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| “ | Politics, the military, the economy they control it all. They even choose who becomes President. Putting it simply, the Patriots rule this country. | „ |
| ~ President James Johnson. |
The Patriots, also known as the La-li-lu-le-lo or Cipher, are the overarching antagonists of the Metal Gear series. They were a group of people, and later on five AIs, that ruled the United States in secret.
History[]
The Creation of the Patriots[]
The founding members of the Patriots.
After Naked Snake managed to complete his mission involving killing Colonel Volgin, and the Boss, destroying the Shagohod, and acquiring the Philosophers' Legacy, Major Zero used the money in the Legacy to start an organization to manipulate the world's social and macroeconomic factors. He did this to respect The Boss' last will and testament to make a world a better place.
After Gene's rebellion, the Legacy was stolen and Zero contacted Ocelot and he agreed to join if Big Boss will also join. Agreeing to Ocelot's terms and even recruited Sigint and Para-Medic as well as EVE from the Chinese philosophers. They forcefully shut down all the branches of the philosophers and then Zero, along with five others, became the founding members; Sigint, Para-Medic, Ocelot, EVA and Big Boss. The reason Zero choose these people to join him was because they have been personally and directly influenced by the Boss herself.
The Les Infantes Terribles Project[]
Zero even made Big Boss a messianic idol for the world to look up to and for a time, Big Boss did not mind being idolized. However, he eventually began to resent the role. This combined with the two men's different interpretations of the Boss's Will cause there to be conflict between Big Boss and Zero, with Zero believing that Big Boss might end up leaving the Patriots. So Zero orchestrated a secretive project designed to clone the Big Boss so that the Patriots and the world will have a Big Boss to look up to.
When Big Boss learnt of the births of Solid Snake, Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, Big Boss left the Patriots and started his own Private Military Organization in an attempt to carry out his own interpretation of the Boss's Will. As time went by however, the friendship between Zero and Big Boss began to to fall apart.
EVE also departed form the Patriots but Ocelot stated, just so that he can work undercover for EVE and report to her on the Patriot's activities.
Influencing the World[]
As the years went by, Para-Medic and Sigint started to become corrupted by their new found power. Para-Medic would loose her moral compass and began using genetic engineering to secretly develop methods to enhance soldiers. She began working for FOXHOUND. Sigint began working in DARPA and also lost his sense of morality and started working on AIs for military application.
Zero kept on amassing massive fortunes as well as data. Zero's words would influence the decision making on a global scale, ranging from banking facilities to dictators and even the Western and Eastern world's political powers. Zero always remained hopeful to the idea that his former best friend Big Boss would return to the Patriots. Zero went into hiding due to Big Boss being furious about the Les Infantes Terribles Project and maintain the Patriots through his subordinates via the AI proxies. Before going dark, Zero had also recruited Skull Face to be the top management of XOF and be the clean up crew to Big Boss's missions.
The Cold War Between Big Boss and Zero[]
In 1974, during the Peace Walker Incident, The Patriots going under the name of Cipher had recruited Pacifica Ocean to be a triple agent within the CIA and the KGB. Through Pacifica Ocean, Cipher had KGB operative Vladimir Zadornov provide resources for Hot Coldman's Peace Walker Project, and the training for his rogue CIA unit, Peace Sentinel. Cipher also contacted Kazuhiro Miller and Cipher helped expand Big Boss's private militia, the Militaires Sans Frontieres, by having Big Boss' militia unknowingly participate in a variety of Cipher's projects.
After Cipher helped MSF grow into a large organization, Pacifica hijacked the new Metal Gear ZEKE and give Big Boss a chance to return to Cipher. Big Boss refused and Pacifica attempted to frame MSF for being an extremist religious cult by using the Metal Gear ZEKE to launch warheads at USA. MSF were able to damage Metal Gear ZEKE. Meanwhile Cipher had gained control over a variety of intelligence agencies which specialize in digital information as a way to create an advanced AI network to maintain the world's digital networks.
Following the Peace Walker Incident, Cipher had a close call when the Joint Chiefs of Staff grew suspicious of a U.S. naval facility being converted into a black site, as well as MSF uncovering evidence of it since December 3, 1974. Cipher was also known by the JCS, and had a rivalry with it to such an extent that the latter group hired MSF to retrieve incriminating information on the base. Around this time, they also captured an MSF Intel Team agent and interrogated him until he was rescued by Big Boss during a mission to sabotage the base's AA turrets.
The prisoner, when rescued, revealed that Cipher also intended to create a HUMINT network without borders, and were using several methods to coerce foreign leaders into submitting to their will, including blackmail on backdoor money, scandals, and financial fraud. Cipher was also sending dissidents who defected to the West back to the East via various deals with the base acting as a layover point, and the prisoner implied when he was rescued by Big Boss that Cipher had secret dealings with a variety of foreign intelligence agencies. Cipher then had the place bombed, also wiping out the MAGTF dispatched to suppress the black site, although MSF nonetheless suspected Cipher's involvement in the aftermath.
By now, Skull Face had gained control over Cipher through XOF. Cipher eventually discovered that Paz survived her encounter with Big Boss and had her detained at the U.S. military base in Cuba, which was being used as a detention facility for "enemies of the state." Cipher also leaked information to the United Nations to provoke an inspection of MSF by the IAEA, officially due to their purchase of nuclear fuel from Uzbekistan. MSF reluctantly allowed the inspection after Huey Emmerich accepted the request, and intended to conceal Metal Gear ZEKE when it took place. Meanwhile, Big Boss would retrieve Paz from the U.S. facility to obtain more intelligence on Cipher, as she was MSF's only viable link to them.
The nuclear inspection turned out to be a smokescreen for an attack by Cipher's strike force XOF, which plotted to assault and destroy MSF's Mother Base in the Caribbean. The attack proved successful, resulting in severe casualties on MSF's end and the destruction of Mother Base, with Big Boss himself eventually falling into a coma. Following this, XOF's commander Skull Face used the information gained from Paz's earlier interrogation to hunt down his "boss" Zero, for reasons relating to revenge. He tracked down Zero's location he infected him with a strain of the vocal cord parasites which over time destroyed all of his cognitive functions.
Due to his declining health Zero sought to put in place a system which would govern Cipher for years to come so with his immense amount of money (and Sigint's assistance), he commissioned the creation of computer AIs (TJ, TR, AL, and GW) with a fifth head AI that would control the world, even after his eventual death. The idea was to ultimately create a unified world state by using the system to make economics and politics uniform and devoid of free will, in an attempt to erase individuality, an ideology born from a misinterpretation of The Boss's will and his own megalomaniacal desire for total control. With Zero's declining mental faculties, he was preserved in a vegetative state, unaware of the world he had unintentionally created.
The Cold War between Diamond Dogs and Cipher[]
In 1984, Big Boss and another patient had awoken, the latter would soon become hypnotized to believe that they were indeed Big Boss. As a result, with the message "V has come to," Skull Face personally sent a detachment of XOF soldiers, including one assassin later to be known as Quiet, to that hospital in Cyprus, in an attempt to kill Boss and finish him off once and for all. However, they were met with a slew of enemies, both including Ishmael, a patient from the same room as V (becoming Ahab), the "Third Child" (Psycho Mantis), and a being known as the "Man on Fire", a reanimated corpse of Colonel Volgin.
While Ahab under the impression of being Big Boss was reestablishing a military nation called the Diamond Dogs, led alongside Kazuhira Miller and Revolver Ocelot, XOF was doing research of their own, using Huey Emmerich as a means to develop their latest machine, a weapon believed to surpass the Shagohod and even the AI machines of the Peace Walker incident. Meanwhile, they used parasitologist Code Talker to develop a form of archaea that fed off of metals, which in turn would enrich yellowcake and develop nuclear weapons fast, along with a parasite capable of killing a host if a certain language was uttered. This, paired with the threat that Sahelanthropus posed to the Cold War nations of the United States and the Soviet Union, was part of a plan to establish an arms race revival, descending the world into chaos as the languages of humans would be eradicated to that of the languages of nukes, with Skull Face/Cipher owning a monopoly on these weapons and the power to arm and disarm them through the metallic archaea.
Rule of the Patriots[]
To be Added.
Shadow Moses Incident[]
It was during the Shadow Moses Incident that saw the Patriots begin to break up and fall apart as the separatist faction led by Big Boss that included EVA and Revolver Ocelot enlisted the aid of Naomi Hunter to destroy Zero's rival faction. With the aid of the Cyborg Ninja Gray Fox, AKA Frank Jaeger, Para-Medic was the first of the Patriot founding members to be eliminated, killed by Gray Fox, while Revolver Ocelot took down Sigint, making his death look like an accident. However, it was during this time that Solid Snake infiltrated Shadow Moses, and Naomi, who carried a bitter grudge against him for what he had done to Big Boss and Gray Fox, injected him with the FOXDIE virus in revenge, leading to the death of Liquid Snake. However, learning that Big Boss was Solid Snake's father and Gray Fox helped Snake stop Metal Gear REX, saving Naomi and the world from nuclear annihilation at the cost of his life, Naomi regretted her actions against Snake, forgave him, and told him to live his life to the fullest until FOXDIE killed him. She was later arrested for high treason by the United States Department of Defense for modifying FOXDIE without their consent, but three weeks after being incarcerated in a maximum security prison, she was busted out by Revolver Ocelot, now going by Liquid Ocelot, and disappeared from the public view, marking her as a most wanted international terrorist by the CIA.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty[]
To be Added.
The war economy[]
With Zero now in a vegetative state, his AIs began warping his view of order according to The Boss' will to their own ideologies, creating the war economy, where soldiers would fight and die in needless proxy wars that were usually led by Private Military Companies (PMCs) on both sides of the conflict. It was during this time that Revolver Ocelot appeared to be possessed by the will of Liquid Snake, renaming himself Liquid Ocelot, and taking control of the five largest PMCs in the world under the mother company Outer Heaven, he planned to eliminate Zero's AIs and end the Patriots once and for all, but had to do so in a way to not let the AIs catch on to his true intentions, so he appears to be planning an insurrection against the United States and the United Nations, forcing them to summon Solid Snake to stop him before he created something even worse than Iron Mountain's Delphi Technique.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots[]
By 2014, with the world drowned in the war economy, the Patriots are preparing for their endgame with enslaving the civilian population under their will as well. Liquid Ocelot, using his Outer Heaven forces, attempts to take over the Sons of the Patriots (SOP) system that controlled the war economy, using the rebuilt GW AI to do so, as JD and the other AIs believed that GW was gone, so Liquid could use GW as a trojan to sneak into the Patriots' system undetected. Combined with taking out JD with a nuclear missile that was not ID-tagged into SOP, GW would take control of TJ, TR, and AL, and Liquid could then stop the Patriots' endgame himself.
However, this plan never came to fruition, as Solid Snake and Hal "Otacon" Emmerich uploaded the FOXALIVE virus into GW, not only taking it out, but also JD and the other AIs as well, ending the Patriots' threat before it could complete its plans for the civilian population. A video of Naomi set to playback when the AIs were destroyed revealed that Naomi personally wanted to stop the Patriots before they could enslave the civvies, as she wanted no part in that and had an obligation to stop it. However, Sunny had modified FOXALIVE to ensure modern civilization survived following the collapse of the Patriots, allowing the USA to finally be free to make its own choices again without the Patriots running things from behind the scenes, and putting the UN back at the forefront with restoring peace as countries tried to recover from the financial collapse of relying on PMCs for so long.
Organization's Description[]
The Organization was originally created by Zero to fulfill the Boss's Will by unifying the world under a World Order maintained by the Patriots. Zero even intended for Big Boss to be idolized as a messianic figure. Solid Snake even described the organization's practices similar to that of an Organized Religion.
In accordance with The Colonel, it is revealed that the Patriots believe that in the modern digitized world, human beings are amassing a lot of trivial and unimportant information as well as building various social systems which selectively recognize and reward the development of trivial information. The Colonel states that because of opinions being favored over facts, human evolution and natural selection cannot take place in the modern world. To correct this, the Patriots sought to build a massive data processing system to eradicate trivial information from the internet and only leave out factual information for people to see.
Members[]
Founding Members[]
- Zero (True Founder and True Leader)
- Sigint
- Para-Medic
- EVA (Triple agent within the Patriots)
- Revolver Ocelot (Triple agent within the Patriots)
- Big Boss (Left the Patriots)
Agents[]
- Pacifica Ocean
- Skull Face (Former spymaster turned Leader; formerly)
- George Sears (left the Patriots)
- Raiden (unknowingly)
- Jim Houseman
- Richard Ames
- James Johnson
- Fatman
- Rosemary
- Olga Gurlukovich (forced due to her child being captive)
- Drebin 893
- Rat Patrol Team 01
- Meryl Silverburgh
- Ed
- Jonathan
- Johnny "Akiba"
AIs[]
- JD (John Doe)
- GW (George Washington)
- TJ (Thomas Jefferson)
- AL (Abraham Lincoln)
- TR (Theodore Roosevelt)
- The Colonel
