To test a hypothesis regarding the nature of his existence, he adopted a young boy during the war after killing his parents, named him Jack, and trained him to be a ruthless killer from as early as the age of six. In his teenage years, Solidus Snake was dispatched to Liberia in the late 1980s, to participate in the civil war. Despite being preceded by his brothers, Solidus appeared more aged than the other two clones in his later life. The accelerated aging written into each clone's genes provided the fail-safe of a limited life-span, should Solidus's genetic data fall into enemy hands or he himself turn against the Patriots. In later life, Solidus would take much pride in his visible similarity to the man. Since neither of the Twin Snakes had identical phenotypic expressions to Big Boss, Solidus was created with the same "perfect balance" of dominant and recessive traits that Big Boss possessed. Thus, the organization required a perfect clone in order to retain a figurehead for their organization in the image of Big Boss. The initial phase of the project produced genetically diverse twin clones with one expressing Big Boss's "inferior" genetic traits and the other Big Boss's "superior" traits which led to Big Boss's departure from the Patriots in 1972. Solidus was the third "Son of Big Boss" created by the Patriots in 1972, through somatic cell cloning, as part of the Les Enfants Terribles project.
Non-"Metal Gear Saga" information ends here. Īn adult Solidus Snake was foreseen by Elisa and Ursula in 1970, in a prophetic vision of Big Boss's future. 7.3 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotsīiography Background Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." It has some level of canonicity within the continuity, but reader discretion is advised.7.2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.