Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3392084-20140416023502/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140418202001

A metal gear is a strategic weapon that launches nuclear missiles from stealth. A weapon that surpasses it would need to either be a more effective way to launch nuclear missiles from stealth, or be a more effective form of strategic warfare - i.e. a new strategy that obsoletizes nuclear weaponry itself. For example, it could be a technology to efficiently assassinate world leaders: Les Enfants Terribles, a successor to the Perfect Soldier Project, or a predecessor to FOXDIE could serve this purpose. Or, it could be a technology that controls nations in order to prevent war more effectively than mutually-assured destruction: It could be an evolution of the Successor Project (like Psycho Mantis' mind control), or a precursor of S.O.P. (like the Internet (ha ha, remember when Sigint thought the Internet would end racism?)).

Whatever it is, it must end up being uncompelling, since Big Boss goes right ahead and develops another metal gear nine years later anyway.