The main hero of the story. He is the the leader of the 3rd Platoon in the Ishtarian SDF (Security Defense Forces). Aldor, Ash's father, was branded a traitor and killed when Ash was young. That was 18 years before the beginning of the game, but his anger and shame about his father's alleged betrayal of the Liberation Army has only grown over the years. He remembers only the humiliation he and his mother went through, and how much pain it caused her until she died. Ash is very noble at heart, and fiercely loyal to his friends.