Ashden

Ashden is a municipality and one of the northernmost townships in Northlea Governorate, Arcerion. The town has a population of 11,224 as of the 2020 census and is expected to grow to 15,000 by 2030. Ashden is in a remote part of Arcerion, located in the Northumbraeland Mountains on the border with the New Archduchy. It sits in the Northern part of the Arcer Heartland, a vast expanse of plains and rivers that are flanked to the North by the Northumbraeland Mountains and from the South by the Aileach Mountains.

Originally it was founded as part of the Ashden Garrison, a place from where members of the Arcerion Mounted Rifles could conduct armed patrols into Indigenous territory to protect the Northern parts of Northlea Governorate from raids.

Ashden Municipal Airport
Ashden Municipal Airport (IATA: AMA) is an international airport located on the outskirts of Ashden Municipality. The airport primarily serves Ashden Township as well as the surrounding area and is the largest commercial air freight airport in Northern Arcerion. It is considered one of the most active airports in the Arcer Heartland outside of Presdale International Airport.

The airport opened in 1957 as the Northumbraeland Airfield to service Arcerion Air Force helicopters assisting with tactical airlift, and would later be greatly expanded during the Fourth Bush War as a centre for casualty evacuation aircraft and the launching of fighter bomber sorties to service the Operation Teflon area of operations.

In the 1980s with the vast increase in private wealth investment and the expansion of ski and winter sport activities Ashden opened an additional runway and private air terminal, which no regularly services the most private jet aircraft compared to any other regional non-capital airport in South Crona.

Ashden includes a pair of 3,050 m x 61 m asphalt runways, enough to handle large cargo operations from transcontinental air freight coming from Levantia or Sarpedon.

Ashden Garrison
Ashden Garrison is a minor posting for the Arcer Army and Arcer Air Force. The Arcer Air Force maintains a helicopter squadron at the Ashden Municipal Airport as part of their tactical helicopter requirements to support the army. The helicopter squadron administratively belongs to Presdale Garrison, however is detached in support of the Army. The Arcer Army maintains two squadrons of light cavalry, provided by the Arcerion Mounted Rifles (AMR), harkening but to their historical linkage to Ashden. These squadrons perform reconnaissance and border stability operations on the shared Arco-Tite border area. The Western Arcerion Rifle Regiment (WARR) also rotates infantry companies into the mountains for exposure to mountain and long-range patrol operations, currently with 'G' Company, 2nd Battalion garrisoned in Ashden.

The garrison also serves as the satellite facility for the Arcerion Mountain Warfare School, with a small cadre of staff from the Royal Easthampton Borders (REB) remaining in Ashden to practice skiing (cross-country, downhill) and alpine infantry operations, owing to the towns significant and excellent ski hills.