The Kodoku Virus was a part of a bioweapons research project led by Alex Wesker. She performed this research on the island Sonido de Tortuga, the place having been the site of a facility owned by Spencer. It was from here she was instructed to create his immortality virus to stave off his death, but she advanced the Kodoku Plan instead. She eventually left permanently for her stronghold on Sushestvovanje Island to perfect t-Phobos and the mind-transfer experiment, and left the Kodoku Plan to her researcher, Dirk Miller. He killed the other researchers and posed as the island's mysterious shaman in order to acquire both guards and test subjects from the superstitious natives. When Spencer investigated, Alex had left and her personnel were nowhere to be found.
Kodoku in Japanese (originally Chinese) mythology is a ritual where an assortment of creatures are pitted against each other, with the lone survivor said to carry a powerful curse. The Kodoku Virus, therefore, was injected into test subjects, and the resulting mutants would battle until only a single
survivor remained. The best mutant would have the recombinant strain extracted from it, which would be used for a new trial of testing, until the perfect virus was created.
The Shen Ya Pharmaceuticals agent Julie was sent to steal the Kodoku Virus. She killed Dirk Miller and acquired the only sample of the finished virus, but was forced to inject herself with it to survive fatal injuries. After her mutated form was completely obliterated, Kodoku was presumably lost.
Effects
Some things can be inferred from the Kodoku Virus: Morio, one of the mutants, very clearly is meant to resemble the T-002. From this it can be deduced Kodoku is not only based on the t-Virus, but that live hosts (Morio, Schraube Damon, Monster Julie) are actually Tyrants. By making said Tyrants battle each other, the most intelligent, strongest, and resilient variations are singled out. As the virus passes from host to host new mutations emerge and are singled out in the best hosts, until the most desirable mutation is achieved.
Kodoku creates Tyrants from mere injection, like t+G or the strain Sergei took, without the need for body strengthening surgeries. This allows for cheap creation costs as opposed to mass production via cloning.
Like the G-Virus, infecting corpses creates Zombies, as dead hosts cannot undergo the necessary transformations.
The mutant Morio constructed a makeshift village in an effort to reclaim his time as a human, and so began killing natives and tourists, dragging their bodies off, and infecting them to create Zombie residents. Some of these Kodoku Zombies wandered off and started an outbreak.
Kodoku Tyrants and Zombies are more intelligent than their t-Virus counterparts. Zombies have been known to retain small memories, but the ones created by Morio acted like they did in life in the absence of food. Brown was capable of some speech and free will in the early stages of transformation. Kodoku Zombies seem somewhat more coordinated as well, being able to swim and climb onto a boat. The trend of "smart" zombies is very common in modern, advanced virus strains, as seen in C and A. This is likely due to improvements to the issue of brain cell rejection and necrosis.
Morio itself tried to be human again with it's village, and clothed itself and fashioned weapons from an anchor and harpoon (Morio is a Japanese play on words, referencing both "Monster" and "Harpoon"). It also sought to protect it's former sister. Despite this, it continued to follow it's programing to ensure transportation off the island was cut off.
The Schraube Damon (Screw Demon) used Boat Screws and a Drill using an extra set of arms, and both it and Monster Julie had reptilian-like skin. This could be a random mutation, recombination, or a result of reptile DNA being inserted into the virus.
Monster Julie's body had become inverted, like the Glasp B.O.W.. This, I believe, is due to her body breaking from a fall just before she injected herself. Her broken bones were mended and grown out in unnatural and forced positions, resulting in a twisted body. She had bladed tentacles, could survive as a decapitated head, and despite being the largest of the three mutants, was incredibly fast and agile. She retained her intelligence, even being capable of speech, but was so aggressive she killed her allies from Shen Ya.
Kodoku in Japanese (originally Chinese) mythology is a ritual where an assortment of creatures are pitted against each other, with the lone survivor said to carry a powerful curse. The Kodoku Virus, therefore, was injected into test subjects, and the resulting mutants would battle until only a single
survivor remained. The best mutant would have the recombinant strain extracted from it, which would be used for a new trial of testing, until the perfect virus was created.
The Shen Ya Pharmaceuticals agent Julie was sent to steal the Kodoku Virus. She killed Dirk Miller and acquired the only sample of the finished virus, but was forced to inject herself with it to survive fatal injuries. After her mutated form was completely obliterated, Kodoku was presumably lost.
Effects
Some things can be inferred from the Kodoku Virus: Morio, one of the mutants, very clearly is meant to resemble the T-002. From this it can be deduced Kodoku is not only based on the t-Virus, but that live hosts (Morio, Schraube Damon, Monster Julie) are actually Tyrants. By making said Tyrants battle each other, the most intelligent, strongest, and resilient variations are singled out. As the virus passes from host to host new mutations emerge and are singled out in the best hosts, until the most desirable mutation is achieved.
Kodoku creates Tyrants from mere injection, like t+G or the strain Sergei took, without the need for body strengthening surgeries. This allows for cheap creation costs as opposed to mass production via cloning.
Like the G-Virus, infecting corpses creates Zombies, as dead hosts cannot undergo the necessary transformations.
The mutant Morio constructed a makeshift village in an effort to reclaim his time as a human, and so began killing natives and tourists, dragging their bodies off, and infecting them to create Zombie residents. Some of these Kodoku Zombies wandered off and started an outbreak.
Kodoku Tyrants and Zombies are more intelligent than their t-Virus counterparts. Zombies have been known to retain small memories, but the ones created by Morio acted like they did in life in the absence of food. Brown was capable of some speech and free will in the early stages of transformation. Kodoku Zombies seem somewhat more coordinated as well, being able to swim and climb onto a boat. The trend of "smart" zombies is very common in modern, advanced virus strains, as seen in C and A. This is likely due to improvements to the issue of brain cell rejection and necrosis.
Morio itself tried to be human again with it's village, and clothed itself and fashioned weapons from an anchor and harpoon (Morio is a Japanese play on words, referencing both "Monster" and "Harpoon"). It also sought to protect it's former sister. Despite this, it continued to follow it's programing to ensure transportation off the island was cut off.
The Schraube Damon (Screw Demon) used Boat Screws and a Drill using an extra set of arms, and both it and Monster Julie had reptilian-like skin. This could be a random mutation, recombination, or a result of reptile DNA being inserted into the virus.
Monster Julie's body had become inverted, like the Glasp B.O.W.. This, I believe, is due to her body breaking from a fall just before she injected herself. Her broken bones were mended and grown out in unnatural and forced positions, resulting in a twisted body. She had bladed tentacles, could survive as a decapitated head, and despite being the largest of the three mutants, was incredibly fast and agile. She retained her intelligence, even being capable of speech, but was so aggressive she killed her allies from Shen Ya.