Thread:Bluerock/@comment-44626702-20191208220655

Hi there!

Im a huge fan of the metal gear series and i have some questions for ya.

I recently dug up my super old Playstation 1 console from my house's basement and played the original Metal gear solid 1998 after almost a decade of not having played at all.

Ive read many of your guy's posts here on the metal gear fandom but theres still smth that bugs me to this day: Was the Shadow Moses incident orchestrated by the Patriots just like the Big Shell incident was or it was all President Sears' (aka Solidus Snake) doing? Did the Patriots try the same simulation program as the Big Cell in Shadow Moses with the hopes to discover whether someone could act as a hero when being put under pressure (similar to Raiden's training exercise in Big Cell) or they came up with the idea AFTER the heroic acts of Solid Snake in Shadow Moses?

Colonel Campbell said that his niece Meryl was transferred to Shadow Moses just before the incident took place in order to press the Colonel into agreeing to lead the operation. This means that the Patriots knew about the upcoming incident and were placing all the pawns on the board. However, according to many posts on this forum, the Patriots had no idea that the President would go behind their backs and do all that, yet somehow Meryl was stationed to Shadow Moses Island as if the Patriots knew from before what would happen and needed his niece to put the pressure on him.

If President Sears did go behind the Patriot's back, what were his motives? Why would he go all rogue? What could he possibly have achieved by doing that?

Thx for your time! 