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==Ecology==
[[Image:Tizca.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tizca]], capital city of Prospero before its destruction.{{Fn|12}}]]
At least one indigenous species on Prospero was known to have been hostile and extremely dangerous to human life. The [[psychneuein]], a species commonly found on Prospero, was a major threat to the early settlers of Prospero and continued to present a problem to the inhabitants of the world all the way up to the end, when the planet's entire ecosystem was destroyed by planetary bombardment.{{Cite Marker EndFn|2c}}
The psychneuein reproduced by implanting eggs into a host's brain psychically. An infected host would have no idea they'd been implanted until the eggs began to grow, causing severe pain and ultimately, death as the eggs hatched. On only one known occasion has a victim been successfully cured of the implanted psychic eggs. An archaeologist, living in Tizca, had been implanted while outside the city on a day trip. She later collapsed and was taken to a hospital where a team of highly skilled Thousand Sons Astartes were able to use their powers to remove the eggs from her brain in a form of psychic surgery.{{Fn|2}}
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 22
**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter 31
**{{Endn|2c}}: Chapter 27
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Scars (Novel)]], {{Cite Marker End}}
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Seven - Inferno]], pg. 33
