Asteroid (Earth-5875)

Asteroids are minor planets, found among asteroid belts that orbit stars or planetary ring systems. Additionally, asteroids can also occur scattered through Lagrangian points.

History
Through human history, many asteroids are converted as habitats for UNSC military bases through planet cracking. As the result of planet cracking, they are not enough to maintain sufficient gravitational pull on their atmosphere, which can only be solved through the creation of habitats into its hollowed interiors, coped with artificial gravity. Many Insurrectionist hideouts were found on asteroids, such as Eridanus Secundus and the Rubble.

The Covenant used many asteroids, such as K7-49, to house refineries and shipyards. Y'Deio, the home system of the kig-yar, is home to a large quantity of asteroids, many of which are colonies to the species. When the Covenant first discovered the kig-yar, the pirate clans of Eayn united and used the asteroids and their abnormal gravity to confuse the Covenant.

Known asteroids

 * T'vao
 * Dal'koth
 * Ivanoff Station
 * Eridanus Secundus
 * Indra Asteroid Cluster
 * Origami Asteroid Field
 * Rubble
 * K7-49