Solid Snake
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Solid Snake was called back to the US military in 2005, when he was deployed to quell the incident on Shadow Moses Island.
The events at Shadow Moses began with Solid Snake's former unit seizing control of the island's nuclear weapons disposal facility. As an expert on FOXHOUND, the task fell upon Solid Snake to stop them.
In charge of the renegade FOXHOUND was Liquid Snake. His demand, the remains of Big Boss. Solid Snake was charged with ascertaining their nuclear capability and rescuing their hostages, ArmsTech president Kenneth Baker and DARPA Chief Donald Anderson.
Solid Snake infiltrated the Shadow Moses nuclear disposal facility alone. With help from Metal Gear developer Hal Emmerich and new FOXHOUND recruit Meryl Silverburgh, imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with the rebellion, he located Metal Gear REX, the nuclear-armed bipedal walking tank developed in secret by the US Army and weapons manufacturer ArmsTech. Thanks in part to help from Gray Fox, now the Cyborg Ninja, he successfully eliminated the members of FOXHOUND participating in the uprising and destroyed Metal Gear REX.
His mission was a carefully woven plot, prepared by the Pentagon. Though the secret, CIA-guided efforts of genetic engineer Naomi Hunter, Solid Snake's body became a host to the assassination virus, FOXDIE. Solid Snake was sent into the field as a vector for FOXDIE to exterminate the hostages, who knew the truth behind the Metal Gear project, and the members of FOXHOUND.
Though the FOXDIE virus succeeded in killing Liquid Snake and its other designated targets, its pathology vector, Solid Snake, disappeared together with new FOXHOUND recruit Meryl Silverburgh. Following this operation, Solid Snake never again worked as an official military operative.