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Colonel Roy Campbell was a former commander of FOXHOUND, who served as Solid Snake's field commander during the Galuade Incident in 2002.
Biography[]
Col. Roy Campbell was formerly the commander of FOXHOUND, having replaced Big Boss following his demise during the Outer Heaven Uprising in 1995. He retired in 2000, due to his unwitting role in the massacre of Black Chamber, having been tricked by "Anonymous" into thinking the targets of the attack were terrorists.
In 2002, Campbell was called back into action when Metal Gear GANDER was captured by surviving members of Black Chamber, working for the Gindra Liberation Front, a minority separatist faction in the Central African nation of Gindra. He was tasked with bringing Solid Snake out of retirement to destroy GANDER, held in the GLF-controlled fortress of Galuade, and to serve as Snake's field commander for the mission.
During the mission, after a dying Pyro Bison not only revealed the existence of a fifth surviving member of Black Chamber, but also implied that the said member was operating among Snake's support team (thus feeding Black Arts Viper information on Snake's mission progress), Weasel pointed to Campbell as a potential suspect due to the nebulous reasons behind his retirement from FOXHOUND and motives for returning to the field for this mission.
Personality and traits[]
Col. Campbell knew Solid Snake well, and acted as a friend to him. Because of this, he was chosen as the one person able to convince Snake to come back from retirement. However, Campbell later admitted to Snake that he also had "a score to settle with the past", having carried a feeling of immense guilt for the past two years.
Behind the scenes[]
Col. Campbell's Codec portrait.
This incarnation of Col. Campbell appears in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, a non-canon sequel to the original Metal Gear. He serves the same role as the canonical Campbell, though his personal connection to the mission was changed from Meryl Silverburgh to a personal desire to "settle a score with the past". However, in the game's Special Missions, No. 4 implies in one of the secret mission debriefings that Meryl being threatened by NSA Director Steve Gardner was also part of the reason he accepted the mission. His Codec frequency is 140.85.
Campbell's Ghost Babel Codec portrait was later used as the basis of the Transceiver portrait for the canonical Campbell in the re-released versions of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, albeit flipped horizontally and given color. In addition, during the Colonel/GW's malfunction from a worm cluster late into Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Colonel will occasionally use Campbell's Codec portrait from Ghost Babel.