Yellow 13

"I won't complain if I buy the farm while I'm airborne, but I can't stand being taken out while I'm grounded."

- Yellow 13, Interlude 07

Yellow 13 was the Erusian ace pilot of the Yellow Squadron in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The Yellow Squadron's principal task was to defend the Erusian superweapon Stonehenge. The squadron always chose to fly a 5-man V formation using Su-37 Terminators painted with a mud/green camouflage and yellow tips.

Yellow 13 takes pride his record of never having lost a squadron member in combat. He is said to have compassion towards the enemies that he shot down, totaling at least 64 aircraft. 13 enjoyed dogfighting with opponents worthy of his skill and continually looked forward to the chance to fight Mobius One. He is a man of honor and hates the resistance, who damaged Yellow 4's plane when they set off a bomb on their runway.

During the war he often visited a small bar in the occupied city of San Salvacion where he enjoyed playing the guitar; this lead to his first encounter with the Storyteller Boy. During the later ISAF invasion of San Salvacion, he was finally shot down by Mobius One and (as his body was never found) no one knows for sure what happened to him afterward, though it is probable that he was killed.



Trivia

 * 13_and_4_by_Fel1230.jpg And Yellow 4]]Yellow 13's record of never losing a wingman before Yellow 4 was shot down by Mobius One could be compared with similar real-world pilots, such as Erich Hartmann and Saburō Sakai.(Germany and Japan's highest scoring aces firing WWII)
 * ACES WEB has an image with a number of badges and the name 'David Jordan' under one of them. That is believed to be his name, but accounts vary.
 * It is possible that the Belkan ace Erich Klinsmann is the former identity of Yellow 13.
 * It is also possible that Yellow 13 is the named ace Su-37 Yellow in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, who pursues Jack Bartlett through the tunnel to the SOLG control core in mission 27. Yellow flies a Su-37 Terminator with Yellow 13's personal paint scheme on it, which is unlocked for the Su-37 Terminator if the player shoots him down. AC5 takes place in 2010, more than five years after Yellow 13 presumably died, meaning that he had a chance to recuperate from his injuries to participate in the Circum-Pacific War, or might be a survivor of the Yellow Squadron.
 * There was a real Yellow 13,Lieutenant Wilhelm Crinius who flew with the luftwaffe's JG 53 during WWII.
 * Yellow 13's paint scheme is unlockable for the Su-37 in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception, and Ace Combat X2: Joint Assault. It can also be bought for the Su-33 Flanker-D in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation.