Question: Can someone explain to me why they impersonated Darpa chief? (metal gear solid 1)

[ahln1239]

Hello everyone!
so i'm net to this forum, and i'm currently playing metal gear solid 2 (and almost finishing this game!)
i finsihed metal gear solid 1 not too long ago. and i have two questions:

1. Why was FOXHOUND trying to kill Snake when they actually need him for activating metal gear? 
2. also, why they even need to impersonated Darpa chief to fool snake for? after all, baker knew the secret of PAL card and how to use it...
so why even impersonate DARPA chief donald anderson and fool snake...?

thanks a lot guys.
love this series so much really. there are no games like these. and no stories like these. i have also finished mgs 3 a while ago, after that finished 1, and now closed to finish 2!

[Dirty Duck]

Hey, welcome to the forums!

FOXHOUND had to keep up the pretence that they knew how to launch the nuke, if they weren't actively trying to stop Snake from "disarming" it then there's a chance that the people giving Snake orders might have suspected something.

Decoy Octopus posed as the DARPA Chief because he was trying to get information from Snake. If you watch the scene back you'll notice he asks a lot of leading questions about the nuclear launch and whether the government intend to give in to their demands. Most importantly he tells Snake that he (DARPA Chief) had his mind read by Psycho Mantis. This is important as for the launch to be possible he needs both DARPA and Baker's information, so for Snake to think it needs disarming he has to think he's revealed information.

[ahln1239]

Hey, welcome to the forums!

FOXHOUND had to keep up the pretence that they knew how to launch the nuke, if they weren't actively trying to stop Snake from "disarming" it then there's a chance that the people giving Snake orders might have suspected something.

Decoy Octopus posed as the DARPA Chief because he was trying to get information from Snake. If you watch the scene back you'll notice he asks a lot of leading questions about the nuclear launch and whether the government intend to give in to their demands. Most importantly he tells Snake that he (DARPA Chief) had his mind read by Psycho Mantis. This is important as for the launch to be possible he needs both DARPA and Baker's information, so for Snake to think it needs disarming he has to think he's revealed information.

thank you. but two points i do not get even though you explained really good and in depth:

do you think they didn't really try to kill snake? foxhound i mean...?

and the point i'm trying to make about the second question is why in the world they need snake to do it? to start the launching of metal gear rex? after all they have baker, who they already "convinced" to tell them his own code (which wasn't really helping anyone no more, since anderson already died before he gave them his own code.) so if you think about it, why couldn't they just force baker to tell them how the PAL card key works, the secret behind the card...? that way they could do it themselves it's much easier to do this this way! don't you think?

thanks a lot again

[Dirty Duck]

They couldn't force Baker because he didn't give up his code-they were obviously banking on it but after killing Donald Anderson they just had to hope Snake, backed with the expertise of his team, could figure out how the emergency bypass worked. It was Otacon that found the information by hacking into Baker's files-something that none of FOXHOUND had the necessary skills to do.

It was, really, a desperate ditch effort. Liquid having an in as Miller made it less risky but if Snake's team couldn't figure out the bypass they were screwed as far as their threat of a nuclear launch goes.