Gene
Operation Judgement Day
- "You're not gonna believe this, Jean-Louis. All of them have ribbon insignias!"
- ― Gene[2] upon sighting Mobius Squadron
Gene (ジーン Jīn) was a young Erusean Air Force officer, member of Free Erusea,[1] and second-in-command of the newborn Yellow Squadron. Gene was among the Eruseans who refused to accept their nation's defeat in the Continental War and attempted to use the Megalith superweapon to wreak massive destruction across Usea.
Biography
Gene was enrolled in aviation reserve officer school at the tail end of the Continental War[1] when Erusea—after the fall of its capital to the Independent State Allied Forces—accepted ISAF's terms of surrender. Like many of his comrades, Gene refused to accept Erusea's defeat. He, together with a group of other obstinate Erusean officers—members of Free Erusea[1]—activated Megalith to shoot down fragments of the Ulysses 1994XF04 asteroid that still remained in orbit. As a pilot, Gene was assigned to the "newborn Yellow Squadron," a squadron intended to protect the facility.[2]
Death
When the ISAF commenced Operation Judgement Day on September 26, Gene—then Yellow 18, second-in-command of the newborn Yellows—engaged the ISAF's Mobius Squadron, which had been dispatched to eliminate the threat Megalith posed to Usea and the rest of the world. As the ISAF squadron approached Megalith, Gene voiced his surprise at seeing the Ribbon Fighter's emblem on every enemy aircraft. After Jean-Louis Flaubert—the Eruseans' flight leader—was shot down, Gene assumed command of the squadron; he would be shot down shortly thereafter along with the rest of his wingmen, creating an opening for Mobius 1 to destroy Megalith and end the war.[2]
Trivia
- While Gene's Su-37 did not have a confirmed number in Ace Combat 04, it was later confirmed to be "018" in both Hasegawa's Su-33 Yellow model kit[1] and Ace Combat Infinity's Su-37 -Gene-
Special Aircraft.