Precept of Censure

The Precept of Censure is a Covenant station, used as the ultimate form of punishment against a contumacious world, or a species who do not accept the loving proselytization of the Covenant but do not warrant the time or effort or extermination. The Precept of Censure is a cluster of Line Installations, excised from their resting placing, restored to working order, reprogrammed by Huragok. It is used to blockade a world against all travel, either ships arriving, or leaving. Capable of targetting deep into the mysterious realm of Slipspace, it can stop anything short of a full blown fleet assault. Such stations allow those with the appropriate codes to pass, still allowing Covenant Ministers to go about their business, without threat of retribution. After the collapse of the Covenant, errant stations remained a threat as long dormant stations came online, or were encountered in distant systems the Prophets had accorded for their own use. Others have been seized by organisations who have used them to blockade their opponents, black mail independent planets, or drop them into orbits of occupied planets as terrorist attacks intended to disrupt the day to day goings on of the planet. As the Ministry of Censorship was destroyed along with High Charity, few have any ongoing knowledge of the esoteric weapon, or the codes needed to de-active and bypass them.