GW



GW, named after George Washington, was the name of one of the proxy-AI systems used to govern and run The Patriots. GW was housed inside Arsenal Gear and later Outer Haven. It had been programmed to scan the Internet and other forms of media, and eliminate all information hinting at the existence of the Patriots.

At the start of The Manhattan Incident, GW was incomplete. The Patriots staged the entire incident and manipulated it from behind the scenes in order to provide complex data for GW to study. It did this by tricking Raiden into doing the Patriots' work by feeding his anticipations and pretending to be Colonel Campbell, tricking him into thinking he's become a member of FOXHOUND, molding him into the next Solid Snake as part of the S3 Plan to completely control society.

GW was infected by Emma Emmerich's computer virus, corrupting it and causing its systems to fail (The projections of Raiden's support team began acting strange, the mass-produced Metal Gear RAY units became uncontrollable, and Arsenal itself crashed into Manhattan). Following this, the S3 plan was taken over by another of the Patriots AIs. As part of the S3 plan, GW was sacrificed by being infected with the computer virus in order to mimic the effects of FOXDIE from the Shadow Moses incident. However, the Patriots AIs began to realize shortly after GW went haywire that Emma's Cluster Worm was going to leak into the other AIs, thus possibly causing a threat to their existance and control. To this end, they arranged for the Arsenal Gear to go haywire and crash into Manhattan in a last ditch effort to destroy GW.

The remnants of GW were seized by Liquid Ocelot following the conclusion of events of the Manhattan incident. Pieced together again, the system was inadvertently used by a worm cluster made by Sunny as a passageway into the other Patriots, shutting down the system entirely.

Appearances

 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
 * Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots