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| [[Image:Ark2.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Portal to the [[Ark]] Activates.]]
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| The '''Maginot sphere''' is a [[Forerunner]] complex on [[Earth]], buried under [[New Mombasa]]. It was uncovered by the [[Covenant]] during the [[Second Battle of Earth]].
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| It is the Forerunner artifact revealed in the ''[[Halo 3 E3 2006 Trailer]]''. While it had been under New Mombasa, it was partially uncovered when the [[Prophet of Regret]] jumps into Slipspace within Earth's atmosphere. The Covenant fully excavated it shortly after they conquered Earth. According to messages from a Forerunner known as [[Librarian]] contained throughout the [[Ark]], the sphere on Earth was the last of numerous sphere's constructed throughout the galaxy, and was buried shortly before the activation of the Halo rings.[[Image:Portal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Rift that that the Gateway created.]]
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| The [[High Prophet of Truth]] landed the [[Forerunner Dreadnaught]] on the forerunner structure, and an unusual storm started up above it. The UNSC military unit [[ONI Recon 111]], that was assigned to shadow a battlecruiser heading toward the sphere's crater, reports to [[Commander]] [[Miranda Keyes]] that the cruiser has "stopped...it's found something"<ref>''[[Tsavo Highway (Level)]]'', ''[[Halo 3]]''</ref>. The UNSC attempts to attack the structure, assumed by the UNSC to be the [[Installation 00|Ark]], with a small strike force in the town of Voi, consisting of [[SPARTAN-117]] and some [[Marine]]s. In order to get UNSC ships to the complex, they destroy Covenant [[Covenant Artillery|anti-air batteries]] and [[Type-52 Anti Aircraft Artillery|Wraiths]].
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| Truth then activates the Maginot sphere, opening a large [[Slipspace]] rift above the artifact which leads to the Ark structure, which is revealed to be extragalactic and outside the Milky Way galaxy. Truth and the rest of the Loyalist fleet retreat through the rift as the [[Covenant Seperatist|Seperatist]] fleet, along with the Arbiter, Miranda Keyes, and SPARTAN-117 pursues them to the Ark.
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| The sphere estimated to have a diameter of 25,515 meters <ref> http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=845588 </ref>.
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| [[Category:The Forerunner]]
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