ISAF Supreme Commander: "So what should we do with them?" Asking for the final solution of dealing with Federal Republic of Erusea, after conclusion of Operation Katina.

Mobius One: "I have a proposition, terminal deadly."

ISAF Supreme Commander: "Go ahead."

"To permanently pacify a mad dog is to cease all its physiological functions." Says Mobius One: "So I propose dissolving Erusea like dissolving Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI on Planet Earth. End of story, no more ethnic identity for Erusean population, no reasons for them to fight anymore."

How Skies Unknown Should Have Ended

Dr. Schroeder is thrown into a heavily guarded dungeon. "What's this meaning?" He protests.

"You really think you can trick me by your atrocious accent, Belkan?" Says the King of Erusea: "Wherever you Belkan shows up, there's a catastrophe following. I'm going to hand you to Osean government, they'll be glad to pardon a large sum of my fatherlands' debt."

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Mihaly A. Shilage takes off for the last time, never to return. Not because he crashes or something, but because knowing Dr. Schroeder's dark secret and is unhappy for being treated like a slave by him, he defects to Osean Federation for special amnesty…not before tossing a drop tank directly on doctor's head.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

War is declared, Erusean ships that are docked all around Osea release a swarm of drone fighters they had hidden onbroad in containers…it's what they wish to happen, but obviously they forgot containers are to be scanned before acquiring clearances to enter another nation's territory and subsequently forgot to add anti-scan shielding or something, resulting all containers with drones detected and destroyed immediately…most of them, save for a few being seized for study.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

War is declared, Erusean ships that are docked all around Osea release a swarm of drone fighters they had hidden onbroad in containers…but all drones attack their own masters instead of carrying out orders. Apparently their AIs are too smart, smart enough to realize Erusea made a fatal mistake of starting the war, so they decide to join Osea for a better chance of winning.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

A blinding flash in upper atmosphere, a nuclear-triggered EMP surge runs across entire Usean Continent, all UCAVs and associated facilities are fried. The war ends as Osean victory just less than an hour after its start.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Vincent Harling drives his tiltrotor aircraft directly out of immediate airspace around International Space Elevator, where an intensified aerial engagement is raging on, and ignoring those stray missiles and bombs heading to the megastructure itself. As the head of the project, he knows well how strong the structural integrity is, ordnance carried by tactical fighters won't leave even the slightest scratches on ISEV's hull.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Vincent Harling escapes with the taskforce assigned to rescue him, then he urges Osean Federation to initiate a general ballistic missile strike on International Space Elevator and two Arsenal Birds, as well as several strategic points under Erusean control, effectively reducing them into unrecognizable scraps and rubble. The loss of properties and human lives are indeed astronomical, but necessary, as a showcase of the consequence of messing with a wrong country.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Avril Mead: "What do we have here? A downed airliner with royal emblem of Erusea, a bunch of corpses…and a sole survivor, female. I have the best chance to guess you're…Rosa Cossette D'Elise, head of our enemy state."

Guard No. 1: "What?! That Erusean princess who does nothing but spitting pro-war nonsenses every single day? I gonna skin her alive!"

Guard No. 2: "No you're not! I'm the one entitled to have such privilege!"

"Boys! Boys! Calm down! Lining her up against a wall and placing a bullet into her occipital bone would be too good for a criminal of this magnitude. How 'bout this? Letting her have a head start, before sending your dogs after her. It'll be interesting sport to watch how far she gets before she dies." Avril Mead has the point.

Guards laugh: "This Scrap Queen is our kind of scum…fearless and inventive."

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Mihaly A. Shilage: "There are pilots like you in every generation. And I felled every last one of them…"

Then his plane explodes in midair, because Cipher slugs a missile right into his engine nozzle: "There are pilots like YOU in every generation. And I felled every last one of them."

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Mihaly A. Shilage: "There are pilots like you in every generation. And I felled every last one of them…"

Mobius One shoots him down with a swift strike: "Time to wake up and shut up, you rusty Erusean bastard."

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Mihaly A. Shilage: "There are pilots like you in every generation. And I felled every last one of them…" His cockpit suddenly is punctured by a cluster of 20mm semi-armor-piercing high-explosive incendiary (SAPHEI) rounds, enabling blood, bone fragments and internal organ pieces sprayed all over canopy.

Trigger: "Old fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the protagonist!"

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Trigger and his friends drop several specialized "bombs" in front of the second Arsenal Bird. The bombs "explode" to release dozens of nets made by special alloys, tangles on propeller to disable them from spinning. Without thrust, the flying battleship plummets into sea.

"The state-of-art airborne combat platform defeated by the primitive approach from WWI, don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." Post-war comments from aviation community.

Fast-Forward ▶▶

Two TV sets and two sets of consoles. Trigger and Count are locked in Battle Royal of the latest installation of a certain hybrid flight arcade action video game franchise.

As they fight for air supremacy in digital dimension, some inharmonic voices, mostly screams and moans are coming out from a nearby room, apparently someone is being tortured in there, both skillfully and mercilessly.

"I don't know who's in a more dire shape, that Belkan egghead or that highness of Erusean morons." Count comments casually.

"That's what called 'Karma'. Now focus on your game or I'll achieve three wins in a row." Trigger's attitude is even more indifferent.

Suddenly the door to outside violently bursts open, a furious Kei Nagase rushes in with a pistol in hand: "WHERE ARE THEM?!" Apparently she's VERY MAD after acknowledging what happened to Vincent Harling.

Trigger and Count go silent, and Trigger points his thumb to the "torture chamber".

But this is how it really should have ended…

Farbanti, Kingdom of Erusea

January 1st 2019

King of Erusea is making an worldwide speech on all medias: "For years, we believed the International Space Elevator, funded and commissioned by Osean Federation, was a conspiracy of secretly exploiting and taking over our country's economy and politics, under disguise of foreign aid. We were wrong, I was wrong. The fact I learned after touring inside of this megastructure is a testament to our changed reality. People from Osea genuinely gave us helping hands in our time of need, no additional conditions, and I am deeply grateful for their hospitality…I heartily apologize for my misunderstandings and hostilities toward Osean Federation, as well as to Vincent Harling, revered former president of Osea, also the head of ISEV Project. As a proof of taking all responsibilities of previous mistakes, I hereby to announce my resign as the King and Head of the State…"

Vincent Harling is watching the live broadcast, he talks to a figure shrouded in shadow: "He's not smart, but still is worth teaching. I can use an adjutant like him."

Shadowy Figure: "Shall I bring him to you…covertly?"

"Make it happen, Ms. Nagase."

The End

Ending Theme: La Garde au Farbanti (a parody of Die Wacht am Rhein)