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{{Planet infobox | {{Planet infobox | ||
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|temperature=Dangerously hot{{Ref/Reuse|HSS2}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | |temperature=Dangerously hot{{Ref/Reuse|HSS2}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | ||
|demonym= | |demonym= | ||
|species=[[ | |species=*[[Netherop species|Unidentified race]] {{c|Extinct}}{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | ||
|population=*Several [[Sangheili]] and [[human]]s {{c|Formerly}}{{Ref/Reuse|Oblivion | *[[Precursor]]s {{C|non-native}} | ||
|population=*Several [[Sangheili]] and [[human]]s {{c|Formerly}}{{Ref/Reuse|Oblivion}} | |||
*[[Castoffs]] {{c|Formerly}} | *[[Castoffs]] {{c|Formerly}} | ||
*At least two [[Precursor]]s {{c|Currently}}{{Ref/Novel|Out|16}} | |||
|colonized=[[2450]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=51}} | |colonized=[[2450]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=51}} | ||
|government=*[[ | |government=*[[Netherop species|Unidentified civilization]] {{c|Formerly}}{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Netherop''', identified by the [[Covenant]] as ''' | '''Netherop''', identified by the [[Covenant]] as '''Neska'''{{Ref/Novel|SS}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=outchapt3|Out|Chapter=3}} and '''N'ba''',{{Ref/Reuse|Oblivion}}{{Ref/Reuse|outchapt3}} is a [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse]] planet located in the [[Ephyra system]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}} The planet is considered both in [[human]]ity's [[Polona sector]]{{Ref/Twitter|Id=TD1|TDenningauthor|1037934558237405184|Quote=Etalan and Biko are in the Polona Sector. Netherop probably is, too. The action is fairly compressed, timewise, so they couldn't have been traveling far. Harvest is less certain -- in my mind, it was more distant, so was probably in an adjoining sector 2/|D=09|M=03|Y=2022}} and the [[Sangheili]]'s [[Out Sectors]].{{Ref/Reuse|outchapt2}} Netherop was once home to a civilization of intelligent beings, but has been uninhabited for centuries.{{Ref/Twitter|Id=TD2|TDenningauthor|1038654237453049862|Troy Denning|Quote=Okay -- got 'em. Both were Innie bases, not colonies. And I forgot to specify -- Netherop was a non-human, non-Covenant world originally. The civilization is long gone, never advanced to space-faring.|D=09|M=03|Y=2022}} | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
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===Topography=== | ===Topography=== | ||
Netherop appears to be covered in a pall of dingy brown clouds, many of which rapidly expand in various swirls.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS2|SS|Chapter=2}} Netherop's atmosphere produces a thick [[Wikipedia:Corona (optical phenomenon)|corona]] and its [[Wikipedia:Mesosphere|mesosphere]] creates a pearl-colored haze.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS2}} A survey of the planet described it as uninhabited, marginally survivable, and of minimal strategic value with no exploitable resources.{{Ref/Reuse|O122}} Daylight on the planet, at least at the latitude visited by [[Blue Team]] in [[2526#June|2526]], lasts twenty-three hours and five minutes.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Page=147}} The planet's night also appears to last a long time, so long [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] considered it to be interminable.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=394}} | Netherop appears to be covered in a pall of dingy brown clouds, many of which rapidly expand in various swirls.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS2|SS|Chapter=2}} Netherop's atmosphere produces a thick [[Wikipedia:Corona (optical phenomenon)|corona]] and its [[Wikipedia:Mesosphere|mesosphere]] creates a pearl-colored haze.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS2}} A survey of the planet described it as uninhabited, marginally survivable, and of minimal strategic value with no exploitable resources.{{Ref/Reuse|O122}} Daylight on the planet, at least at the latitude visited by [[Blue Team]] in [[2526#June|2526]], lasts twenty-three hours and five minutes.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Page=147}} The planet's night also appears to last a long time, so long [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] considered it to be interminable.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=394}} | ||
*[[Mountains of Despair]] | |||
**[[Crystal Bush Plateau]] | |||
**[[Serpentine Canyon]] | |||
***[[Forgotten Highway]] | |||
****[[Ambush Site Alpha]] | |||
****[[Big Surprise Culvert]] | |||
*****[[Blue Force Bunker]] | |||
**[[Last Hope Escarpment]] | |||
*[[Cave Cities]] {{Mo}} | |||
*[[Sanctum of the Ancients]] | |||
**[[Inner Sanctum]] | |||
===Ecology=== | ===Ecology=== | ||
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.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=14}} | 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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=OC6|HOut|Chapter=6}} 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.{{Ref/Novel|HOut|Chapter=21}} | ||
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.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=14}} | |||
;Flora | ;Flora | ||
*[[Sail plant]]s | *[[Sail plant]]s | ||
*[[Vase bush]]es | *[[Vase bush]]es | ||
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 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]], [[banaq]]s, [[pek]]s, [[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.{{Ref/Novel|HOut|Chapter=25}} | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Ancient history=== | ===Ancient history=== | ||
Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to an intelligent Tier 6 civilization.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | Many centuries ago, Netherop was home to [[Netherop species|an intelligent Tier 6 civilization]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | ||
During the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]], Netherop became home to [[Precursor]] fugitives who used a powerful weapon that was later dubbed the [[Divine Hand]] to destroy an attacking [[Guardian Custode]]. However, the use of this weapon wiped out the original inhabitants of the planet and effectively destroyed the planet itself, transforming Netherop from a lush world into a barely inhabitable wasteland.{{Ref/ | During the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]], Netherop became home to [[Precursor]] fugitives who used a powerful weapon that was later dubbed the [[Divine Hand]] to destroy an attacking [[Guardian Custode]]. However, the use of this weapon wiped out the original inhabitants of the planet and effectively destroyed the planet itself, transforming Netherop from a lush world into a barely inhabitable wasteland.{{Ref/Reuse|OC6}} This was later misattributed to being due to the great increases in temperature that resulted from [[Wikipedia:Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gases]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS1}}{{Ref/Reuse|TD2}} | ||
===Rise of humanity=== | ===Rise of humanity=== | ||
A survey was done by the UNSC of Netherop, but was cut short by the planet's hostile environment. The | 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, and 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. [[Frederic-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/Novel|Id=O122|Oblv|Page=122}} | ||
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/Novel|Id=Oblivion|Oblv}} | 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/Novel|Id=Oblivion|Oblv}} | ||
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Information about Netherop in the [[Covenant World Registry]] included information on the two battles but did not include any information on the mine shell placed around the planet or 'Kvarosee's role in it. Instead, the registry simply said that the [[Prophet of Truth]] had deemed the losses to be a sign of divine displeasure and forbade all Covenant vessels from entering the system.{{Ref/Novel|Id=outchapt4|Out|Chapter=4}}{{Ref/Novel|Out|13}} | Information about Netherop in the [[Covenant World Registry]] included information on the two battles but did not include any information on the mine shell placed around the planet or 'Kvarosee's role in it. Instead, the registry simply said that the [[Prophet of Truth]] had deemed the losses to be a sign of divine displeasure and forbade all Covenant vessels from entering the system.{{Ref/Novel|Id=outchapt4|Out|Chapter=4}}{{Ref/Novel|Out|13}} | ||
===War on the surface=== | |||
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===Created uprising=== | ===Created uprising=== | ||
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*''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'' | *''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | *''[[Halo: Outcasts]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||