Allies+Enemies

real name: Hal Emmerich sex: male age: 30s nationality: USA race: white (Jewish) height: 177 cm weight: 62 kg ArmsTech METAL GEAR Project chief engineer. Wears glasses, and has a friendly nature but he is a weapon development genius. He did not attend school but studied through the Internet and matriculated at MIT. Earned his PHD at an early age. Earned his bachelors and masters degrees at Princeton -- a genius too young. In his college years, he put together a program to solve the year 2000 digit changing problem in computers and drew major attention as the savior of the computer world. Came up with the idea but earned no money from it. Note: Today's Internet was started among researchers in DARPA for communication purposes in 1969. It is so ironic that Otacon got into college and lost his job as a criminal due to the Internet developed by DARPA and then being involved in this time's DARPA-related incident. Loves Japanimation (Japanese animation). His nickname "Otacon" comes from the "OTAKU CONVENTION" which is a fan event of Japanese animation held in the US, and of which he is a regular participant. He joined the METAL GEAR project for his love of robot animation

real name: Mei Ling sex: female age: teens nationality: China (Kwangtung). A student of MIT. Her nationality is China (Kwangtung), though born in the U.S., she grew up in a Chinese Town. Specializing in the image and data processing operations of spy satellites, she also developed the new communication equipment and radar used by Snake She was initially influenced by a fighter plane pilot movie and is fond of the Air Force. Participates in the ROTC program at MIT to become an officer, but gives up due to the lack of talent. She has poor vision and must wear corrective lenses. Has an inferiority complex due to her poor vision, but this also adds to her motive to develop a new radar system that would assist one's vision and thinking abilities. Was scouted by the military for her expertise in image and data processing. Works together with the technicians at NOR in Fort Mead and ENPIC in image processing and electronic and communication espionage with the use of spy satellites. Not good at dealing with people. Learns what "real espionage" and "communication between people" are through dealing with Solid Snake. The CODEC used by Solid Snake, codifying satellite communication system, anti-wiring coding, digital real time burst communication, sonar-utilizing radar, etc. were all developed by her. Normal communication (10s of seconds) instantaneously codified, compressed and transmitted in a burst (1 microsecond), received real time, unscrambled, and decoded. Incomparably more innovative than the conventional anti-wiring frequency scrambler. Made possible a 24-hour system unaffected by weather, integrating information from high altitude reconnaissance satellites and low altitude reconnaissance planes.

real name: Nastasha Romanenko sex: female age: 30s nationality: Ukrainian Military analyst, female, in her thirties, loves smoking. Specializing in hi tech weapons and nuclear weapons. Lives in Los Angeles. Born in Ukraine in the 1970s. In 1986 at 1:23 40 sec AM on April 26, when she was 10 years old, she and her family were showered by the radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in a town 3 kilometers from Chernobyl. After losing her parents who participated in the cleanup at Chernobyl, she moved to the US. Her hometown is still severely polluted by radiation and is now a ghost town. Although it has been many years since the accident, the deep soils are still radiated, and agriculture of all kinds is still prohibited. Hometown: average age 28 (at time of accident) population that left town 600,000 - 700,000 ill children 650,000 deaths in 1986-93: children: 12,000 cleaners: 97,729 Due to the radiation, people still suffer from thyroid abnormalities, sterility, and other symptoms. Although treatment has continued, cancer diagnosis is not conducted, and proper medical treatment is not given. She refers to nuclear fallout as the "invisible war transcending borders and generations." She detests nuclear weapons and prays for the abolition of all of them and joins the Pentagon. She is against the nuclear deterrence theory which prevailed after World War 2 (during the Cold War), opposed strategic arms reduction proposals such as SALT and START and sticks to the idea of total abolition. "What is necessary for the continuation of mankind is not the reduction of nuclear weapons but its abolition." She served in the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and then in the NSA (National Security Agency) and was associated with a number of top security matters. The end of the Cold War deprived her of her position in the government organizations, just like other military analysts (who were referred to as military archeologists excavating the remains from the Cold War). She leaves the bureau to become a freelance analyst. She writes for a few information magazines and US Naval info magazines. In 1996 she attends the Canberra Committee, the world's first nationally hosted nuclear weapon abolition proposal group. She provides explanations and info on nuclear weapons, TMD, etc. She also gives info on the handling and capabilities of weapons. She hacks the mercenary/criminal databanks of the ICPO (International Criminal Police Organization) and US police force and can touch upon the newest data of mercenaries and criminals all over the world. Note: The ICPO of Paris has owned a list of world's famous mercenaries for more than 30 years. In this mission she acts as counselor of NEST (nuclear energy survey team). Role as person against the idea of "nuclear peace and nuclear deterrence."