Around 1974, Major Zero and Sigint got the idea to use AIs to rule over humanity from Hot Coldman's beliefs, although they wished to just use information control as a precaution. Later in that same decade, Zero began to lose faith in humanity, due in part to the "betrayal" of his former friend Big Boss. Rather than pass his organization down to the next generation, believing that they would be incapable of understanding his vision, and combined with a parasite that slowly robbed him of cognitive functions, Zero commissioned Strangelove to develop four AIs (AL, TR, TJ, and GW) to serve as his "successors" with a fifth AI, JD, to oversee them. In addition, they used Big Boss's DNA to act as the key to the AI network. They felt, however, that an AI could not be trusted to make its own decisio