User:RelentlessRecusant/Covenant Astrological Ministry

The Covenant Astrological Ministry was the ministry of the Covenant responsible for astrological sciences, exploration and non-military reconnaissance, and plotting of secure Slipspace routes.

It was responsible for documenting hundreds of thousands of planetary systems at the periphery of the Covenant Empire, noting feasibility of occupation and militarization. At the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War, renegade Brute fleets escaped to these borderland fringe systems, using them as bases.