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This article is related to the Resident Evil series. S.T.A.R.S. is not related to S.T.A.R. Labs.

(Spoilers) S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Squad) is a fictional law-enforcing task force that appears in Capcom
's Resident Evil survival horror franchise. The unit serves as a fictional equalivent to the actual SWAT organization (which also exists in the Resident Evil universe, as member Barry Burton
used to be SWAT operative). While the five main characters in the original Resident Evil (Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, and Albert Wesker) were all members of S.T.A.R.S., the team for the most part served as cannon fodder against the various monsters and creatures featured in the game.

Only eleven of the team's twelve members appeared in the original game. Edward Dewey, Bravo Team's pilot, was only mentioned in the game's instruction manual, but not actually featured in the game. For a long time it was assumed that the disembodied hand found by Joseph in the game's intro belonged to Edward, but a few retroactive changes were made in order to include the character for a small role in the prequel Resident Evil 0 (in the Resident Evil remake, the dead pilot is now identified as Kevin).

In Resident Evil 2 (starring Chris' sister Claire
and RPD
rookie officer Leon Kennedy), all of the S.T.A.R.S. operatives from the original game (excluding Rebecca), can be seen in a photograph located in the S.T.A.R.S. office on the second floor of the Raccoon City police station
. They were pictured along with two previously unseen members. It is generally accepted that these two are simply early versions of Kevin Dooley and Edward Dewey from Resident Evil 0.
History
A special unit of the Raccoon Police Department
, it was founded in 1996 in Raccoon City in order to combat the increasing rate of terrorism and cult-related crimes. The team was formed as part of Mayor Warrens' "A Bright 21st Century for Raccoon" campaign funded by the Umbrella Corporation
. It's comprised mainly of twelve members with two teams; Alpha Team (led by Albert Wesker) and Bravo Team (led by Enrico Marini).

Two years after its formation, S.T.A.R.S. was deployed by the police to investigate a series of brutal homicides, that had evidence of cannibalism, that had taken place in the Arklay Mountains
on the outskirts of the city. The Bravo Team was sent in on July 23, 1998 to investigate these incidents.

However, contact with Bravo Team was lost and on the following day, Alpha Team was dispatched to follow-up on Bravo Team's mission. Their probe of the area led to a mansion (actually the Arklay Research Facility
), where various mutated creatures (including the mansion's residents) had been transformed into undead creatures as a result of a viral outbreak. Moreover, the members of Alpha Team also found the remains of some of their Bravo Team compatriots, while finding others on the brink of death (with the exception of Rebecca Chambers, who makes it out alive).

It was revealed that the experiments in the mansion were conducted by the international Umbrella Corporation and that the team's leader, Albert Wesker, was a double agent working for Umbrella, who orchestrated the deaths of his subordinates in order to collect test battle data for Umbrella's Bio-Organic Weapons.

The team managed to thwart Wesker's plot by destroying the T-002 Tyrant
prototype. Only Alpha Team members Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Brad Vickers, along with Bravo Team survivor Rebecca Chambers, managed to escape the mansion alive.

After their return to civilization, S.T.A.R.S. requested a full-scale investigation of Umbrella's activities. However, many found their outlandish story too unbelievable and the chief of police, Brian Irons (who was secretly under Umbrella's payroll) disbanded the team officially, replacing the unit with the RPD Select Police Force unit to serve as the city's armed response unit and as an equal to SWAT. The surviving members of S.T.A.R.S. banded together and participated in Anti-Umbrella operations around the globe with the exception of Brad Vickers, who refused to participate in their investigations and was killed during the Raccoon City outbreak.
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