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Canon Sources
All canon facts in this project are verified against a single source: the Ace Combat Wiki at acecombat.wiki.gg. No other source is used for lore research. The wiki's pages cite the games, official guidebooks and Bandai Namco material; those citations are recorded below as the wiki gives them.
Related: Canon Foundation · Continuity Bible
Pages Consulted
| Page | Facts taken from it |
|---|---|
| Strangereal | Chronology from 1995 to 2040; the position of this spin-off between Ace Combat 7 and Ace Combat 8 |
| Sotoa-Usea War | War dates (16 Jul 2029 – 3 Aug 2030); Tonitrus strike on Expo City; IUN withdrawal from 2020 and May 2029 Rocky Island inspection demand; Rocky Island development (Sep 2025 – 1 Oct 2027); the 14 Feb 2028 false reactor meltdown; Tonitrus launch (22 Jan 2029); Planning Division 303; Enso's dissolution (31 Aug 2030); the Neo United Nations |
| Sotoa | Western Verusa; desertification and water shortages; the March 2020 expansion through Enso; the debt trap over eastern Usea; Comona contract (Nov 2024); Podarge (2025) |
| Enso Order | DAO of independent nodes; years active c. 2020–2030; facilities including Okchabursk and Anfang; role in DOE; GR's inheritance of its Usean assets |
| Operation Sweep | 1 Apr 2030; impact sites including Okchabursk and Anfang |
| General Resource Limited | GR Guardian Mercenaries and the Mimic Squadron (2019); In-sa-net buyout (2024); GR Defense Force in Usea (2026); DOE (2028); events 2030–2036 |
| Darkness of Enigma | 2028–2033; X-40 Nightmare before 2029; X-49 Night Raven; end of the program; staff absorbed by Neucom |
| Rena Hirose | Born 2021; joined GR at nine; first X-49 flight 21 Jul 2032 (canon horizon only) |
| Neucom | EASA privatization in the 2020s and the airline joint venture; no incorporation year; GR rivalry from the 2030s |
| Connection For Flight Interface | COFFIN history; FALKEN's eye-and-voice control; ENSI as GR's 2020s standard; fly-by-opto; first known COFFIN combat flight (24 Mar 2030) |
| ADF-01 FALKEN | Z.O.E. FALKEN shot down by Phoenix over Fortress Intolerance, 18 Sep 1998 |
| Zone of Endless | Z.O.E. launched in secret after 1995; deployed in the Usean coup; Mihaly A. Shilage's data in the ADFX-10 and ADF-11F |
| Lighthouse War | 15 May – 1 Dec 2019; Arsenal Birds; mutual satellite destruction and worldwide blackout; Expo City ceasefire; postwar Erusea |
| Operation Giant's Step | Osean and Erusean ASAT strikes during the battle of 19 Sep 2019 |
| International Space Elevator | Geosynchronous solar satellites beaming microwaves to the elevator; attacked in 2030 |
| Union of Yuktobanian Republics | Capital Cinigrad; humanitarian aid at the ISEV (Dec 2019); Belkan War anniversary at Osea's invitation (30 Jun 2020); undated Sotoa–Yuktobanian War |
| Dresdene terrorist attack | 2 Nov 2010; Grey Men's Grabacr Squadron; framing of Wardog |
| Operation Wisdom | 4 Nov 2010 gas attack on Bana City in retaliation |
Points Where the Wiki Disagrees or Is Silent
| Point | What the wiki records | Project choice |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs Darkness of Enigma in 2028–2029 | GR's program (DOE and GR pages); started by Enso with GR and former Gründer engineers (COFFIN page); an Enso asset inherited by GR (Enso page) | Run by GR with Enso participation; passes wholly to GR in 2030 |
| Rena Hirose's joining year | 2030 (GR page; consistent with joining at nine, born 2021) or 2031 (DOE page) | "Early 2030s" |
| Start of the Sotoa–Yuktobanian War | "Early 21st century"; "around the 2010s"; Aces At War says "the early 2000s" | "An earlier war with Yuktobania" |
| Neucom's incorporation year | Not given | Neucom is never named during the campaign |
| Space debris after the 2019 ASAT strikes | Not mentioned; the wiki records the destruction of the satellite networks and a worldwide blackout | "The 2019 blackout"; slow polar-navigation recovery is a project choice |