Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130228115651/@comment-8245466-20130416030202

With regards to this: The Phantom Pain is the codicil allowed by any conscious luminary in response to any truant limb or an apportion of the limb.

0nighthawk0 pointed out that a codicil is a document that improves upon an existing will, while a luminary is any person who serves as an inspiration to others or a figure head, and truant means to be absent without permission and an apportion is an allocation according to plan or purpose.

I conjecture that the Phantom Pain is the name of the vr based program developed by the Patriots in order to fulfill their vision of the Boss's will. The reference to "any truant limb" could allude to Big Boss himself, whom Zero wanted to act as the right hand of the Patriots; a figure head whom the world could look up to and believe in, all while the Patriots secretly took control. Big Boss left the Patriots without Zero's "permission", to fulfill his own interpretation of the Boss's will. In this sense, either Big Boss or Zero could be the luminaries. It is also possible, if Gene were still alive, that either he or Big Boss could be the luminaries. Both were charismatic leaders who succeeded the Boss, in some way. Perhaps, after the events of Portable Ops, the Patriots retrieved Gene's body and somehow brought him back to life, similar to what they would do decades later in Zanzibar Land. If it is true that Big Boss's arm was taken for some kind of experimentation, then that arm would be the apportioned limb.