Mortis Line

The Mortis Line was a erected by the  in the early days of the  to limit the expansion of the   to the. Stretching from the Celestial of  down to the  of, the Mortis Line restricted hyperspace travel along its width via a series of unpredictable cosmic anomalies that moved at speeds faster than the. The Celestials implemented this defensive fortification to force the Rakata to confront them at bottlenecks of their own choosing, namely the reinforced Celestial strongholds of Mortis and Terminus.

Behind the scenes
The Mortis Line was the name given to the unnamed hyperspace wall mentioned in ' and the of the ' that bisected the galaxy west of the Deep Core. Confusingly, as far as the author is aware, this wall was not actually a part of the similar. The latter was a different hyperspace barrier that encompassed the entire galaxy and forbade exit or entry into the galactic plane.

The Mortis Line was based in large part on the, a similar defensive line of fortifications built along the Franco-German border during the interwar period. As with the Mortis Wall, the Maginot Wall was built to force the German military to conduct an offensive against France through at specific predetermined bottlenecks off French soil.