Battle of the Maginot Sphere: Difference between revisions

Shortly after Mendicant Bias assumed command over the Flood forces, he began ordering termination of the Flood's feeding and exponential growth, and instead, Flood forces were marshaled to penetrate the Maginot Sphere, the Forerunner final line of defense for their inner colonies. If the Maginot Sphere was penetrated, the Forerunners would be doomed, thus making this attack an influential battle that would decide the course of the war. Whereas previously captured Forerunner superluminal ships were sequestered and unused in the Flood war effort, Mendicant Bias now recalled all of them to attack the Maginot Sphere, and the gathered Flood attack fleet was over 4.8 million vessels, although the majority were non-military, and an extremely small number were capital-scale warships. The fleet was led by Mendicant's original 1,000 Forerunner warships. The [[Didact]], who was able to predict where the Flood blow would fall upon the sphere, was able to marshal the [[Suppression Fleet|Suppression]], [[Security Fleet|Security]], and [[Emergency Circumstance Fleet|Emergency Circumstance]] fleets under the command of Mendicant's "brother", [[Offensive Bias]], with a total of over eleven thousand vessels, with the Flood outnumbering the Forerunners 436.6:1.