Editing Ashio

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= Ashio =
''Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to [[Terra]] at (0, 0)''
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The '''Ashio''' system is the location of at least one inhabited world, '''Ashio III''', and as at [[3145]] is located in the [[Ashio Prefecture]] of the [[Dieron Military District]] within the [[Draconis Combine]].<ref name=ER:3145p39/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>

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== System Description ==
The Ashio system is located near the [[Albalii]] and [[Piedmont]] systems<ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/> and consists of a class G6IV primary orbited by eight worlds, the third of which is habitable.<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/><ref name="DARWp28"/>
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== System History ==

== Political Affiliation ==

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= Ashio III =
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| caption             = Orbital view of Ashio
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| distance            = 7.01 days<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/><ref name="DARWp28"/>
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| water               = 80%<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/><ref name="DARWp28"/>
| life                = Mammal, 25%<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/><ref name="DARWp28"/>
| date                = 
| ruler               = [[Duke]] [[Elnar Kloven]] (3025)<ref name=HK189>''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 189, "Planet Guide"</ref><br>Duke [[Nikolai Jansma]] (3067)<ref name=FCCW203/><br>[[Seth Jasma]], Governor (3130)<ref name="DARWp28"/><ref name=DARoSp7>''Dark Age: Republic of the Sphere'', p. 7 "Prefecture II"</ref><br>[[Bianca Fetladral]], Legate (3130)<ref name="DARWp28"/><ref name=DARoSp7/>
| capital             = Iscariot<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/>
| population          = 1,274,000,000 (3025)<ref name=HK189/><br>1,328,000,000 (3067)<ref name=FCCW203/><br>2,305,000,000 (3079)<ref name=OBDC35/><br>1,032,000,000 (3130)<ref name="DARWp28"/>
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Ashio III - more commonly known simply as Ashio - is the third planet in the Ashio system and has served as the Prefecture capital of the Ashio Prefecture within the Draconis Combine for much of its history. Ashio has three moons named Hyde, Kauner and Rossi.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

== Planetary History ==
=== Early History ===
The colonists who settled on Ashio were able to raise the planetary economy above subsistence level by ranching the native mammoth species, which resembled an elephant-sized cow and which could be farmed for meat that was almost indistinguishable from [[Terra]]n beef. Over time, Ashio became one of the most prolific beef-exporting planets in the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name="DARWp28"/>

===Star League===
During the final years of the [[Star League]], Ashio was host to a [[Star League Defense Force]] garrison.<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 256, "SLDF - Draconis Combine Military Command Map"</ref>

===Succession Wars===
Ashio served as the Prefecture capital of the Ashio Prefecture for much of its history while the planet was still affiliated with the Draconis Combine. The Combine constructed Ashio University on the planet prior to the [[First Succession War]], an institute that served as a political and military college and which counted a number of members of the [[House Kurita|Kurita]] family during its history. The first Ashio University was destroyed during the First Succession War, but was rebuilt by the Combine government as a part of the [[People's Reconstruction Effort]] during that brief rebuilding program. Having been rebuilt, the University was subsequently destroyed again; the second incarnation of the university was destroyed by a fire, which was believed to have been started deliberately by anti-Kuritan insurgents.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

Ashio University was rebuilt for a third time, with the third incarnation lasting into the [[Dark Age]], dedicated to studies relating to culture and the earth sciences and based out of the planetary capital city, Iscariot.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

===Civil War & Jihad===
In the thirty-first century Ashio served as the capital of the Ashio Prefecture; the planet benefitted from a significant level of infrastructure geared towards acting as a logistical and command hub for the prefecture, as well as modest levels of agricultural, manufacturing and mining. Ashio was occupied by foreign troops twice between [[3060]] and [[3080]]; during the [[FedCom Civil War]] troops from the [[Draconis March]] of the [[Federated Commonwealth]] occupied the planet, and later during the [[Jihad]] the [[Word of Blake]] took control of the planet. These two occupations saw the industrial and urban sectors of Ashio take damage, but that damage was relatively mild compared to many other planets and the bulk of the rebuilding needed had been completed by [[3079]]. The largely agrarian portions of the planet managed to escape both occupations almost unscathed.<ref name=OBDC35/>

===Dark Age===
During the Dark Age the Geological Institute of Ashio announced that movement had been detected along one of the three major fault lines that converged under Vesuvius Prime, the continent that was home to a massive volcano named Mount Vesuvius Major. The volcano and fault lines had been inactive throughout the preceding centuries and mining industries had developed on Vesuvius Prime to extract the various minerals and ores present as a consequence of earlier geological activity, but the announcement by the GIA led to the mining industries gradually moving away from Vesuvius Prime.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

== Political Affiliation == 
* [[2319]] - [[Alliance of Galedon]]<ref name="HB:HKp18"/> and [[Draconis Combine]] <ref name=HB:HKp18>''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 18, "Draconis Combine - [2319] Map"</ref>
* [[2571]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HKp31">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 31, "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref> 
* [[2764]] - Draconis Combine <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref>  
* [[2786]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="FSW(SB)p25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref> 
* [[2864]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HDp60">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 60, "Federated Suns After Second Succession War [2864]"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Draconis Combine <ref>''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', "Draconis Combine Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp64">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 64, "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp82">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HKp66">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 66, "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp71">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 71, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succesion War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp68">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 68, "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp76">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of 3039 Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp71">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 71, "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map</ref>
* [[3058]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HDp78>">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Draconis Combine <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HKp74">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 74, "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp82">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [October 3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Draconis Combine <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65, Inner Sphere - [3075] Map</ref>
* [[3079]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="FR:DCMSp21">''Field Report: DCMS'', p. 21, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref><ref name="FR:AFFSp21">''Field Report: AFFS'', p. 21, "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - [[Republic of the Sphere]] <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Republic of the Sphere <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 127, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
* [[3130]] - Republic of the Sphere <ref name="DARWp28"/><ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
* [[3135]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="ER:3145p39">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>

== Planetary Rulers ==
=== 3025 ===
* Duke [[Elnar Kloven]]<ref name=HK189/>

=== 3067 ===
* Duke [[Nikolai Jansma]]<ref name=FCCW203/>

=== 3130 ===
* Governor Seth Jasma<ref name="DARWp28"/>
* Planetary Legate Bianca Fetladral<ref name="DARWp28"/>

== Military Deployment ==
===2764===
* [[192nd Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 256, "SLDF - Draconis Combine Military Command Map"</ref>

===2786===
* [[Ninth Dieron Regulars]]<ref name="FSWp137">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 137, "First Succession War Deployment Table - DCMS"</ref>

===3025===
* [[12th Dieron Regulars|Twelfth Dieron Regulars]]<ref name=HK133/>
* [[24th Dieron Regulars|Twenty-fourth Dieron Regulars]]<ref name=HK133>''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 133, "Unit Deployment Table"</ref>
* [[27th Dieron Regulars|Twenty-seventh Dieron Regulars]]<ref name=HK133/><ref name=HKDCp187>''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 187 "Ashio"</ref>

===3038===
* [[2nd Genyosha|Second Genyosha]]<ref name=H:Wo3039>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 135-141 "Deployment Table"</ref>
* Twelfth Dieron Regulars<ref name=H:Wo3039/>
* Twenty-fourth Dieron Regulars<ref name=H:Wo3039/>

===3040===
* Twelfth Dieron Regulars<ref name=H:Wo3039/>
* Twenty-fourth Dieron Regulars<ref name=H:Wo3039/>

===3050===
* Twelfth Dieron Regulars<ref name=20YU40/>
* [[27th Dieron Regulars|Twenty-seventh Dieron Regulars]]<ref name=20YU40>''20 Year Update'', p. 40, "Draconis Combine Deployment Table"</ref>

===3067===
* [[16th Sun Zhang Cadre|Sixteenth Sun Zhang Cadre]]<ref name=FMU117>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 117, "Draconis Combine Deployment Table"</ref>

===3085===
* [[II Triarii Protectors]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 186, "RAF Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
:- At this point in time, the II Triarii was at 30% of full strength, with 66% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

===3145===
* [[First Arkab Legion|1st Arkab Legion]]<ref name=FM3145p64>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 64, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Table - 3145"</ref>

== Geography == 
The continents on Ashio are named Rhodesia, Vesuvius Prime and Zaire.<ref name=FCCW203/><ref name=OBDC35/> Ashio is a young planet, and as such has high mountains and deep oceans; all three continents are mountainous, as are the handful of island chains dotted around the sufrace of the planet. Ashio has relatively modest deposits of minerals and the amount of arable land available is limited, but it is home to extremely large mammoths native to the planet. The mammoths resemble cattle, but are elephant-sized.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

The single most distinct geological feature on Ashio is Mount Vesuvius Major, a ten-kilometer-tall volcano located on the continent of Vesuvius Prime, which may be the largest volcano in the [[Inner Sphere]]. Mount Vesuvius Major dominates the landscape of the southern continent of Vesuvius Prime and sits at crux of three major fault lines, which have been inactive for the majority of Ashio's settled history.<ref name="DARWp28"/> By [[3025]] scientists estimated that if Vesuvius Major erupted, it could block all sunlight from the planet, sending it into an ice age.<ref name=HKDCp187/>

The continent of Zaire is located in the northern hemisphere of Ashio, while Rhodesia is located to the northeast of Zaire.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

== Planetary Locations ==
* Ashio University: an institute of higher learning that had been destroyed no less than three times by the [[thirty-second century]], with the third incarnation of the University being located in the city of Iscariot.<ref name="DARWp28"/>
* The Geological Institute of Ashio: an institute of higher learning located in Shigata and affiliated with Ashio University.<ref name="DARWp28"/>
* Iscariot: the planetary capital city, located on Rhodesia.<ref name="DARWp28"/>
* Shigata: a large city located in southern Zaire.<ref name="DARWp28"/>

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== Notes ==
The Duke of Ashio in 3067, Nikola Jansma, is a reference to the founder of the BattleTech wiki.

== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 48 systems (45 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Albalii]]
| class="lessthan30" | 12.0
| class="lessthan30" | [[Piedmont]]
| class="lessthan30" | 12.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Shinonoi]]
| class="lessthan30" | 14.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Yance I|Agador]]
| class="lessthan30" | 15.6
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Chichibu]]
| class="lessthan30" | 18.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Dabih]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Halstead Station]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Miyazaki]]
| class="lessthan30" | 24.0
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Shimonita]]
| class="lessthan30" | 25.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Elix]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Algedi]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.2
| class="over30" | [[Biham]]
| class="over30" | 30.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Ancha]]
| class="over30" | 30.7
| class="over30" | [[Sadachbia]]
| class="over30" | 31.7
| class="over30" | [[Kurhah]]
| class="over30" | 32.3
| class="over30" | [[Waddesdon]]
| class="over30" | 35.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Shitara]]
| class="over30" | 37.9
| class="over30" | [[Al Na'ir]]
| class="over30" | 38.0
| class="over30" | [[Telos IV|Telos]]
| class="over30" | 39.7
| class="over30" | [[Nashira]]
| class="over30" | 42.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Lapida II|Lapida]]
| class="over30" | 42.3
| class="over30" | [[Skat]]
| class="over30" | 44.5
| class="over30" | [[Kervil]]
| class="over30" | 44.6
| class="over30" | [[Grootfontein]]
| class="over30" | 45.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Celebes]]
| class="over30" | 45.4
| class="over30" | [[Okaya]]
| class="over30" | 45.5
| class="over30" | [[Murchison]]
| class="over30" | 46.9
| class="over30" | [[Kitalpha]]
| class="over30" | 49.3
|-
| class="over30" | [[Tannil]]
| class="over30" | 49.3
| class="over30" | [[Markab]]
| class="over30" | 50.2
| class="over30" | [[Kuzuu]]
| class="over30" | 50.6
| class="over30" | [[Minakuchi]]
| class="over30" | 50.7
|-
| class="over30" | [[Pokhara]]
| class="over30" | 51.2
| class="over30" | [[Inglesmond|New Britain]]
| class="over30" | 51.5
| class="over30" | [[Deneb Algedi]]
| class="over30" | 52.1
| class="over30" | [[Rukbat]]
| class="over30" | 52.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Cylene]]
| class="over30" | 52.8
| class="over30" | [[Ascella]]
| class="over30" | 53.2
| class="over30" | [[Galatia III|Galatia]]
| class="over30" | 55.2
| class="over30" | [[Alya]]
| class="over30" | 55.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Altais]]
| class="over30" | 56.4
| class="over30" | [[Towne]]
| class="over30" | 58.9
| class="over30" | [[Helen]]
| class="over30" | 59.0
| class="over30" | [[Sutama]]
| class="over30" | 59.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Chaville]]
| class="over30" | 59.6
| class="over60" | [[Pike IV|Pike]]
| class="over60" | 60.1
| class="over60" | [[Lambrecht]]
| class="over60" | 60.8
| class="over60" | [[Quentin]]
| class="over60" | 61.0
|-
|}

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Report: AFFS]]''
* ''[[Field Report: DCMS]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Kurita]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
* ''[[Objectives: Draconis Combine]]''
* ''[[Dark Age: Republic of the Sphere]]''

[[Category:Systems|Ashio]]
[[Category: Draconis Combine Planets]]
[[Category: Republic of the Sphere Planets]]