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 [[File:Line_Installation_1-4.png|225px|thumb|Line Installation 1-4.]]
-A '''Line installation''' is a [[Forerunner]] installation, part of the [[Maginot Line]], intended to serve as a defensive outpost preventing enemy ships from reaching the inner worlds of the [[Orion complex]].<ref name="silentium">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 7''</ref>
+A '''Line installation''' is a [[Forerunner]] defensive outpost, part of the [[Maginot Line]], intended to prevent enemy ships from reaching the inner worlds of the [[Orion complex]].<ref name="sil104">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 104-105''</ref>
 ==Background==
-During the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], Line installations were used as containment measures against [[Flood]]-controlled spacecraft, preventing them from reaching the Forerunner core worlds. Additionally, they serve as [[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]], and are designed to target and destroy any Flood-infested ships passing within close range of the installation in [[Slipstream space|slipspace]].<ref>'''Halo 4''', multiplayer map ''Wreckage''</ref> These installations are usually located on a [[Natural satellite|satellite]] of a nearby planet. Each installation has its own [[monitor]] and a control center, as well as a sizable force of [[Sentinel]]s and [[Gatherer]]s.
+The Maginot Line, or Jat-Krula as it was known to the Forerunners, was constructed over half a million years before the firing of the [[Halo Array]] as the ultimate defense for the inner systems of the [[ecumene]]. The Line installations, numbering in the millions, were placed in strategic locations, particularly along the most efficient and well-known slipspace pathways, forming an enormous sphere surrounding the Orion complex. Any incoming enemy ship or [[Forerunner fleet|fleet]] would have to pass through the perimeter,<ref name="sil104"/> where it would be targeted and destroyed in [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] by the Line installations in range.<ref name="wreckage">'''Halo 4''', multiplayer map ''Wreckage''</ref> These installations are usually located on a planetary body, such as a [[natural satellite]].
+As part of the Forerunners' efforts to contain and understand the [[Flood]], some Line installations were refitted to serve as [[Flood research facility|Flood research facilities]]. These installations employ machines known as [[Gatherer]]s, specialized for collecting specimens for analysis. Each Line installation also has its own [[monitor]] and a control center, as well as a sizable force of [[Sentinel Aggressor|Sentinels]].<ref name="blood1">'''Halo: Blood Line''' ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 1|Issue 1]]''</ref>
 ==History==
-At some point during the [[Human-Covenant War]] in the late [[2552]], the ''[[Long Time Coming]]'', as well as the [[Covenant assault carrier]] ''[[Clarity of Faith]]'' were shot down by [[Line Installation 1-4]]'s defenses while in Slipspace.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''' ''Issue 1''</ref> As a result, they both crash-landed on an [[Unidentified moon (Sub-sector 35)|unidentified moon]] in [[Sub-sector 35]]. Personnel were taken by Gatherers into the main facility of the installation, for study by the installation's Monitor, [[686 Ebullient Prism]].<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''' ''Issue 3''</ref> During the [[Battle of Line Installation 1-4]], the installation's control center was located and used to shoot down an entire Covenant fleet in Slipspace.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]''</ref>
+During the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], Line installations were used as containment measures against [[Flood]]-controlled spacecraft, meant to prevent them from reaching the Forerunner core worlds.<ref name="wreckage"/> However, in the later years of the war, even these measures began to fail and the Flood would occasionally slip past gaps created in some segments of the boundary.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 193''</ref>
+During the [[Human-Covenant War]] in the late [[2552]], the ''[[Long Time Coming]]'', as well as the [[Covenant assault carrier]] ''[[Clarity of Faith]]'' were shot down by [[Line Installation 1-4]]'s defenses while in Slipspace. As a result, they both crash-landed on an [[Unidentified moon (Sub-sector 35)|unidentified moon]] in [[Sub-sector 35]].<ref name="blood1"/> Personnel were taken by Gatherers into the main facility of the installation, for study by the installation's Monitor, [[686 Ebullient Prism]].<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''' ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 3|Issue 3]]''</ref> During the [[Battle of Line Installation 1-4]], the installation's control center was located and used to shoot down an entire [[Covenant fleet]] in Slipspace.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]''</ref>
-==Known Line Installations==
+==Known Line installations==
 *[[Line Installation 1-4]]
-*[[Wreckage|Unidentified line installation]]
+*[[Line Installation 9-12]]
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
-File:H4-Wreckage-LineInstallation.jpg|Closeup view of one of the unidentified line installations.
+File:H4-Wreckage-LineInstallations.jpg|Views of two beam-projecting towers at Line Installation 9-12.
-File:H4-Wreckage-LineInstallations.jpg|Views of two line installations present on the map.
+File:H4-Wreckage-LineInstallation.jpg|Closeup view of one of the towers.
-File:H4 Wreckage Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of a line installation.
+File:H4 Wreckage Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Line Installation 9-12.
 </gallery>