Editing Seven

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{{quote|Some of you may be wondering - "What's up with this unhealthy obsession with the number 7?"  This page offers some insights.|[[Luke Smith]], linking to this very page<ref>http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=14650</ref>}}

{{quote|Cause that's the best number. It's like rock. Nothing beats rock or 7.|[[Michael Wu]]}}


[[Bungie Studios]] has long enjoyed using the number '''Seven (7)''' in its games in many prominent ways.<ref>[http://marathon.bungie.org/story/seven.html Marathon.Bungie.Org: The Number Seven]</ref>[[Ensemble Studios]] and authors also have certain obvious seven references in their works about ''Halo''. While almost anything can be made into a reference to something with effort or construed accidentally through [[wikipedia:pareidolia|pareidolia]], the following attempts to list the intentional references Bungie placed into ''Halo'' for the fans to find. As such, not all of these references may be fully accurate, and many of them may be proven to be false at any time. 


 

==''Halo'' Series ==
 

==''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''==
 
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|content = *On October '''7''', 2525, three [[UNSC]] vessels were sent to investigate why the [[Colonial Administration Authority]] had lost contact with the [[Harvest]] system. 2+5=7<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 96</ref>
*When the Pillar of Autumn reaches the halo, Cortana states the Halo is 22.3km thick. 2+2+3=7]].<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 339</ref>
*A UNSC [[Destroyer]] was only '''7''' meters longer than a [[Frigate]].<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 139</ref>
*[[Lieutenant Hall]] has written '''7''' physics papers on Slipspace communications.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 140</ref>
*Four [[Covenant]] frigate ships are an even match with '''7''' [[UNSC Destroyer|UNSC destroyers]].<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 144</ref>
*Hall reports a collision in '''7''' seconds.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 149</ref>
*Jacob Keyes could only count '''7''' [[UNSC]] vessels still intact after the battle of Sigma Octanus.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 199</ref>
*[[Jericho VII]]. VII = '''7''' in Roman Numerals. 
*Master Chief is surrounded by '''7''' soldiers.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 257</ref>
*The [[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]] carried '''7''' [[C709 Longsword-class Starfighter]]s.
*'''7''' Covenant frigates were pursuing the Pillar of Autumn<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Epilogue</ref>.
*When the SPARTANs test the MJOLNIR suit with shields, when John gets ready to go outside there are 7 [[ODST|ODSTs]] standing outside around the tent.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Page 257</ref>
*A total of 315 Covenant ships attack Reach. 45*7=315
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==''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' (and ''[[Halo: The Flood]]'')==

 
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|content = [[Image:Shichi.jpg|thumb|七, the Japanese character for '''7''', is visible on the [[M6D Pistol]]'s ejection port.]]
*There are '''7''' handheld [[Human]] weapons including the [[Frag Grenade]].
*In the level [[The Silent Cartographer (Level)]], there are seven [[overshields]].
*On the level "The Silent Cartographer," at [[Bravo 022]]'s crash site, there is a fully loaded rocket launcher (the first in the game) and '''7''' spare rockets.
*[[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]]: derived from the value 343 is 7<sup>3</sup>.
*"Twelve shots rang out, and '''seven''' Grunts fell."<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], Page 53</ref>
* In ''Halo: The Flood'', Silva wishes he had '''7''' Lt. Mckay's.<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], Page 237</ref>
*You need at least '''seven''' needles from the [[Needler]] to make an explosion.
*In [[The Maw]], when [[343 Guilty Spark (Monitor)|343 Guilty Spark]] halts the countdown to the engine cores' detonation, the timer reads 12:31.  1+2+3+1='''7'''.
*After destroying the fusion core on the Pillar of Autumn, Master Chief drives a [[Warthog]] through a class '''7''' service corridor. 
*The last [[Longsword]] on the [[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]] was in launch bay '''7'''.
*In the last cut scene of [[Assault on the Control Room]] there are '''7''' pillars of light in the background.
*On the third page of the manual explaining the HUD (pg. 15), a screenshot with an explanation of the scope shows 7 extra bullets in the sniper rifle.
*Also on page 24 of the manual, in the Power-Ups box, there are '''7''' power-ups.
*The [[Proto Gravemind]] has '''7''' tentacles.
*The multiplayer map [[Chiron TL-34]] (3+4=7).
*There are '''7''' pine trees in the area surrounding the [[Control Room]].
*There are '''7''' blast doors leading to the [[Index]] in the [[Library]].
*It takes '''7''' pistol shots to take down an [[Elite]] on normal in Halo: CE.
*Installation 04's range is 25,000 light years. 2+5='''7'''
*Chapter '''7''' of [[Halo: The Flood]] has the mission time listed as '''7''' cycles (49 units) [[Covenant]] time.
*[[Carol Rawley]] (aka Foehammer) is part of a group of '''7''' people (3 pilots, 3 ground crew, and herself) who fled the ''Pillar of Autumn'' by retrieving their Pelicans rather than taking lifepods.<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], Page 31</ref>
*[[Yayap]] determines that the Master Chief will need to flee the ''Pillar of Autumn'' via hatch E-117. 1*1*7=7 (also likely a reference to his Spartan number).<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], Page 333</ref>
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==''[[Halo: First Strike]]''==
 
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|content = *There are '''7''' Covenant ships in the system after Halo's destruction.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 36</ref>
*There were only '''seven''' UNSC survivors from the destruction of [[Halo]] ([[John-117]], [[Linda-058]], [[Johnson]], [[Polaski]], [[Haverson]], [[Locklear]], and [[Cortana]]). 
*The Covenant flagship ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' has '''seven''' plasma turrets.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 36</ref>
*There are '''seven''' doors leading to adjacent offices and surgical bays when Dr. Halsey first enters the medical wing of [[CASTLE Base]].<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 122</ref>
*As she is deleting Araquiel, Dr. Halsey taps the level '''seven''' security barriers.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 127</ref>
*Ascendant Justice exits Slipspace '''seven'''  hundred thousand kilometers from the Epsilon Eridani System center.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 154</ref>
*CPO Mendez was scheduled to meet the Spartans 0'''7'''00 hours after they captured the flag from Tango Company.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 165</ref>
*When John enters the Pelican captured from Tango Company he sees a contact on its radar 14 km out.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 166</ref> 14/2=7
*217 small Covenant ships work clearing wreckage and collecting metal above Reach's pole.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 167</ref> 217/31=7
*There were '''seven''' [[Robotic Rover|service drones]] aboard the ''[[Gettysburg]]''.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 208</ref>
*The dead crew of the ''Gettysburg'' is placed in cargo bay '''seven'''.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 268</ref>
*The Master Chief sets his [[Lotus Anti Tank Mine]] detonator for '''seven''' seconds. <ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 314</ref>
*After [[Fred]] and [[Kelly]] steal two [[Wraith]]s, they destroy '''seven''' other Wraiths.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 114</ref>
*The Wraiths are lined up in 3 rows of 4. 3+4=7. <ref>Halo: First Strike, Page 112</ref>
*Cortana describes subsection '''seven''' of the Cole Protocol as the reason they cannot immediately return to Earth aboard ''Ascendant Justice''<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 94</ref>
*After [[Corporal Locklear]] brings the ammo up from the [[Pelican]], there are '''seven''' grenades in the crate.<ref>Page 53</ref>
*After Master Chief leaves the medical room Dr. Halsey is in, she locks the door and instructs Cortana to "Boost counter-intrusion measures to level '''seven'''." <ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 246</ref>
*After exiting slipspace in a captured Covenant dropship, the Spartans find themselves near two hundred forty-seven Covenant ships.  As they are watching, '''seven''' more appear.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 298</ref>
*C-'''7''' foaming explosive is used by the Spartans and Locklear.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]]</ref>,
*[[Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] bluffs [[Governor Jacob Jiles]] by saying they had '''7''' working plasma turrets.<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]], Page 262</ref>
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==''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''==

 
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*'''Seven''' Covenant cruisers appear.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], Page 22</ref>
*[[Semi Powered Infiltration Armor]] has '''7''' minutes of breathable air.
*"'''Seven''' other men sat at a card table, shaking off the effects of the flash-bangs."<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], Page 32</ref>
*Road 32-B: B is the second letter of the alphabet and as such, 3 + 2 + 2 = 7.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], Page 40</ref>
*Operation PROMETHEUS was an assault on asteroid K'''7'''-49. 49=7*7<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 84</ref>
*"Three hundred Spartans hit the dirt at 0'''7'''00"<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 84</ref>
*After two days the Spartan-III's of Alpha Company had managed to disable '''7''' of the reactors on the surface of [[K7-49]].<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 85</ref>
*"On day '''seven'''," the Admiral said, "additional Covenant reinforcements arrived."<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 86</ref>
*Kurt trained the Spartan-III's of Alpha Company for '''7''' years."<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 87</ref>
*"We are presently '''seven''' kilometers over the planet's surface," the AI said.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 161</ref>
*Ahead '''seven'''teen kilometers is the source of the signal," the AI said. 1*7=7<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 162</ref>
*Before casualties, there were''' 7''' active [[Spartan-III's]] on Onyx ([[Tom]], [[Lucy]], and Team Saber).
*"What [[Sangheili]] Major would dare disobey a [[Ship Master]] who had led '''seven''' glorious campaigns against their enemies?"<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], Page 189</ref>
*After boarding [[Bloodied Spirit]] Fred's MJOLNIR suit has only '''seven''' minutes of air left.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 218</ref>
*When Bloodied Spirit is attacked by Onyx Sentinels, the Sentinels move into lines of '''seven'''. '''Seven''' of these lines then combine into an elongated triangle and fire.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 232</ref>
*Chapter 27 begins at the '''seventh''' cycle, 49 units, Covenant time. 49=7*7
*The [[Unggoy]] [[Kwassass]] had served '''seven''' years in the Covenant.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 236</ref>
*The structure where the Spartans land is a '''seven'''-sided faceted dome with '''seven''' arches.<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]] page 270</ref> Inside are '''seven''' flat surfaces, each the size of carrier landing decks.<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]] page 271</ref>
*"It will take '''seven''' minutes in this orbit to cover that area."<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]], page 291</ref>
*"'''Seven''' MAC rounds struck the two lead destroyers in the Covenant line..."<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]], page 297</ref>
*"The bulbous hull of a Covenant Seraph single ship appeared, then another Seraph appeared, then '''seven''' more..."<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]], page 305</ref>
*[[Dr Halsey]] points out that there is only one hour and 17 minutes (1:17) left before the portal closes. This works out to be '''77''' minutes. This may also be a a reference to John-117.<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]], page 311</ref>
*The teleportation pads around Onyx are seven-sided.<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]], page 311</ref>
*"The '''seven''' Sentinels adjusted their aim and their spheres glowed red, amber, and then glistening gold."<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 321</ref>
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==''[[Halo 2]]''==
 
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|content =*The symbol on the [[Banshees]]' wings is made up of 7 red blocks.
*In ''Halo 2'' there are 7 Covenant races seen: [[Grunts]], [[Jackals]], [[Drones]], [[Hunters]], [[Brutes]], [[Elites]], and [[Prophets]].
*The phone booths on [[Terminal (Level)|Terminal]] are all numbered 7.
*If you look closely at the Master Chief's helmet, you can see a faint 7 (This is best viewed in the 1st cut scene on [[Metropolis (Level)|Metropolis]]).
*[[2401 Penitent Tangent]]: 2401 is 7<sup>4</sup>.
*One of the special [[Zanzibar Signs]] occurs on 07/07 (Bungie Day).
*The [[Gravemind]] speaks mostly in heptameter, a poetic style with seven meters per line.
*On [[Outskirts]], in the small dark room where the [[Halo 2 Skulls|IWHBYD skull]] is located, there is a number 7 on the wall.
*At the end of the credits the "t" is replaced with a 7 in the sentence "And a whole load of people we didn't get time to 7hank"
*To obtain the IWHBYD skull, one must face 7 waves of Ultra Elites, with 7 Elites in the 7th wave.
*On the level [[Cairo Station (Level)|Cairo Station]] where the Arbiter gets branded with the [[Mark of Shame]], there are 7 tiers of bleachers for the audience.
*In [[Outskirts]] on your way to the Blind Skull there is a sign bearing the number 7 nailed into the wall.
*There are currently 7 [[Covenant]] vehicles. [[Wraith]], [[Ghost (Vehicle)|Ghost]], [[Spectre]], [[Scarab]], [[Banshee]], [[Phantom]] and the [[Shadow]].
*There are also only 7 drivable vehicles in the game: the [[Scorpion]], [[Wraith]], [[Spectre]], [[Warthog]], [[Gauss Hog]], [[Ghost]], and [[Banshee]].
*In a deleted scene, a longer version of the cut scene at the start of "Sacred Icon", Truth and the Arbiter were viewing 7 murals that showed how the Covenant had grown.
*There is a clearly visible 7 scratched into the cheek of [[Miranda Keyes]].
*The [[ODST]]s seen in-game belong to the [[7th Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Division]].
*The player fights in 7 levels as the Master Chief: [[Cairo Station (Level)|Cairo Station]], [[Outskirts]], [[Metropolis]], [[Delta Halo (Level)|Delta Halo]], [[Regret (Level)|Regret]], [[Gravemind (Level)|Gravemind]] and [[High Charity (Level)|High Charity]] .
*When you zoom in either the [[Covenant Carbine]] or the [[Fuel Rod Cannon]], there are 7 hexagons making up the center.
*In Metropolis, near the end of the level where you have to destroy the Scarab, [[Sergeant Banks]] carries a communicator. On the back of this communicator is the Hindi word for seven, written in the Hindi script.
*Firing the [[Plasma Rifle]] until it overheats will drain 7 power units, assuming it is not burst fire.
*On Headlong near the bridge, which connects to the Needler Building, there is a piece of paper with the number 7 pinned on the wall.
*The multi-player map [[Terminal (Level)|Terminal]] has a large 7 on the station building. 
*There is a 7 on the lower part of a Pelican's ramp.
*On the single-player level [[Regret (Level)]], there is a ring of seven Plasma Grenades.
*You face seven pairs of [[Hunters]] in the level [[Gravemind (Level)|Gravemind]].
*In [[Headlong]] the number 7 is nailed by the side of the door on the building that has the [[Energy Sword]]
*In [[Zanzibar]] there is a square in a wall on one of the entrances to the main building which has two squares showing a 2 and one square showing a 3 and the last one showing a W crossed with a line, you see 2+2+3=7.
*When the UNSC ship ''In Amber Clad'' was in the Battle of Earth numerous units from the 1'''7'''th and '''77'''th Marine Regiments are on board.
*There are 7 levels of caskets in the Mausoleum of the Arbiter.
*In the level [[The Great Journey]] there are 7 large plasma cannons.
*In [[Headlong]] there is a number 7 nailed to a wall connected by the ramp by the shotgun, it is found in the building that houses mostly [[Human]] weapons.
*If you count the total of [[Phantom]]s in all of the [[Human]] levels such as [[Metropolis]] and [[Outskirts]] you will get a total of 7 Phantoms.
*The Broadcasting station for Terminal is [[Channel 7]].
*In the cut scene "They'll Regret That Too", the Marine sniper and his spotter report that "grid Kilo-two three is hot" and recommend mission abort. "Kilo" represents the letter K in the phonetic alphabet, which is the eleventh letter. 1+1+2+3=7.
*It took 7 seconds for the bomb to detonate in the last cutscene on Cairo station.
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==''[[Halo 3]]''==
 
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|content = *On [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]] on the walkway above the barracks there is a box with a large red 7 written on it.
*There are 7 structures coming out of the bottom of [[Epitaph]].
*[[Cold Storage]] is the seventh downloadable ''Halo 3'' map, and was released on [[Bungie Day]] (7/7).
*In the [[2401_Penitent_Tangent#Cold_Storage_Transmission|Cold Storage Transmission]] the time elapsed since an outside agent accessed the delta site has an approximate seven year margin of error.
*There are currently 7 ranked and 7 social playlists in Halo 3 matchmaking (not including Double EXP weekends).
*On matchmaking there's a playlist called "[[7_on_the_7th|7 on the 7th]]" which is featured on the 7th of every month.
*Miranda Keyes has a seven engraved in her cheek (you can see it clearly on Crow's Nest).
*In one of the [[Terminals]], it is revealed that [[Mendicant Bias]] made contact and studied the [[Gravemind]] for 379,807 hours (3+7+9+8+7=34, 3+4=7).
*The UNSC ''[[Forward Unto Dawn]]'' has the number 7 on the front of it.
*There are 7 pairs of monoliths around the [[Portal]].
*“The casing is constructed of an unusual porous metallic compound. Shrapnel from the [[Spike Grenade]] reaches a temperature of approximately 270 to 315ºC and retains that heat for upwards of '''seven''' seconds. By design.” Taken from Bungie.net on [[Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade|Spike Grenades]].
*There are 7 columns of light inside the control room on [[Halo (Level)|Halo]].
*In the mission [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]], a rocket has the number 7 on each side.
*At the beginning of [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]], some of the monitors have "Sector 331" written in a corner. 3+3+1=7.
*[[Last Resort (Level)|Last Resort]] is Zanzibar Municipal Turbine '''7'''.
*The [[SMG]] has a scratch in the shape of a 7 (easier to see if weapon is aimed at sky or near a light source).
*It takes 7 seconds of Hornet Chain Guns to destroy a Warthog.
*It takes 7 seconds for 343 Guilty Spark to explode after being dealt the fatal shot in the level [[Halo (Halo 3 Level)|Halo]].
*It takes 7 seconds from being infected by an Infection Form to turn into a Combat Form.
*In the level [[Cortana (Level)|Cortana]], in the beginning of the cut scene where you rescue Cortana, there is 7 seconds of silence before she says "You found me".
*The seventh level of the game ([[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]) is the first level of the series (chronologically) where you first see the Installation that developes the Halo Rings.
*On the side of the Warthog, below where the driver and passenger get in, just above the side skirts, there are 7 dashes.
*There are 7 rivets holding the panel on each side of the Warthog right below the driver or passenger entry opening.
*Only seven [[Sangheili]] ranks are seen in ''[[Halo 3]]''.
*In the level [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]], when you first take control of the Master Chief, the emergency power generators on the far side of the room, where you need to go to get the Black Eye Skull, have the writing "EPG 2401". 7<sup>4</sup> = 2401.
*The Magnum has Korean Hangul symbols on the barrel, and the very bottom of the mag. When reflected, it translates to the number 7.
*In Tsavo Highway the doors at the start of the level all have the number 7 on them.
*In the multi-player level Sandtrap, the UNSC frigate, ''Aegis Fate'', has a number 7 surrounded in a star on the side.
*When Miranda Keyes dies, there are 7 spikes from the Brute Spiker lodged in her back.
*In the Level [[The Covenant (Level)|The Covenant]], there are 7 [[Elites]] that help you (not including the [[Arbiter (Character)|Arbiter]] or the other Elites in Co-op).
*There are 7 levels that the [[Cortana Moments|Cortana and Gravemind Moments]] occur. 
*7 Brute ships fled to the Ark.
*There are 7 lists of objects to put on a map in Forge. Weapons, Vehicles, Equipment, Scenery, Teleporters, Respawn Points, and Goals.
*There are 7 usable vehicles on the level the Ark, the seventh level of the game, including Arrival.
*There are 7 Chieftains in the level 'The Covenant'.
*In the multi-player map "Foundry", at the wide end of the map there are 14 full squares in between the walls, 7 on each side.
*In the level [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]], in the barracks, there are 7 Marines you can save.
*In the level [[Floodgate|Floodgate]], there are seven marines capable of being saved. Two behind the sandbags, and five in the warehouse, one of these being the one overwhelmed by [[Infection Form|Infection Forms]] (though he'll be infected anyway).
*It takes 7 shots from the Magnum to destroy the Gravity Lift object. 
*A Power Drain lasts for 7 seconds.
*The center screen in the sword room on The Pit features the name sector 331. 3+3+1=7.
*It takes 7 seconds for the screens in The Pit Ops Center to scroll through all of the visuals.
*There are seven spikes on the combat helmets of Elites.
*In the room with the Silent Cartographer, there are 7 trapezoids above the doors.
*There are 7 individual lights throughout the cave of Valhalla.
*There are seven pieces of grating involved with the missile launcher scenery on High Ground (including the one placed under the aiming machine).
*On the 'fire point' sign on High Ground there are 7 licks of flame coming from the white triangle.
*There are 7 lines of text on the screen of the gate switch on High Ground.
*The two small generators in the foundry rec. room are labeled with the number 25. 2+5=7.
*Deaths that do not require two people have a seven second respawn when no other penalties are active.
*There are two sevens on the side of [[Grunt Minor]] armor.
*There are seven plates of metal grinding on the cranes used to board your first scarab, including the elevators.
*There are seven pallets on the pathway with the missile pods on the storm.
*The are seven pipes you can walk into on the lake bed where you fight your first scarab.
*The center structure of the scarab lake-bed has a cylinder on top with 7 pipes going out of it.
*There are 14 needles poking up out of the Needler. 14/2=7.
*There are seven symbols on each end of the handle on the [[Energy Sword]].
*On Sandtrap there are 7 standing angled pillars on the long indoor walkway.
*The red block on the Banshee resembles a backwards 7.
*The Multiplayer map Epitaph has 7 hologram projectors, 6 minor ones and the Mendicant Bias projector.
*You can get 7 Objective Sprees in Halo 3.
*In [[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]], red boxes display the number '''2401''' (7<sup>4</sup>) 2+4+0+1=7 .
*There are 7 scoped weapons: Battle Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Beam Rifle, Carbine, Rocket Launcher, Fuel Rod Gun, and Spartan Laser.
*In the credits, Bungie frequently replaces the letter 't' with the number '7'.
*There are 7 Vidmaster achievements; 4 achievements can be found in Halo 3 while the other 3 are in Halo 3: ODST.
*Seven Marines fire their Battle Rifles in the air in the ceremony at the end of Halo 3.
*There are 7 [[Gravemind]] moments on [[Cortana]].
*There are seven original [[UNSC]] vehicles other than a [[warthog]] and others.
*There are a total of 7 Auto Turrets you can get in Halo 3.
*On the mission [[Halo]] there are 7 vehicles other than the [[Warthog]]: 4 [[ghosts]], 1 [[mongoose]] and 2 [[choppers]].
*There are 7 bellows of smoke on the horizon in [[Rat's Nest]].
*One of the tunnels on [[Rat's Nest]] has a large "92" printed above it. 9-2=7, this is a possible 7 reference.
*On the level [[Tsavo Highway]] you exit the base through door number 7.
*There are seven different types of enemies on Halo 3.
*On Sandbox the reskinned gravity hammer is called a 7-wood.
*The orange energy shield on assembly will emit 14 sets of small plumes of smoke before another scarab fully emerges from it.
*If all golf items are spawned on Sandbox, the PGGA grunt face will appear 34 times, 3+4=7
*The blue lights that shoot out of the towers on Valhalla appear every 49 seconds. 7*7=49
*The Human-Covenant war had begun 2525 and ended 2553, approximately 28 years. A possible seven reference.
*In matchmaking, there are 7 pieces of equipment that can be used.
*The Pelican that extracts the Master Chief, Johnson, and the Arbiter after Johnson is rescued is named Kilo-two three. Kilo = K (phonetic alphabet) and is the eleventh letter. 1+1+2+3 = 7.
*There are 2 sets of 7 lights in the hole on the multi-player map Orbital
*There are seven dropships at the start of the level "[[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]".
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==[[Cortana Letters]] and [[Transmissions]]==
 
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*Cortana signs one letter with seven 'X's and 'O's.
*Cortana sends eight emails. Alternatively, [[Cortana Letters#Third Letter|Letter Three]] was likely never intended, so seven messages were planned.
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==[[I Love Bees]]==
 
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*When the [[Apocalypso]] crashes, all communications in the solar system are disabled for about seven seconds.
*When players unlocked 777 axons, a voice-actor playing [[Melissa (AI)|Melissa]] joined the game.
*When [[Kamal Zaman]] accesses his voice mail, he has seven old messages.
*Hiro, reading a how-to book on dating, tells Kamal to skip to chapter seven.
*A part of the game had players guiding the [[Melissa (AI)|Sleeping Princess]] out of her "glass coffin", a prison in her mind appearing as a story-tale world. Players would have to guide her down various paths marked by signs with unusual markings. The correct paths are ''Deadly Sins'' (there are seven), ''Waves'' (seven seas), and ''Skinny Cow and Fat Cow'' (in the Bible, the Pharaoh had a dream about seven skinny cows that ate seven fat cows).<ref>[[Perdita's Story]]</ref>
*When [[Rani]] tries to start a [[chatter]] business with a friend [[Trevor]], their equipment only manages to produce 49. 49 = 7 x 7
**Rani leaves with 14. 14 = 7 + 7
**Trevor planned to make chatters for 7% of what they cost in convenience stores.
*As of 2004, [[Aunt Margaret]] had been beekeeping for seven years.
*[[Yasmine Zaman]]'s augmentations are performed in Lab 7.
*Yasmine Zaman washed out of the Spartan II program at age 14. 14/2=7
*[[Margaret Efendi]]'s email address, later hijacked by the AIs, is ladybee777@hotmail.com
*[[Durga]] has [[George Shebura]] arrested on 14 charges of counterfeit. 14/2=7
*Later, George Shebura recieved "7 more parking tickets" in one week.
*[[Hiro]] says "that's like the seventh time today you've refused to answer your chatter."
*Durga analyzed Jersey's food-buying habits over the last 7 months.
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==''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''==
 
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| content =*There were seven space elevators.
*The first space elevator of the ''[[Tiara]]'' to collapse was the seventh elevator.
*There were seven small boxes streaking up the Tiara's elevators.
*Twenty-eight containers were already on the strands in coupled pairs of fourteen. Both 28 and 14 are divisible by 7
*Every five minutes there were seven pairs of containers that would rise.
*Later Loki changed the five minute interval for the containers to seven minutes.
*An ONI report after the Epilogue under <\ CIVILIAN CONTRACTOR "Charlie Hotel" was in brackets [ONI.REF #409871]... 409,871 divided by 58,553 is equal to 7.
*In that same report can be found 2 other references. The first found in the line SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-s2-05866. 5,866 divided by 838 is 7. And the second is found in the line SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S4-021147. 21,147 divided by 3,021 is 7.
*When Staff Sergeant [[A.J. Johnson]] offers his hand to [[Byrne]], he hesitated, enough for Jenkins to count from push-ups 38-45. (45 - 38 = 7)
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==''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''==
 
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|content = *Commander Dmitri Zheng's homeworld was glassed '''7''' years before the book events, while he was out on patrol.<ref>''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'', page 38</ref>
*As the A.I. aboard the ''Petya'' talked to the Spartans, Mike held '''7''' fingers to his thigh as a sign for Jai, indicating the standard AI 7 year lifespan.<ref>''Halo: The Cole Protocol'', page 85</ref>
*Seven ODST's were killed during the attack on the [[Redoubt]].
*[[Ignatio Delgado]]'s name has 14 letters in it and '''7''' in each name. 14/2='''7'''
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==''[[Halo Wars]]''==
 
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|content = *In ''Halo Wars'', both the [[UNSC Firebase]] and [[Citadel (Covenant)|Covenant Citadel]] possess '''7''' expansion sockets.
*There are '''7''' [[Sangheili|Elites]] deactivating camouflage in the first Halo Wars Trailer
*There are '''7''' types of buildings for each UNSC and Covenant.
*'''7''' members of Omega squad come to your aid during [[Arcadia Outskirts]].
*There are '''7''' power nodes that you can destroy to make the super scarab's searchlight move slower.
*In the final cutscene "The End", after Anders is put into cryo-sleep, you can see the the numbers, 3 and 4 behind Cutter. This is possibly another 7 reference (3+4=7).
*There are 14 default Skirmish/Multiplayer maps. 14 is a multiple of 7.
*There are 7 barrels on the front left part of a firebase.
*On the anti air upgrade for the turret, there are 14 missile pods. 14/2=7
*The technology levels for the Humans and Covenant could serve as a reference, Humans=4, Covenant=3, 4+3=7
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==''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''==

 
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|content = *In the trailer, there are '''seven''' Brutes in the Covenant patrol.
*In the trailer, the ODST's last fatality estimate displayed was 0.52%. 5+2='''7'''
*In the trailer, the song that plays is '''77''' seconds long or 1:17 minutes long, a seven/SPARTAN-117 reference.
*At approximately 10 seconds into the ''ODST'' trailer there are '''7''' [[HEV]]s burning in the atmosphere.
*At approximately 15 seconds into the ''ODST'' trailer there are 28 levels of blue glass on the left tower. 28/4='''7'''
*The Superintendent will change his face '''7''' times during the trailer (including its beginning emotion).
*In the ''Halo 3: ODST'' "Please Remain Calm" background the number '''seven''' is rather abundant. '''17''' counted.
*The Rookie's enlistment date is 0'''7'''/0'''7'''/254'''7'''. (0'''7'''/0'''7''')
*In Firefight, you start out with '''7''' lives.
*'''7''' Playable characters in Firefight (If you include [[Sgt. Johnson]])
*'''7''' Protagonists in ODST (counting the [[Superintendent]])
*In the E3 demo it took the Rookie about '''7''' Seconds to recover from his fall.
*In the first cutscene there are 7 [[ODST]] calls, or beeps.
*It takes the Superintendent 7 camera views to chronicle the Rookie's HEV pod crashing. 
*When the player arrives in the mission [[Data Hive (Level)|Data Hive]], the Rookie is on Sub-Level '''07'''.
*The [[Oliphant]] on [[Coastal Highway]] is numbered 49 ('''7²).
*In the cutscene after completing [[Coastal Highway]] there are '''7''' Assault Carriers.
*At 00:39 onwards of the Legendary Epilogue cutscene, there are 7 Engineers looking down into the Forerunner structure.
*In [[Sadie's Story]] Dr. Endesha sees 7 [[Engineers]] who escaped the Brutes.
*[[Romeo]]'s Blood Type is AB-. According to Wikipedia, statistics show that 7 out of 1000 people in today's population have this blood type.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type#ABO_and_Rh_distribution_by_country ABO and Rh distribution by country (Wikipedia)]</ref>
*The watchtower of the bridge inside the [[ONI Alpha Site]]'s compound is numbered 07.
*In Firefight mode you have 7 skulls.
*There are '''7''' accessible supply caches in New Mombasa.
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==''[[Halo: Reach]]''==
 
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==Misc.==
 
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|content = *Most family names of Sangheili have '''7''' letters, including the 'ee' suffix for military service (e.g., Vadumee, Zamamee, Vadamee).
*There are a total of '''7''' variants of the [[Warthog]]: The Rocket Hog in Halo: CE, the normal variant, the Gauss Hog, the Troop transport hog, the Flatbed Warthog, the Warthog APC, and the Civilian Hog, as seen on [[Headlong]].
*'''Seven'''th Column is the name given to Bungie's official fan club.
*The [[Master Chief]] stands '''7'''' tall.
*There are '''seven''' remaining Spartan-IIs still able to fight: John, Fred, Kelly, Linda, and [[Gray Team]], the three missing at the start of the mission beyond UNSC-controlled space.
*The Ascii [[Master Chief]] in a [http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=8302 Bungie Weekly Update] was made with '''7'''s.
*Smart AIs (such as [[Cortana]]) go [[rampant]] after '''seven''' years of activation.
*There are '''7''' [[Halo]] rings.
*In the credits for [[Halo 2]] and [[Halo 3]] instead of simply using the word "thank" they replace the first letter with a '''7''', making it "7hank".
*In the [[Halo: Combat Evolved Soundtrack]], the total running time is 1:05:08. 1+5+8=14, 14/2='''7'''.
*Considering its 10,000 km diameter, [[Halo]] would need to rotate at '''7''' km/s in order to produce artificial [[Earth]]-like "gravity" (from centripetal force).
* In the [[Cortana Letters]] "... In my palace deep, Lyca lies asleep ..." is mentioned on the '''7'''th letter and is believed to be from the poem "The Little Girl Found-By William Blake". One section says:
<pre>
"Arm in arm, '''seven''' days
They traced the desert ways.
'''seven''' nights they sleep
Among shadows deep,
And dream they see their child
Starved in desert wild."
</pre>
*In the preview of ''Halo 3'' featured at the Seattle IMAX theatre, Bungie gave away a prize to the person sitting in seat G'''7'''. (Note that G is the seventh letter of the alphabet, so it is essentially '''77'''.)
*The legendary map pack banner on the official [[Bungie.net]]. There is a sentence saying: Tru'''7'''h. Carnage. Bungie.
*All of the "[[Monitor]]" [[Forerunner]] A.I.'s have I.d. numbers that are powers of '''seven'''.
*The [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] has 14 x 14 x 14 dimensions. 14 = '''7'''+'''7'''.
*In the background of the Limited Edition of Halo 3, the door behind the Chief has a '''7''' written on it.
*In an ad for the ''Halo 3'' guide that occasionally shows up on [[Bungie.net]], "0'''7'''" is stenciled in white on the [[Pelican]] behind the Master Chief.
*Bungie has '''Seven''' Steps to World Domination.
*In the Bungie weekly update, 6/27/08, this message is posted:

/PACKET INTERRUPTION – ERROR CODE 5929 */
…Attempting Recovery…
…Attempting Recovery…
/ 93% PACKET CORRUPTION – RECOVERY UNSUCCESSFUL - DISPLAYING 
*/C!#4x---^&-$x%^^p3@
 Head2@!#SWa#++-DL*SLAj3r
 48hr0x0ABFFFFF [ERR 5929]
/ END DISPLAY */ 

Out of 5929, 5+9+2+9=25  2+5=7

Also, with "93% packet corruption", <b>7</b>% was left uncorrupted.
(edited) If you use each symbol and letter with it's corresponding number(1! 2@ 1a 2b etc),little imagination, and math and you have 8+1+3+1+3+4+24-6+7-4+24+5+6+6+16+3+2= 103_______ the minuses are dashes in the code. 
103/7 on a 12 digit calculator=14.7142857142 look closer (14).(7)(14)(28)5(7)(14)2 the only non multiples of 7 are 5 and 2, 5+2=7 that's 7 variations of 7 in that code. 
*Also, in that same update, in the Double EXP playlist's list there's a line that reads "[SPURIOUS INTERRUPT: PACKET LOST - ERROR CODE 5929]" same, 5929 is 5+9+2+9=25 2+5= 7, maybe a special reference to a special playlist on July 7th.
*There is '''7''' levels in the Halo games that the Arbiter is featured in that you encounter Flood. Oracle, Sacred Icon, Quarantine Zone, Floodgate, The Covenant, Cortana, and Halo.
*In the Halo series there are '''7''' levels named after a Halo character: 343 Guilty Spark, Keyes, The Arbiter, Regret, Gravemind, Sierra 117 and Cortana.
*Bungie broke off from Microsoft July '''7''', 200'''7''' '''7/7/07'''
*There are a total of '''7''' Halo games exclusively for [[XBOX 360]]: [[Halo 2]], [[Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack|Multiplayer Map Pack]], [[Halo 3]], [[Halo Wars]], [[Halo 3: ODST|ODST]], Halo: Reach and [[Halo Chronicles]].
*There are '''seven''' syllables in Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
*Bungie's The Art of Halo 3 was released on November 25th, 2008 (2+5= '''7''').
*There are '''7''' vidmaster achievements.
*In [[Dead or Alive 4]], [[Spartan-458]] has '''7''' different costumes in total.
*[[UNSC]] can be translated to 22*14*19*3=18480 18480/2640='''7'''
*The Prophets left their homeworld in the '''7th''' Century BC (648 BC).
*Most of The Halo Series is set in years beginning with the number 25. 2+5='''7'''  The vast majority of the game trilogy is set in 2552. 5 and 2 is the exact same equation, per order of operations.

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==117==
 
'''117''' is [[Master Chief]]'s [[SPARTAN]] tag number, but there is more than meets the eye when it comes to this number, including many religious and historical references. 
 

*'John' is four letters long, and his service tag (117) is a three digit number. <math>4 + 3 = 7</math>
1x1x7=7 
 


===Biblical Reference=== 

*[[John-117]] is believed by many fans to be a reference to [[Wikipedia:New Testament|New Testament]] of the Christian Bible. 

*In the year 117, the 7th Pope of the Catholic Church was named, Sixtus I,as well as John 1 becoming 7th bishop of Jerusalem. 

*The Gospel of John speaks of the 7 miracles of Jesus, the last one, John claims, culminating in his death. 

*[[Bungie Studios]] is known to have placed many biblical references in their earlier [[Marathon]] video game series, and many other such references have been found in the Halo series. 

*Here are passages from the [[Wikipedia:Book of Revelation|Book of Revelation]] (more formally known as The Revelation of St. John the Divine). Revelation in Greek is called "The Apocalypse", a title possibly shortened from "The Apocalypse of John." 

:"And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
:''Book of Revelation, KJV. Chapter 1 - verses 17 and 18.'' 


:"And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them."
:''Revelation. 11:7'' 


*There are also references in one other book of the Bible. 1 John houses these: 

:"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."
:''1 John 1:7 ('''1''' John '''1''': '''7''')''
:"And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."
:- '''1''' John 2: '''1''' '''7''' 


*And here are passages from the Gospel of John. These are thought less likely to be references: 

:"Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again."
:''Gospel of John, 11:7'' 


:"For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
:''Gospel of John, 1:17''
:"There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rridXskgWg believe]."
:''Gospel of John, 1:1-7''
:(Out of all of these, perhaps the most likely to be a reference to Spartan-117 would be the last verse.) 


 

*Halo 3's plot also resembles the story of Noah's Ark. Because the Forerunners kept a few of every sentient species in the galaxy in the [[Ark]] because the parasitic life-forms known as the Flood were coming, much like in the bible story of Noah's Ark. The flood was coming and Noah put two of every animal in the Ark to save them from the water flood, much like the Forerunners did before they activated the Halos to keep the other lesser sentient species from extinction. 

===Site 117===
 
Alternatively, others believe the number to be a reference to "Site 117", an archaeological site containing the first evidence of a human battle. The site is near Jebel Sahaba, Nubia and dates from between 12,000-10,000 BC. The site contains 59 human remains of men, women and children who were clearly killed with primitive hunting implements. 
 


===117 and 7===
 
It is conjectured that the numbering system for Halo installations' Monitors is, where <math>n</math> is the number of their installation, <math>7^{n-1}</math>. With this in mind, it is reasonable to assume that the number of the Monitor of Installation 07 is <math>7^6=117649</math>. As well as including the number 117 when it is written in base-10 (decimal), it also includes 649. <math>9+4-6=7</math>. 


The number 819 appears numerous times in the Marathon series. <math>819/7=117</math>. This tradition started in ''[[Marathon (video game series)|Marathon Infinity]]'', with two secret terminals on the first and last levels of campaign mode. At first sight, these terminals seemed to contain nonsense. However, if the data from both terminals was copied into ResEdit (the classic [[wikipedia:History of Mac OS|Mac OS]]'s hexadecimal editor), converted into text format, then expanded twice with [[wikipedia:Stuffit Expander|Stuffit Expander]], a map file would be revealed which could then be loaded in ''Infinity''. The 819 was a reference to Hamish Sinclair, a prominent member of the community at marathon.bungie.org (the sister site of [[halo.bungie.org]]) as if one assigned letters to numbers sequentially (<math>a = 1, b = 2, c = 3\ldots</math>) then Sinclair's initials, H.S., would be 8.19.<ref>http://marathon.bungie.org/story/hangar96.html</ref> 


===''Marathon''=== 

* In ''Marathon Infinity'' there was a hidden multiplayer map called Hats Off to 819 (named after fan Hamish Sinclair, H=8, S=19) 819 divided by 7 is 117. (''Marathon 2: Durandal'' has an achievement by the same name.) 

* The music for ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' and ''Marathon Infinity'' was composed and produced by an external music group called 'Power of Seven'. (Similarly, ''Marathon 2: Durandal'' also has an achievement with the same name.) 

* Two weapons in ''Marathon'' carry the 7 enigma: the MA-'''7'''5B rifle, and the TOZT-'''7'''. 

* In the original ''[[Marathon]]'', the barrels all have a backwards 7 in the serial number. 

===117 Trivia=== 

*In ''Halo 3'', the game won't let you input the I.D. tag "I (upper-case i)-17", "l (lower-case L)-17", or "T-17" saying that these numbers are already reserved by the ''[[UNSC]]''.  

*In [[Halo: The Flood]], [[Yayap]] tells 'Zamamee that Master Chief must go through corridor E-'''117'''. 

==Sources==
 
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==Links== 

===Internal=== 

*[[List of Biblical References in Halo]] 

*[[List of Marathon References in Halo]] 

===External=== 

*[http://sites.google.com/site/custopootimus/septictionary The Septionary] is a fan-created list every seven letter word in the english language.  

*[http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=29971515&viewreplies=true The relevant Bungie.Net forum topic is here.] 

*[http://unhalo.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_%22Three%22_References_in_Halo List of "Three" References in Halo] - Parody of this list at Gruntipedia.
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