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Misterbunnsy wrote: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=14215 Yeah, I read through the article, but I also read through Kojima's tweets regarding the names of the Snakes, and he explicitly stated that he named Solidus that in large part because he anticipated the possibility of a sequel to MGS2:

http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=13012

"As to develop sequel, the 3rd snake was needed. Since both solid & liquid express state, means same true state. Naturally the next would be gas but gas snake is like gas human, not handsome name. So I borrowed from physics terms of “solidus/liquidus”. SOLIDUS is not state but implies the boundary of liquid and solid."