Muruga Skip

The Muruga Skip, known to the Covenant as the Quuras Channel, is one of four major crossing routes from the Holy Ecumene into the Human Sphere.

One of the first invasion corridors chartered by the Covenant, it was specifically chartered to minimize delay when traveling to or from Zhoist, and bypassed most of the inhabited systems at the time. Although effective at first, lax patrols and ineffective measures at destroying their own navigational data had allowed the UNSC to attack the reliquary-world during Operation: SILENT STORM. This crippled the Covenant's ability to resupply their fleets using the Muruga Skip, with their fleets instead traveling to alternate bases using the nearby Tempest Crossing. In any case, it remained in limited use until 2532, when the last human colonies in the Asgard Stratum were glassed.

In the post-war era, the Muruga Skip remains the most unpopular of the four crossing routes for traders, usually taken by those with time-sensitive contracts. The Tempest Crossing had much more infrastructure, and Zhoist itself was a major base for the Torchbearers until the Concord of Reconciliation conquered it in 2559. The Sangheili, particularly those from traditionalist clans, associated the route with shame and were the most adverse to traveling along the Skip.

Locations

 * Grenadi Sector
 * Polybius system - start point
 * Aruna Sector
 * Aduna system
 * Muruga Sector
 * Riaal system
 * Indus Gap Joint Occupation Zone
 * Transit Node Bhadra
 * Diocese of Zhoist
 * Buta system - end point