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"Maginot Line" was not the actual name used by the Forerunners to refer to the defensive perimeter. The Forerunner records describing the line were discovered using translation software so advanced that it incorporated idioms from the reader's own culture,<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 165''</ref> thus when Forerunner terms cannot be directly translated, the software replaced them with human terms of more or less equivalent meaning. Thus, terms such as "[[Eden]]", "fairy tale" and "Maginot Line" became the default usage in Forerunner terminals and transmissions when read by humans.<ref name="enc"/> These words appear in brackets in the [[Terminal]]s. | "Maginot Line" was not the actual name used by the Forerunners to refer to the defensive perimeter. The Forerunner records describing the line were discovered using [[translation software]] so advanced that it incorporated idioms from the reader's own culture,<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 165''</ref> thus when Forerunner terms cannot be directly translated, the software replaced them with human terms of more or less equivalent meaning. Thus, terms such as "[[Eden]]", "fairy tale" and "Maginot Line" became the default usage in Forerunner terminals and transmissions when read by humans.<ref name="enc"/> These words appear in brackets in the [[Terminal]]s. | ||
The translated name is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]], a [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] French line of heavy fortifications, meant to repel an anticipated assault from Germany. Though it dissuaded a direct attack, German tank units maneuvered ''around'' the fortifications, bypassing most of them altogether, making the fortifications mostly useless and leading to the fall of France. When the Allies retook France, the Germans manned them, but again the majority of the lines were bypassed.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Maginot_Line|Wikipedia's article on '''Maginot Line''']]</ref> | The translated name is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]], a [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] French line of heavy fortifications, meant to repel an anticipated assault from Germany. Though it dissuaded a direct attack, German tank units maneuvered ''around'' the fortifications, bypassing most of them altogether, making the fortifications mostly useless and leading to the fall of France. When the Allies retook France, the Germans manned them, but again the majority of the lines were bypassed.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Maginot_Line|Wikipedia's article on '''Maginot Line''']]</ref> | ||