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The World Marshal Incident, more broadly known as World Marshal Incidents , or Raiden's Revengeance was a series of events that transpired in 2016 and early 2018.
The purpose of the incident was to find the perpetrators for the death of the prime minister N'mani of a certain country in Africa. Raiden was the main operative that would conduct this mission, most likely starting sometime in April of 2018. But after finding out how a Colorado senator, Steven Armstrong, has planned an operation on its own, the Operation Tecumseh, to enact a war between the United States and Pakistan that would favor him in the at the time upcoming 2020 presidential elections. Raiden also found out during the mission that World Marshal, Senator Armstrong's personal PMC, has created a special program called the Sears Program that used the brains of children to implant them to cyborg bodies, which meant that basically children would go to brutal wars, killing soldiers. Raiden, remembering his past as a child soldier under the rule of Solidus Snake, also set his goals on destroying the Sears Program at any cost, so that a new generation of child soldiers would never be born.
Raiden also during the operation, more significantly after the Ambush in Africa and during the operation to change his body for a new custom cybernetic body, has started to experience PTSD again after some years of the memories dissapearing. During his talk with Monsoon in Denver, Jack reminisces about his troubled past as a child soldier, where he comes to the conclusion that he will never lead a normal life. Because of this, Raiden let's his "Jack The Ripper" persona reclaim his body again after almost thirty years of absence. Raiden during the operation uses this persona as his own personal coping mechanism, but also uses it to rage-kill every enemy that is in the same room as him.
The origins of the incident take place back in 2016, when Samuel Rodrigues raids the World Marshal Inc. HQ, in means of killing its CEO. Unbeknownst to him, this raid was a elaborate scheme by Monsoon and Senator Armstrong to test his skill, and his employment under the Winds of Destruction unit that is owned by Desperado Enforcemen LLC. Samuel faces many foes during this "raid", like LQ-84i, who has been send to eliminate Sam. For Samuel, this is a "piece of cake" situation, as Minuano easily defeat's LQ, making the wolf cyborg question his abilities. Sam also comes face to face with a UG Metal Gear RAY unit, that was sent by Monsoon as a another test of his skills. By the end, Sam comes face to face with Armstrong, who defeats Minuano, stabbing him with his nanomachine-cut hand after a little skirmish with Sam. Armstrong, reataching his hand back, gives Sam a offer to work for him as a Winds Of Destruction operative. Sam, who's whole arm is starting to feel numb, accepts this offer.
During the Abkhazian Coup operation, Mistral uses LQ's desires to learn the concepts of freedom to take care of Khamsin, who was stationed there as a Desperado unit. Although Khamsin thought that defeating LQ would be easy, LQ made it clear that he won't give up his freedom without a fight. After defeating and killing Khamsin, LQ obtains a humanoid Dwarf Gekko, which is given to Mistral by her commands. But after getting what she wanted, Mistral stunts LQ, and when the wolf robot asks why Mistral did it, she responds that he is just a robot that only takes commands, and will never understand it. This would be one of the leading factors of LQ's transformation into Blade Wolf and in becoming a close ally to Raiden and Maverick during the Incident.
For specific events that transpire during the incident's, see:
Raid At World Marshal - Jetstream Sam's raid at World Marshal's HQ in Denver, Colorado circa 2016
Ambush in Africa - Desperado's attack at N'mani's convoy to capture him, in April of 2018
Abkhazian Coup - Desperado's military Coup d'état in Georgia's disputed territory, in April of 2018
Investigation in Guadalajara - am appraisal of Mexican sewers coducted by Maverick in hopes of finding Desperado's human trafficking scheme, in May of 2018
Raid In Denver - Raiden's raid on the city of Denver against World Marshal HQ in finding abducted children used in cyborg experiments, in May of 2018
Operation Tecumseh - Senator Armstrong's last stand to start a war with Pakistan beneficial to his presidential campaign, in May of 2018.
Aftermath[]
After the incident, in late 2018 the war economy remained untouched after the failure of Operation Tecumseh. Doktor establishes the worlds first firm for child cyborgs that have been impacted by World Marshal's Sears Program for the past two years. Meanwhile, George and Sunny become close friends, and between their little chatter Sunny expresses her look on Raiden, calling him a hero. As for Jack, Raiden quits Maverick in the pursuit of fighting "his own war". Also during during this time both Desperado Enforcement LLC. and World Marshal Inc. cease operations and go out on sale. After a few months both the Pakistan and United States governments attempt negotiations for a joint effort to use Pakistan as a War On Terror base of operations.
Behind the scenes[]
World Marshal Incident is the last in the timeline Incident that occurs after Guns of the Patriots Incident, which took place four years prior. In this Post-Patriots war economy there's a bigger emphasis on cybernetic enhancements than before, most likely due to the closure of the SOP system four years prior, creating a need for a new substitute that could enhance soldiers possibilites on the battlefield. Unlike the other games, the main Metal Gear threat, Metal Gear EXCELSUS does not possess nuclear warheads, due to the idea of nuclear deterrence being outdated by 2018.