Unidentified Neona species

A sentient species lived on the planet Neona, which was located in the Freeworlds Territory of the Colonies' Tapani sector. The species developed an advanced culture and constructed an extensive network of structures on Neona's surface. Around 19,997 BBY,Lords of the Expanse places the warming period on Neona to around 20,000 years prior to the Battle of Hoth, which equates to around 19,997 BBY per the calendar system in The New Essential Chronology. Neona underwent a sustained warming period: polar ice caps melted, raising the level of Neona's oceans until all the planet's landmasses were covered except for a frozen continent at each pole. The flooding of their cities led to the extinction of the species.
Twenty-thousand years later, the ruins of their civilization still dotted Neona's ocean bed. By this time, Neona had become a mining world under the control of Hanson Mining Consolidated. While under Hanson Mining's administration, teams of archeologists and xenoanthrolopogists occasionally explored these ruins, including when the Mrlsst Academy dispatched a team of scientists to examine the ruins in a systematic study. They established a small research station underwater at the edge of a large ruin in Neona's southern hemisphere.
==Behind the scenes==
The species was first mentioned in Player's Guide to Tapani, a 1997 West End Games roleplaying game sourcebook written by Paul Sudlow and Eric S. Trautmann for use with Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.Player's Guide to Tapani
==Sources==
*Player's Guide to Tapani 
*Lords of the Expanse
==Notes and references==
Category:Colonies species
Category:Extinct sentient species
Category:Unidentified sentient species