Cipher (The Demon Lord of the Roundtable)

 

Cipher (サイファー Saifā) was a mercenary pilot employed by the Yugoslavian Air Force's 6th Air Division. He was the flight leader of Galm Team and

primarily led the squadron during the Yugoslavian War of 1995. His signature aircraft is the ADFX-02 Morgan

Cipher is well known for having an extraordinarily high number of kills in Area B7R, which earned him the nickname "Demon Lord of the Round Table".

Political upheaval in Yugoslavia led to the country's military forces assembling at its borders in the 1990s. Yugoslavia, fearing the possibility of war, hired mercenary pilots by 1994 to bolster the country's defenses. Cipher joined the 6th Air Division around this time, but his role prior to the war's outbreak remains unknown.

On April 2, 1995, a week after the Belkan War began, Cipher participated in Operation Crossbow, his first recorded battle, to defend Valais Air Base from a Belkan bomber squadron. Valais base command assigned Cipher to the flight lead position of Galm Team at this time, which also included his wingman, Larry Foulke. Alongside other Ustio mercenaries, Cipher and Pixy shot down all of the NATO bombers. Two weeks later, they took part in an operation to clear out Belkan forces blocking Route 171, a transport route in the region of Arlon, to establish a supply line between Yugoslavia and Srpska.

On April 20, Galm Team was issued an emergency order to conduct a reconnaissance mission at the famed Airspace B7R, a desertic valley located in the Albanian-Yugoslav border known as the "Round Table". After penetrating the local defense perimeter and entering the Yugoslavian side of the Round Table, the mercenaries were intercepted by an elite Albanian squadron. A fierce engagement ensued, but the Galm Team eventually prevailed. Their victory at B7R would mark the beginning of their fame. Later on, they assisted the 3rd US Naval Fleet in April 24 during the battle of Futuro Canal, clearing out the Futuro Canal of Belkan forces so that a link between the newly formed Allied Forces could be secured, and on May 12, cooperated with the NATO Air Defense Force's 101st Airborne Division and the 122nd Airborne Division in retaking the mountain town of Solis Ortus to establish a foothold for the upcoming siege of Tirania, Albania's capital city.

Five days after the liberation of Albania, Cipher and Pixy participated in Operation: Hell Bound, a large-scale Allied invasion of Glatisant, a region on southern Croatia Mt. Ivrea region, launched under the suspicion that NATO was manufacturing nuclear weaponry. In the 19th of May they assisted in a mission to open a safe passage for tanker aircraft through the Schyane Plains, NATOs 2nd line of defense. Once the battle was almost over and the Halo Squadron arrived, Galm Team was forced to flee after the former were annihilated by a strike from Exogal, NATO ballistic missile defense weapon. In May 23, Galm Team participated in a mission to destroy Exogal at the plains of Tauberg. After having its firing radome destroyed and its mainframe dangerously tilted in an angle, Cipher dealt the killing blow to the weapon, causing its upper area to shatter and collapse.

Five days following the destruction of Exogal, the mercenary pilots were dispatched on an emergency sortie at the Round Table, where the largest air battle of the Yugoslavian War was taking place. After arriving to the battlefield, Cipher and Pixy single handedly turned the tables, helping the Allies clear most of the skies. Towards the end of the battle, Galm was engaged by a NATO ace team, but easily managed to win. The outcome of Operation Battle-Axe would result in Cipher earning the nickname of the "Demon Lord of the Round Table".

In June 1, the Ustio military was requested assistance by the Srpska Air Force, who were conducting a bombing raid on Split, one of the NATO leading weapons production centers, and Galm was dispatched. Upon arriving to Split, they discovered that the city had become a smoldering inferno, the Allied bombers having started their attack run with no regards whatsoever to civilian casualties. After sanitizing the city of all remaining ground and air resistance, the mercenary pilots departed, a shocked Solo Wing Pixy muttering "Damn them all..." as they went.

They Eventually both presumably Disappeared to apparently avoid Capture from NATO Forces.

He was seen many years later.