Editing Necron Red II (section)

==Life==

The current understanding of planetary habitability—the ability of a world to develop and sustain life — favors planets that have liquid water on their surface. This requires that the orbit of a planet lie within a habitable zone. Necron Red II orbits half an astronomical unit beyond this zone and this, along with the planet's thin atmosphere, causes water to either freeze on its surface or sublimate into the atmosphere. The past flow of liquid water, however, demonstrates the planet's potential for habitability. Recent evidence has suggested that any water on the surface would have been too salty and acidic to support native life. However, we see the tenaciousness of biological life everywhere we look on Necron Red II. Through either biological evolution or through adapting alternate biological processes, the carbon based lifeforms on Necron Red II have thrived despite the harsh conditions that prevail here.

The lack of a magnetosphere and extremely thin atmosphere of Necron Red II are an even greater challenge: the planet has little heat transfer across its surface, poor insulation against radioactive bombardment and the ionizing effects of Necron Red's harsh solar wind. This along with insufficient atmospheric pressure to retain water in a liquid form (water instead sublimates to a gaseous state) places the odds of native life flourishing here astronomical.  Necron Red II is also nearly, or perhaps totally, geologically dead; the end of volcanic activity has stopped the recycling of chemicals and minerals between the surface and interior of the planet.

Evidence however, suggests that the planet was once significantly more habitable than it is today. The species native to Necron Red II have been categorized as extremophile forms of life. Tests conducted have shown that the soil has a very alkaline pH and it contains magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride. The soil nutrients are therefore able to support life, but early life would still required extensive survival mechanisms to protect themselves from the intense ultraviolet light produced by their sun.

===History of Sentient Life on Necron Red II===

Necron red II did not develop it's own indiginious sentient life, instead sentient life came to Necron Red II.

In the early to mid- 2200s a starship carrying members of the [[Earth]] hopi tribes were forced out of warp and crashed on necron Red II. The planet although extremely danegrous to [[Human]] life was conquered by the haopi, through a surprising combination of generational mutations and the ability to modify their environment.

They found that they were able to construct adequately shielded shelters to allow their continued survival, and slowly over a period of time, their bodies began to adapt to the harsh environments of the planet. Some members of the inhabitants developed limited telepathic or empathic abilities, perhaps caused by a mutation triggered by the intense radiations.

Additionally, the considerably heavier gravity, forced the bodies of the natives to adapt. These adaptations include a stronger circulatory system as well as greater muscular and osteopathic density. In addition, other biological factors contributed to better toxin screening as well as allowingfor the adapation of biological symbiots that could repalce the function of a particular organ within the body of the average Necron Red inhabitant.