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==History==

Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to an intelligent civilization.<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> This civilization ended, however, due to the great increases in temperature that resulted from [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gases]].<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> At some point in probably the twenty-fifth century, a group of pirates with [[Insurrectionist]] leanings were marooned on the planet. Though they weren't expected to survive, the pirates and their descendants managed to make a living on Netherop, coming to call themselves the [[Castoffs]].<ref name="Oblivion">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>

Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to an intelligent civilization.<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> This civilization ended, however, due to the great increases in temperature that resulted from [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gases]].<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> A survey was done by the UNSC of Netherop, but was cut short by the planet's hostile environment. The ''Military Survey of Uninhabited Planets'' would list Netherop as uninhabited, marginally survivable, of minimal strategic value with no exploitable resources. Though the survey notes suggested that a properly equipped survey team should return, a classified ONI addendum listed the planet as possibly abandoned, suggesting that the survey had found anything from an old Colonial habitability probe to the presence of terrain features that could've been artificially constructed. [[Fred-104]] would later guess that the survey had been electronically added to the ''MSUP'' by some clerk who only read the part about minimal strategic value and no exploitable resources and as such, the assessor's recommendation went unread and thus not acted upon.<ref name="O122">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]''', ''page 122''</ref>

At some point in probably the twenty-fifth century, a group of pirates with [[Insurrectionist]] leanings were marooned on the planet. Though they weren't expected to survive, the pirates and their descendants managed to make a living on Netherop, coming to call themselves the [[Castoffs]].<ref name="Oblivion">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>

In the twenty-sixth century, it was known to the [[Unified Earth Government]] before the [[Covenant]] finally visited the planet in very early [[2526]].<ref name="HSS9">'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''', ''Chapter 9''</ref> On [[2526#March|March 5]] of that year, a single Covenant frigate, the ''[[Radiant Arrow]]'', was holding position in orbit around the planet until it was boarded by three teams of [[Spartan-II]]s, forcing the ship's self-destruction at the hands of its [[shipmaster]].<ref name="HSS3">'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''', ''Chapter 3''</ref>

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 ==History==
-Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to an intelligent civilization.<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> This civilization ended, however, due to the great increases in temperature that resulted from [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gases]].<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> At some point in probably the twenty-fifth century, a group of pirates with [[Insurrectionist]] leanings were marooned on the planet. Though they weren't expected to survive, the pirates and their descendants managed to make a living on Netherop, coming to call themselves the [[Castoffs]].<ref name="Oblivion">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>
+Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to an intelligent civilization.<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> This civilization ended, however, due to the great increases in temperature that resulted from [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gases]].<ref name="HSS1"/><ref name="TD2"/> A survey was done by the UNSC of Netherop, but was cut short by the planet's hostile environment. The ''Military Survey of Uninhabited Planets'' would list Netherop as uninhabited, marginally survivable, of minimal strategic value with no exploitable resources. Though the survey notes suggested that a properly equipped survey team should return, a classified ONI addendum listed the planet as possibly abandoned, suggesting that the survey had found anything from an old Colonial habitability probe to the presence of terrain features that could've been artificially constructed. [[Fred-104]] would later guess that the survey had been electronically added to the ''MSUP'' by some clerk who only read the part about minimal strategic value and no exploitable resources and as such, the assessor's recommendation went unread and thus not acted upon.<ref name="O122">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]''', ''page 122''</ref>
+At some point in probably the twenty-fifth century, a group of pirates with [[Insurrectionist]] leanings were marooned on the planet. Though they weren't expected to survive, the pirates and their descendants managed to make a living on Netherop, coming to call themselves the [[Castoffs]].<ref name="Oblivion">'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>
 In the twenty-sixth century, it was known to the [[Unified Earth Government]] before the [[Covenant]] finally visited the planet in very early [[2526]].<ref name="HSS9">'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''', ''Chapter 9''</ref> On [[2526#March|March 5]] of that year, a single Covenant frigate, the ''[[Radiant Arrow]]'', was holding position in orbit around the planet until it was boarded by three teams of [[Spartan-II]]s, forcing the ship's self-destruction at the hands of its [[shipmaster]].<ref name="HSS3">'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''', ''Chapter 3''</ref>