The main antagonist in Ace Combat 7 is the old dude who flies the Sukhoi-30 to train
Erusea’s drones, given that he is so old I have seen lots of people asking what he
was doing before the events of Ace Combat 7.
He even mentions that he has shot down several aces in the past, so could he have been involved
in Ace Combat 04 or other conflicts?
So in this video I will be covering story behind Mihaly - and by the way I am talking
about Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas
Archange Shilage, we have to be very specific here.
Now I know his name became kind of a meme, but that’s actually very realistic because
we are dealing with the nobility - that’s right, Mihaly Dumitru Margereta Corneliu Leopold
Blanca Karol - OK, I'll stop. I will just call him Mihaly from now on.
That’s because Mihaly belongs to the royal family from the Grand Duchy of Shilage, a
small nation in the western part of the continent of Usea.
It’s important for me to point out that we only have very limited information about
Shilage, but we do know that there was a revolution there to bring down the monarchy sometime
in the 70s or 80s.
During this revolution, which apparently was very violent, a close friend of Mihaly betrayed
him and shot him on the face.
Of course Mihaly survived, but as a result of this encounter he got a scar on his left
cheek.
The revolution was successful and the Shilagian royal family lost its power.
Taking advantage of the political instability, the Kingdom of Erusea invaded and annexed
Shilage.
In order to try to bring back stability to Shilage, the royal family was able to keep
their status, but ultimately the Erusean King was still the one who ruled the land.
At that time the Kingdom of Erusea was very aggressive and they were pursuing an expansionist
policy.
Other than Shilage, the Republic of Voslage was also annexed by Erusea but we just don’t
know how that happened or which one was annexed first.
During all these times of conflict and Erusean expansion, probably in the 70s or 80s, Mihaly
performed an unexpected move.
Even though he had a nobility status, which exempted him for the Erusean military draft,
Mihaly chose to enlist, he was later accepted in the Erusean Air Force by order of the Erusean
King.
[Side Note: Several royal families have a history with military service, but we don’t
have information as to if Mihaly already had flying experience with the Shilagian Air Force
or he started from scratch in the Erusean Air Force.]
Back to the story, after joining the Erusean military Mihaly became fighter pilot.
But wait, Erusea wasn’t happy enough with annexing Shilage and Voslage, they continued
waging war.
Based on the Aces at War book, we know that Mihaly distinguished himself in combat while
in the Erusean Air Force and that his last combat mission took place in the year of 1991.
Now this time period is interesting because there is no Ace Combat game set prior to 1995
and this is the first time we hear about a conflict in that year, this means that we
either have a new war or a series of new wars in the continent of Usea that ended in 1991.
I say ended because Mihaly remained in the Air Force and didn’t fly in combat anymore,
thus implying the conflict was over.
Furthermore, it is believed that it was in this conflict that Erusea lost the war and
thanks to pressure from the surrounding nations, it transitioned from being a kingdom to a
Federal Republic because the victors thought this would stop Erusea from starting new wars
in the future - boy, they were wrong!
Even with the transition to a republic, Mihaly remained in the Erusean Air Force and eventually
became a flight instructor.
Needless to say, Mihaly was very skilled and was able to teach his abilities to a new generation
of pilots - and guess who was one of them?
Yellow 13.
That’s right, Mihaly trained the best Erusean fighter pilot from the Usean continental war,
the one from Ace Combat 04.
The aces at war book mentions that Mihaly was actually very surprised by Yellow 13’s
skills during his training.
Yellow 13 was actually so fast and agile that he managed to crash his plane against Mihaly’s,
not just one - but twice.
Now I know what you are thinking, ACF what do you mean by crashing, how come that is
a skill?
Basically from my understanding of the book, Yellow 13 was the only person good enough
to keep up with Mihaly at close range in simulated dogfights, a skill that took Mihaly by surprise.
Now when I say Yellow 13 crashed twice into Mihaly, I don’t know how bad the crashes
were.
They either had to eject or were able to make some emergency landings in the middle of nowhere.
But wait, there’s more.
Mihaly was so curious on how Yellow 13 made contact with his plane that he was trying
to observe how Yellow 13 was doing it.
And just to make sure he understood the method, he tried it once and ended up crashing against
Yellow 13 - so three crashes in the air in total - that has to be expensive!
The book then becomes vague on Mihaly’s story, but it is almost certain that he remained
in the Erusean Air Force even during the Usean Continental War as a flight instructor.
I don’t have confirmation on this, but this is implied in Ace Combat 7 which states that
Mihaly spent several hours flying at high altitude.
It is also possible that he was a test pilot during the development of the original X-02
Wyvern whose development began in 1998.
In the end, what we do know is that he was later transferred to an experimental squadron
to participate in a joint research effort between the the Erusean Air and Space Administration,
EASA, and the former Belkan and now Osean Grunder Industries to advance artificial intelligence
for their drone program.
This was the Sol Squadron and the rest of the story of Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu
Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas Archange Shilage is what you
see in Ace Combat 7.
And that is it for this video, I know you might have some questions on his past but
that’s pretty much all we know so far.
If you want to learn more about Ace Combat lore, check my other videos I’ve made on
this topic.
You can find a playlist in the description.
Anyway, thank you for watching and I’ll see you next time.