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Les Enfants Terribles
Dates	Early 1970s
Important Personnel	Zero Dr. Clark Big Boss EVA Solid Snake Liquid Snake Solidus Snake
Groups	U.S. Government The Patriots

After Big Boss became exposed to nuclear radiation at Bikini Atoll, he was discovered to be infertile. Not wanting to let the genetic legacy of the greatest soldier to have ever lived simply die out, as well as not wanting to lose the Patriots' icon, Zero hatched a plan to create clones of Big Boss. This became known as the Les Enfants Terribles project.

In 1972, when Big Boss returned from a mission in a coma, Zero used this opportunity to extract DNA from him. Utilizing the latest in Analog Cloning technology and the Super Baby Method, eight embryos were created from his DNA, utilizing eggs provided by Dr. Clark's assistant, a healthy Japanese woman. They were then implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother, EVA, who personally requested to carry the twins. Six of these embryos were aborted and the remaining two were genetically modified. One was to express all the dominant soldier genes, while the other was to express the recessive genes. Nine months later, EVA gave birth to the "Twin Snakes": the genetically superior clone was codenamed Liquid Snake, and the genetically inferior one was codenamed Solid Snake. A third clone was later created to be an exact replica of Big Boss, in terms of gene expression, and was codenamed Solidus Snake. To safeguard against their DNA ending up in enemy hands, or in the event of the clones rebelling against them, their genes were also modified to initiate advanced aging during the clones' later years.

After Big Boss learned of his children, he became incredibly frustrated with Zero and eventually left America and drifted throughout the globe. During his travels, he also formed the international guerilla group Militaires Sans Frontières.

Around 1974, the Patriots, operating under the name "Cipher", began to use the "Twin Snakes" as their insurance policy against Big Boss in case they failed at both recruiting Big Boss back into the fold and framing the MSF and Big Boss with a nuclear strike against America.

Big Boss eventually realized his philosophy of Outer Heaven, based on his vision of The Boss's final will and created a gigantic fortress of the same name in South Africa.

Liquid Snake was raised in the UK shortly after birth and was the youngest person to serve in the Special Air Service. During the Gulf War in Iraq, he was assigned to track down and destroy mobile Scud missiles. In truth, he infiltrated the Middle East as a sleeper agent for the British SIS, but was taken prisoner by Iraqi forces and held captive as a POW until 1994, when he was rescued by the U.S. Government.

Solid Snake made his way into the military by 1991. He had been inducted into the Green Berets and took part in a mission to infiltrate western Iraq during the Gulf War. Sometime after the Gulf War, and before 1995, he joined FOXHOUND, which was once again being commanded by Big Boss himself.

Solidus Snake fought in the First Liberian Civil War during the late 1980s and 1990s as a teenager in which he commanded the "Small Boy Unit". He trained many young boys into ruthless killers, including young Raiden. In 2001, he became the 43rd President of the United States under the alias George Sears, as a result of the Patriots' influence.

Unconfirmed historyEdit

By 1972, the project had previously produced eight batches of clones which had resulted in failure, though Dr. Clark succeeded in correcting the genetic code in the ninth batch, from which Liquid and Solid Snake were produced. The twins were born in a special underground testing facility in the Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. Present at the birth was the U.S. President, accompanied by General Houseman. The President was incredibly nervous about the project, as he had only inherited the project from his predecessor, as opposed to initiating it. Dr. Clark assured him that there was nothing to worry about, since the earlier problems had been corrected, and she had made sure that the surrogate mother possessed certain genetic "latches" that would connect with those of Big Boss.

Dr. Clark further explained that Big Boss was unaware that the U.S. Government possessed so many of his cells, since they were taken from him when he was in surgery after suffering injures in the war. Also, Big Boss was not allowed to know about the project, no matter the outcome, though Dr. Clark theorized that he probably already knew, blaming the terrible security the government had. Although one of the clones would express more dominant soldier genes than the other, she stated to the President that this might not necessarily effect which one would become "better."

Before leaving to assist in the delivery of the babies, the President asked Dr. Clark if he could choose which one the U.S. Government kept, and demanded that they be given the "dominant" one. Dr. Clark reminded him that there was no guarantee if one would be stronger than the other. Dr. Clark later thought about what would become of Big Boss's remaining cells, due to the unexpect surplus that they received due to the twins birth. She then decided that, if the need arose, they could create another clone of the legendary soldier.

The supposedly "inferior" clone, codenamed Solid Snake, would go on to spend the first ten years of his life under intense military training in Oregon, USA.^[1]

Another codename for the Les Enfants Terribles project was the "Eve Project", and the U.S. military deemed the project necessary, despite its inhuman nature, due to the events of the Cold War.^[2]

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See also Edit

• Timeline
• Les Enfants Terribles
• Metal Gear Solid (novel)