August 27, 2026
METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol. 2
Central America works as a secondary board of the Cold War. Washington and Moscow do not fight there head on: they delegate. Fragile governments and porous borders leave zones with no settled authority, and in that margin operate units that answer to no state. Their orders go unsigned. No one is obliged to acknowledge them.
Kazuhira Miller works his way across the continent until he finds Snake in Colombia. He does not arrive with an ordinary contract. He brings a call for help from Costa Rica, a country that dissolved its army in 1948 and now records foreign troops without insignia inside its borders. Nobody claims those units. Nobody recalls inviting them.
Out of that meeting comes an organization with no nation and no flag. Militaires Sans Frontières funds itself by contract, chooses where it intervenes and answers to no government. Its headquarters does not stand on land either: Mother Base rises as an offshore platform in the Caribbean, outside recognized jurisdiction. Whoever signs on leaves behind the uniform he arrived in.
Reconnaissance in the jungle points to a nuclear deterrence program that does away with the human operator: a machine cleared to order a launch on its own. The recovered material also carries a voice attributed to The Boss, the instructor Snake had counted as dead since 1964. From that point on, the work stops being a contract.
Campaign plot over the isthmus. Mother Base lies offshore, and the links to every zone run from it. Select a marker to read its report.
Mother Base stands on pilings outside territorial waters. Hexagonal modules are joined by catwalks and the structure grows by accretion: another platform goes up once the personnel no longer fit. Every team ships out from here, and everything recovered in the field comes back here.
Reconnaissance report · Caribbean sector · 1974
Militaires Sans Frontières answers to no country, so its territory is a refitted offshore platform in Caribbean waters. Each deck belongs to a unit, and the units reach one another by catwalk and by radio. Pick a marker to review the sector.
Aerial view · six sectors on record
Mother Base's command post. Deployments are coordinated from the tower, contracts are approved there, and every mission is tracked by radio. It holds the link to the field and decides which job is taken and which is turned down.
In chargeBig BossFiles opened during the 1974 operation: those who signed with Militaires Sans Frontières, and those who crossed its path on the isthmus.
MSF commander
Founder and commanding officer of Militaires Sans Frontières. He served in a regular army before that, and trained under The Boss. Retirement never quite took. He signs the Costa Rica contract with reservations and ends up running the whole operation out of Mother Base. Given the choice, he takes the field over the command room.
Deputy commander and operations chief
Second-in-command of MSF and the reason the outfit stays solvent. He was the one who traveled to Colombia to find Snake and put the contract on the table. He runs the money and the recruiting from Mother Base. He talks about war in market terms, and rarely passes up a chance to mention what each bullet costs.
Costa Rican student
A high school student in Costa Rica. She enters the initial report as a witness to the unmarked troops, and comes into MSF custody after the first deployment. She talks about peace without irony and holds to it with a stubbornness the rest of the staff finds hard to place. Seen around the Mother Base walkways with a soccer ball.
Guerrilla commander in Nicaragua
Commander of a Sandinista cell in Nicaragua. She runs her people hard and distrusts any foreign force that shows up offering help, MSF included. She negotiates weapons and support with Miller grudgingly. A leg wound from an earlier fight never healed all the way. Her younger brother fights in the same unit, and that is where she is soft.
Fighter in the Sandinista cell
Amanda's younger brother and the youngest in the cell. He wants to be treated as a fighter like any other, and goes off on his own to prove it. He knows the jungle and the ruins better than anyone in his unit, and that edge pushes him into risks nobody asked him to take. He admired Snake before they ever met.
Head of research and development
An engineer specialized in bipedal locomotion systems. He worked on an American weapons project before landing at Mother Base, where he takes charge of MSF's own development work. He uses a wheelchair, and he describes his machines with an enthusiasm that skips past what they will be used for. Technology is neutral, he argues; responsibility belongs to someone else.
Artificial intelligence scientist
British scientist in charge of the project's artificial intelligence system. She comes out of an earlier military research program and works with a discipline her own superiors call uncomfortable. She says little about herself and answers personal questions with technical detail. Let the conversation reach The Boss, though, and she will not let the subject go.
Civilian witness to the incident
A French birdwatcher. She traveled to Costa Rica on her own and was the first civilian to see the weapon operating in the jungle. Her statement is where the contract begins. She ended up under MSF protection, more put out by the interruption to her trip than frightened by what she saw.
Soviet officer in command
Soviet officer identified as commanding the unmarked troops deployed in Costa Rica. He carries himself with the calm of a man who has an institution behind him, and he answers questions with riddles. He is the first name MSF manages to put on the board. Everything known about him comes from his own account of events.
Senior CIA official
A career CIA officer, from the generation that built the agency up after the war. He directs the deterrence program MSF is investigating in the jungle. He defends the work with desk logic: a threat is useful as long as it is believed. He never sets foot in the field; what happens there reaches him as figures in a report.
Complement on the books
350
Every soldier taken out of the isthmus passes through the register and is given a code and a code name. The wall shows 48 of the open files; the rest stay in the platform's internal archive.
Breakdown by unit
Deploys across the isthmus and holds the Mother Base perimeter.
Builds and adapts the weapons and equipment the operation runs on.
Handles ammunition, rations, fuel and the supply routes.
Works the sector's radio traffic and writes the pre-sortie report.
Treats the wounded, runs the infirmary and decides who goes back out.
Portraits of anonymous Mother Base personnel. Illustrations by Yoji Shinkawa · Konami. The codes, code names and unit assignments are invented for this site.
Files drawn from the reconnaissance material. Every unit carries the same control module, and none of them needs an operator to open fire.
Autonomous AI weapon, tracked chassis
The first unit of the program to turn up in field reconnaissance. It moves on tracks mounted to articulated limbs and keeps the chassis low to the ground. The forward cannons and the cylindrical module raised over its back fix the silhouette. Closer to a mobile artillery piece than to a walker.
Autonomous AI weapon, aerial platform
The program's air unit. Two disc rotors on tilting arms hold it aloft and let it bank without turning the fuselage. A rail-mounted launcher and the cylindrical control module hang underneath. Seen from the ground, its disc profile matches the sightings that filled the newspapers in those years.
Autonomous AI weapon, heavy platform
The largest ground platform in the program. An armored hull rides on several track assemblies, with turrets spread along the flanks and an articulated arm folded on top. It advances in a straight line and denies ground by volume of fire. Work it from under its firing arc, where the turrets cannot reach.
Autonomous AI weapon, quadruped walker
The unit the project is named for. It walks on four legs and can rise onto the rear pair for height and a better firing angle. A spherical sensor carries its read of the field; the cannon on its back carries the damage. It is built to operate with no crew and no human signature on the decision to fire.
Crewed bipedal Metal Gear
The project Militaires Sans Frontières built for itself. Bipedal, with a railgun mounted at the shoulder and a radome on its back. It is assembled at Mother Base from parts recovered in the field, so its configuration and its paint change with whatever the depot holds. Unlike the AI machines, it has a cockpit.
Control module common to the series
The cylindrical module that repeats across every machine in the program. It houses the control system and keeps interior room for one person, with a working hatch, sensor eyes and a data connector at the base. It also reads as a marker: where that cylinder appears, the unit carrying it answers to no pilot.
August 27, 2026
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
First port since its original 2008 release
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
HD version, with online play for up to six players and no crossplay
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
Bonus title. Adds screen filters and a rewind function
Screenplay book
Full script of both main titles
Master book
Story and character files
Digital soundtrack Vol. 2
Instrumental and vocal tracks from the series
Series database
Encyclopedia with a timeline and a character relationship chart
Cardboard Camouflage
Uniform for Metal Gear Solid 4
Love Cardboard
Uniform for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
A selection from the game's official art book: characters, mechs and vehicles brushed by Yoji Shinkawa.
Illustrations by Yoji Shinkawa. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Official Art Works (SE-MOOK, Square Enix). © Konami Digital Entertainment.
Sixteen tapes from the Peace Walker catalog, each with its composer, its running time and a note on where the track turns up. Pick a tape to load it into the deck.
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Main Theme
Akihiro Honda
Main theme. It plays over the opening and sets the tone of the Central American operation before Militaires Sans Frontières sends out its first deployment.
Audio not hosted · running time 2:56
Listen at the official source16 tapes on file
The music of Peace Walker is the work of Konami and is not hosted on this site: the digital soundtrack is included with METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol. 2, and the original disc remains on sale. What you find here is the entry for each track and the link to the source.
