Outer Heaven

Outer Heaven is a fictional organization and a recurring concept in the Metal Gear series, introduced in 1987's Metal Gear.

Metal Gear
Originally, Outer Heaven was a gigantic, impenetrable fortress 200km north of Galzburg, South Africa. It was founded by legendary soldier Big Boss, and was the location where Metal Gear TX-55 was being built. This Outer Heaven was planning to achieve military supremacy over the western nations with the development of Metal Gear TX-55. However in 1995 during Operation Intrude N313, rookie FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake infiltrated Outer Heaven, and succeeded in rescuing the missing agent Gray Fox and destroying Metal Gear. Big Boss then confronted Snake, activating Outer Heaven's self destruct sequence, hoping to stall Snake long enough for him to kill Snake in blast (seeing as how Big Boss managed to survive not only the battle with Snake but ensuing explosion as well, it is safe to assume he had some sort of escape passage.)

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"Outer Heaven" is also the name of a bar in that particular game

Metal Gear Solid
In 2005, 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. The leader of FOXHOUND, Liquid Snake (one of Big Boss's clones) believed that it was his genetic destiny to carry out his father's dream. To honor Big Boss’ dream and memory, Liquid Snake changed the name of Shadow Moses to Outer Heaven.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Solidus Snake used the term in 2009 as a code-name for his plan to take control away from The Patriots. His plan consisted on 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, taking control away from The Patriots. Solidus would then go on to eliminate the Patriots one by one. This plan, however, never came into fruition and by the end of the Manhattan Incident Solidus had been killed by Raiden.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Big Boss' inspiration for creating Outer Heaven is chronicled in Portable Ops.

Army’s Heaven was an idea created by Gene which inspired Big Boss to create Outer Heaven. Gene had collected funds, resources, men, and had the plan to build Army’s Heaven and control the world from the underground (much like The Patriots do). By the time of the FOX Unit’s Rebellion in 1970, he quickly devised a plan to make Army’s Heaven with the use of the FOX unit members and Red Army soldiers.

During the San Hyeronimo Incident, Gene’s plans of Global Domination dissipated when Big Boss fought against him to clear his name, and stopped him from launching Metal Gear into America. After Big Boss defeated Gene in a launch silo, Gene gave Big Boss a film which contained the funds and resources to build Army's Heaven. At the end, Gene died without seeing his vision come true. Yet a few decades later, Big Boss set up Outer Heaven.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
In the upcoming Guns of the Patriots, "Outer Haven" is an umbrella organization with control over five private military companies, set up by Liquid Ocelot.

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