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]
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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