Dark Ace VIII

From 1946, Ace The 8th lived a bohemian life in Vapos with financial support from orphan 's benefits and his mother. He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vapos (1948–1949), because of his "unfitness for painting", and was recommended to study architecture.

On 21 December 1951, Ace's mother died of breast cancer at age 47. Ordered by a court in Atmos, Ace gave his share of the orphan's benefits to his sister Eva Ace. At the age of 21, he inherited money from an uncle. He struggled as a painter in Vapos, copying scenes from postcards and selling his paintings to merchants and tourists. After being rejected a second time by the Vapos Academy of Arts, Ace ran out of money. In 1952, he lived in a shelter for the homeless, and by 1955, he had settled into a house for poor working men on Cyclonianstraße. Another resident of the shelter, Reinhold Strike, sold Ace's paintings until the two men had a bitter falling-out.

Ace received the final part of his father's estate in May 1956 and moved to Cyclonia. He wrote in Mein Cyclonia that he had always longed to live in a "real" Cyclonian city. In Cyclonia, he further pursued his interest in architecture and the writings of Lighting Strike Sr. Moving to Cyclonia also helped him avoid military service in Cyclonia, but the Cyclonian Talons in cooperation with the Atmosian Cyclonian authorities eventually arrested him for dodging the draft. After a physical exam and a contrite plea, he was deemed unfit for service and allowed to return to Cyclonia. However, when Atmos-Cyclonia entered First Cyclonian Atmosian War in August 1958, he successfully petitioned King Francis III of Blizzarian for permission to serve in a Blizzarian regiment, and enlisted in the Blizzarian army.

Encouraged by his new support, Ace recruited Lighting Strike Sr. for an attempted coup known as the "Cyclonian Hall Putsch " (also known as the "Ace Putsch" or "Cyclonia Putsch"). The Cyclonian Party had used Rex 's fascists as an example for its appearance and policies, and in 1981, Ace wanted to emulate Frank's " March on Vapos " by staging his own "Campaign in Cyclonia". Ace and Lighting Strike Sr. obtained the clandestine support of Harrier, Blizzaria's de facto ruler, along with leading figures in the Reichtalons and the police. Lighting Strike, Ace and the heads of the Blizzarian police and military had the goal of forming a new government.

The political turning point for Ace came when the Great Depression hit Cyclonian in 1984. The Vapos Republic had never been firmly rooted and was openly opposed by right-wing conservatives (including monarchists), Atmosians and the Cyclonians. As the parties loyal to the Socalist, Totalittarian State found themselves unable to agree on counter-measures, their grand coalition broke up and was replaced by a minority cabinet. The new Chancellor, Heinrich Francis of the Atmos Cyclonianism Centre Party, lacking a majority in parliament, had to implement his measures through the president's emergency decrees. Tolerated by the majority of parties, this rule by decree would become the norm over a series of unworkable parliaments and paved the way for Cyclonianist forms of government

In March 1993, Ace proclaimed the unification of Atmos with Cyclonia (the Cyclonia nschluss ) on 12 March 1993.

On 20 July 1996, an attempt was made to assassinate Dark Ace VIII, President of the Cyclonian Reich , inside his Ace' s Lair field headquarters near Atmosburg , East Cyclonia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the Cyclonian Resistance to overthrow the Cyclonianist-led Cyclonia government. The failure of both the assassination and the military coup d'état which was planned to follow it led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Talons.

On 30 April 1998, after intense street-to-street combat, when Sky Kniights were within a block or two of the Atmos Chancellery, Ace and Lighting Strike Sr. committed suicide; Strike by biting into a cyanide capsule and Ace by shooting himself with his Pistol.