Door

The most common type of door seen in the Halo games.

Doors are movable barriers used to cover up openings; typically, such barriers are attached to the very openings they block. They are used by virtually all factions in the Halo universe.

Appearances

Below is a list of the various door shapes and colors seen in the Halo games. Doors are listed for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3. Doors are not listed for Halo Wars, nor are they listed for the currently-unreleased Halo: Reach or Halo 3: ODST.

Halo: Combat Evolved

Pillar of Autumn:
- Two types of sliding doors.
- Blast Doors.
- Metal grate-covered maintenance shaft doors.
- Lifeboat Airlock doors.

Halo: N/A

The Truth and Reconciliation:
- Two different sizes of two-part Covenant sliding doors.
- Shuttle bay doors.

The Silent Cartographer:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.

Assault on the Control Room:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.
- Larger versions of the tri-segmented Forerunner door. (Generally leading outside, or in more important areas)
- Large blast doors in the underground tunnels.
- Large multi-part Control Room doors.

343 Guilty Spark:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.

The Library:
- Massive Forerunner security doors.
- Several smaller types of doors.

Two Betrayals:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.
- Larger versions of the tri-segmented Forerunner door. (Generally leading outside, or in more important areas)
- Large blast doors in the underground tunnels.
- Large multi-part Control Room doors.

Keyes:
- Two different sizes of two-part Covenant sliding doors.
- Shuttle bay doors.

The Maw:
- Two types of sliding doors.
- Blast Doors.
- Metal grate-covered maintenance shaft doors.
- Lifeboat Airlock doors.
- Static tri-segmented vehicle doors (in the tunnels of the final run).

Halo 2

Cairo Station:
- High-tech automatic doors, with a light indicating their locked/unlocked status.
- Different types of Blast Doors.
- Thick metal doors (In the tramway)
- Glass-plated doors.

Outskirts:
- Impassable gray doors with yellow upside down triangles (In the buildings of Old Mombasa).
- Dark green metal doors in the rooms of Hotel Zanzibar.
- Large highway doors (In the highway tunnel).
- Corrugated metal doors (In the highway tunnel).
- Several types of un-passable service doors (In the higway tunnel and Old Mombasa).

Metropolis:
- Large highway doors (In the highway tunnel).
- Corrugated metal doors (In the highway tunnel).
- Several types of un-passable service doors (In the higway tunnel and the streets of New Mombasa).
- Two-part sliding doors with glass windows, in the Mtangulizi Kampuni building.

The Arbiter:
- Rectangular Forerunner airlock doors with a blue square in the middle.
- Normal Forerunner doors.
- Large main doors of the Gas Mine's hangar.

The Oracle:
- Rectangular Forerunner airlock doors with a blue square in the middle.
- Normal Forerunner doors.
- Large main doors of the Gas Mine's hangar.

Delta Halo:
- Forerunner doors covered in ornate carvings, with an oval eye-like symbol in the center.

Regret:
- Forerunner doors covered in ornate carvings, with an oval eye-like symbol in the center.

Sacred Icon:
- Forerunner Pistons.
- Large Forerunner vehicle doors containing multiple segments which spin 90° and retract upwards.

Quarantine Zone:
- Large Forerunner vehicle doors containing multiple segments which spin 90° and retract upwards.
- Normal forerunner doors.
- Massive, circular doors with multiple segments.

Gravemind:
- Multi-layered Covenant doors.
- Covenant prison cage doors.

Uprising (level):
- Triangular Forerunner doors with two segments.

High Charity:
- Multi-layered Covenant doors.

The Great Journey:
- Triangular Forerunner doors with two segments.

Halo 3

Sierra 117: N/A

A door in Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest:
- Heavy bunker-style doors, which are opened with door control buttons, remarked by a Marine as being "old tech", as the base was built in the 21st century.
- Large vehicle doors (Static).
- Elevator doors.

Tsavo Highway:
- Large bunker doors of Crow's Nest
- Highway tunnel doors.

A door in Traxus Factory Complex 09.

The Storm:
- Person-sized industrial automatic doors.
- Industrial vehicle doors, openable with a button.
- Large vehicle doors.

Floodgate:
- Person-sized industrial automatic doors.
- Industrial vehicle doors, openable with a button.
- Large vehicle doors.

The Ark:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.
- Multi-part doors with segments that open upward (In the wall structure).

The Covenant:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.
- Multi-part doors with segments that open upward (In the tunnel that leads to the Citadel).
- Forerunner Control Room doors (In the Citadel).

A Covenant door in High Charity.

Cortana:
- Flood Portas: Large, sphincter-like orifices.
- High Charity's multi-segmented Covenant doors with a spinning lock in the center.

Halo:
- Triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner doors.
- Forerunner Control Room doors (In Control Room).

Trivia

The object John-117 rode to Earth in the beginning of Halo 3, is apparently some sort of Forerunner door, part of the Forerunner Dreadnought.
The triangular, tri-segmented Forerunner door is the most commonly seen door model in the Halo trilogy.

Gallery

A door in Crow's Nest.
A door in Traxus Factory Complex 09.
A Covenant door in High Charity.

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