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Sergeant Christine "Chris" Jenner was the last surviving member of the Delta Force team that was dispatched to the fortress of Galuade, Gindra during the Galuade Incident in 2002. Having successfully avoided death and capture, she worked alongside Solid Snake, with whom she grew close during the course of the mission.
Biography[]
Christine Jenner was an only child. Her parents divorced when she was 12 due to her father's infidelity;[3] afterwards, her mother acquired custody, and Christine kept her mother's maiden name. Jenner's father never missed his substantial alimony or child support payments, providing Jenner and her mother with more than enough money for two people to live on.
However, her childhood was nonetheless not a happy one due to her mother frequently getting drunk and sleeping around with various men, with Chris sometimes waking up to find her mom with one of these men. Despite this pain, however, and despite her father being responsible for the mess, she and her mom simply could not find it in them to hate him, with Chris also speculating that her mom deliberately inflicted herself and Chris with this pain in a desperate attempt to get him to notice to no avail. Chris instead learned to hate the woman that her father divorced her mom for.[3]
Jenner eventually graduated from a prestigious high school with excellent grades. She immediately joined the U.S. Army in 1994, and then the Delta Force in 1998, after passing the entrance exam with flying colors.[4] Years later, Jenner would admit that she joined the military primarily because she was hoping to acquire a clear and concrete view of right and wrong.
Galuade Incident[]
In 2002, Jenner was part of a Delta Force team dispatched to quell a terrorist threat in a small Afrocan country of Gindra. Jenner was secretly given orders by U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. John Parker to locate and eliminate any on-site evidence regarding Project Babel.[5] While her unit searched for the Gindra Liberation Front and Black Chamber, she attempted to find the data on Project Babel on the base's central computer, also disguising herself as one of the GLF soldiers for easier access as to the computer (although she officially did it to find Jimmy Harks whereabouts).[6]
However, the GLF's leader "General" Augustine Eguabon had anticipated that Parker would attempt to get rid of the evidence, and removed all trace of the data from the central computer before Jenner's arrival. Instead, she found the bodies of her Delta Force comrades, massacred in an ambush by Black Chamber.[7] Unknown to Jenner, her team's mission details had been leaked to Eguabon by US National Security Advisor Steven Gardner, who had likewise anticipated Parker's actions and did not want the latter's plan to succeed.[5]
After contacting and then personally meeting Solid Snake in a watchtower, Jenner opted to investigate Galuade's power plant due to increased enemy activity there. She was later assigned by Snake to guard Dr. James "Jimmy" Harks while Snake attempted to stop Metal Gear GANDER from launching a nuke. However, while guarding an uncooperative Jimmy, Jenner was forced to abandon him after a firefight broke out. Jenner managed to escape, but her survival threw a wrench into Eguabon's and Gardner's plans.[8] Some time later, she revisited the power plant upon discovering that there was a computer terminal on the facility's second floor.[6]
Later on in the mission, she ended up captured by the Black Chamber commander, Black Arts Viper, who personally did the deed to ensure she was captured, and so he'd have sure-fire bait against Snake for their inevitable fight.[9] Jimmy, who had escaped captivity with the help of another surviving Delta Force soldier, later revealed to Snake that she was actually not the last surviving member of the Delta Force unit. In fact, she wasn't even present with the unit when they were ambushed.
Snake talking to Christine after rescuing her.
Because of this, it was believed by Snake's mission support that Chris might have actually been the Black Chamber mole that Pyro Bison alluded to before his death. However, Black Arts Viper later revealed that she was actually sent to Galuade to erase evidence of Project Babel under direct orders from General John Parker, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Although she felt legitimately guilty for lying to Snake about her status, Snake forgave her, and after he killed Eguabon and Viper, the two left Galuade together, having grown close in the course of the mission. Snake then decided to go back to the U.S. and hunt down and exact revenge on the people who played peoples lives as if they were chess pieces and after making them pay, return to Chris.
Behind the scenes[]
In an optional Codec conversation, taking place during the battle with the Havoc, Weasel will refer to Chris (or rather, a look-alike) as "that Grace Kelly", referring the American film actress and wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco who died of injuries sustained in a car crash in 1982.
Chris appeared in a poster of Ghost Babel in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
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Notes[]
- ^ Although it appears blond in-game, the packaging artwork for Ghost Babel depicts Christine Jenner with brown hair.
References[]
- ^ Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2000).
Chris is stated to be 25 years old at the time of the Galuade Incident, which takes place in 2002 (seven years after the events of Operation Intrude N313). - ^ Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2000).
- ^ a b Chris reveals these details in an optional Codec conversation.
- ^ Her early life is explained by Brian McBride in a Codec conversation.
- ^ a b Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
-Stage 1-2 clear-
No. 4: It was Parker, the Army Chief of Staff, who forced through the deployment of the Delta Force team in Galuade. His immediate objective, as Sergeant Jenner revealed, was to silence the 'General' along with all he knew about Project Babel. However, what Parker really feared must have been to lose Project Babel and Metal Gear to Gardner. Driven by that fear, he attempted to salvage the situation with his pet Delta Force before the arrival of Solid Snake under Gardner's orders -- but Gardner leaked that piece of intelligence to McBride, and the Delta Force team and Parker's bid for control crumbled under an ambush. Gardner was always a step ahead; you have to give him that. - ^ a b Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
-Stage 3-2 clear-
No.4: Solid Snake didn't know this but -- Jenner didn't adopt the disguise of an enemy soldier to collect intelligence on Harks so much as she did it for the hunt for the whereabouts of that Project Babel data Parker had ordered her to find. She probably went for the power plant later on because she learned about the computer station on the second floor. - ^ Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
-Stage 2-2 clear-
No. 4: I'll let you in on something Snake didn't know. At the time of the Delta Force team's termination at the hands of Black Chamber, Chris Jenner, instead of fighting with her unit, was looking for data on Project Babel in Galuade's central computer. As you know, she didn't find anything; the 'General' is a cautious man. What she did find instead were the bodies of her comrades. - ^ Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
-Stage 7-2 clear-
No. 4: Chris Jenner and James Harks are attacked shortly after this point... Viper figured that Solid Snake would come to rescue Harks and he'd had Harks' clothes rigged with a transmitter. But letting Jenner escape was not a part of their plan. Seems Jenner was a much tougher adversary than Viper had anticipated. Parker had made the right call in selecting her to bury the Project Babel evidence for him. - ^ Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
-Stage 9-2 clear-
No. 4: All communications with Sergeant Jenner cease after this point... Sergeant Jenner was captured by Viper; he did the job himself to make sure she didn't evade capture. After all, he needed her specifically as a surefire bait for Solid Snake.