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This article is about the hyperspace disturbance bisecting the galaxy west of the Deep Core. You may be looking for the hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy.

The Mortis Line, named for the mobile Celestial megastructure that patrolled along its width during the Celestial-Rakata War, was a hyperspace disturbance barrier erected by the Celestials in the early days of the Celestial-Rakata War to limit the expansion of the Rakata Infinite Empire to the Unknown Regions. Stretching in a convex arc from the Chrelythiumn system (the Mortis monolith's traditional mooring point[1]) down to Terminus and the Red Nebula,[2] the Mortis Line restricted hyperspace travel along its width via a series of unpredictable cosmic anomalies that moved at speeds faster than the speed of light.[3][4] The Celestials implemented this defensive fortification to force the Rakata to confront them at bottlenecks of their own choosing at the northern and southern extremities of the galaxy.

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The Mortis Line was the name the author gave to the unnamed hyperspace wall mentioned in Outbound Flight and the Author's Cut of the The Essential Guide to Warfare that bisected the galaxy west of the Deep Core.[3][4] Confusingly, as far as the author is aware, this wall was not actually a part of the similar hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy.[4] The latter was a different hyperspace barrier that encompassed the entire galaxy and forbade exit or entry into the galactic plane.[5][6]

The Mortis Line was based in large part on the Maginot Line, a similar defensive line of fortifications built along the Franco-German border during the interwar period. As with the Mortis Line, the Maginot Line was built to force the German military to conduct an offensive against France through Belgium at specific predetermined bottlenecks off French soil.[7]

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