Noveria
Star, position:	Pax, II
Location:	Pax / Horse Head Nebula / Milky Way Galaxy
Gravity:	0.81 G
Diameter:	5,656 km
Day length:	52 Earth hours
Year length:	2,732 Earth days
Atmosphere:	0.87 atm
Temperature:	- 1 °C
Adjective:	Noverian
Population:	361,400 (pre-2183 CE) 405,200 (post-2185 CE)
Species:	Densorin Prothean Human Asari Turian Salarian Krogan Hanar Drell Elcor Volus
Societal approximation:	Corporatocratic
Affiliation:	Prothean Empire United Citadel Council of Species Noveria Development Corporation Galactic Dominion Unified Republics of the Milky Way
Technological tier:	Tier VII
Capital:	Port Hanshan

"Noveria's a frozen ball of illegal. You'll either freeze your balls off, or the corporations will sell them out from under you. Either way, this planet is screwing you over somehow. At least the company is nice...you know, when security isn't trying to glare holes through your starboard armor plating."

— Joker and his opinion on Noveria.

Noveria (formerly known as the Quasar Fortress of Hghanar to the protheans) is the second planet of the Pax system of the Horse Head Nebula. Before the Reaper War, the planet was home to many intergalactic corporations such as Synthetic Insights, Binary Helix, ERCS, etc, and many were allowed to conduct illegal research outside of typical Council jurisdiction. After the Battle of Noveria, the planet subsequently fell under Reaper occupation and remained so until the end of the war, where it once again returned to the control of the NDC.