Kenneth Baker

Kenneth Baker was the former president of ArmsTech, one of the leading manufacturers in the arms industry, during the time of the Shadow Moses Incident.

Later career
In the early 2000s, Baker's company initiated the development of Metal Gear REX, for the purpose of recovering financial losses that ArmsTech had previously suffered, due in part to losing contracts to rival companies, and a reduction in spending for the Strategic Defense Initiative. He bribed the DARPA Chief Donald Anderson to support the project and pushed to have it be developed as a black project.

In February 2005, Baker and Donald Anderson visited the nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island, where Metal Gear REX was being developed. The two were present to oversee a rail gun testing exercise, with security provided by special forces group FOXHOUND. However, Baker was taken hostage when FOXHOUND hijacked REX, in a revolt against the U.S. government.

Baker proved resistant to the mind reading abilities of FOXHOUND's psychic, due to cranial implants that he and Anderson had received. During his captivity, he hid an optical disc containing REX's test data and gave the PAL card to Meryl Silverburgh, a fellow prisoner. He was tortured by Revolver Ocelot, and his right arm was broken during the interrogation. Because he hadn't been trained to resist physical torture, he ended up divulging his detonation code for the activation of REX.

Baker was later held prisoner by Ocelot in the facility's armory, where Solid Snake found him tied to a support pillar and wired with C4 explosives. However, Baker was cut free by the mysterious Cyborg Ninja, just prior to the C4's detonation, interrupting the battle that had ensued between Ocelot and Snake, and driving the former away from the area. Baker recognized the Ninja as a former experimental genome soldier created by FOXHOUND, shortly before the latter fled the scene.

After Baker had recovered from the ordeal, he was then interrogated by Snake regarding the PAL system. He told Snake to seek out the card key held by Meryl and handed him the disc containing the data on the training exercise, for him to return to the Pentagon. However, having become infected by the FOXDIE virus unwittingly carried by Snake, Baker suffered a sudden heart attack. In his death throes, he attempted to warn Snake of the Pentagon's plans, after realizing the true nature of the situation, but died before Snake could learn more.

Behind the scenes
Kenneth Baker (ケネス・ベイカー) is a character who appears in Metal Gear Solid. In dialogue with Snake regarding funding for the REX project, Baker refers to the ArmsTech's bribes as "good business," while The Twin Snakes remake, has him refer to the military-industrial complex instead.

In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, a "ghost" of Baker, based on his face portrait, can be photographed on Shadow Moses Island. The image will appear in photographs taken of the electric floor generator, on the second floor basement of the warhead storage building, by using the Camera.

Appearances

 * Metal Gear Solid/Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (mentioned and flashbacks)
 * Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (mentioned, flashbacks and ghost)