Nicholas A. Andersen

"I've lost time and time again, but now, I've finally won."

- Captain Andersen

Not much history is known of this man, but he was the Captain of the OFS Kestrel, an Osean aircraft carrier and flagship of the 3rd Osean Naval Fleet, during the Circum-Pacific War. Sometime between 1995 and 2010 he succeeded Commander Weeker as the commanding officer of the Kestrel. He successfully got the Kestrel out into the open waters of the Ceres Ocean when the Yuktobanian Air Force bombed Port St. Hewlett in Osea. Later, he took the Kestrel into the Eaglin Straits to join with two other carriers, the Vulture and the Buzzard, also of the 3rd Fleet. When the fleet came under attack, the pilots of the Kestrel helped defend against the Yuktobanian attack planes. However, the fleet was then attacked by two burst missiles fired from the Yuktobanian super submarine and underwater aircraft carrier Scinfaxi. Kestrel was the only carrier to survive, and all of the ship's pilots were killed except Captain Marcus Snow, who was the leader of its Carrier Air Wing.

Pops had presumably talked to him, in case he was accused of being a spy, to help them when the time arises. It eventually did, and Andersen aided him because he knew what was happening; he knew Pops was a Belkan Ace. When Pops and the remaining three pilots of the 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Wardog" were accused of being spies and escaped Sand Island Air Force Base, Andersen ordered Snow to help them. Snow faked their deaths and Andersen had them picked up, and from then on Wardog operated from the Kestrel under Andersen's command. When a friendly ship, Andromeda, located Osean President Vincent Harling, who had been kidnapped by Belkan spies, he sent Wardog (now under the callsign Razgriz and with Snow as Razgriz 3) to rescue Harling from his prison in Belka, Steir Castle. At this point, Andersen, the Kestrel, and their allies were considered traitors by the Osean Defense Forces, which were secretly under the control of the Gray Men. Harling placed the Kestrel Fleet under his command, and Razgriz became his personal fighter squadron.

Afterwords, the Kestel was used as Razgriz's base while they launched missions against the real enemy in this war, the Belkans.

Later, Razgriz went on a mission to help their former commander, Captain Jack Bartlett, escape with Prime Minister Nikanor of Yuktobania, who had been kidnapped just before the start of the war. After Nikanor was brought on board the Kestrel, a fleet of Yuktobanian warships approached the Kestrel Fleet. Nikanor spoke to the fleet, ordering them to hold their fire. However, the Yuktobanian fleet's commander declared Nikanor to be a traitor and ordered his ships to attack. However, a Yuktobanian destroyer refused to attack his Prime Minister, and attempted to defect to the Kestrel Fleet. The Yuke commander then opened fire and sank the defecting ship. This prompted more ships to defect, stating that they would not follow a commander who would sink his own ships. This lead to the Battle of the Ceres Ocean. Andersen ordered his fleet to assist the defectors and attack the nationalist Yuke ships. Razgriz was also launched to fight the nationalist Yukes. About halfway through the fleet, a nationalist Osean fleet found the fight. The Osean commander called the Kestrel Fleet traitors who had sided with Yuktobania. The nationalist Osean fleet then attacked both the nationalist Yuke fleet and the Kestrel Fleet, including the defecting ships. However, with Razgriz's help, all nationalist Yuktobanian and Osean ships were sunk. Afterwards, Andersen made a combined fleet of Osean and Yuktobanian ships.

Unfortunately, just before the Razgriz took off to attack Grunder Industries in Sudentor, Osea, a Yuktobanian Navy submarine fired two cruise missiles at the Kestrel. The damage was too much for the ship and it began to list. However, he ordered Razgriz to take off and get to the safety of the air. Razgriz barely made it and then went on to their mission. Andersen then ordered all crew members to abandon ship. He got off safely, though his fate after the war is currently unknown.