockfort that
had released the T-Virus. Wesker let slip that Claire was now in
the Antarctic and after barely escaping with his life, Chris
took one of Alfred Ashford's harrier jets and set off for the
South Pole.
When he arrived, he successfully rescued his sister and
destroyed Alexia Ashford, who had recently been awakened with
the T-Veronica virus flowing through her body. However, he was
unable to help Steve Burnside, the young teenager who had helped
Claire escape Rockfort Island in the first place.
He had one final confrontation with Wesker which drew the lines
for a personal battle between the two that would take up almost
the next decade. Only an exploding gas pipe seperated the two
and both decided to retreat as the base was minutes away from
self-destructing. Wesker left a chilling parting warning that
Chris would not be as lucky next time around.
After escaping the Antarctic Base with Claire, Chris spent the
next few years laying low but watching intently from behind the
scenes the unfolding scenes at Umbrella following their business
suspension and ongoing court case regarding the Raccoon City
tragedy.
As B.O.W.s began to appear on the black market, Chris and Jill
joined a private regional biohazard containment unit allied with
the Russian Government and investigated reports of a creature
attacking the residents of a small village in the Russian
Caucasus.
Arriving in the village, Chris had another confrontation with
Wesker and their battle led them to Sergei Vladimir's chemical
factory located just a few miles away. There they faced and
destroyed Umbrella's latest weapon; the T.A.L.O.S.
After securing the facility, Chris knew they had finally struck
the fatal blow and that Umbrella was finished. But he knew the
battle would never be over as long as Wesker was still out
there.
Later in 2003, Chris became one of the founding members of the
Biohazard Security Assesment Alliance, a bio-terrorism
investigation team funded by the Global Pharmaceutical
Consortium and later the United Nations. He became a Special
Operations Agent with Level 10 clearance. Together with Jill he
policed the world, stopping bio-weapons in Asia, destroyed
bio-weapon labs in South America and arrested smugglers in
Europe. All this time they tried without success to track down
Albert Wesker.
In 2006, the B.S.A.A. received intelligence on the possible
whereabouts of Umbrella's founder, Ozwell E. Spencer. Hoping he
could lead them to Wesker, Chris and Jill decided to pay him a
visit. There they battled Spencer's last experiment the 'Keeper
of Madness' and explored a mansion eerily similar to the old
mansion from Raccoon Forest.
As if by fate, Wesker was already waiting for them and another
battle ensued. Only this time it ended in tragedy as Wesker
gained the upper hand over Chris and was about to deliver the
finishing blow when Jill tackled him and sent both herself and
Wesker smashing outside a window and plummeting hundreds of feet
to the ground below.
Chris searched for Jill's body for three months without success.
After she was declared dead, Chris redoubled his efforts to
eradicate all bio-organic weapons wherever they may be.
Three years later, Chris took part in the B.S.A.A. operation in
Kijuju in Africa. Originally he was just an observer but once
the presence of Ricardo Irving was confirmed in the area, Chris
expedited the original investigation due to Irving being of
American nationality and so became directly involved. Chris
became part of the two-man Bravo Team assigned alongside
West-African agent, Sheva Alomar.
Chris and Sheva soon discovered that Kijuju was swarming with
Las Plagas, the parasite Leon Kennedy had documented following
his mission in South Europe five years earlier. Intel received
from other B.S.A.A. teams contained evidence that Jill was
perhaps still alive.
Ignoring orders to retreat from the area, Chris pressed on
deeper into Kijuju and discovered that Albert Wesker was once
again the man behind everything. Worse still, he discovered that
Jill was indeed still alive but thanks to a surgical implant,
was doing the bidding of Wesker.
After saving Jill, Chris and Sheva followed Wesker onto the
Tricell tanker for a final showdown. There they managed to kill
an Uroboros-infected Excella Gionne and damage Wesker by
injecting him with too much of the PG67-AW serum which acted as
a poison to his system.
Determined not to let Wesker escape again, Chris pursued him
onto a stealth jet and de-pressurized the rear cabin causing the
jet to crash onto a volcanic island, preventing Wesker from
launching Uroboros virus missiles into the atmosphere.
Wesker infected himself with Uroboros and pursued Chris for the
final battle. After weakening him, Chris and Sheva escaped onto
a helicopter containing Josh Stone and Jill. There he fired a
rocket launcher at Wesker and finally killed him for good.
As they flew away into the sunset, Chris concluded that all the
fighting he had done over the years had been worth it, for it
allowed them all to live from that moment on in a future without
fear
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