Early life and career
Solid Snake was born as a result of the Les Enfants Terribles project, which was an attempt to create the perfect solider by cloning the "Greatest Warrior of the 20th Century", Big Boss. The minds behind the project did not wish for a truly identical clone however, instead desiring a phenotype in which all the 'superior' genes were expressed. So it was that Solid and Liquid Snake were created, one expressing all of Big Boss' dominant genes, the other all of Big Boss' recessive genes... two sides of the same genetic coin. Solidus Snake on the other hand, the third brother eventually born of the project, was a "well balanced masterpiece", having been manipulated in such a way that he expressed both dominant and recessive genes in equal measure.
During the Shadow Moses Island incident, Liquid Snake was under the impression that he was the inferior, having been granted the supposedly "flawed" recessive genes, whilst his brother recieved the "superior" dominant genes. Hence his resentment towards Solid Snake during their confrontation and his believing himself to be "Garbage from the day (he) was born", the leftovers of what they had used to create his brother, "the Legend", Solid Snake. In truth however, it was Solid Snake who was the genetic "inferior" spawned by the project, whether by accident or design.
Yet in spite of his supposed genetic shortcomings, it was Solid Snake who battled and defeated both Big Boss and Liquid, proving once and for all that genes do not dictate one's fate.
Details of his early life are largely unknown, the only clue being Snake's own comment that he was "raised by many people." In the early 1990s, Snake infiltrated western Iraq during the Gulf War with a troop of Green Berets.
Outer Heaven incident
Apparently his career was notable enough that in 1995 he was recruited into the Special Operations group FOXHOUND. Still a rookie, he was chosen to infiltrate the heavily fortified state of Outer Heaven near South Africa, rescue his fellow operative Gray Fox and other prisoners and destroy a new super weapon called Metal Gear. Unbeknownst to Snake, his superior who ordered him into Outer Heaven, Big Boss, was behind the uprising. Using all his training and abilities, Snake managed to destroy Metal Gear and defeat Big Boss.
Zanzibar Land incident
After the Outer Heaven incident, Solid Snake decided to leave FOXHOUND. Then he was scouted by the CIA and spent six months as a deep cover agent before he was dissatisfied with the system and left. He then became a mercenary for hire. Earning enough money, he went into semi-retirement in the Canadian wilderness. Eventually, Snake's former commander, Roy Campbell, recalled him for another operation in Central Asia in 1999. Snake's mission involved deposing the rising dictator of Zanzibar Land, who turned out to be none other than Big Boss himself, and had command of another Metal Gear tank (Metal Gear D) as well as Snake's former comrade Gray Fox. Snake destroyed Metal Gear D and defeated Gray Fox. After defeating Big Boss for good, Snake learned that the super soldier Big Boss was his father.
Shadow Moses island incident
After the Zanzibar Land Uprising, Snake returned to North America and retired to an Alaskan wilderness retreat, Twin Lakes, to try to forget his war-torn past and recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but when members of recently re-formed FOXHOUND took over the supposed nuclear disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island (really a testing ground for Metal Gear REX) in 2005, Campbell came calling on Snake again. This time, Snake found himself pitted against the new members of FOXHOUND and the Genome Army (genetically modified with Big Boss' DNA). Along the way, Snake periodically teamed up with Meryl Silverburgh, Campbell's niece, but we won't find out until the end, it was his daughter (Octacon's ending), and Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, REX's designer. The field commander of FOXHOUND was revealed to be "Liquid Snake", Solid Snake's own genetic twin brother and the spoiled outcast of the "Les Enfants Terribles" super soldier project. After destroying the new Metal Gear and eliminating Liquid during an intense car chase, Snake went into deep hiding with Meryl. They eventually parted ways, and Snake would return to action with Otacon.
Tanker incident
The two men worked to create the first anti-Metal Gear political group, an NGO called "Philanthropy". In 2007, Snake and Otacon, needing photographic proof that the Marine Corps were developing a new amphibious Metal Gear, proceed to New York City, following up a rumor that a ship carrying such proof was scheduled to travel through the Hudson. While investigating, the ship and Metal Gear RAY were taken by Gurlukovich Mercenaries. As they were about to take Metal Gear RAY, Revolver Ocelot betrayed Sergei Gurlukovich and took RAY for an unknown force.
Big Shell incident
Framed for the terrorist act, Solid Snake was believed to have been killed during the incident, and his body was buried (it was actually the body of his twin brother, Liquid Snake). Two years later, during an incident at the Big Shell, Solid Snake turned up (hiding his identity), and assisted new FOXHOUND operative Raiden in rescuing hostages and discovering the plot of former President George Sears, who reveals himself to be Solidus Snake, the third "son" of Big Boss, brother of Solid and Liquid Snake and the one who ordered Ocelot to steal Metal Gear RAY. As the leader of the Sons of Liberty, Solidus was working to overthrow a mysterious underlying force that drives the United States' government called the Patriots.
Ocelot reveals that everything was a plot orchestrated by the Patriots. Everything that happened from the tanker incident to the end was to activate Arsenal Gear, create a system of control, and to regulate the public dissemination of digital information.
At the end of this mission, Snake began looking into who the Patriots were and how Ocelot was involved. After the ending credits, Otacon told Solid Snake about the Patriots information on the disc. Otacon discovers that the Patriots had been dead for more than a 100 years, leaving them both in utter confusion
Incident in the Middle East
Sometime after the Manhattan incident, restriction of military intervention on foreign soil has eased, leading to demands on mercenaries to fight proxy battles for business purposes, thus fueling the need for private military contractors and automated weapons. However, the five largest PMCs are revealed to be owned by a single mother company, Outer Heaven (the name of Big Boss' mercenary company and fortified nation in the original Metal Gear), operated by Liquid Snake. It is revealed that Outer Heaven has amassed a military equivalent in power to the United States' own, as well as the rest of the world. Moreover, it is also revealed that the ArmsTech Corporation (the original manufacturer of Metal Gear REX) is supplying their weapons to both Outer Heaven and the U.S. military. With the world in crisis, Solid Snake is deployed by the United Nations to infiltrate Outer Heaven's headquarters, located in the Middle East
Friends and Family:
My Brothers
We never really got along in the end... I had to kill him, (well actually I haven't really killed him yet, damn bastard doesn't die!)
We never really knew each other that well, Apparently he's president... My Mentor:
We never really got along in the end... I had to kill him My Dad
We never really got along in the end... I had to kill him...
My Best Friend
We get along... I haven't had to kill him yet...
My Weapons:
Socom:
I don't really Like this gun, but its always lying around... since I'm always sent on missions EMPTY HANDED!- its better than nothing...
Stinger:
Saves your ass when in a tussle with Hind D's, Harriers and Tanks with Legs!
The CBB:
Never leave home without it!
