Metal Gear History

[Drace]

Originally posted by Grandy
Someone said Ocelot is the Boss and The Sorrow's son. That's true, there was an interview where they let it slip (it was originally something they though up to let people like us talking about without ever being sure) and secondly, Sniper Wolf is Big Boss' and Eva's daughter.

It was The Boss who let it slip, if I remember correctly.

[Osmose]

There's speculation that the reason Liquid is able to take over Ocelot is because of psycic medium abilities inherited from the Sorrow.

They certainly look alike, at least, although Ocelot doesn't have the belly.

Ocelot was born during the Invasion of Normandy by the allied forces, right there on the beaches. The Boss was participating in the invasion and was pregnant at the time. The Philosophers took Ocelot from her.

[Drace]

The 'La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo', for Raiden. Because Raiden's brainwashed. That's why he had the Colonel in his head who went crazy, and of course Rose.

[Osmose]

Well, the only time they mention LaLiLuLeLo is when referring to the Patriots (Unless they did it in MGS3 too), but yeah.

 

Wikipedia says:
"La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" represents five syllables and/or characters absent from the Japanese language. There is discussion in Metal Gear Solid 2 contemplating the control of basic ideas through the manipulation of language. During one conversation between Raiden and Emma Emmerich, Emma uses an example of language to show that the Patriots can control information. She says the Patriots would be able to delete information; for instance, there could be 5 or so characters deleted from the alphabet, and nobody would know. The fact that the Patriots are referred to as these 'absent' characters represents their unprecedented control over information, which they planned to solidify with Arsenal Gear.

It is theorized that some characters, who do not have codeword clearance as mentioned by the President in MGS2, cannot call the Patriots by that name, because their implanted nano machines force them to hear "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" when they are referred to as the Patriots. This will lead people to believe that is their name, with their real name remaining unknown in their mind.

The reason for the choice of these characters is simple: a very long time ago, Japan adopted much of the Chinese language. In the Chinese alphabet they have La Li Lu Le Lo. Japan's alphabet doesn't. In the present Japanese alphabet, they have Ra Ri Ru Re Ro. So, the story goes that for some reason a powerful figure in Japan decreed that La Li Lu Le Lo were no longer to be used and they would use Ra Ri Ru Re Ro instead. From then on, La Li Lu Le Lo became these forbidden "secret" characters that no one used openly anymore, and eventually no one used them at all.

La - is derived from the Hanzi character meaning "good" Li - is derived from the Hanzi character meaning "money" Lu - is derived from the Hanzi character "detain, halt" Le - is derived from the Hanzi character meaning "benefit, or profit" Lo - is derived from the Hanzi character meaning "Backbone"

[Drace]

To whoever said that Sniper Wolf is the daughter of Big Boss and Eva: Sniper Wolf was adopted by Big Boss. Eva was long gone by then.

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I've ripped this of Gamefaqs. Credits to David Christy.
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|-4-| Timeline
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     An X in the ones or tens digit of the year means that I am only sure of
the decade or century.  All ?'s in the year means that I have made an educated
assumption about the placement of the event but I am uncertain about the exact
placement.  Other than that, the format is basically the same as the timeline
in the MGS3 manual.

4000 - (Ma) Life appears in the oceans.
1789 - (April) George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York
          City, beginning his term as the 1st President of the United States.
1812 - Federal Hall is destroyed.
1842 - Federal Hall is rebuilt as the United States' first Customs House.
1873 - The first model of the Colt Single Action Army is produced.
1886 - (October) The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, is dedicated by
          President Grover Cleveland.
19XX - In the midst of World War I, the true holders of power in America,
          China, and the Soviet Union come together in a secret meeting (the
          Wiseman's Committee) and make a pact.  This marks the beginning of
          the Philosophers.  The Boss's father is one of them.
     - The Boss's father is killed by the other Philosopher's for telling
          Boss too much.
193X - The last of the original Philosophers die.
     - Tatyana is raised in a "charm school" as a sleeper agent for the
          Philosophers.  The Boss is an instructor at one of these schools.
1939 - (August) Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt
          urging the development of an atomic bomb.
     - (September) German Army invades Poland, setting off World War II.
     - (November) Soviet army invades Finland (the Winter War)
194X - Night vision devices are introduced.
1941 - (June) German army launches a surprise attack against the Soviet Union
          (Operation Barbarossa).
     - (July) British Army's SAS (Special Air Service) formed.
     - (December) Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor.
1942 - (August) U.S. army's research division begins development of the atomic
          bomb (the Manhattan Project).  Otacon's grandfather participates.
     - (September) Siege of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) begins.
     - The Philosophers pool their countries' money and resources to defeat the
          Axis powers and create a new world order (The Philosopher's Legacy).
          A secret spy network is established between the countries.
     - In the midst of World War II, The Boss forms the Cobra Unit.
     - (December) Physicist Enrico Fermi succeeds in splitting an atom inside a
          nuclear reactor.
1943 - (January) Soviet army emerges victorious in the battle of Stalingrad.
1944 - (June) Allies land at Normandy (D-day). The Boss and the Cobra Unit take
          part.  The Boss gives birth to the Sorrow's baby (Ocelot).
     - The Philosophers steal Ocelot and raise him.  Ocelot joins GRU at an
          early age to report the Soviet Union's dealings back to the U.S.
     - V-1 rockets fall on London.
1945 - (July) First atomic test in history takes place at Trinity in Los
          Alamos, New Mexico in the United States.
     - (August) Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Otacon's
          father is born.
     - World War II ends. The Cold War begins. The Philosopher's are split up.
     - Volgin's father launders all the money from the Philosopher's Legacy in
          banks all over the world. A microfilm is created with a record of all
          the transactions.
     - (September) The Democratic Republic of Vietnam declares independence.
1946 - (February) ENIAC, the world's first computer, completed.
1947 - (September) CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) established.
     - (October) Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X1.
     - The Boss disbands the Cobra Unit. The Boss returns to the U.S. and the
          Sorrow returns to the Soviet Union.
1949 - (April) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) established.
     - (May) Germany split into East and West.
     - (June) British author, George Orwell, publishes 1984.
     - (August) U.S.S.R. tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk,
          Kazakhstan, becoming the world's second nuclear power.
     - (October) People's Republic of China founded.
1950 - (June) Outbreak of Korean War.
     - Snake becomes The Boss's disciple.
1951 - (November) "Buster Dog" atomic test conducted at Area 7 in Nevada, with
          Army troops participating.  The Boss is exposed to the radiation.
1952 - (November) U.S. establishes the NSA (National Security Agency).
1953 - (April) Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA.
     - (July) End of the Korean War.
     - (August) Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet
          Communist Party.
1954 - (January) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the New Look
          policy (the so-called "massive retaliation strategy").
     - U.S. Navy launches the world's first nuclear submarine, the USS
          Nautilus.
     - (February) Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Atoll. Snake is exposed to the
          radiation and diagnosed as sterile.
     - (March) KGB (Soviet Commission for State Security) formed.
     - (May) French garrison of Dien Bien Phu falls, signaling the victory of
          the Viet Minh. France pulls out of Indochina.
     - (November) Japanese movie, Godzilla, released.
1955 - (April) Albert Einstein dies, pleading for an end to nuclear weapons.
1957 - (August) U.S.S.R successfully launches an intercontinental ballistic
          missile (ICBM).
     - (October) Soviet Union succeeds in launching the world's first
          artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit (the Sputnik Shock).
     - IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is established to oversee
          applications of atomic power all over the world.
1958 - (January) U.S. launches its first artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
     - (October) NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
          begins operation.
1959 - (January) Cuban Revolution.  Fidel Castro comes to power.
     - The Boss leaves Snake to go on a secret mission.
     - The Soviet Union stops supplying China with nuclear weapons technology.
     - (October) Luna 3 moon rocket photographs the dark side of the moon.
     - University of Minnesota professor Mordecai Roshwald publishes the novel
          Level 7.
     - (December) American movie On the Beach released.
1960 - Mafia sting operations start in Chicago.
     - (May) American U2 spy plane violates Soviet airspace and is shot down
          over the Ural Mountains.
     - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announces missile aid to Cuba.
     - South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) forms.
     - The U.S. sends the Boss into space to keep up with the Soviet Union in
          space exploration.
     - (September) Two NSA codebreakers, ADAM and EVA, defect to the Soviet
          Union.
1961 - (January) John F. Kennedy assumes office as the 35th President of the
          United States.
     - (February) U.S. conducts first test of Minutemen intercontinental
          ballistic missile.
     - (April) U.S.S.R launches Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft in
          history, piloted by Yuri Gagarin.
     - (May) Alan Shepard becomes first American in rocket flight aboard the
          Redstone Rocket.
     - (August) Construction begins on the Berlin Wall in Germany.
     - American movie The Guns of Navarone released.
     - (September) U.S. 5th Special Forces Group, the "Green Berets" activated.
          Snake joins.
     - (October) U.S.S.R. conducts its first atomic test in space above Russia.
     - Japanese movie Last War released.
     - (December) U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces increase in military
          assistance to South Vietnam.
     - Harry Gregson-Williams born.
     - The Boss is sent to Cuba as part of a CIA-sponsored invasion under the
          guise of taking Cuban exiles back to their country (the Bay of Pigs
          invasion).
1962 - (January) Navy SEALS formed.
     - (February) U.S. achieves its first manned space flight with the launch
          of Friendship 7.
     - Major Zero helps Sokolov and his family defect to the U.S.
     - (July) Kyle Cooper born.
     - (October) American U2 spy planes confirm presence of Soviet missiles in
          Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis.
     - Sokolov sent back to U.S.S.R.  He is forced to continue working on the
          Shagohod.
     - (December) U.S. Mars rocket Mariner 2 approaches Mars and begins sending
          back survey data.
     - U.S. begins producing the "Davy Crockett" portable nuclear missiles.
     - The Boss kills the Sorrow at Tselinoyarsk as part of a secret mission
          for the Philosophers.
1963 - (February) U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Hotline Agreement, establishing a
          direct telephone hotline between the American and Soviet leaders.
     - (June) British spy James Bond makes his first movie appearance in
          "Doctor No."
     - (August) U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty
          (PTBT) in the Kremlin (banning atmospheric, space-based, and
          underwater testing of nuclear weapons).
     - Movie "The Great Escape" released.
     - Hideo Kojima born.
     - (November) U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated.  Lyndon B.
          Johnson becomes President.
     - Colonel Volgin leads an uprising against Krushchev with the Brezhnev
          faction.
     - John le Carre publishes "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
     - 10,000 U.S. military advisors stationed in Vietnam.
     - 100,000 South Vietnamese civilians serving U.S. military.
      - Granin creates basic Metal Gear design for Volgin but has no actual
          results from research.
1964 - (April) James Bond movie "From Russia with Love" released.
     - (July) U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into
          law.
     - (August) Gulf of Tonkin incident.
     - The U.S. learns of the Shagohod and decides to get Sokolov back.
     - Volgin uses the Philosophers' spy network to suggest that the Boss
          defect to the Soviet Union and join his faction.  The U.S.
          Philosophers use this opportunity to attempt to steal the
          Philosophers' Legacy.
     - The American Philosophers send Ocelot to infiltrate Volgin's faction
          and oversee the operation.
     - Tatyana is sent by China to steal the Philosopher's Legacy.  She
          infiltrates Sokolov's research facility pretending to be an agent of
          Krushchev's.
     - Snake is sent to Tselinoyarsk to rescue Sokolov (Virtuous Mission).
     - The Boss "defects."  Volgin kidnaps Sokolov and Tatyana and steals the
          Shagohod (Virtuous Mission fails).
     - Colonel Volgin uses the Davy Crockett to destroy Sokolov's research
          facility.  The Boss is blamed for it.
     - Krushchev calls President Johnson and demands that the U.S. eliminate
          the Boss and Volgin. The American Philosophers decide to use Snake to
          fulfill Krushchev's demands, retrieve Sokolov, destroy the Shagohod,
          and get the Legacy.
     - Snake is sent back to Tselinoyarsk (Operation Snake Eater).  Ocelot
          (codenamed ADAM) is set up to meet with Snake and assist him.
     - Tatyana, posing as EVA, meets up with Snake instead and plants a
          transmitter on him.
     - EVA gives Granin shoes with a transmitter in one of the heels.
     - Ocelot and Snake have a duel but are interrupted by the Pain's hornets.
     - Snake kills the Pain and meets Granin at his research facility.  Granin
          tells Snake about his Metal Gear designs.
     - Snake battles with and kills the Fear and the End.  EVA steals the C3
          plastic explosives from Groznyj Grad.
     - Ocelot obtains the Metal Gear designs from Granin.
     - Volgin kills Granin and finds the transmitter in his shoe.  Snake kills
          the Fury and infiltrates Groznyj Grad.
     - EVA obtains the Shagohod test data from Sokolov.  Snake finds Sokolov
          but is captured.
     - Volgin kills Sokolov.  While torturing Snake, Volgin finds the
          transmitter.  Ocelot accidentally shoots out Snake's right eye.
     - Snake escapes from captivity and meets the Sorrow's ghost.  Snake meets
          back up with EVA receives the C3.
     - The Boss makes Ocelot and EVA both promise that they won't kill Snake.
     - Snake uses the C3 to destroy the Shagohod's hangar.  EVA tries to steal
          the Philosopher's Legacy but is caught by Ocelot.
     - Volgin tells the Boss to put the Legacy somewhere safe, but she keeps
          it.  She gives EVA a fake Legacy and lets her escape.
     - Snake fights Volgin and destroys the Shagohod.  Volgin is killed by
          lightning from the Sorrow's storm.
     - Snake and EVA escape to the lake where the Boss is waiting.  The Boss
          destroys Groznyj Grad and the Granin Research Facility with the Davy
          Crockett.
     - Snake battles with and kills the Boss. Before she dies, she gives Snake
          the Philosopher's Legacy and her Patriot.
     - Snake and Ocelot have one last meaningless duel.
     - Snake and EVA escape in a WIG and head for Alaska (Operation Snake Eater
          successful).
     - EVA leaves Snake, taking the fake Legacy, and goes back to China.  She
          leaves a tape explaining the Boss's true mission.
     - Snake brings the Philosopher's Legacy back for the United States and is
          awarded the title of "Big Boss."
     - The Director of the CIA decides to create an infiltration unit for the
          army.
     - Big Boss defects from the FOX unit.
     - (September) First test flight of XB70, a heavy bomber capable of Mach 3.
     - (October) Tokyo Olympics held.
     - U.S.S.R. sends 3 cosmonauts into space aboard the Voskhod 1.
     - Khrushchev is ousted from power.  Brezhnev becomes the First Secretary
          of the Communist Party, with Kosygin as Premier.
     - China conducts its first successful nuclear test in the Takla Makan
          desert.
     - (December) Motosada Mori born.
     - Ocelot practices torture techniques at Lubianka Prison in the Spetsnaz
          headquarters.  He serves as a special torture advisor in the
          concentration camps.
     - Vulcan Raven begins training in Russia with the Bimpel.
1965 - Sigint joins ARPA.  He takes part in the development of ARPAnet.
1966 - The U.S. government conducts a study on emergency medical treatment. The
          Department of Transportation lays the groundwork for the creation of
          the EMT system.
1968 - EVA disappears without a trace in Hanoi.
1969 - ARPAnet goes online.
1970 - Para-Medic establishes the nation's first paramedic system in Seattle,
          Washington.
     - Major Zero disbands FOX.
     - The United States accumulates the remainder of the Legacy.  The U.S.
          branch of "Philosophers" changes its name to the "Patriots."
     - America, the Soviet Union, France, England, and China sign the NPT
          (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
     - Some remaining FOX members execute a revolt against the U.S. government.
     - Major Zero and Big Boss are mistakenly charged with treason.
1971 - Carrying on the traditions of Major Zero and his FOX unit, Big Boss
          establishes FOXHOUND.
     - Big Boss and FOXHOUND disarm the FOX resistance members and destroy the
          "ultimate weapon" (events of Portable Ops).
1972 - Big Boss is wounded in combat and falls into a coma.
     - The "Les Enfants Terribles" project. The sons of Big Boss are born.
     - Liquid Snake moves to England upon birth.
     - Gray Fox is born.
     - Psycho Mantis is born in a small village in Russia.  His mother dies in
          childbirth.  Mantis burns his village down and is later recruited by
          the KGB.
1974 - NEST (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) is established to provide
          technological support to the FBI during incidents involving criminal
          threats of nuclear weapon use.
1976 - Nastasha Romanenko is born and raised in Prypiat, Ukraine.
197X - Iraq is inspected by the IAEA, but only allows inspectors from Bulgaria
          and Russia to enter.
? - Vamp is born in Romania.  His church is blown up by a terrorist's bomb
          and he is forced to feed on the blood of his dead family while stuck
          in the rubble.
1979 - Raiden is born in New York City.  Solidus kills his parents and raises
          him as a soldier in the Army of the Devil.
1982 - Naomi Hunter is born.
198X - Sniper Wolf is born in a Kurd tribe in Iraq.  Her family is killed by
          Saddam Hussein in a chemical attack.
     - Big Boss finds Wolf and brings her to the U.S.
1984 - Gray Fox kills Naomi's parents in Rhodesia and takes Naomi with him.
     - Big Boss finds Naomi and Gray Fox during Mozambique's civil war and
          brings them to the U.S.
     - Big Boss and Gray Fox return to Africa to continue fighting the war.
1986 - Nastasha Romanenko and her family are showered by the radiation from the
          Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Prypiat (a city 3 kms north
          of Chernobyl).
198X - Big Boss secretly establishes his armed fortress nation "Outer Heaven"
          in South Africa and takes in many mercenaries and war orphans.  He
          continues his role as the commander of FOXHOUND.
     - Otacon begins having an affair with his stepmom, Julie (Emma's mother).
     - Otacon's father commits suicide and Otacon leaves the family.  Emma and
          Julie later move back to England.
1989 - (April) David Christy, the author of this FAQ, is born.
     - Raiden fights in the Liberian Civil War alongside Solidus.  Raiden
          becomes the leader of the small boys unit.
     - At the end of the civil war, Raiden is taken in by an NGO and brought
          back to the United States.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, setting off the Gulf War.
     - Nastasha's parents participate in the cleanup at Chernobyl and die of
          radiation sickness.  Nastasha moves to the U.S.
     - Liquid works for the British special force SAS to destroy the mobile
          SCUD missile launchers in the Gulf War.
     - He becomes a POW in Iraq and is declared MIA.
     - Solid Snake infiltrates western Iraq with a platoon of Green Berets.
1991 - The military secretly injects soldiers in the Gulf War with Big Boss's
          "soldier genes" as part of an experiment (Gulf War syndrome).
     - The Gulf War ends.
     - (September) IAEA discovers that Iraq had been developing nuclear weapons
          right under their nose.
     - (October) The KGB is dissolved and replaced by the SVR.
     - (December) The Communist system collapses.  End of the Soviet Union.
1992 - The Cold War ends.
     - Snezhinsk, Sergei Gurlukovich's home, is bought out by America.
          Gurlukovich establishes a private army that aims to restore Mother
          Russia.
     - Psycho Mantis moves to the U.S. and joins the FBI as a psychic profiler.
     - Nastasha joins the DIA.  She marries Richard Ames but they soon are
          divorced.  Ames disappears.
     - Ocelot serves in the Russian Tax Police's elite SWAT team and then joins
          the SVR.
     - Ocelot is dissatisfied with the rigid system of the KGB (SVR) and is
          recruited by FOXHOUND.
     - Running Man is a short-range runner at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
     - He is banished from the Athlete's Association for doping.  He joins
          European terrorists.
199X - Big Boss begins construction on Metal Gear TX-55 to establish military
          superiority over the world. He kidnaps Dr. Pettrovich's daughter,
          Ellen, to force him to work on Metal Gear TX-55.
1993 - (January) Start-2 Accord signed.
     - (September) A coup d'etat is launched against Russian President, Boris
          Yeltsin.  Vulcan Raven participates.
     - The coup d'etat fails and Vulcan Raven is demoted. Raven flees the
          country and becomes a mercenary.  He joins Outer Heaven.
1994 - Liquid is rescued from Iraq by the U.S. government and returns to
          England.
? - Fatman downloads a guidebook off of the internet and builds an atomic
          bomb.
     - Solid Snake joins FOXHOUND.
1995 - Nastasha leaves the DIA to become a freelance analyst. She writes for
          assorted information magazines and U.S. Naval information magazines.
     - NATO discovers that a new nuclear weapon is under construction at Outer
          Heaven.  FOXHOUND is asked to take care of it.
     - Big Boss sends Gray Fox to Outer Heaven and captures him (Operation
          Intrude N313).
     - Big Boss then sends in the inexperienced Solid Snake hoping that he can
          trick Snake into delivering false information about Metal Gear TX-55
          back to the U.S.
     - Snake is able to rescue Gray Fox, Dr. Pettrovich, and Ellen.
     - The U.S. government tries to kill Kyle Schneider because he is a
          liability.
     - Snake finds Metal Gear TX-55 and destroys it, causing Outer Heaven's
          self-destruct sequence to begin.
     - Snake is confronted by Big Boss while escaping. Snake defeats Big Boss
          and escapes from Outer Heaven.  Outer Heaven is destroyed, but Big
          Boss manages to survive (Operation Intrude N313 successful).
     - NATO conducts an air raid on the remains of Outer Heaven to eliminate
          any evidence of the war orphans that reside there.  Big Boss rescues
          the survivors.  Kyle Schneider is one of them.
     - Snake retires from FOXHOUND.
     - Vulcan Raven joins FOXHOUND (with high recommendation from Ocelot).
     - Roy Campbell becomes the new commander of FOXHOUND.
1996 - Nastasha attends the Canberra Committee, the world's first nationally
          hosted nuclear weapons abolition proposal group, as an advisor.
1997 - Big Boss establishes the military regime, Zanzibar Land in Central Asia
          and fights off the CIS army with his army of mercenaries to declare
          its independence (The Mercenary War).
     - Gray Fox becomes the leader of Zanzibar Land. Dr. Pettrovich voluntarily
          begins construction on Metal Gear D. Running Man is recruited by
          Zanzibar Land.
     - (July) First sub-critical test performed at the Nevada Nuclear Testing
          Facility.
     - Kyle Schneider becomes part of the NASA special force. He is equipped
          with a hi-tech ninja suit and renamed Black Color. He is later
          recruited by Big Boss in Zanzibar Land.
199X - Start-3 negotiations begin.
1999 - Petroleum begins to run out causing an energy crisis.
     - Dr. Kio Marv invents OILIX to solve the energy crisis.
     - Holly White enters Zanzibar Land as a journalist.
     - Dr. Marv is abducted and taken to Zanzibar Land.  The U.S. calls upon
          FOXHOUND to handle the situation.
     - Colonel Campbell calls Snake out of retirement to recover Dr. Marv and
          OILIX (Operation Intrude F014).
     - Snake successfully infiltrates Zanzibar Land and finds Dr. Marv dead.
          Snake kills Dr. Pettrovich and recovers OILIX.
     - Snake destroys Metal Gear D and kills Gray Fox.
     - Big Boss confronts Snake once more and Snake kills Big Boss.  Before Big
          Boss dies, he tells Snake that he is Snake's father.
     - Snake escapes from Zanzibar Land and disappears into Alaska (Operation
          Intrude F014 successful).
     - Roy Campbell retires from FOXHOUND.
     - Dr. Clark starts the gene therapy project.  He revives Gray Fox, keeps
          him drugged, and experiments on him.
     - Big Boss's body is taken by the U.S. government for gene therapy
          experiments.
     - The test on the National Missile Defense program succeeds but is
          considered a chance happening.
     - A countermeasure program to the Y2K bug is distributed worldwide along
          with a secret program designed by the Patriots.
2000 - (January) The Patriots hire a group of hackers (including Emma Emmerich)
          to carry out a test on the NSA's Fort Meade communication facility.
          The Patriots decide to move further data-gathering operations to a
          more isolated location (Arsenal Gear).
     - Psycho Mantis accidentally dives too far into a killer's mind and is
          infected by him.
     - Liquid joins FOXHOUND and becomes commander of the new FOXHOUND.
     - Liquid recruits Sniper Wolf and Psycho Mantis for FOXHOUND.
     - (June) The Human Genome Project is completed.  An estimated 30 to 40
          thousand genes are announced.  But the Patriots secretly suppress
          information about a remaining 60,000 genes.
     - The Genome army is secretly created through gene therapy and Force 21 VR
          training.  Raiden is also trained through the Force 21 training.
     - Another test on the National Missile Defense program is a complete
          failure.
     - The CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) begins a classified project
          utilizing the Pentagon's black budget.
     - George Sears (Solidus) is elected 43rd President of the United States.
2002 - The CNO is killed, freeing up the black budget for the Metal Gear REX
          project.
     - A nuclear weapons disposal plant is built on Shadow Moses Island to
          house the Metal Gear REX project.
     - Naomi Hunter is recruited by ATGC and leads several genetic therapy
          programs.
     - President George Sears (Solidus) organizes the Dead Cell special forces
          unit.
200X - Mei Ling joins the ROTC program at MIT.  After leaving, she designs the
          Soliton Radar system and the Codec.
2003 - Gray Fox kills Dr. Clark.  Naomi Hunter is recruited to fill his post as
          chief geneticist for FOXHOUND.  The Foxdie research is completed.
     - Donald Anderson initiates construction of Metal Gear REX at Shadow Moses
          Island.  Otacon participates.
2004 - A bomb goes off in a church killing everyone inside. Peter Stillman
          blames himself for failing to defuse it.
     - George Sears (Solidus) is re-elected to the Presidency.
? - Fatman attends NAVSCOLEOD (Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal) in
          Indian Head, Maryland and is instructed by Peter Stillman in the ways
          of bomb disposal.  After finishing the course, Fatman joins NEST
          (Nuclear Emergency Search Team).  He quits NEST almost immediately
          and is recruited by Dead Cell.
2005 - A dummy warhead is tested on Metal Gear REX.  Kenneth Baker, Donald
          Anderson, Liquid Snake, and other members of FOXHOUND are called in
          to supervise the test.  The test is successful, but the Patriots are
          suspicious of FOXHOUND.
     - George Sears has Ocelot provoke Liquid Snake into starting an uprising
          at Shadow Moses Island so that he can get Metal Gear REX and the
          warhead data.  This works to the Patriots' advantage as well.
     - Liquid kills McDonnel Miller in his home and begins impersonating him.
     - Meryl Silverburgh is transferred to Shadow Moses to manipulate Campbell.
     - FOXHOUND revolts and takes over Shadow Moses Island.  They demand the
          remains of Big Boss and one billion dollars to cure Liquid and the
          Genome soldiers of their "genetic symmetry."  Donald Anderson and
          Kenneth Baker are taken hostage.
     - Liquid "promises" Sergei Gurlukovich that he will use Metal Gear REX to
          help restore Mother Russia in exchange for technology and support.
     - Solid Snake is chosen as the vector to spread Foxdie to the terrorists,
          allowing the Patriots to retrieve Metal Gear REX and the warhead
          data.
     - Richard Ames recruits Nastasha Romanenko as part of the radio support
          team to help as a nuclear weapons specialist.
     - Before injecting Snake with Foxdie, Naomi Hunter changes the incubation
          period to a random value.
     - The terrorists manage to get Kenneth Baker's PAL code.
     - Ocelot kills Donald Anderson because he knows Ocelot's true identity.
     - Decoy Octopus disguises himself as Donald Anderson to coax information
          out of Snake.
     - Gray Fox infiltrates Shadow Moses Island with the hope of meeting Snake
          again.
     - Snake infiltrates Shadow Moses Island.
     - Snake meets Decoy Octopus disguised as Donald Anderson, but Decoy
          Octopus is killed by Foxdie.
     - Snake finds Kenneth Baker and battles with Ocelot, but the battle is
          interrupted when Gray Fox cuts off Ocelot's right arm.
     - Kenneth Baker gives Snake the optical disk with Metal Gear REX's warhead
          data and is killed by Foxdie.
     - Snake defeats Vulcan Raven in the M1 tank.
     - Snake finds Otacon and defeats Gray Fox in battle.
     - Snake meets up with Meryl, gets the PAL key, and kills Psycho Mantis.
     - Meryl is captured.  Snake battles Sniper Wolf and is captured himself.
     - Ocelot takes the optical disc from Snake.
     - Snake escapes from captivity and destroys the Hind D.
     - Snake kills Sniper Wolf and Vulcan Raven.
     - Snake reaches Metal Gear REX.  Liquid adds the Foxdie vaccine to his
          list of White House demands.  Liquid plans to ally with Gurlukovich
          and fortify Shadow Moses.
     - Naomi is held prisoner by one of Ames' agents.  She secretly contacts
          Snake and tells him about Foxdie.
     - Snake mistakenly activates Metal Gear's activation code.  Liquid takes
          control of Metal Gear REX
     - Snake, assisted by Gray Fox, destroys Metal Gear REX.  Gray Fox is
          killed.
     - Jim Houseman has Colonel Campbell arrested and decides to cover up the
          facts by bombing Shadow Moses Island.
     - Richard Ames has Jim Houseman arrested and places the blame for the
          whole incident on him.  Ames gives Nastasha a disc containing info on
          Foxdie as insurance for her safety.
     - Colonel Campbell is released.
     - Snake and Liquid battle atop the destroyed REX.  Snake rescues Meryl and
          they escape from the base.  Otacon escapes as well.
     - Liquid follows Snake and Meryl out, but is killed by Foxdie.
     - Snake, Meryl, and Otacon leave Shadow Moses Island.
     - Ocelot keeps Meryl under surveillance.
     - George Sears (Solidus) succeeds in getting data on Metal Gear REX and
          the warhead, but the Patriots are unhappy that the public is now
          aware of the existence of REX and the Genome Army.
     - Jim Houseman is killed.
     - Richard Ames disappears again.
     - The surviving members of the Next-Generation Commando Unit are removed
          to the Peace AFB in New Hampshire.
     - Naomi Hunter is formally taken into custody but is broken out by Solid
          Snake.
     - Nastasha Romanenko writes "In the Darkness of Shadow Moses."
     - The Patriots remove George Sears (Solidus) from the Presidential Office.
          James Johnson is selected to be the 44th President.  Plans for
          Arsenal Gear are begun through the Navy.
     - Emma hears about Otacon on Shadow Moses and joins the NSA.
     - Ocelot "helps" Solidus go into hiding until Arsenal Gear is completed.
          Then Solidus plans to steal it and  declare war on the Patriots.
     - FOXHOUND is disbanded.
200X - Ocelot has Liquid's arm grafted on in place of his own missing arm.
     - Ocelot sells the blueprints for Metal Gear on the black market.
     - Snake and Otacon form the anti-Metal Gear organization, "Philanthropy."
          Snake becomes a hero in the public eye.  The Patriots don't like
          this.
     - Marine Commander Scott Dolph initiates and heads the Metal Gear RAY
          project in opposition to the Navy's Arsenal Gear project.
     - The Patriots' develop a plan that will get rid of Solid Snake's fame,
          get them Arsenal Gear and RAY, kill off Solidus, filter out unwanted
          information from the internet through GW, and fully prepare GW to
          handle any situation that it's presented with through a huge
          recreation of the Shadow Moses incident.
2007 - (April) The Patriots send Rose to spy on Raiden and learn all about him,
          but she ends up falling in love with him.
     - The Patriots send Otacon an anonymous tip about Metal Gear RAY to lure
          him and Snake to its testing site.
     - Solid Snake infiltrates the U.S.S. Discovery on the Hudson River in
          search of Metal Gear RAY.
     - Ocelot, Olga, Sergei Gurlukovich, and his men take over the tanker with
          plans to steal Metal Gear RAY, sell it, and rebuild Mother Russia.
     - Snake battles Olga and knocks her out.
     - Snake reaches Metal Gear, takes pictures, and transmits them to Otacon.
     - Ocelot betrays the takeover group and kills Gurlukovich and Marine
          Commander Dolph.  He then steals Metal Gear RAY and sinks the tanker.
     - The Patriots immediately send a fully loaded oil tanker to the same
          location and sink it as a cover-up.
     - The Patriots have Snake blamed for the destruction of the tanker.
     - Otacon and Snake acquire Liquid's body and set it up to look like Snake
          was killed on the tanker.
     - The Big Shell is built, disguised as an oil cleanup facility, for the
          construction of Arsenal Gear and staging of the S3 plan.
     - Emma Emmerich is moved from the NSA to the Arsenal project.  She designs
          GW and the GW virus as a failsafe.
     - The Patriots alter the virus so that it will eliminate their members'
          personal info from GW.
     - The Patriots have Metal Gear RAY redesigned to be a mass-produced backup
          unit for Arsenal Gear.
     - Olga and her men join forces with an illegal Russian organization that
          turns out to be a subordinate organization of the Patriots.
     - Olga gives birth, but the Patriots take her baby from her. She is forced
          to cooperate with the Patriots orders in exchange for her child's
          life.
2008 - The Patriots arrest Colonel Jackson, who later dies in prison, and set
          up Dead Cell to be blamed for a bunch of civil disturbances.
     - Fortune's mother commits suicide and Fortune has a miscarriage.
     - Dead Cell decides to get revenge on the Patriots.
     - James Johnson is elected to a second term as President.  He plans to
          steal Arsenal Gear in order to bargain his way into the Patriots'
          ranks.
2009 - Liquid uses Ocelot to leak information about Arsenal Gear to Otacon.
          Liquid plans to find the Patriots through Ocelot and kill them off.
     - The Patriots recruit Raiden through GW (under the guise of FOXHOUND) and
          order Olga to assist him in any way possible.
     - A Presidential inspection tour is held to check the progress of Arsenal
          Gear.  The Patriots are aware of Johnson's plan and send Richard Ames
          to keep an eye on him.
     - (April) Solidus, Ocelot, Dead Cell, Olga, and her men take over the Big
          Shell.  Ames, Johnson, and Emma are taken hostages.  C4 is set up
          around the Big Shell.  Solidus intends to steal Arsenal Gear, filter
          the Patriots' names out of GW, and kill them off.
     - Solidus uses Ocelot to suggest to Fortune and Vamp that they steal
          Arsenal Gear themselves, so that they draw the Patriots' attacks
          while Solidus secretly kills the Patriots off.
     - Seal Team 10 begins conducting an operation to rescue the President.
          Peter Stillman and Otacon are brought in with them.
     - Snake infiltrates the Big Shell and disguises himself as a Navy Seal.
     - Raiden infiltrates the Big Shell with orders from FOXHOUND (GW) to
          safeguard the hostages and disable the terrorists.
     - Rose is chosen to be the mission analyst.
     - Seal Team 10 is wiped out by Vamp and Fortune.
     - Snake meets Raiden and takes on the name Iroquois Pliskin.
     - Raiden meets Peter Stillman.
     - Raiden is contacted by Olga under the guise of Mr. X.
     - Stillman accidentally sets off a C4 killing himself and destroying the
          lower part of Strut H.  Snake and Raiden defuse all the others.
     - Raiden battles Fortune but can't kill her.
     - Raiden battles and kills Fatman.  Snake and Otacon learn about Arsenal
          Gear.
     - Raiden meets up with Mr. X (Olga) and is told to find Ames.
     - Raiden meets Ames, but Ames' pacemaker is shut down to replicate the
          Foxdie deaths at Shadow Moses.
     - Raiden meets Solidus, but he jumps into a Harrier 2 with Vamp.  Raiden
          destroys the Harrier 2.  Solidus and Vamp survive, but Solidus loses
          his left eye.
     - Raiden meets the President.  The President gives him the disc containing
          the altered GW virus.
     - Ocelot kills the President to replicate the Foxdie deaths at Shadow
          Moses.
     - Raiden battles Vamp.  Final check procedure for Arsenal Gear is
          completed.
     - Raiden rescues Emma.
     - Olga confronts Snake and learns that Ocelot was the one that killed her
          father.
     - Vamp stabs Emma and Snake takes Emma to the computer room to load the
          virus before its too late.
     - Emma dies and the virus is blocked, leaving it downloaded at only 90%.
     - Otacon rescues all the hostages with the Kamov chopper.  Olga and Snake
          capture Raiden to sneak onto Arsenal Gear.
     - Once aboard Arsenal, Olga releases Raiden.  The virus begins affecting
          GW.
     - Raiden learns that Rose is pregnant and meets back up with Snake.  They
          battle their way through Arsenal Gear.
     - Fortune confronts and captures Snake.  Raiden fights all the Metal Gear
          RAYs, but is soon worn out.  Olga comes to help out and is killed by
          Solidus.
     - Ocelot reveals that he has been working for the Patriots.  He kills
          Fortune and prepares to kill the others, but Liquid takes control
          again.  Liquid sets Arsenal to crash into the mainland and escapes in
          Metal Gear RAY.  Snake dives off of Arsenal and puts a transmitter on
          Liquid's RAY.
     - Arsenal Gear plows through Manhattan and stops at Federal Hall, knocking
          Raiden and Solidus onto its roof. They battle to the death.  Solidus
          is killed.
     - Snake and Otacon find the names of the Patriots on the GW virus. They
          realize that the Patriots have already been dead for about 100 years.
     - Due to faults in the cloning process, Snake's cells begin deteriorating
          at a rapid rate.
20XX - Restrictions on military intervention in foreign countries ease up,
          creating high demand for mercenaries.  Many PMCs (private military
          companies) are established.
     - Liquid takes advantage of this military boom and reestablishes Outer
          Heaven to be an overseer of the five biggest PMCs.
     - Liquid creates a giant army equal in power to the US's armed forces.
     - The UN locates Liquid in the Middle East and Snake is recruited to
          infiltrate the new Outer Heaven and take Liquid out.  (events of Guns
          of the Patriots).

[Almeidaboo]

I donīt think thereīll ever be a series like this one. Hideo Kojima is a genius, maybe even more than Hironobu Sakaguchi (sp?). Wikipedia has it all, itīs so complex that I had a bad time understanding it.

[Osmose]

It is a good story, but a lot of it is really sketchy... like the AIs that talked to Raiden at the end of MGS2 or the Metal Gears in MGS4 that Moo like cows. Or that Snake's Bandana aparently gives him unlimited ammo, and no one questions why.

[Razor]

I QUESTION WHY, MOOSE.
I QUESTION WHY.

[Drace]

Originally posted by Osmose
It is a good story, but a lot of it is really sketchy... like the AIs that talked to Raiden at the end of MGS2 or the Metal Gears in MGS4 that Moo like cows. Or that Snake's Bandana aparently gives him unlimited ammo, and no one questions why.

That last one was a great reference to the bandana in MGS2.