Carrier
From the Resistance Wiki
The Carriers are a strain of Chimera which serve a non-combatant role where they journey to the battlefield to collect infected Humans who have succumbed to a Crawler attack. In appearance they are similar to very large floating jellyfish and have numerous eyes.
These Chimera ferry their catches to the nearest Conversion Center where they are encased in Cocoons. However, the same infected people serve as the Carriers' food and, as such, not all the bodies survive to be converted. During the early Chimera invasion of Britain, Carriers would form caravans that were hundreds of miles long.
Basically, the sole purpose of Carriers are to gather humans that have been infected by the Chimeran virus to Conversion Centers where humans will be converted and transformed into Chimera. They serve an important role by gathering the infected to amass the Chimeran forces.
Carriers can be found in-game in Resistance: Fall of Man, but they are invulnerable to bullets, so shooting at them is a waste of time and ammo.
[edit] Resistance Retribution
In Resistance: Retribution they are used to collect the bodies of human females that were kept after the initial invasion and bring them to suitable Conversion Centers. Claude and Raine Bouchard have studied the Carriers and developed a serum mixed with blood to infect the Carriers and ground the new conversion process to a halt. When James Grayson injects the serum into the Chrysalis Lair, infected Carriers spread it to other Conversion Centers and they die out (perhaps along with the other Chimera strains).
In the Metastasis documents, Carriers are still seen collecting bodies. The comic is most likely set around Retribution's timeline, so these Carriers likely escaped from being infected with Bouchard's virus.
[edit] Post-Retribution
By 1953 the Carrier strains are apparently phased out due to the change in the Chimeras' strategy as Spinners are created and were more effective in converting humans into Chimeras. However, it is somewhat presumable that they are still being used in procuring more perfect human subjects in converting more effective Chimeran strains.
| Chimera | ||
|---|---|---|
| Strains | Advanced Hybrid | Alpha Grim | Angel | Boiler | Brute | Burrower | Carrier | Chameleon | Cocoon | Crawler | Fury | Gray Jack | Grim | Hag | Hardfang | Howler | Hybrid | Leaper | Leaper Pod | Leech | Marauder | Mauler | Menial | Pure Chimera | Queen Leaper | Ravager | Roller | Siren | Slipskull | Spinner | Steelhead | Titan | Widowmaker | |
| Bosses | The Chrysalis | Daedalus | Kraken | Leviathan | The Mother | Mother Spinner | The Swarm | |
