Progenitor Virus

[Skritz]

I know I won't get a clear, canon answer. Because there isnt. But what are the effects of the Progenitor virus? Im curious to see if I missed some crucial info, since the RE Wiki is incomplete.

From the RE Wiki:

Eventually this research would begin to yield results, and would eventually show Marcus and Spencer that cells infected with the virus would undergo a very violent and uncontrolled cellular change through the mutation of the host's genes. This caused increased aggressiveness and rapid growth in non-mammals, while mammals would exhibit various new attributes, including the symptoms displayed in the non-mammal specimens.

From what I can guess, it has effects similar to the T-Virus. Bugs grows and mammals becomes stronger, tougher and quite aggressive.

According to research conducted by the Umbrella Corporation, only one in ten million hosts exposed to the tyrant virus possess the potential to mutate into Tyrants. This is a unique characteristic carried over from the Progenitor virus' own genetic compatibility to certain subjects. 10% of the total population will retain natural immunity to the T-virus, even if directly exposed.

If the virus is able to find a suitable host, it will dramatically increase one's size, strength, speed, and agility. It will also lead to the development of several lengthy acicular blade-like structures on one’s arm. While t-virus is rather advantageous to its host, it should be noted that the subjected host will be forced to endure a prodigious increase in adrenaline, causing the heart to expand and protrude through the chest. Furthermore, most of the original breeds of Tyrants were plagued with grotesque facial deformities, as well as an acute decline in intelligence.

So, following this logic, someone compatible with the T-Virus (like Sergei Vladimir) would mutate into a tyrant if infected with the Progenitor Virus.

What I wonder is: Can it create zombies/crimson heads/lickers via regular infection?

 

[bruno]

The progenitor virus causes instant death in most cases. Lisa Trevor, at first, started being more agressive and with her mental attributes reduced, but not too much. She could recognize people, keep conversations, write, etc. Her physical state was kept and pnly started to decay when she was administered large doses of other experimental viruses. In fact, she seems to have gained resistence and is much stronger than a human.

Special attention should be given to the way the sovereign was chosen. While the Ndipaya did have a monarchy, the king was not decided by birthright, but by the abilities and qualities he displayed during a certain required ceremony. This ceremony employed a special plant that grew in the Sun Garden residing in the deepest area of the royal city.
This plant was known as the Stairway to the Sun.
The Stairway to the Sun was an extremely poisonous plant, and its effects were fatal if consumed. Though some individuals possessed a natural resistance to the poison.
The Ndipaya people believed that a man who could prevail against the poison was destined to become king.
(Vestiges of this ceremony are still carried out once a year by the Ndipaya for the continual peace of their ancestors’ spirits.)
Even with a natural resistance, finding an individual that could survive ingestion of the powerful poison was a rarity. It is said by the Ndipaya people that one such man reigned as king for hundreds of years. Whether this legend has any validity to it cannot be ascertained at present.

The "poison" contained in the plant is the progenitor virus. If you havn't played RE5, that plant is where Umbrella found the virus.
So, the progenitor virus causes most of it's victims to die and anyone who survives will be more resistant, probably with lower intelligence, and more agressive.

The Tyrant virus, in the other hand, causes 90% of the people to lose all rationality, looking for living flesh to feed off, with rotting body, although more resistant than humans (zombies). The zombies later undergo the V-ACT process, becoming crimson heads and later, lickers. 10% of the exosed people will keep all of their human characteristics.