Ashesh
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Ashesh | 
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| Segmentum: | Tempestus | ||
| Sector: | Eternum | ||
| Subsector: | Caligulas | ||
| System: | Lone Vigil | ||
| Population: | N/A | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperial | ||
| Class: | Dead World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Adeptus Non | ||
Overview
The dead world known as Ashesh was once an important Munitorum depot world that was lost during the First Poxwar. Ashesh possessed massive storehouses of munitions, weaponry, and ordnance for the Imperium's use against the nascent Bubonic Rift, but these supplies formed an appealing target for the Imperium's enemies. Shortly after the invasion began, a battlegroup of the pestilent Rotfleet laid waste to the meager system defense fleet and proceeded to claim the depot world's vast stores. The defensive forces were either wiped out or corrupted into service, and the Imperial loyalists were hunted down until only the most resilient remained. This group formed a resistance cell, and under the leadership of PDF Lieutenant Carmax Tyloe, they used their intricate knowledge of the depot service tunnels to put Tyloe's plan into action. Tyloe, with the forced assistance of depot technomats heavily apposed to the plan's desecration of the world's munitions, planned to link together several key storage depots that housed Deathstrike missiles, void bombs, macrocannon rounds, and other devastating weapons, and in unison detonate them. This plan was more effective than Tyloe's group planned, and their attempted escape aboard a spare Aquila transport was cut short when the bay labeled 'GX1-53B Macrocannon Cartridge Storage' detonated the cyclonic torpedoes that were inadvertently stored there by a long deceased Munitorum adept. The massive detonations scorched the world and purged Ashesh's surface, denying the Victor most of their spoils. Lieutenant Tyloe was turned into a martyr posthumously, though her planned escape and less than pious early life was discarded by the Chronicler who penned her tale. Ashesh has remained a dead world, with not even the ancient orbital listening posts manned by the Imperium, though occasionally pirates and other unsavory groups will use the barren grounds as a hideout.
