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==History== | ==History== | ||
During one of the Forerunners' civil wars over 500,000 years before the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], a [[legion]] of [[Warrior-Servant|Warrior]] commanders bypassed the line using a novel strategy; by altogether eschewing the [[Slipspace flake|crystal]]-based slipspace manipulation commonly used by Forerunner ships, they flew twenty attack squadrons through the boundary via a non-mediated slipspace trajectory. Though the assault force suffered 50-percent losses, the remaining ships emerged within the sphere and quickly conquered fourteen key systems. This became a notorious example taught to Warrior-Servants at all levels to demonstrate the impossibility of an impregnable defense. However, it did not have a lasting impact on Forerunner strategy in the long term, and the Line continued to be employed as a defense in many conflicts to come. | During one of the Forerunners' civil wars over 500,000 years before the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], a [[legion]] of [[Warrior-Servant|Warrior]] commanders bypassed the line using a novel strategy; by altogether eschewing the [[Slipspace flake|crystal]]-based slipspace manipulation commonly used by Forerunner ships, they flew twenty attack squadrons through the boundary via a non-mediated slipspace trajectory. Though the assault force suffered 50-percent losses, the remaining ships emerged within the sphere and quickly conquered fourteen key systems. This became a notorious example taught to Warrior-Servants at all levels to demonstrate the impossibility of an impregnable defense. However, it did not have a lasting impact on Forerunner strategy in the long term, and the Line continued to be employed as a defense in many conflicts to come.{{Ref/Reuse|sil104}} | ||
After the [[Flood]] outbreak began to expand out of control during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Forerunner leadership made a decision to leave all systems beyond the Line to fend for themselves, while focusing their efforts on protecting the systems within the perimeter. | After the [[Flood]] outbreak began to expand out of control during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Forerunner leadership made a decision to leave all systems beyond the Line to fend for themselves, while focusing their efforts on protecting the systems within the perimeter.{{Ref/Reuse|sil104}} In the last years of the war, the [[IsoDidact]] led Forerunner defense from within the Maginot Sphere, frequently sending transmissions the Librarian, who continued [[Conservation Measure|her duties]] outside the boundary, asking her to retreat behind it to where the Didact's fleets could protect her. Late into the war, the Maginot Line began to fail, with Flood-infested ships breaking through certain sections of the boundary.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 193''</ref> In the endgame of the conflict, when the IsoDidact was preparing to fire the [[Halo Array]], the Flood, led by the rampant Forerunner [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Mendicant Bias]], staged a massive assault on the Line in order to reach [[Installation 00]] and stop the rings' activation. However, the loyal AI [[Offensive Bias]] was waiting for Mendicant on the other side with the remnants of the [[Forerunner fleet|Forerunners' fleet]]. This led to [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|an enormous naval battle]] between the two fleets.{{Ref/Reuse|terminals}} | ||
==Naming== | ==Naming== | ||
The translation "Maginot Line" originates in [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Forerunner records]] using [[translation software]] which incorporates idioms from the reader's own culture;<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 165''</ref> when Forerunner terms cannot be directly translated the software replaces them with human terms of roughly equivalent meaning. Thus, terms such as "[[Eden (place)|Eden]]", "fairy tale", and "Maginot Line" serve as the default usage in these records when read by humans. | The translation "Maginot Line" originates in [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Forerunner records]] using [[translation software]] which incorporates idioms from the reader's own culture;<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 165''</ref> when Forerunner terms cannot be directly translated the software replaces them with human terms of roughly equivalent meaning. Thus, terms such as "[[Eden (place)|Eden]]", "fairy tale", and "Maginot Line" serve as the default usage in these records when read by humans.{{Ref/Reuse|enc}} These words appear in brackets in the [[Terminal (Halo 3)|terminals]]. Meanwhile, "Jat-Krula" is a transliteration of the original Forerunner term.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 12''</ref> | ||
The translated name is a reference to France's [[Wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]], a longitudinal line of heavy fortifications meant to repel an anticipated assault from Germany prior to the outbreak of [[World War II]]. The line was successful in dissuading a direct attack into France, but Germany was nonetheless able to outmanoeuvre the Allies and invade France by sending the bulk of their army through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, which was often considered to be near-impassable by large mechanised armies. The Germans later manned the Maginot Line's battlements as the Allies pushed through Europe, though again the majority of the lines were bypassed. In the popular imagination, the Maginot Line has come to represent military shortsightedness and failed security measures. | The translated name is a reference to France's [[Wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]], a longitudinal line of heavy fortifications meant to repel an anticipated assault from Germany prior to the outbreak of [[World War II]]. The line was successful in dissuading a direct attack into France, but Germany was nonetheless able to outmanoeuvre the Allies and invade France by sending the bulk of their army through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, which was often considered to be near-impassable by large mechanised armies. The Germans later manned the Maginot Line's battlements as the Allies pushed through Europe, though again the majority of the lines were bypassed. In the popular imagination, the Maginot Line has come to represent military shortsightedness and failed security measures. | ||