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destroy REX. The Next-Generation Special Forces unit FOXHOUND rebelled against the United States and took control of the Metal Gear, and with it, they could launch a nuclear strike anywhere in the world.
    Shadow Moses Island was located in the Fox Archipelago, and there, in the deadly cold winds of the Bering Strait, training exercises with the Metal Gear were under way. FOXHOUND, which had been ordered on protective duty during the training exercises, seized the island and its stockpile of nuclear warheads. Using threat of nuclear attack, they made their demands of Washington. After the end of the Cold War, the island became home to an enormous stockpile of nuclear warheads no longer needed elsewhere.
    The trouble with nuclear warheads, ICBMs and the like, is the expansive amount of money required to deploy them. And without a Cold War, there wasn’t a need for that expense. Both Russia, whose government collapsed due to her failed economy, and her counterpart America were eager to restrain their spiraling military expenditures.
    But not everyone saw it that way.
    Some bureaucrats thought that order had been kept in the world because of the nuclear threat that could wipe out hundreds of thousands in an instant. Others saw the profitable industry fueled by the ceaseless development of new tanks and weaponry by the Soviets and the Americans as each stared down the threat of total annihilation.
    Among the latter group were DARPA chief Donald Anderson and ArmsTech president Kenneth Baker. In hopes of restoring the prosperity each had found during the Cold War, they utilized black project funds secret from public accountability to start up development of a new Metal Gear.
    The Metal Gear that FOXHOUND stole on Shadow Moses.
    But no matter how many nuclear warheads the terrorist group got their hands on, the weapons wouldn’t mean anything unless they could deliver the payloads across the sea and onto American soil. Why else had both sides of the Cold War pushed so hard to develop space rockets? But Metal Gear REX didn’t need to rely on rockets to make its deadly delivery to any point on the globe.
    A railgun was mounted on REX’s right shoulder. Nuclear warheads placed on the rail could be shot at tremendous speed by a magnetic force created by an immense influx of electricity. Effectively, REX was a cannon with no need for gunpowder. The basic mechanics were identical—only this cannon could fire projectiles into space.
    And its ordnance was quite different from missiles or rockets, which relied on burning fuel for propulsion. A warhead fired by REX would have too high a velocity to be shot down and, with no smoke trail or heat signature, would be undetectable by satellite or radar.
    The devil’s weapon, Metal Gear REX, would usher in the twenty-first century.
    FOXHOUND was led by one of the Snakes who changed the world. He was Solid Snake’s clone brother and, in a sense, was Solid Snake himself. He tried to surpass Big Boss, and he failed. This was Liquid Snake.
    Solid Snake had infiltrated Shadow Moses Island on orders to determine the extent of the threat posed by FOXHOUND and, once confirmed, put a stop to it. Solid Snake had once been a member of the next-generation US Army unit established by Big Boss on behalf of the Department of Defense to handle combat situations too politically sensitive to intervene in through public means. During this time, Big Boss also secretly founded the mercenary company Outer Heaven in South Africa, where he developed the first Metal Gear with the intent of global destruction.
    The mission thrust upon the rookie soldier: You are to infiltrate the enemy fortress “Outer Heaven” and destroy their final weapon Metal Gear.
    Big Boss chose the young and inexperienced Solid Snake for the role because he’d hoped the mission would fail. Publicly, Big Boss was the commander of FOXHOUND, but his second identity—the one that held his true allegiance—was as the commander of Outer