Chapter Summaries

William arranged to have his A380 refurbished, then delivered a semester-opening speech at St. Mary's after Umbrella’s promotion helped Xbox and Abnormal Crisis thrive and shifted attention away from the Manhattan lockdown. Leaving Halifax, he reflected on the time remaining to prevent the coming destruction and resolved to keep going.

• William asked Serena to send his A380 to the arsenal beside Troy for refurbishment and modification.
• Umbrella promoted Xbox and Abnormal Crisis, helping the console become a bestseller and drawing public attention away from the Manhattan Event.
• William addressed students at St. Mary's with a brief motivational speech and left with Hunk and the Alphas.
• William passed the park where he had been reborn and resolved to keep fighting the anomalies, even if it took seventy years.

William and the Alphas arrived at Minos Island as the fourteen Spartans prepared to undergo enhancement surgery. Serena estimated an 86 percent success rate, and the chapter left the Spartans assembled outside the operating room just before the procedures began.

• William and the Alphas flew to Minos Island, where Umbrella had built factories, an airfield, and a western-coast base complex.
• On the train, William asked Serena to predict the Spartans' surgical success rate, and she estimated it at 86 percent.
• William, Hunk, and the other Alphas arrived at Dr. Halsey's Research Center.
• Fourteen Spartans gathered outside the operating room, with Blue Team and Red Team members present, as William and Dr. Halsey watched before surgery began.

William and Halsey oversaw the Spartans’ enhancement surgeries as Cortana and Serena monitored their condition. The bone and muscle procedures succeeded for nearly everyone, but the neural enhancement left Spartan Six and Number Ten permanently blind.

• William encouraged the Spartans before they entered the operating room for their final test.
• Halsey directed Cortana and Serena to oversee the procedures while mechanical arms injected carbon-ceramic compound into the Spartans’ bones.
• The bone enhancement succeeded for every Spartan, and Halsey proceeded with the muscle enhancement; Mylon had an excessive reaction but signaled that he was okay.
• Cortana and Serena completed the muscle injections, then Halsey ordered the neural dendrite replacement procedure.
• Serena reported that Spartan Six and Number Ten had permanently lost their vision after severe eye damage.

On March 22, 2008, Halsey fitted the Spartans with Thor’s Hammer Power Armor, which was too dangerous for ordinary humans to operate. John successfully tested the armor, proving the Spartans could use it, while Daisy and Keg’s vision problems remained unresolved.

• Fourteen Spartans gathered at Umbrella’s Minos Island warehouse to test their newly delivered Thor’s Hammer armors.
• Halsey explained that the armor could greatly increase its wearer’s strength and reaction speed, but ordinary humans could be severely injured by it.
• John volunteered to test the armor and put on the suit marked with the number seven.
• John moved through Halsey’s requested tests without discomfort, and the armor’s systems reported normal readings.
• The technicians celebrated when John’s successful test showed that the Spartans could control Thor’s Hammer.

John and the other Spartans tested their completed Thor's Hammer armor, which let blind Spartans Keg and Daisy see through a neural interface. Later, William and Halsey shared a quiet evening on Minos, where Halsey agreed to take the next step in their relationship.

• Halsey confirmed that John’s physical condition was stable and ordered the Spartans to put on their Thor's Hammer armor for testing.
• Halsey explained that the helmet’s neural system let Keg and Daisy perceive outlines and other data despite their blindness.
• Mylon called William and Halsey his parents, embarrassing them in front of the technicians.
• Halsey invited the technicians to explore Minos and join a beach barbecue that evening.
• William and Halsey relaxed together on the beach, and Halsey agreed to be intimate with him if he was gentle.

An anomalous attack interrupted William and Halsey just as they were about to be intimate, and the pair joined Umbrella’s response team at the command center. Serena revealed that Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti had been attacked and lost contact with the outside world.

• An emergency alarm interrupted William and Halsey, who agreed to postpone their plans until the crisis was handled.
• William, Halsey, Kent, John, and Hunk gathered at the Minos Island Command Center while Serena explained that the Pentagon had lost contact with Camp Lemonnier.
• Serena played a recording in which a guard reported a person charging the northern gate before the attack overwhelmed the guards.
• In a second recording, Major General Hott refused to hide in the bunker, while a captain tried to lead him to safety and other soldiers stayed behind.
• The second recording ended with gunfire, cries from unknown creatures, and the loss of Camp Lemonnier’s communications.

William identified the Camp Lemonnier anomaly as the Shy Person and ordered John to lead a Spartan team to contain it. The Spartans flew toward the burning base with a containment box, preparing to locate and capture the creature.

• Serena showed William drone footage of Camp Lemonnier's destruction and reported that the anomaly was likely inside the Command Center.
• William ordered Kent to seal off the area around the base and assigned John to lead the containment operation.
• Cortana briefed John, Carl, Mylon, Daisy, and Kreg on the Shy Person's trigger and the plan to contain it and destroy triggering recordings and images.
• The five Spartans arrived near Camp Lemonnier aboard a Pelican and prepared to carry the containment box through the opening hatch.

John and the Spartans searched Camp Lemonnier for the Shy Person, found survivors in the bunker, and encountered the creature inside the Command Tower. Mylon sent it crashing through the walls, and John ordered the team to evacuate the survivors while he and Mylon held it off.

• John led the Spartans through the devastated base toward the Command Tower while Carl took a sniper position.
• John and Mylon searched the tower and found no survivors on its first floor.
• Daisy and Kreg entered the bunker and found Major General Hott and other survivors, but no sign of the Shy Person.
• Mylon encountered the Shy Person on the second floor, recognized it, and kicked it through several walls and out of the tower.
• John ordered Mylon to hold off the Shy Person, Daisy and Kreg to evacuate the survivors, and Carl to shoot if she had an opportunity.

Mylon and the Spartans fought the regenerative 096, while Carl’s shot blasted off its arm. After Daisy reported that the healed creature was crying and appeared afraid, John ordered the team to contain the Shy Person.

• Mylon and John attacked 096 with gunfire, but it charged on despite its wounds and regeneration.
• John ordered Mylon to restrain 096 so Carl could get a clear shot, and Mylon held it down in the open ground.
• Carl fired a powerful beam that severed 096’s right arm and sent Mylon flying, though Thor’s Hammer’s shield kept him unharmed.
• John ordered Carl to keep sniping, Cortana to scan the target, and Daisy and the others to help contain it.
• Daisy reported that 096 had healed, covered its face, and seemed to be crying and afraid.
• John ordered Mylon to prepare the Containment Box for the Shy Person.

Spartan Squad contained 096 and evacuated the survivors from Camp Lemonnier before the base was destroyed with white phosphorus rounds. William arranged aid for the fallen soldiers’ families, while Halsey prepared a secure containment plan for 096 at Containment Center Number Three.

• Daisy and Krag carried 096 into the Containment Box, and John ordered Mylon and Krag to transport it as Spartan Squad prepared to withdraw.
• John reported to the Kenya Command Center that the survivors had rendezvoused with the Ares Mobile Task Force and that Shy Person was contained.
• The Pelican evacuated the five Spartans and the Containment Box, and the Bombing Squadron destroyed Camp Lemonnier with white phosphorus rounds.
• William asked Serena to establish an Umbrella charitable foundation to assist injured soldiers and the families of those killed by anomalous phenomena.
• Halsey recommended sealing Shy Person without surveillance equipment at Containment Center Number Three and uploaded the containment procedures.

After the massacre at Camp Lemonnier, William offered the surviving U.S. soldiers a Memory Wipe, but Major General Hott proposed that they retain their memories and work with Umbrella to contain anomalies. Hott and his troops agreed to become Outsiders, pending a confidentiality agreement.

• William entered the Kenya Base conference room and met with the forty-four survivors, including Major General Hott.
• William told the soldiers Umbrella needed to wipe their memories of the anomaly attack and replace them with plausible memories.
• A soldier objected to forgetting the reason their comrades died, while Hott acknowledged that the protocol would prevent him from being blamed for the massacre.
• Hott proposed that he and his surviving troops cooperate with Umbrella in containing anomalies if they could keep their memories.
• William agreed in principle, requiring the soldiers to sign a confidentiality agreement and serve as Outsiders without Umbrella's welfare benefits.

The files described the Outsiders program, the Black Tyrant enhancement serum, and the Flatworm Person, an anomalous teenager capable of regenerating from divided tissue. The Flatworm Person was contained and held in Containment Center One under procedures designed to prevent it from duplicating.

• Umbrella established the Outsiders as military personnel who reported anomalous encounters and assisted with containment operations.
• The Hive developed Black Tyrant serum to enhance agents’ physical abilities, though its use caused permanent bodily harm.
• The Flatworm Person was identified as a seventeen-year-old whose body could regenerate into identical versions of itself when divided horizontally.
• After a report of attacks in a Brazilian community, agents found numerous naked copies of the Flatworm Person and contacted the Gamma Task Force.
• The Gamma Task Force contained the Flatworm Person, while technicians disinfected the area and civilians connected to the incident underwent memory erasure.
• Umbrella confined the Flatworm Person underground and authorized guards to use flamethrowers if it tried to create duplicates.

Containment Center One classified the Flatworm Person as Euclid and sent monthly tissue samples to The Hive, which reduced its research investment on March 17, 2008. The chapter then introduced the Mall TV file, where Johnson, Lucas, and Ava encountered a two-dimensional cartoon mouse and a towering cartoon cat in an abandoned mall.

• Containment Center One classified the Flatworm Person as Euclid because of its self-replication and hostility, and arranged monthly tissue shipments to The Hive.
• The Hive reduced its investment in and research on the Flatworm Person on March 17, 2008.
• Johnson, Lucas, and Ava entered an abandoned mall on February 2, 2008, to film an exploration for their YouTube channel.
• The trio followed strange footprints to a candy store, broke its window, and heard old-fashioned music begin playing.
• Johnson, Lucas, and Ava saw a flat cartoon mouse named Brook walking past the store, then noticed a four-meter-tall, one-centimeter-wide cartoon cat behind it.

Ava’s friends Lucas and Johnson were attacked by the giant Monster Cat, prompting Serena to send agents to investigate the mall. The agents found that Monster Cat appeared from an anomalous television they could not remove, and Serena ordered them to withdraw.

• Monster Cat caught Brook and chased Ava, Johnson, and Lucas as they fled the candy store; it grabbed Lucas and Johnson, while Ava escaped and reported their deaths to the police.
• Serena learned of Ava’s report, contacted local agents, and dispatched six of them to the mall.
• The agents entered the mall, found blood and Lucas’s camera, then encountered Monster Cat chasing Brook and opened fire.
• The agents followed the cartoon figures to a television playing Brook and Monster Cat, but it kept running without power and returned to its original spot whenever moved more than four meters.
• Serena confirmed that the television could not be physically moved and ordered the agents to withdraw.

William prepared for a live interview at Umbrella’s rocket launch center, where he announced the company’s first Colony Fleet plan, Voyage to Dawn. He left viewers with the revelation that the fleet would travel through space, not sail at sea.

• Serena reported that Umbrella had contained 173 anomalous phenomena, including 38 Euclid-class cases, two Keter-class cases, and one terminated case.
• Hunk told William that the convoy carrying the reporters was arriving, and William went to the plaza with Serena, Hunk, and the Alpha team.
• The NBC crew set up a live broadcast, and Melissa Silio interviewed William about Umbrella’s new plan.
• William named the plan Voyage to Dawn and announced that it would launch Umbrella’s first Colony Fleet.
• When Melissa asked whether the fleet was at sea, William clarified that it was in space.

William revealed Umbrella’s space fleet during a live NBC broadcast and outlined its role in the Colonization Plan. As the interview ended, he reflected on using Umbrella’s power to unite humanity and prepare it for anomalies.

• Melissa asked William whether Umbrella could send a fleet into space, and ten vessels appeared above the technology building.
• William identified the fleet’s Fire Spirit carrier, Paris-class frigates, and Colony Ships, shocking viewers and government officials around the world.
• William told Melissa that the Fire Spirit was a forty-million-ton vessel powered by Umbrella’s anti-gravity engine and that the Colony Ships could each hold over ten thousand people.
• William ended the interview and boarded a Pelican with Hunk and Alpha while an Umbrella department head addressed the cameras.
• Aboard the Pelican, William considered how revealing Umbrella’s strength could help launch the Colonization Plan and prepare humanity to face anomalies together.

William toured the Fire Spirit and discussed the world’s reaction and security with Serena before ordering the fleet into near-Earth orbit. From the bridge, he authorized Umbrella’s first Warp transmission toward Mars.

• William and Alpha entered the Fire Spirit’s hangar, where Marines, Helljumpers, aircraft, and armored vehicles prepared for the fleet’s departure.
• Serena told William that more than ten thousand people had signed up for the Colonization Plan and that President George Walker had ordered the CIA to steal Umbrella’s technology without provoking the company.
• William asked Serena to strengthen security and develop cooperation plans with other governments as he and Alpha traveled to the bridge.
• William ordered Captain James Carter to take the Fire Spirit into space, and the ship climbed into near-Earth orbit.
• William authorized the Warp transmission after the crew locked onto Mars’s near-Earth orbit coordinates and confirmed the engine was ready.

William led the fleet through the Ten Gates to Mars, where Serena scanned the Cydonia Plain and confirmed it was suitable for colonization. He ordered Wang Zhaofeng’s Engineering Team to begin building an outpost as the Hades and Ares entered the atmosphere to survey Mars for possible anomalies.

• William ordered Carter to take the fleet through the warp gate to Mars, and the Fire Spirit and its escorts completed the jump in about half a minute.
• Serena scanned the Cydonia Plain and reported that its conditions matched Dr. Halsey’s calculations for the colonization plan.
• William approved the plan, and Serena notified Wang Zhaofeng to bring the four Colony Ships toward the Cydonia Plain.
• The Hades and Ares separated from the fleet and entered Mars’s atmosphere to escort the Colony Ships and check whether the planet was lifeless.

Wang Zhaofeng became the first person to walk on Mars after leading Umbrella’s Engineering Team to the surface. William ordered the team to build a Martian outpost, then directed the Fire Spirit to destroy four NASA spacecraft.

• Serena reported that the landing site had been chosen and Wang Zhaofeng was ready to depart, and William approved a live feed.
• Wang Zhaofeng and the Engineering Team boarded landing craft Y-336 and received permission to land on Mars.
• At 12:09 Earth time, Wang Zhaofeng stepped onto Martian soil and announced that he felt no discomfort.
• William told Serena to have the Engineering Team adapt to Mars’s gravity before beginning construction of an outpost.
• William ordered Carter to target Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11 and destroy them with the Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannon.

Umbrella expanded its space monopoly by reaching an agreement with NASA and establishing a lunar outpost at the Sea of Wine, then launched lucrative Moon tourism. The First Fleet also confirmed that Europa and icy bodies beyond the Asteroid Belt could supply water to the colonies.

• Umbrella destroyed Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11, compensated NASA, and agreed on October 1 to rent NASA reconnaissance satellites after rejecting its initial proposals.
• Umbrella's Engineering Team used modified Um-255 aircraft to establish the Sea of Wine lunar outpost on October 1, with a 500,000-person colony city projected within six months.
• The Hive converted Um-255s for civilian travel, and two passenger aircraft attracted 20,000 deposit-paying travelers on their first day; Umbrella's aircraft became known as the Space Train.
• The First Fleet found that Europa held 2.5 times Earth's water resources, collected surface ice for the colonies, and detected other icy bodies beyond the Asteroid Belt.