Outer Heaven (nation)
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Outer Heaven refers a number of concepts in the Metal Gear series, all pertaining to Big Boss's dream of ending abuse and exploitation of soldiers by The Patriots. Big Boss was seemingly inspired to create Outer Heaven as a response to Gene's "Army's Heaven" — a supposed haven for soldiers that would in fact be victimized in the pursuit of his goals. Big Boss stated that the true soldier's sanctuary lay "outside" Gene's "heaven".
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[edit] Background
[edit] Army's Heaven
- "The individual wills of individual soldiers are meaningless. Those who have no calling must be given one by those who do. They must follow the teachings of those with a greater will."
- — Gene
Army's Heaven was a nation envisioned by Gene, which he attempted to establish in 1970 on the San Hieronymo Peninsula. Gene spent years gathering funds, resources and troops as part of a plan to control the world from the shadows, much like the Patriots would eventually come to do. The FOX Unit’s Rebellion in 1970 was merely the capstone to his plan to create Army's Heaven with the help of the FOX unit members and Red Army soldiers.
Army's Heaven should have been a nation of mercenaries consisting only of those of superior talent. It was intended to act as an intangible, shadowy organization hidden deep underground that would intervene in all disputes throughout the world. The aim was to break free from the rule of the Philosophers, which had lost much political strength. At the root was Gene's idea that superior military force should be used to achieve superior will, instead of being at the mercy of national interests or the tactics of worthless governments.
During the San Hieronymo Takeover, Big Boss fought against Gene to clear his name. Ultimately, Gene’s plans of becoming the world's ultimate leader and guide were foiled when Big Boss stopped him from launching ICBMG into America. Before their battle began, Gene told Big Boss of Army's Heaven. According to Gene, humans were fragile creatures who needed someone of superior will to give them a calling. Compared to his mission, the individual wills of individual soldiers were meaningless. Big Boss, however, disagreed with this philosophy, stating that Gene used fear and deception to keep his soldiers in line, and that his exploitation of soldiers was unethical. Big Boss also said that soldiers were looking for place outside his heaven. After Gene was defeated, he handed over his massive wealth and resources to Big Boss, urging him to find his own calling and remain loyal to himself.
[edit] Outer Heaven
After the Les Enfants Terribles Project, Big Boss became increasingly frustrated with the direction that Zero was taking the Patriots. Eventually he, along with Ocelot and EVA, left the group and began preparations to oppose it. 200 kilometers north of Galzburg, South Africa, Big Boss used Gene's resources to establish the private army "Militaires Sans Frontieres"[1], which later became the independent nation and mercenary company of Outer Heaven; a great fortress comparable to Groznyj Grad, the massive base that Big Boss had infiltrated many years prior. This was a sanctuary where soldiers would not be used as a pawn of their government. Here, soldiers would always have a place, be it in the battlefield or in society in general. Like Volgin, Big Boss reinforced the fledgling nation's military force with a black project of his own, Metal Gear TX-55, a bipedal tank, developed from blueprints acquired from Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin in 1964, capable of launching a nuclear strike from anywhere on the planet.
However, in 1995, during Operation Intrude N313, rookie FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake infiltrated Outer Heaven, and succeeded in rescuing the captured Gray Fox and destroying Metal Gear. The destruction of Metal Gear activated Outer Heaven's self destruct sequence. Big Boss then confronted Snake, hoping to kill him. He was ultimately defeated by Snake and seemingly killed. He was later revealed to have survived the battle, and shortly after NATO launched an air raid to wipe out the remaining people of Outer Heaven (indifferent to those with no affiliation with the Outer Heaven regime, since the war orphans or refugees were a liability), Big Boss managed to save many of them, including the surviving Outer Heaven personnel, mercenaries, and even Resistance members (the last of whom he forgave for their initial turning against him.).
It would not be revealed until 2014 that Big Boss' Outer Heaven was never meant to trigger a third world war as his critics feared, but was simply his first effort to offer soldiers and citizens a life that was uncontrolled by the Patriots, as well as the previously mentioned goal of giving Soldiers a place to be honored and not treated as tools by the government or anyone else. Metal Gear TX-55 was merely a deterrent, ensuring that they never interfered with his vision. However, the world was unaware of the Patriots' existence, and thus viewed Big Boss as a traitor and terrorist, much like the Boss before him.
[edit] Known Members
[edit] Other "Outer Heaven"s
[edit] Shadow Moses Island
In 2005, during the Shadow Moses Incident, rebelling members of FOXHOUND took over Shadow Moses along with the GENOME Army, and threatened the rest of the world with a new Metal Gear, Metal Gear REX. To honor his interpretation of Big Boss’ dream and memory, Liquid Snake informally changed the name of Shadow Moses to Outer Heaven.
[edit] Big Shell Incident
Solidus Snake then used the term in 2009 as a code-name for his plan to eliminate the Patriots. His plan consisted of giving Arsenal Gear to Dead Cell operative Fortune, who Solidus knew would attempt to challenge the Patriots. Then, using her as a distraction to lure the Patriots' fire, Solidus would detonate a nuclear warhead over Wall Street, which would act as a gigantic electro-magnetic pulse over an entire area of America, destroying the computer programs the Patriots used to control the nation from the shadows. Solidus would then extract the Patriots' identities from GW and eliminate all of them, liberating America from their manipulations forever and claiming a place in history for the sterile children of Big Boss: the Sons of Liberty. This plan, however, never came into fruition due to Solidus's death at Raiden's hands at the climax of the Big Shell Incident.
Despite Solidus's goals to essentially destroy Manhattan as it stood, his ideals were the closest to Big Boss's, which was appropriate, given he was the perfect clone of Big Boss.
[edit] Outer Heaven (Mother Company)
See Outer Heaven (Mother Company)
In 2014, Liquid Ocelot set up a new Outer Heaven to act as a mother company for his PMC armies. In addition, the huge warship modified from an Arsenal Gear he commandeered was dubbed Outer Haven. Although Old Snake was led to believe that the ultimate purpose of the organization was the destruction of the Patriots' orbital AI satellite, JD, a plan which Snake supposedly thwarted, the manipulation of Snake's actions, ultimately freeing the world from the Patriots, was in fact Ocelot's true plan (putting Ocelot and Snake on the same side). Sunny Gurlukovich's FOXALIVE virus was able to infect the SOP system and render it harmless without the widespread chaos that the satellite's destruction would have caused.
After the destruction of the Patriots' A.I., Big Boss's dreams of Outer Heaven has, in effect, finally come to be.
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[edit] Trivia
- On the skull logo of Outer Heaven, it initially looks like there is a Swatstika on the forehead. However, upon closer inspection, the symbol is actually that of a Majin. As the Majin was a symbol relating to peace (whileas the Swatstika, which is literally the inverse of a Majin, and thus the opposite meaning, basically is supposed to mean war), this may have been early foreshadowing on how the organization wasn't as bad as initially thought.
