Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28260690-20171119012813

For such an important background event, I'm surprised that there wasn't more context given to Strangelove being removed from DARPA, given that the end of Strangelove's involvement in the project was basically why Anderson stepped in to complete it, and gave the AI's broad instructions that led to them deviating from Zero's will, leading to most of the events after Phantom Pain. I've seen people speculating that it was due to people being intolerant of her sexual orientation, but Anderson, basically the leader of the parts of Cipher not controlled by Skull Face (probably the AI development department or something like that, since Skull Face had no use for AI), doesn't seem to be the type of person to do that, given he was prejudiced for his race.

Also, I guess Clark probably never cared for Zero's vision, and became an amoral scientist with Cipher's resources, her being killed by Gray Fox in order to get Naomi and Fox to join Ocelot and EVA's plan to take down the AI's made sense, in a way. Ocelot and EVA didn't see how she could be useful and arranged for her death as part of the plan to end the Patriots as a group, including all the six founders and the AI's. But what I don't get was why Anderson had to die. Since Zero ultimately seemed to be on the same side as Big Boss, EVA, and Ocelot in wanting to stop Cipher/The Patriots, even after it was too late to halt the Patriots AI's, I'm sure Anderson, as their developer, could have been useful in stopping the AI's in some way, so why did Ocelot kill him? Was it because he had become too amoral as well, and refused to help Ocelot break the AI's stranglehold? 