New Merica

New Merica is a hive world located in the eastern edge of the Ultima Segmentum between Calth and Espandor. This thriving world is also an Adeptus Astartes homeworld of the Gulf Hawks Space Marine Chapter.

Discovery
During Dark Age of Technology, an expedition fleet from Terra, code-named ' ASA-14 ', discovered a verdant grassland planet filled with life - bountiful in both flora and fauna. This exploratory fleet decided to immediately colonise the planet, which they soon designated as ' New Merica '. This world was located between expanse between Calth and Espandor. New Merica itself along with its neighboring planets, Texxus become one of many unrecorded planets amongst the Realm of Ultramar, and following its rediscovery and Compliance during the Great Crusade, many of its inhabitants were later recruited to become Angels of Death of the Ultramarines Legion.

It was told that a long lost document of old Terra's constitution of ancient nation of Merica were uncovered by local Terran nobles. She later sell the old 'artifact' to a Rogue Trader known as Clyton Hesh. The artifact later was found by a New Mericans expedition forces upon New Merica's moon of Patton buried inside an installation. The artifact of old Terra's Constitution then displayed upon the Halls of Imperial Congress on the Hive City of Tiber. Through several revisions conducted by planetary governor and the planetary council, the revised Constitution Document Artifact (CDA) were later embraced as part of the planetary rules and organisations that reflects the New Merican's way of life even applies to the Gulf Hawks.

Planetary Information
The population of the planet is nearly 21 billion. Originally a verdant world filled with grassland, forest, and rocky mountains, New Merica is now a Hive World where billions of inhabitants reside and are recruited for working at its massive Imperial forge-works, or are conscripted into the Planetary Defence Forces known as the UMAF (Uni-Merican Armed Forces). Being one of the most modern, industrious and thriving hive cities within the Realm of Ultramar, the hive city of New Seattle has become a city of scholars, where the last pocket of science, technology and space engineering still thrives in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium. The constant Imperial Navy patrols and the installation of formidable planetary and orbital defences are able to create an impregnable defence against the Imperium's foes, whether heretical cults or internal rebellion.