Phantine Air Corps - Notable Phantine Air Corps Personnel: Grand-Admiral Orloff - During the Phantine Liberation campaign, Grand-Admiral Orloff was the highest ranking officer of the Phantine Air Corps. A skilled tactician, Orloff monitored the entire reclamation effort from the command deck of the Nimbus, one of the great zeppelin-carriers of the Air Corps. The efficiency and diligence with which the Grand-Admiral organised the campaign saw him elevated to the command structures of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade by the direct order of Warmaster Macaroth. When it became clear that Lord Militant Hummel's plan to rid Enothis of Archenemy troops had failed, it was also on direct orders of the Warmaster that Grand-Admiral Orloff was put in charge of the air war on that beleaguered world. The defensive campaign designed by Orloff and his staff turned the Enothian War in favour of the Imperials and proved a decisive step in the Imperium's final victory on Enothis.Commander William Hayes - Wing Commander William Hayes was the original commander of the Phantine XIX, Orbis Flight, and a personnel friend of Bree Jagdea. Like her, Hayes was a veteran of the Phantine Liberation campaign and fought in the Enothian War. William Hayes was confirmed killed in action in 773.M41, shot down by the renowned enemy fighter pilot Khrel Kas Obarkon.Commander Bree Jagdea - Perhaps the most famous pilot of the Phantine Air Corps, Wing Commander Bree Jagdea always stood out. She began her career quite humbly as a member of the Phantine PDF and successfully cleared the great Aviator Scholam of Hessenville at the top of her class. A certified Lightning pilot, Jagdea rose quickly within the structure of the Phantine Air Corps until she commanded the Nimbus' complement of fighters. During the fighting on her homeworld, Jagdea rapidly gained the status of an ace and began to forge her legend during the Raid on Cirenholm. That sky-city had been marked as the first objective for the Imperial counter-invasion of Phantine and although the airspace around the city was officially deemed safe for Imperial troop transports, Jagdea did not trust the official briefings. On a hunch, she took her wing in close support of the invading fleet, thus saving the Imperial assault from being massacred before it had even landed. Wounded and shot down over Cirenholm's secondary habitation dome. Even wounded, Jagdea directed struggling or crippled Imperial transports into a safe landing zone, thus allowing a complement of the Tanith First and Only to expertly infiltrate Cirenholm and turn the battle for the city in the decisive moment. Commended for her actions at Cirenholm, she refused to step down from the fighting for her homeworld despite having suffered a broken arm. Jagdea volunteered as pilot for the high-risk insertion on Ouranberg during Operation Larisel. Shot down for the second time in the same campaign, Jagdea was fully ready to give her life in the name of the Emperor, but was saved in extremis by a Tanith Sergeant going by the name of Domor. Forced by circumstances to accompany the infiltration team into Ouranberg, Jagdea and her team were discovered by Blood Pact troops and taken prisoner. Bound to be sacrificed in some hideous ritual to the Dark Gods, Domor and Jagdea readied themselves to die. At just that moment, the other teams of Operation Larisel sprang into action, their precise sniper-fire hitting the Chaos Space Marine Sagittar Slaith, the enemy commander. In the resultant chaos, Domor and Jagdea were able to free themselves, seize weapons and liberate other prisoners before fleeing the sacrificial plaza. Barricading themselves in a nearby building, the valiant pilot and her Tanith friends held out until Imperial troops conquered Ouranberg and joined up with them. Commended for her bravery by Grand-Admiral Orloff himself, Bree Jagdea was placed in command of the newly activated Phantine XX, which required her to return to Hessenville and become certified for operations on the Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter, the Phantine XX's new mounts. Deployed alongside other Phantine units to the Enothian War, Bree Jagdea would continuously add to her impressive kill-tally until she was wounded for the third time. She was still recovering from these wounds when the Blood Pact invaded Theda, the city where the Phantine XX had been stationed. Through a good deal of luck and her own wits, Jagdea escaped in the company of one of her future pilots and close friend, Major August Kaminsky. With the enemy within striking distance of the Phantine capital city of Enothopolis, Bree Jagdea returned to the frontlines in time for the great Battle of the Zophonian Sea, when the enemy's air-offensive was finally stalled. By the end of the Enothian War, the Phantine XX was one of the three fighter squadrons with the most kills of the entire conflict, a testament to her own mettle both as a pilot and as a leader.Commander Oskar Viltry - Regarded by many as the Air Corps' most talented and gifted Marauder pilot, Wing Commander Oskar Viltry was the first commander of the highly decorated Phantine XXI, Halo Flight. Like his close friend Bree Jagdea, whom he met at the Hessenville Aviator Scholam, Oskar Viltry is an almost legendary figure within the Phantine Air Corps. Believed dead when his bomber was shot down over the sky-city of Cirenholm, Viltry actually survived only to be captured by a Blood Pact supply shuttle and brought to Ouranberg. There, he was chosen as one of the countless victims in one of the Chaos Cultists' sombre rituals. He was surprised to discover his friend Jagdea also amongst the captives. Saved in the nick of time by Imperial Guard snipers who had infiltrated the surroundings of the sacrificial plaza, Viltry joined up with Jagdea and several members of the Phantine Skyborne and Tanith First and Only until reinforcements arrived and Ouranberg could be claimed in the name of the Emperor. Yet what he had seen in Ouranberg and the loss of his crew sat poorly with Oskar Viltry. He formally requested his resignation from the Phantine Air Corps, but was refused. Staying in command of his old squadron, which by now had been activated under the name of the Phantine XXI, Halo Flight, Viltry became obsessed with the idea that he was living on borrowed time. Halo Wing was deployed to aid the Imperial retreat in the disastrous Enothian War and met great success, as Halo Wing was one of the few Imperial air formations to locate and destroy a Chaos Landcarrier that the Archenemy used as a mobile air base. Despite the success of these early missions, ultimately Viltry's premonition proved true. Official records state that Wing Commander Oskar Viltry and all the crewmen of his Marauder, G for Greta, were shot down and killed over the Makanite Mountains in 773.M41.Major August Kaminsky - Major August Kaminsky was one of the most highly decorated fighter-pilots of the Phantine XX, a feat that appears even more impressive considering the Major's injuries and background, for Kaminsky was not born on Phantine. August Kaminsky was born in 731.M41 in the hive city of Enothopolis on Enothis, a Civilised World of the Sabbat Worlds Sector. At a very young age he joined the Enothian Commonwealth's military aviation service, a division of Enothis' Planetary Defense Forces. Before he was forty standard years old, Kaminisky had reached the rank of Major and earned the position of Squadron Leader. Kaminsky quickly established his reputation as a formidable fighter pilot, his tally of seventeen confirmed kills a testimony to his abilities. His operational career was abruptly cut short when his fighter was hit and burst into flames. Although he was able to return to base and to escape with his life, large portions of his body and face had been badly burned, warranting the amputation of his left hand. As Enothis lacked the more advanced technological standards of the wider Imperium, no adequate augmetic replacement could be provided and soon the former Major Kaminsky was transferred out to the Departmento Munitorum's motor pool where he now served as a driver. Ironically, he was the Munitorum driver appointed to shuttle his future comrades of the Phantine XX from their billet in the city of Theda to MAB South when the Phantine wings joined the Imperial counter-invasion of Enothis during the Enothian War. It was on this run that Major Kaminsky first met Bree Jagdea. Their path would cross again several times before Theda was overrun by Blood Pact troops. Almost running her over with his truck amidst the hectic evacuation effort, Kaminsky saved Jagdea's life by taking her to an isolated reserve field of the Commonwealth Coastal Command where Kaminsky and Jagdea prepped a Cyclone -- a conventional, twin-engine, delta-wing aircraft -- and narrowly escaped pursuing troops. While racing over the Zophonian Sea, their Cyclone was spotted by an enemy Locust which began to chase the fleeing aircraft. In a rare display of airmanship, Kaminsky outflew the vector-powered Locust in his conventional aircraft and shot it down with Jagdea's help. As the Phantine Air Corps is officially an Imperial Guard unit, it is allowed to draft Imperial citizens into service, a right Commander Jagdea used to reinstate Kaminsky as a fighter pilot in the Phantine XX. Considering the pressing needs of the Imperial Navy, Kaminsky's Thunderbolt was equipped with voice-activated fire control since he could not fire the aircraft's weapons in the conventional way with his prosthetic hand. Kaminsky adapted quickly to his new aircraft, his experience transforming him into a phenomenal asset for the Phantine XX. During the fierce Battle of the Zophonian Sea, August Kaminsky gained the most kills in the Phantine XX and would go on to prove his mettle in several other battles. Major Kaminsky was killed in action in 812.M41 with a final tally of 73 confirmed kills.Executive Officer Milan Blansher - A veteran of the Phantine Liberation, Milan Blansher was the Phantine XX's second-in command. Older by more than a solar decade than his commanding officer, the legendary Bree Jagdea, Blansher was a competent leader and a skilled pilot himself who never sought to elevate himself above others. Because of his age, many within the Phantine XX saw him as a sort of father figure. His official records credit him with 32 confirmed air-victories. Executive Officer Milan Blansher was killed on Enothis in 773.M41.Executive Officer Wassimir Kyrklan - Wassimir Kyrklan was a Marauder pilot within the Phantine XXI under Wing Commander Oskar Viltry and served as the wing's executive officer. Kyrklan always marvelled at Viltry's abilities and sought to emulate him. Serving together during the Phantine Liberation campaign, Wassimir Kyrklan was heartbroken when he learned of his friend's presumed death and rejoiced when it turned out that Viltry was found alive in Ouranberg, for in truth the burden of command sat ill with him. With Viltry reinstated as his superior, Halo Fight and Kyrklan were deployed to Enothis. Following Viltry's second disappearance, Executive Officer Wassimir Kyrklan took command of the remainder of the Phantine XXI for the rest of the Enothian War.Flight Lieutenant Larice Asche - The strikingly handsome Flight Lieutenant Larice Asche was one of the Phantine Air Corps' most accomplished pilots. Even before the end of the Phantine Liberation campaign, Larice Asche had joined the exclusive circle of the female ace pilots within the Phantine Air Corps. In particular, during an enemy bombing raid on the sky-city of Cirenholm, she shot down four enemy bombers in a single dog-fight. Promoted to Flight Lieutenant in the wake of her exploits on Phantine, Larice Asche was assigned to the Phantine XX under Wing Commander Bree Jagdea, where she became one of the wing's best pilots during the Enothian War. In particular, while the Phantine XX was operating from the advanced base of Lake Gocel MAB, Larice Asche shot down ten enemy aircraft on a single patrol, a record that has long been unmatched within the Phantine Air Corps. This feat drew the attention of the higher echelons of the Imperial Navy on Enothis, especially of Wing Leader Etz Seekan, the commander of the Elite 101st Navy Pacificus Squadron, more commonly called "The Apostles". Larice Asche thus became the first female pilot to enter this prestigious unit, as well as the first Phantine to do so.Pilot Officer Erwell Costary - Pilot Officer Erwell Costary was one of the most decorated pilots within the Phantine Air Corps before Phantine's invasion by the troops of the Blood Pact. Costary was lost defending the recently retaken sky-city of Cirenholm from a retaliatory raid.Pilot Officer Febos Nicarde - During the Phantine Liberation campaign, Pilot Officer Febos Nicarde was one of the first Phantine pilots to accomplish the challenge of becoming an ace in a day, by shooting seven enemy bombers on a single sortie. For this, he was awarded the Silver Aquila by Grand Admiral Ornoff himself.Pilot Officer Vander Marquall - Pilot Officer Vander Marquall was a pilot within the Phantine XX who perished in the Enothian War. Marquall was the product of the accelerated training programs of the great Aviatior Scholam of Hessenville on Phantine, and was the sole member of the Phantine XX who had not seen any fighting during the Phantine Liberation campaign. Marquall's lack of training was evident during his first sorties on Enothis where he failed to meet the expectations of his superiors and blamed his lack of results on imaginary jinxes and recurring bad luck. His short career within the Phantine XX was marked by several diplomatic incidents with other pilots, but Vander Marquall always managed to survive until the great Battle of the Zophonian Sea. Yet, despite his shortcomings as a pilot and comrade, Vander Marquall is credited with the killing of the Archenemy's most distinguished ace-pilot, Khrel Kas Obarkon.