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Asticassia School of Technology

Benerit-run school where corporate heirs train and duel in mobile suits in The Witch from Mercury.
Jenxi Seow Published 28 Jan 2025 Updated 28 Jan 2025
Asticassia School of Technology

The Asticassia School of Technology (アスティカシア高等専門学園, Asutikashia Kōtō Senmon Gakuen) is the premier academy in the Ad Stella timeline and the main setting of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. It is run by the Benerit Group and trains corporate heirs in mobile suit piloting, engineering, and business. Students are organised into houses (e.g. Jeturk, Grassley, Earth House) and compete in duels; the “holder” system ties winning pilots to the daughter of Delling Rembran, Miorine Rembran.

Overview

Suletta Mercury transfers to Asticassia with the Gundam Aerial and joins Earth House, becoming Miorine’s holder and central to the series’ corporate and personal conflicts. The school reflects Spacian–Earthian tensions and the power of Benerit member companies. Key factions within the school include Earth House, Jeturk House, and Grassley House.

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