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The richest/ most powerful minds from US/Soviet Union/republic of China. Use resources to prevent another war. However becomes corrupt after the og's die. -
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The new generation is more focused on gaining power. Instead of preventing conflict they kind of seek it, manipulating government of each nation. -
At the beginning of worl war 2, philosophers use resources to make a 100 billion dollar fund called Philosopher's legacy, to ensure an allied victory -
They use the funds to make elite team of soldiers called "corporate unit". Soldiers were: the pain, the fear, the end, the fury and the sorrow (all of them soldier's names). All of the soldiers led by "the joy" aka "the boss". -
Sorrow and boss were in a relationship and on D-day boss gives birth to their son in Normandy on the battlefield. The philosopher's agents took away the child immediatly. -
American and Soviet philosophers begin to "disagree" that eventually causes the cold war. Colonel Boris Vulcan (philophers member) steals the legacy by hiding it in banks accounts across world and storing the only record of transaction on a microfilm. -
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In one of her secret missions the boss finds John, an 15 year-old kid and trains him (over next 10 years) to become an efficient soldier. They also invent new combat technique: CQC=close quarters combat.
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Nikolai Solokov (soviet union scientist) works on a tank capable of launching nuclear warhead called Shagohod. When realizing how dangerous this is, he tries to escape Russia with his family but he's captured in Berlin. -
Major Zero, a special forces expert and ally of the boss creates XOF (an even more secret group to support FOX technically) which Skull face is in charge of. -
FOX aka force operation X is created by CIA, to do suppersecret missions. -
The boss is forced to kill Sorrow to prevent their son from being executed by the Philosopher's. -
Naked Snake has to contact Sokolov and return him to west (while the boss retrieves legacy). When he was about to evacuate with Sokolov, the boss breaks his arm (incapacitating him) takes Sokolov to Russia. The boss give a nuke to Colonel Volga who blows up a Soviet research facility (the U.S. seem to do it because the nuke was made by U.S.)