Pleiades Corridor

The Pleiades Corridor, known to the Covenant as the Kelsac Passage, is the most heavily trafficked slipspace route between the Human Sphere and Holy Ecumene in the Reconciliation Era. Beginning in the Perseus Quadrant, it passes through the Hades Gulf and terminates itself within the Siakar Expanse on the Covenant side. The route does not directly pass through the Pleiades star cluster, though several systems along the Corridor are fairly close to it.

The Pleiades Corridor was charted by the Covenant in the 2530s, as a longer but safer invasion route that did not expose outlying Covenant colonies to attack such as the one that befell Zhoist. In the post-war era, the substantial infrastructure the Covenant established was co-opted and expanded on by both the Phoenix Initiative and Covenant successor-states on both sides of the Gulf, laying the foundations for the route's economic prosperity. Despite its assumed safety, many of its systems are still poorly-patrolled, as neither the UNSC nor its allies within Concord of Reconciliation can divert enough ships to properly secure its systems. So far, no major incidents have occurred, although turf wars between commercial entities and militias are not out of the ordinary. In the 2560s, the Pleiades Corridor Economic Community was established by several systems along the route, formalizing the region as a special economic zone under joint control.

Locations

 * Clavain Sector
 * Avalon system - starting point
 * Leggat Sector
 * Rubicon system
 * Handel Sector
 * Quyen system
 * Elbrus Sector
 * Pozar system
 * Anodos Sector
 * Gamma Tauri system
 * Hades Gulf Joint Occupation Zone
 * Headway
 * Eureka's Hope
 * Khaset system
 * Ryhar Cusp
 * Siakar Expanse
 * Lin-Bhedja system
 * Nephir-Sha'an system
 * Odeleht system - end point