Netherop
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Netherop, identified by the Covenant as N'ba,[6][9] and called Neska by the Forerunners[10][9], is a greenhouse planet located in the Ephyra system.[1] The planet is considered both in humanity's Polona sector[11] and the Sangheili's Out Sectors.[12] Netherop was once home to a civilization of intelligent beings, but has been uninhabited for centuries.[5]
Overview[edit]
Nomenclature[edit]
The Covenant refer to Netherop under two names: Neska and N'ba.[9] Within the Sangheili language, the name N'ba translates to "world of death".[12][9] Neska however is a Sangheili phonetic transcription of a Forerunner word and means "world that makes ghosts", while the original Forerunner word itself means "planet of ghost makers".[9]
Topography[edit]
Netherop appears to be covered in a pall of dingy brown clouds, many of which rapidly expand in various swirls.[1][4] Netherop's atmosphere produces a thick corona and its mesosphere creates a pearl-colored haze.[4] A survey of the planet described it as uninhabited, marginally survivable, and of minimal strategic value with no exploitable resources.[13] Daylight on the planet, at least at the latitude visited by Blue Team in 2526, lasts twenty-three hours and five minutes.[14] The planet's night also appears to last a long time, so long Nizat 'Kvarosee considered it to be interminable.[15]
- Mountains of Despair
- Cave Cities (Mentioned only)
- Sanctum of the Ancients
Ecology[edit]
In the time of the Forerunners, Netherop was a lush world covered in jungles and home to a now-extinct species of sapient life forms.[16] The firing of the Divine Hand to fend off a Forerunner Guardian Custode resulted in the destruction of much of the planet's ecology, eventually turning the planet into little more than a barren wasteland.[17]
In the modern day, Netherop is mostly barren, meaning little plant or animal life grows there. However, a few hardy plant species have been observed. During the battle on Netherop in 2526, Nizat 'Kvarosee remained unsure whether the planet actually had local fauna, or even cool nights that could enable them to come out after dark.[18]
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Thanks to the nanotechnology inside the Sanctum of the Ancients, Nizat and the Defenders of the Sanctum were able to survive on Netherop for thirty-three years - with some of the less disciplined warriors even becoming slightly overweight - due to an abundance of fruits and other edible (for Sangheili) flora grown inside the sanctum's agricultural grange. The fruits grown there included abbu, banaqs, peks, rishe, and wuff. It is unclear whether these fruits were the result of the Precrusor nanotechnology growing fruit that the Sangheili occupants already knew from their own homeworlds, or whether it simply grew flora of its own creation. After the Divine Hand was stolen from the sanctum, the plant life in the sanctum almost immediately withered and the waters became poisoned.[20]
Keely Iyuska believed that the firing of the weapon to destroy the fleets surrounding the planet in 2559 had probably killed what little remained of Netherop's ecology.[17]
History[edit]
Ancient history[edit]
Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to <