"War has changed. It's No Longer About Nations, Ideologies or Ethnicity. It's An Endless Series of Proxy Battles, Fought By Mercenaries And Machines. War, And It's Consumption of Life, Has Become A Well-Oiled Machine. War Has Changed. ID Tagged Soldiers Carry ID Tagged Weapons, Use ID Tagged Gear. Nanomachines Inside Their Bodies Enhance And Regulate Their Abilities. Genetic Control. Information Control. Emotion Control. Battlefield Control. Everything Is Monitored, And Kept Under Control. War Has Changed. The Age of Deterrence Has Become The Age of Control. All In The Name of Averting Catastrophe From Weapons of Mass Destruction. And He Who Controls The Battlefield, Controls History. War Has Changed. When The Battlefield Is Under Total Control, War...Becomes Routine." Solid Snake
"War Has Changed. Our Time Has Ended. Our War Is Over. But There Is One Last Yhing I Must Do...One Last Punishment I Must Endure - Erase My Genes, Wipe This Meme Off The Face of The Planet. This...Is My Final Mission." - Solid Snake
"Snake...had a hard life. He Need's Some Time To Rest." - Dr. Hal Emmerich a.k.a Otacon
With the American system in a state of collapse the Patriots' society has reverted to a blank slate. This man was the source of it all. And he doesn't even realize it. He's completely unaware of the fact that he led the world to the brink of ruin. Even with so much bad blood between us it's funny... Now that I'm actually face to face with him again the hatred is gone. All I feel is a deep sense of longing, and pity. Did Zero really hate me? Or... Did he fear me? It's too late to ask him now… The original members... Para-Medic... Sigint... EVA... Ocelot. They've all passed on. Only Zero is left. Everything has its beginning... But doesn't start at "one." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes two... Two becomes ten ... ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to one solves nothing. So long as zero remains one will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Zero...Even the mighty Patriots began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge; bloated, absorbed technology began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Zero into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason... I'm taking it upon myself to send Zero back to nothing. " - Naked Snake(Big Boss)