Ashimar

Background
Ashimar is a civilized world in the Segmentum Pacificus. Home to around 8 billion people, its capital city is Artamos. The planet has two large continents, separated by an ocean with numerous islands and smaller continents.

The planet was discovered in 937.M30 by an expeditionary fleet led by the Word Bearers Space Marine Legion. Under the direction of the Primarch Lorgar, worship of the Emperor of Mankind was spread to Ashimar’s population and massive cathedrals were erected in his honor. The isolated world retained little contact with the Imperium after the Word Bearers’ departure, and lost all contact during the Horus Heresy. Over the following decades and centuries, knowledge of the Imperium faded from Ashimar's memory, save for their worship of the Emperor, who they remembered as “the Golden One.” By 394.M41, Ashimar had acquired a small interstellar empire and was at war with a neighboring xenos race. The war was going poorly for Ashimar until an Imperial fleet, part of the Macharian Crusade, arrived in the area and aided Ashimar in fighting off the invaders. Afterwards, Ashimar quickly rejoined the Imperium, recognizing the Imperial Aquila as a symbol of their religion and realizing that the “Golden One” was in fact the God-Emperor of Mankind. Among the Imperial forces was a detachment of Cadian Shock Troopers, who trained and equipped an Ashimar regiment for the Imperial Guard. Ashimar’s guardsmen would come to be known as the Ashimar Nova Guard.