Clone

A clone is a being that has been created/born through the DNA of the person that they were cloned from, this person is called the clone template. While clones are not created by nature they are still living beings capable of independent thought.

History
In 1972 Zero, the leader of the Patriots, began to fear that the organisations icon Big Boss would leave the Patriots due to their different views on the will of The Boss. To this end he decided to clone the legendary soldier to both replace Big Boss as the Patriot's icon and to be used as weapons against Big Boss.

After Big Boss fell into a coma after getting injured in battle Zero had Dr Clark take Big Boss DNA and use it in a project to create clones of Big Boss. This project became know as Les Enfants Terribles. After dozens of faliures Dr Clark finally managed to create two clones using Clark's assistant egg cells and EVA as the surrogate mother.

The two clones, also known as the Twin Snakes, were called Solid Snake who had the recessive genes while the other was called Liquid Snake who got the dominant genes. A third clone was created later on who had both types of genes this clone was called Solidus Snake.

As Big Boss was 37 years old when he was cloned the clones would start to suffer accelerated aging when they reach their late thirties, though Solidus suffered this very early in his life. This was a fail safe in case the clones were stolen by the enemy or turned aganist Zero.

Although they are cloned from their father they do have different DNA's of their own though it takes stronger technology to detect this.