Ace Combat: Eastern Skies Thread - Vector Thrust

Get it? AC:ES?

A couple of years ago me and the BAF boys and John_Silver came up with this fancanon campaign idea set on a new expanded Eastern Front of the Belkan War in 1995. The premise was that Gebet, Recta and (to an extent) FATO entered into a military support and training treaty with the UYR prior to the war. When Belka invaded the East to try to get their territories back, the eastern air forces were quickly decimated. Due to treaty shenanigans, the Yuktobanians attempted to try to reorganizing the remnants under their command.

One such squadron was the Chimera, which despite their initial misgivings of each other, became the most feared aerial unit of the Eastern Front. Its pilots became folk heroes in military circles: Proud yet brash Alex Heylen of FATO, quiet and pious Gebeto Pieter Schaeffer and his straight-edged cynical Rectan counterpart Henri Defosse, and their political officer Vitaly Krylovich Ulanov, who is much more than just the walking propaganda machine that has to keep the squad in line.

That they were known only for their individual achievement is largely attributed to a mysterious incident above the nuclear crater on the border with Recta in which the only thing truly known is Ulanov was the only one to emerge alive...

Now that the campaign mode is further along I'd like to stop kicking the can forward and get an interest check here, see what people think of the pitch.

I am all for an AC campaign, and it is nice that it would be using a bit more of the niche players in strangereal.

Thanks.

A bit more about the story is that it may or may not be narrated by a Belkan liaison to the Yuktobanian military looking up research for a comrade in the Fatherland who loves military history. The ending also ties into Bartlett's resistance hijinks, although I'm not going to say how...yet.