The Ame No Minashira (Pillar of Heaven) is an Orb Union space station introduced in the manga Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray and is owned by the Sahaku family.
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Originally constructed as the first part of an orbital elevator proposed by Uzumi Nara Athha in C.E. 58. The station itself was meant to be used to manufacture parts of the orbital elevator using resources transported from the moon and asteroids. However, war broke out between the Earth Alliance and PLANT, forcing the Orb Union to build up its military and convert Ame No Minashira into a weapons factory. The station was placed under the jurisdiction of the Sahaku family due to their close ties with the military.
Because it was located in a weightless environment, the space station was ideal for producing advanced materials requiring the low weight conditions needed to achieve stable quality, such as materials for Phase Shift armor and foaming metal used in the construction of the Astray prototypes and the mass production version. The station also served as a production facility for the mass-production mobile suit MBF-M1A M1A Astray, and its workers included Orb citizens who fled the country following the Alliance's invasion of Orb. It was also seen that the station held the MBF-P01-Re2AMATU Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina, a GAT-X133 Sword Calamity, a GAT-333 Raider Full Spec, a GAT-X255 Forbidden Blue, two GAT-01D Long Dagger, and numerous MBF-M1 Astrays.
During the later part of the war, Junk Guild member Lowe Guele approached Rondo Mina Sahaku at Ame No Mihashira and requested use of the facility to construct the parts needed to complete and bring out the full power of the YMF-X000A Dreadnought Gundam. Mina granted the request, and with the facilities' resources, Lowe constructed a DRAGOON backpack for the Dreadnought and christened the mobile suit as 'X Astray'.
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| Cosmic Era locations | |
| Space | |
|---|---|
| Apollon A | Armory One | Ame-no-Mihashira | Artemis | Boaz | Debris Belt | Development Facility Satellite | Dock | Erudou | Factory | Heliopolis | Jachin Due | L4 Colony Cluster | Liteiria | Messiah | PLANT Colonies | Troya Station | Yggdrasil | ZAFT Military Station | Zodiac | |
| Debris Belt Locations Graveyard | Junius Seven | |
| Heliopolis Locations Morgenröte Facility | |
| L4 Colony Cluster Locations Mendel | |
| Mendel Locations G.A.R.M. R&D Facility | |
| PLANT Colonies Locations Aprilius One | Junius Five | Junius Seven | |
| Aprilius One Locations Clyne Manor | Kira and Lacus' Mansion | PLANT Supreme Council Building | ZAFT Military Factory | |
| Junius Five Locations White Symphony | |
| Moon | |
| Arzachel Lunar Base | Copernicus City | Daedalus Lunar Base | Endymion Base | Lorenz Base | Ptolemaeus Lunar Base | |
| Earth | |
| Berlin | Carpentaria Base | Diocuia | Fortaleza | Gibraltar Base | Giga-Float | Gulnahan Ravine | Heaven's Base | Indian Ocean | Ishtaria | Kaohsiung Base | Kirgitz Plant | Lagash Base | Lodonia Lab | Mahamul Base | Moscow | North Africa | North America | Orb Archipelago | Orbit Traffic Observation Center | Red Sea | Reverend Malchio's Orphanage | Scandinavia | South Africa | South America | Victoria Base | Yap Island | |
| Diocuia Locations Diocuia Base | |
| Gulnahan Ravine Locations Lohengrin Gate | |
| Indian Ocean Locations Indian Ocean Base | Indian Ocean Island | |
| North Africa Locations Al-Jairi's Factory | Al-Jairi's Home | Banadiya | Desert Dawn Base | Moula | Suez Base | Talbadiya Factory District | Tassil | |
| Banadiya Locations ZAFT Banadiya Base | |
| North America Flaga Estate | JOSH-A | Panama Base | White House | |
| Orb Archipelago Locations Akatsuki Island | Kaguya Island | Onogoro Island | Sadeyori Island | Yalafath Island | |
| Akatsuki Island Locations Akatsuki Manor | |
| Onogoro Island Locations Morgenröte Headquarters | Morgenröte Underground Dock | Orb National Defense Headquarters | |
| Yalafath Island Locations Allster Family Home | Athha Estate | Ceremonial Temple | Orb Administrative Building | Seiran Family Estate | |
| Others | |
| Bautroya | Jupiter | Mars | |
| Bautroya Locations DSSD Supply Station |
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