The Philanthroper's Legacy 10.4
Febuary 31st, 1984: The day has finally come. I've received word from my favorite cowboy. V has come and Ishmael has sunk into the sea. XOF managed to find them, as did two unknown anomalies, but V and Ishmael both survived. It's all up to V now and I hope he can pull this off. Ocelot will be there to keep him aimed in the right direction, with his 'talents' available in case the programming breaks early, but even so I'm nervous. His talents in his fields of expertise are unmatched by any I've seen, but the human mind is the most complex machine in the world, and such an extreme alteration over such an extreme period of time....I hope this works. I hope V can be what we need him to be. The world can't afford for him to fail.
So far results are promising. V has secured Kazuhira Miller's release from Soviet Forces, recruited several talented people in Afghanistan, along with what is described to be an adorable one eyed wolf pup, and seized control of the Diamond Dogs. It seems mother nature has a sense of humor. He hadn't stopped after that, continuing to combat Soviet and XOF forces in the area, but unfortunately it seems that Skullface has created a new model of unknown Metal Gear. Nobody knows anything about it's capabilities yet, beyond it's ability to walk on it's hind legs, but I can't help but feel amused at the idea that Granin's idea of a walking tank has come true at last.
In-spite of Skullfaces forces, V continued to expand the Diamond Dogs, taking more and more missions. It seems he ran into some trouble after awhile, a female assassin and sniper called Quiet because of her refusal to speak, that V decided to Fulton back to Motherbase for questioning. Though looking at her picture it might just be that
His interest in dangerous women is as strong as ever. Still the woman
is dangerous to the extreme, I only know of two other people who might be able to claim to have sniped the pilot of an enemy aircraft in the middle of a dogfight, one of whom is Big Boss, and the other has been dead for twenty years. Ocelot and V had better keep their eyes sharp while she's around.
March 2nd, 1984: The Metal Gear built by Skullface is known as Sahelanthropus, and looking over the notes sent to me about it's capabilities, I feel sick to my stomach. Some of it is what could be considered 'normal' for a Metal Gear but these...Metallic Archaea and their capabilities are disturbing. The ability to just shutdown any land or air based technology beyond small arms in a localized area, it's archaea blades ability to shape metal and dissolve everything they hit, and it's high powered railgun make sending any kind of conventional force against it basically suicide....but that's not the worst thing. The depleted uranium armor covering it, that it can use to self destruct with the force of a fifteen kiloton nuclear bomb, is horrifying, but that's not the worst part either. No the worse part is that, because of resource constraints in it's creation, it can only be piloted by a AI, or
a child. Knowing how twisted Skullface is I'm not sure which is worse.
Still that's only the start of the bad news. XOF pulled out of the Middle East and headed to Africa with the goal of 'developing a weapon to surpass Metal Gear'. The invention of Metal Gear has altered the world of warfare forever. What could that madman hope to create that surpasses those machines of nuclear destruction? I fear what the answer to that question might be.
April 5th, 1984: V found Eli. Apparently
my son the boy has grown into a child warlord, leading a band of marauding child soldiers that have been raiding nearby villages, but even so he is alive. V defeated him in combat and then took him back to Mother Base, so he is safe for now, but the reports about his mental state are extremely concerning. Intelligent, driven, charismatic, but with a burning hatred for almost everything around him, and especially for Big Boss. I can only hope V is capable of calming his rage, for if Eli is lost to it, and if he truly did inherit his father's potential, then the world might not survive his hatred.
May 4th, 1984: V has managed to secure the liberation and cooperation of C, and with him, comes all his knowledge regarding Skullface's secret weapon. I will not record what we learned within these pages, or anywhere else, the knowledge is too dangerous to ever be allowed to spread. While we do not yet know what Skullface's full plan is, we do know what his final goal is, and with what he has found....I am terrified that he might succeed. I can only hope V is capable of stopping him, for if he cannot, then even Ishmael surfacing might not be enough to save this world.
The potential benefits of C's research for humanity is staggering...and only eclipsed by the death and horror that it can invoke in the wrong hands. For all that its potential is great, I fear it must never be known to the world at large, humanity would not survive with this knowledge available to those who would misuse it.
C's story is a harsh one, that proves just how much harm the United States has caused over the years, and I can only wonder how many more people like him are out there. Hurt and scarred by the US's actions but lacking the capability to truly fight back. I wonder what
she would think if she knew what her home country's actions have caused?
July 4th, 1984: It is all over save for the clean up. Skullface is dead, the results of C's research have been destroyed, Sahelanthropus has been heavily damaged but taken to Mother Base, and his plans have been foiled. The threat he posed to the world is over. Pieces of XOF remain, but they are scattered, leaderless, and all members of That Unit have been confirmed KIA with their corpses completely incinerated. MSF has been avenged after almost a decade, along with Major Zero, so now comes the rebuilding and the healing. I wonder...what will V do now that his war for revenge is over?
August 5th, 1984: I underestimated V's emotional strength. My worries regarding his combat abilities were proven false months ago, but I always feared and wondered what V would do once Skullface was dead, and I have my answer.
He was right when he called V 'The Best Man We Had'. He wasted no time in recovering what remained of C's research notes that were still in XOF's possession and in doing so the chances of that research becoming known to the world at large has been almost completely erased. I'll sleep easier knowing the world is unlikely to ever be threatened by
that again. Even so....it looks like the compassion found in his former self is shinning through. The resources the Diamond Dogs dedicated to helping the Kurdish against the Turk invasion weren't insignificant, but looking at what V found in that village, I can't say I'm surprised.
The girl, who called him Saladin, she looks so much like me....did that influence his decision making?
Not only did V bring the villagers back to Mother Base, he started a basic education program, for the refugees and his own soldiers. Apparently the more first world members of the Diamond Dogs were up in arms about it, but when they saw the reactions of their second and third world comrades, they understood. V is giving them the knowledge necessary to live lives outside of being a solider...but he shouldn't be
able to do that. Nor should he be willing and able to
disarm the nuclear missile that deterred the world powers from acting against him.
The plan for Outer Heaven, it was...it is...made to be carried out under the concept of nuclear deterrence, and giving solders who could do nothing besides fight a place to belong.
V...he's refusing the policy of nuclear deterrence...that soldiers can only fight for the rest of their lives. Ocelot sent me a recording of his conversation with Miller while they were discussing this.
Miller: "Without nuclear capability and with Sahelanthropus all but unknown to the world at large, we've just painted a target on our backs, Snake."
V: "I know. But one day the world won't need us. No guns, no bombs. No one to pull the trigger."
V: "We have no tomorrow, but there is still hope for the future."
Miller: "Snake?"
V: "It's nothing. Just… something someone told me a long time ago. In our struggle to survive the present we push away the tomorrow."
Miller: "The future huh… somehow I doubt we'll live to see it. I guess this means we have no time to waste."
V: "Hrm. We have to build a better future for the generations that come after us. Our legacy."
Miller: "We'll need to get stronger. Far stronger than we ever were."
V: "And we will. But we won't sacrifice our humanity for power. We'll starve the demons within us by walking a different path."
Boss....were we....were all of us...wrong this entire time?
September 2nd, 1984: I....I do not even know where to begin. The events of this past month...the repercussions to
that madman's insane....no calm down...start with the less important parts.
The female sniper, Quiet, was actually the XOF assassin sent after V and Ishmael while they were in the hospital. They discovered this, because they were forced to give her a MRI, after
she jumped into a massive tank of chlorine disinfectant. The results showed that her lungs were a charred and blacked mess, with a Star of Bethlehem petal lodged inside the damaged tissue. Combined with her additions, it was obvious as to who she was, and who she used to work for. Miller interrogated her, but instead of treating her like an enemy agent, he calmly questioned her after having her shoved in a hospital gown to reduce her ability to breath and use her powers. He should have been raging against the heavens and trying to electrocute the woman or something, not sitting there and quietly talking things out with her, but I underestimated V and his influence on Miller. It looks like the commander is finally moving past his all consuming hate.
Then...there was the discovery of Strangelove's murder. The fact that Doctor Emmerich murdered the mother of his own child disgusts me, but even knowing what he did, Ahab still chose to speak with the doctor. From what Ocelot witnessed on the security cameras, Doctor Emmerich broke down in tears, saying he thought the UN Inspection nine years ago was real, but no words were said regarding Strangelove's death. It looks like even he can't bring himself to lie about or argue against that. He isn't long for this world, or more likely given V's nature, he won't be a member of the Diamond Dogs for much longer.
V and Eli finally spoke to each other. In regards to what, nobody knows, but when Eli was seen again it was obvious he was thinking about something. I can only hope V managed to start him on a path free of hatred. The thought of
him and Eli fighting against each other....it
breaks my heart.
Finally...the news that has rocked the entire world to it's core.
V...no...
AHAB....is a madman. An absolutely insane madman, who just stole away or disarmed every nuclear missile and bomb in the world, save for those possessed by China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. He and his best operatives headed out with assistance provided by Quiet, Ocelot, Ahab's pet wolf, and they managed to disarmed or sabotage atleast a third of the worlds nuclear arsenal! This message of a world without the threat of nuclear war....people all over the world are talking about what Ahab and his soldiers have done....and the world leaders aren't happy about it. They fear that the Diamond Dogs may target their own nuclear arsenals next, and given how utterly insane Ahab has shown himself, how dedicated he is to proving to the world there is a better way....they very well may be
right.
With the success of this mission....The plan for Outer Heaven has become impossible to complete. If
he were to reveal himself now, after what Ahab has done, no one would side with him. Not the people of the world, not the soldiers being shown there is a better way, and...not even Ahab himself I fear. If
he tried to carry through with his original plan....he and Ahab would confront each other, only one of them would walk away alive, and I do not know who it might be....or who I would
want it to be.
This isn't the world that The Boss wanted....
but that doesn't make it wrong.
Regardless...the World Powers will move against the Diamond Dogs for this. They will need all the help they can get in order to survive which means it's time for me to do my part. I don't have the power to give them the kind of army they would need to fight off the world, and I can't give them technology to put the rest of the world to shame, but I can give them the resources to eventually do those things on their own.
I'll put my faith you, Ahab, and in the future without nuclear war that you are showing us is possible. I want to see the world you are trying to build. The Boss might not have done what you've done....but I don't think she would disapprove.
After all....you are
The Man Who Healed The World.
@konamikode
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