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Even at this late hour, the Forerunners were reluctant to use the Array, believing that they should continue to embrace the Mantle and to protect life rather than to destroy it. This led to great stretches of anguished debate and even civil war, but eventually it was decided that the Array was the only means of successfully stopping the Flood threat.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia''', ''page 172''</ref> The [[Gravemind]] managed to convince a [[Contender-class artificial intelligence|Contender-class AI]], 032 Mendicant Bias, to unite with the Flood. [[05-032 Mendicant Bias|Mendicant Bias]] soon led his massive fleet in an attack on the "[[Maginot Line]]", the final barrier between what the Forerunners could protect and what they were forced to abandon to the Flood. At last, the Forerunners exhausted every alternative and activated the Halo Array, killing themselves and all sentient life of sufficient biomass in the [[Milky Way]],<ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[The Great Journey]]''</ref> with the exception of those species safely placed on [[Installation 00|the Ark]].<ref name="h3terminals"/><ref>'''Halo Legends''', ''Origins''</ref>