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The '''Maginot Line'''<ref name="terminals">'''[[Halo 3]]''', [[Terminals]]</ref>, otherwise known as the '''Maginot Sphere''', was a [[Forerunner]] defensive line that protected the [[Forerunner]] inner colonies. It divided what the Forerunners were able to protect from what they had to leave to the Flood. Its precise location is unknown, however, [[Earth]] was most likely not inside it and neither were most of the worlds the [[Librarian]] visited in her duties.<ref name="terminals"/>

It was heavily damaged when the [[Flood]] made a massive attack on it, led and commanded by the rampant [[Forerunner]] [[AI]] [[Mendicant Bias]]. It was the primary line of defense holding the [[Flood]] back. It is assumed that it was broken before the first firing of the [[Halo Array]]. It was a sphere around a Forerunner-controlled area of space.

It can be assumed that for a long time the [[Didact]] worked in the Maginot sphere, frequently sending transmissions from it to the Librarian asking them to retreat behind it to where the Didact said their Fleets could protect the Librarian.

Although it was a defense against the Flood, it cannot be assumed that the Flood conquered all worlds that were outside of the Sphere, as Earth which we know was outside of it was presumably not infected because the Librarian was on it, looking at how beautiful it was before the Array fired.

The Maginot Sphere may have been a physical object, (an energy barrier of some sort) as a [[Keyship]] was needed to enter it. It may also be a hypothetical line, not a physical object, used to mark what could and couldn't be saved, and the fleets guarding it would not permit you to pass unless you were in a Keyship.

Maginot Line would not have been the actual name used by the Forerunners. The Forerunner records describing the line were discovered using translation software so advanced that it incorporated idioms from the reader's own experience.<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', page 165</ref> Thus words such as "[[Eden]]", "fairy tale" or "Maginot Line" became the default usage in Forerunner terminals and transmissions when read by Humans.<ref name="enc"/> This was likely because there is no direct translation for the original Forerunner words, thus the software utilizes human equivalents. These words appear in brackets in the [[Terminals]].