MGS Forever!!

The game takes place in the year 1964.  As the game opens, Major Zero and Jack

are talking in an office. Zero tells Jack that the CIA has approved their FOX

unit's Virtuous Mission.  FOX will become official if the mission succeeds.
Zero explains the details for a questioning Jack.

Two years ago a Soviet scientist named Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov asked for
asylum in America by speaking with an American spy.  Sokolov was a weapons
expert who worked in a weapons facility.  Sokolov helped develop the multi-
engine cluster used in the Soviets' first manned rocket space flight.  After
working in the weapons facility, Sokolov realized the power of the weapons was
getting out of hand and wanted to defect.  Sokolov's family was taken out of
the country first, and Sokolov followed shortly after.  Zero was able to get
Sokolov over the Berlin Wall, but the Sokolov was in a bad state from the
journey and had to be taken to a hospital in West Berlin.  During his stay,
the Cuban Missle Crisis was happening in the U.S.  Soviet nuclear weapons were
placed in Cuba and America demmanded they be removed.  The Soviets refused, and
the world was put on the edge of a possible nuclear attack. To avoid a nuclear
war, President John F. Kenedy had to make a deal with the Soviet Union to get
them to remove the missiles.  As a cover story, the American government led
people to believe that America's part of the deal involved removing American
nukes from Turkey.  America's real part of the bargain was to give Sokolov back
to the Soviet Union.  Sokolov was forced to continue working on one of his
weapons for the Soviets.

According to recent intelligence, Sokolov is near completion of the nuclear
weapon and conducting tests in the Virgin Cliffs located in the Soviet Union.
Testing is the only chance they have of rescuing Sokolov.


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