The interior of a conversion center in Grimsby.
- "Once humans are infected by the Chimeran virus, they fall into a coma. The virus begins changing their bodies from the inside out, eventually turning them into one of the Chimeran creatures. The conversion centers simply speed up the process."
- ―Rachel Parker[src]
Conversion centers were facilities widely used by the Chimera to speed up the process of converting Chimeran virus-infected humans and possibly other creatures into Chimera. Conversion centers were equipped to handle possibly hundreds of soon-to-be Chimera.
Overview[]
A human being converted into a Hybrid in a conversion center.
Designed like an assembly line, conversion centers were used by the Chimera to accelerate the transformation of infected humans into newly created Chimera. Infected victims were brought in by Carriers while any uninfected prisoners were kept in makeshift pens until they are infected by Crawlers.[1]
The infected were then given surgical implants and placed into a network of tubes where the bodies undergo different stages of conversion. During the second phase of the conversion process, the victims were wrapped in cocoons to accelerate the final conversion process and turn into a different Chimeran creature depending on the strain of the virus; Hybrids had the shortest gestation period while the more advanced strains took months of gestation and required multiple human bodies.[1] Following gestation, the cocoons were taken to the birthing chamber, the final stage of conversion, where the new Chimeran creature were "born" from their cocoons. In the case of Hybrids and most other Chimera, it was here that cooling units were surgically fused to their bodies to control their unchecked metabolism.[1]
History[]
United Kingdom[]
On May 15, 1951, a British Royal Marine unit led by Lieutenant James Grayson raided a conversion center in Manchester. Grayson discovered his long-missing brother, Johnny Grayson, in the facility, infected and half-converted into a Chimera. Grayson executed his brother in which this incident drove him into desertion and went on a vendetta to destroy every conversion center he could find.[2] Until the end of the Chimeran occupation, Grayson destroyed twenty-six conversion centers.
Following the failure of Operation Deliverance on July 11, 1951, the U.S. 1st Ranger Regiment was decimated in which many fell victim to Crawlers launched from Spire missiles and were transferred to the Grimsby conversion center, where Captain Rachel Parker was also imprisoned. Nathan Hale, though infected and semi-immune to the Chimeran virus, was among those who were taken and managed to escape with Parker.[1]
Following the decimation of Chimeran forces on British soil in the Battle of London, it can be assumed that all conversion centers throughout the United Kingdom fell into disuse.
Operation Overstrike[]
Following the Battle of London, the original conversion centers in Europe were found abandoned and in the process of being dismantled by Chimeran Drones.[3] It was theorized that the raw materials taken from the old conversion centers were being reused in new conversion facilities inside Chimeran towers across Europe. These new conversion centers produced Boilers and Hags as part of the Chimera's new conversion process. Known facilities included are the Bonn facility and the Chrysalis Lair in Paris.
The Chrysalis Lair was a central hub for Carriers and was the target of Operation Overstrike, in which the Maquis planned to ground the Chimeran conversion process by eradicating the Carrier strain. During the attack on Chimera-occupied Paris on September 6, 1951, James Grayson infiltrated the "heart" of the Chrysalis Lair and injected Claude Bouchard's serum into it, allowing the contaminated fluid to be transferred from the Lair to all conversion facilities in Western Europe, killing the Carrier strain and grounding the conversion process to a halt. However, Bouchard's serum was only a temporary measure as the Chimera would eventually ramified the loss of the Carriers with the Spinner strain.[4]
Project Phoenix[]
The conversion tower in the outskirts of Union City
During the Chimera's attack on New York City on August 14, 1951, the Chimera attacked the Union City Protection Camp and abducted many humans to a Conversion Tower.[5] The attack on the camp was premediated by SRPA scientist Richard Gorrell, who intended to fulfill Project Phoenix—an attempt to control Chimeran creatures through Gray Tech modules—by taking control of an incomplete Leviathan.[6] The tower was infiltrated by fireman Tom Riley and resistance fighter Ellie Martinez in which they rescued some of the survivors, including Riley's daughter Rachel. Gorrell failed to take control of the Leviathan in which it battled Riley, who managed to slay the creature and destabilizing the tower's reactor core in the process, causing an unstable chain reaction which led to the facility's destruction.[7]
Post-Operation Overstrike[]
Captured humans in the Holar Tower.
By 1953, the Chimera did not need the conversion centers as much as before, with the new Spinner strains used to creating new Chimeran strains more rapidly and quickly. Conversion centers were still used for advanced strains, but not used as much due to body shortages and the Carrier strain dying off, such as in the Holar Tower.[8]
Post-Operation Black Eden[]
By 1957, the conversion centers have completely fell into disuse, as the Chimera had no intentions of infecting and converting humans, who are on the brink of extinction and along with being inoculated with the Hale Vaccine that made them immune to the Chimeran virus. Instead, the Chimera had focused their attention on wiping out the last remnants of humanity.[9]
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Resistance: Fall of Man[]
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Resistance: Retribution[]
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Resistance: Burning Skies[]
Trivia[]
- In Resistance: The Gathering Storm, the Chimera used makeshift conversion centers.
References[]
- ^ a b c d Resistance: Fall of Man, campaign level Grimsby
- ^ Resistance: Retribution, campaign level The Guns of Rotterdam
- ^ A Drain on Our Resources
- ^ Resistance: Retribution, campaign level Retribution Lost
- ^ Resistance: Burning Skies, campaign level Protection Camp
- ^ Resistance: Burning Skies, campaign level Ellis Island
- ^ Resistance: Burning Skies, campaign level Conversion Tower
- ^ Resistance 2, campaign level Holar Tower
- ^ Change in Strategy