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Arsenal Gear is the code name for a fictional weapons platform in the videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In the game, it is the latest generation of Metal Gear.
History
Arsenal Gear is located beneath the Big Shell facility, and takes the form of a submersible mobile fortress. Vast in scale, its primary function is to provide a secure haven for a supercomputer called "GW". This is designed to monitor, block, and tamper with Internet communications, in order to further the totalitarian agenda of the "Patriots", their "S3 Program". One of its principal engineers is Emma "E.E." Emmerich, Hal Emmerich's sister.
Defenses
Arsenal Gear is never shown using any weapony of its own; instead, a hangar of about 25 production model Metal Gear RAY units under the remote control of GW provides much of its defensive capability. There are also an unspecified number of "Arsenal Tengu", heavily armoured soldiers each bearing a P90 submachine gun and Katana. The latter are defeated by Raiden and Snake, the former by Raiden, Solidus Snake, and Emma Emmerich's computer virus. It is also belived to have a large payload of nuclear weapons including a purified hydrogen bomb; however, without full air, sea and land support Arsenal Gear is practically defenseless.
Purpose
To protect and carry a neural network-based computer that will be used for testing and enforcing the S3 (Selection for Societal Sanity) Program. This program is designed to control and select memes which are 'good' for the human race. The "Patriots" perceive that natural selection does not affect information since the dawn of the internet; this device provides an artifical check to the process (perhaps analogous to eugenics' belief that genes should be artifically selected).
Name
The name "GW" may or may not be a reference to George Washington Bridge in New York City, which is colloquially known as GW. This bridge is also the bridge on which Solid Snake walks during the intro. It is considered to be a very "intelligent" bridge, one with many cameras and other electronic devices.
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