Nova Terra Empire

Nova Terra, capital of the Nova Terra Empire

XX Legion (Machaen Heralds)

Nova Terra Guard

Nova Terra Navy

Nova Terra Mechanicum

Aligned Knight Houses

Various Planetary Defense Forces & Local Militia Groups

Founded in early M32 by those Imperial worlds & forces consolidated by the I Legion across the entirety of Segmentum Pacificus following the events of The Fracturing, the Nova Terra Empire is an isolationist & Independent faction that chose to break away from the mainline Imperium of Man after the rapid spread of the newly introduced Imperial Creed, a direct violation of the Emperor's Imperial Truth adhered to closely by the people of the Nova Terra Empire. Despite it's name, the Nova Terra Empire for all intents and purposes can be considered an "Imperium Secundus", remaining the sole remaining example of what the Imperium of Man had looked when the Emperor still walked amongst men during the days of the Wars of Reunification and Great Crusade.

## Capital World

Nova Terra is the capital planet of the Nova Terra Empire, located deep within the heart of Segementum Pacificus. Rivaling Ancient Terra itself in terms of appearance, Nova Terra is a terrestrial world with several large continents covering approximately 60% of it's surface, with large oceans making up the rest of the planet. It differs from Terra itself in that Humanity has managed to achieve a balance on Nova Terra between nature and man, retaining the beauty of the world even after the process of colonization and industrialization.

On the planet's primary continent of Chaqor, near the equator, lies the capital city of Imperial Center, an apt name as within the city lies the political and administrative heart of the Nova Terra Empire, including the Ur-Council Chambers & Nova Terra HIGHCOM. Covering an area spanning thousands of square kilometers along Chaqor's western coastline, Imperial Center consists of a great many high rises along the coast, not too dissimilar to a horizontal Hive City, with the Razes Mountain Range to their back, the blend of nature and man creating a beautiful sight befitting the capital of the empire.

Despite the illusion of peace and security on Nova Terra, it is still just that, an illusion. The threat of invasion and war is ever present when surrounded on all sides by adversaries, and is something that the military minds of the empire have worked to address since it's founding when Nova Terra was chosen as the capital by Primarch Wrynn and the Ur-Council. Defending the planet is an impressively vast array of planetary and orbital defensive installations ranging from surface-based weapon batteries to orbital plates similar to those guarding the most important of the Imperium's worlds, overlapping void shield arrays to automated void weapon platforms. Manning these installations and the various military facilities on both the surface and in orbit are millions of Nova Terra Guard and Navy personnel backed up by elite detachments of Legiones Astartes, Mechanicum, and Knight Households. Dozens of regiments of the Nova Terra Guard man military bases and guard important planetary facilities and orbital stations, while the Navy has dedicated an entire Battlefleet to the defense of Nova Terra and it's surrounding systems. The planet also plays host to an entire legio of the Mechanicum's Legio Titanicus, the Legio Indomitus, a gift from the Fabricator-General of the Nova Terra Mechanicum to Primarch Wrynn and the Ur-Council for their support in overthrowing his rivals and rising to power. If an invading force were to somehow make it's way to Nova Terra itself, it would find itself confronted by one of the most heavily defended worlds in the galaxy.

## Military Forces

While the Nova Terra Empire shares the same overall layout of it's armed forces as the Imperium of Man, it maintains a more centralized and unified structure due to the smaller manpower and resource requirements to hold onto a singular segmentum as opposed to an entire galaxy, not encountering the same logistical problems that once plagued the early Imperial Army. Divided into four distinct branches, all ultimately reporting to Nova Terra High Command and the Ur-Council, the Nova Terra armed forces are composed of the following:

### Main Forces

* **Nova Terra Guard -** Serving as the primary ground forces of the Nova Terra Empire, the Nova Terra Guard was originally formed by unifying the disparate Imperial Army units that had defected to Primarch Wrynn's cause under a centralized leadership and enforcing a standard of uniformity and standardization previously not seen in the Imperial Army due to the challenges of attempting such a feat on a galaxy-wide scale. Composed of untold millions of serving men and women from across the empire, the Nova Terra Guard is organized into thousands of regiments tithed from the many thousands of human-populated worlds across the Segmentum Pacificus. Armed with the finest mass-producible armor, weaponry, war machines, and equipment possible from the many Forge Worlds loyal to the Nova Terra Empire, these troops are well-trained and constantly battle-tested in the ongoing Border Wars between the empire and it's neighboring states, most notably the Forces of Chaos. While their uniformity and standardization provide many advantages, it also proves disadvantageous at times as the Nova Terra Guard lacks the diverse fighting styles unique to the many different regiments of the Imperial Army from which they came. With the sheer size of the Nova Terra Empire it is often the men and women of the Nova Terra Guard that stand as the first line of defense across the thousands of worlds of the empire.
* **Nova Terra Navy -**
* **Nova Terra Mechanicum -**
	+ **Skitarii Legions -**
	+ **Legio Titanicus -**
	+ **Legio Cybernetica -**
	+ **Centurio Ordinatus -**
	+ **Ordo Reductor -**
* **Nova Terra Legions -**
	+ **I Legion (Void Rangers) -**
	+ **XVIII Legion (Imperius Praetorians)**
	+ **XX Legion (Machaen Heralds) -**

### Auxiliary Forces

* **Knight Households -**
* **Rogue Traders -**
* **Planetary Defense Forces & Local Militias -**