Bungie Studios has long enjoyed inserting prominent references to the number seven into several of its games, including their entries in Halo series.[2]Ensemble Studios, 343 Industries, and certain authors have been known to continue the tradition, inserting their own references to the number in their Halo media. 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. Bungie's obsession with the number seven may be attributed to (or be a determining factor) why John-117 is considered lucky, as 7 is considered a lucky number. In spite of the fact that the number seven is featured extensively in Bungie's work, it has generated an aura of apophenia. This cultural nuance can be compared to the 23 enigma.
Most of the Monitors encountered thus far (with exception of 859 Static Carillon and 031 Exuberant Witness) have a numerical designation which is a power of seven, i.e.;
Both William-043's and Samuel-034's service tags contain references to seven: (4+3=7) and (3+4=7). Fhajad-084's service tag is a seven reference too, as 84 is a multiple of seven.
Lieutenant Hall has written 7 physics papers on Slipspace communications.[5]
七, the Chinese and Japanese character for 7, is visible on the M6D Pistol's ejection port.
When John's shield is down, it takes fourteen seconds to fully recharge - seven seconds while the shield flash red, and seven seconds while recharging.[13]
At the beginning of the second level, there are seven dead bodies around you (six marines and the lifeboat pilot).
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.
At the beginning of "The Silent Cartographer," you storm the beach with seven marines.
In the cavern with the bridge in the level "Assault on the Control Room" there are seven dead marines leading to an ammo cache.
There are 7 blast doors leading to the Index in the Library.
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.[16]
When you get on the scene to defend the group of Marines at the rock slide on "Halo," there is a sniper rifle near the lifeboat with one round in its magazine. Once reloaded, you'll have 21 extra rounds. (7 times 3)
Foehammer is instructed to pick up John-117 at external junction 4C. Considering C is the 3rd letter of the alphabet, 4C would be 4 and 3; 4+3=7.
Page 68 of "The Flood" Novel by W.Dietz - He counted to three, then dashed from boulder to boulder. He leapfrogged uphill, still very much aware of the banshee at his back, but reasonably certain he'd given the aircraft the slip. There were no blips on his threat detector, until he topped the rise and paused to examine the terrain ahead. A telltale red dot popped onto his HUD. John-117 eased his way forward, waiting for the moment of contact. Then he saw movement as hunched bodies dashed from one scrap of cover to the next. There were four of them, including a blue-armored Sangheili. (3 seconds, 4 Contacts - 3+4=7)
Junction point 4-C, if converted to all numbers, makes 7. The C is the 3rd letter in the alphabet.
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.[28]
C-7 foaming explosive is used by the Spartans and Locklear.[29]
After John-117 leaves the medical room Dr. Halsey is in, she instructs Cortana to lock the door and "boost counter-intrusion measures to level seven." [31]
John-117's Recognition Code is Tango Alpha 340 3+4+0=7
The last name "Ambrose," which is the name James Ackerson gives Kurt-051, has seven letters in it.
After two days the Spartan-III's of Alpha Company had managed to disable 7 of the reactors.[36]
"On day seven," the Admiral said, "additional Covenant reinforcements arrived.[37]
Kurt trained the Spartan-III's of Alpha Company for 7 years.[38]
"We are presently seven kilometers over the planet's surface," the AI said.[39]
Before casualties, there were 7 active Spartan-III's on Onyx (Tom, Lucy, and Team Saber).
"What Sangheili Major would dare disobey a Shipmaster who had led seven glorious campaigns against their enemies?[40]
After boarding Bloodied Spirit Fred's MJOLNIR suit has only seven minutes of air remaining.[41]
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.[42]
Chapter 27 begins at the seventh cycle, 49 units, Covenant time. 72=49.
The structure where the Spartans land is a seven-sided faceted dome with seven arches.[44] Inside are seven flat surfaces, each the size of carrier landing decks.[45]
Dr. Halsey said the portal would close in 1 hour, 17 minutes, this is equal to 77 minutes.[46] This may also be a reference to John-117 (1:17)
"It will take seven minutes in this orbit to cover that area.[47]
"Seven MAC rounds struck the two lead destroyers in the Covenant line...[48]
"The bulbous hull of a Covenant Seraph single ship appeared, then another Seraph appeared, then seven more...[49]
The teleportation pads around Onyx are seven-sided.[46]
"The seven Sentinels adjusted their aim and their spheres glowed red, amber, and then glistening gold.[50]
"Shockwave from surface detonation impacting far side of the moon in seven seconds," Durrono said.[51]
In a deleted scene, a longer version of the cutscene 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 left cheek of Miranda Keyes.
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 7, 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 multiplayer map Terminal has a large 7 on the station building.
There is a 7 on the lower part of a Pelican's ramp.
If you count the total of Phantoms in all of the Human levels such as Metropolis and Outskirts you will get a total of 7 Phantoms.
Firing the Sentinel Beam until it overheats will leave a remaining charge of 77.
The Broadcasting station for Terminal is Channel 7.
It took 7 seconds for the bomb to detonate in the last cutscene on Cairo station.
7 hexagons make up the zoomed targeting reticle of the Covenant Carbine.
In the E3 2002 trailerHalo 2, when John-117 walks into the hanger and launches himself into space (which his BR55 is replaced with the Covenant bomb in the game's cut scene), above the door to the hanger is "A-07."
In the Vista version of Halo 2, the Silent But Deadly Achievement requires the player to kill 7 enemies from behind without being spotted.
In the level Outskirts, there is a total of 7 Shadows.
On the level Zanzibar, to get the easter egg about finding Ling-Ling's head, you must put the Xbox clock on 7:07
On the mission The Arbiter, the hidden subtitle is seven words long: "Scrape them as
excrement from our boots!"
The player plays as Thel 'Vadamee for 7 levels in the campaign (counting The Heretic).
“The casing is constructed of an unusual porous metallic compound. Shrapnel from the Spike Grenade reaches a temperature of approximately 270 to 315°C and retains that heat for upwards of seven seconds. By design.” Taken from Bungie.net on Spike Grenades.
In the mission Crow's Nest, a rocket has the number 7 on each side.
At the beginning of Crow's Nest, some of the monitors have "Sector 331" written in a corner. 3+3+1=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.
It takes 7 seconds from being infected by an Infection Form to turn into a Combat Form.
In the 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."
On the side of the Warthog, below where the driver and passenger get in, just above the side skirts, there are 7 dashes.
The Troop Transport Warthog is shown to have a total of 7 seats, whereas in game there are only 5 available slots.
In the level Crow's Nest, when you first take control of John-117, 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": 2401 is 74. .
The generator on Orbital has the number 2401 on it. 2+4+0+1=7, and 7 to the fourth power, 7*7*7*7=2401.
The Magnum has a 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.
In the Level The Covenant, there are 7 Sangheili that help you (not including the Arbiter or the other Sangheili in Co-op).
In the opening sequence of the Level The Covenant, there are 7 drop ships, 5 Pelicans and 2 Phantoms.
There are 7 bellows of smoke on the horizon in Rat's Nest.
On the level Tsavo Highway, you exit the base through door number 7.
On Sandbox the Golf Club is called a 7-wood.
The blue lights that shoot out of the towers on Valhalla appear every 49 seconds. 7*7=49
In matchmaking, there are 7 pieces of equipment that can be used.
At the bottom of the 'pit of death' on Orbital, there are 7 purple lights randomly scattered (not including the ring of 6 lights, which have a darker shade of purple).
There are 7 terminals in total within the game (unless if one counts the secret Cortana moment on the level Cortana).
All of the computers placed in Forge display a very hard to read paragraph. However, it is easy to make out several 07s in the writing.
If you turn on the coordinates display during game play, the second coordinate during the credits is -7.777
To receive the IWHBYD Skull you must jump through rings 4 6 5 4 5 3 4 of the 7 holographic rings [1 being at the entrance] at the end of the 7th mission "The Covenant" after killing the prophet and all enemies in the room
In Crow's Nest, after the Pelican takes the troops out of the base, several large storage crates have the writing: WT 700 LBS.
On Crow's Nest, before you enter the hangar where you fight two Phantoms, you pass through a large, circular room with a pillar in the middle with the number 7 on it.
There are seven marines present in Gunnery Sergeant Stacker's military detail during the ceremony at the memorial during the penultimate cutscene.
The number of achievements needed in order to unlock the Katana (49) is a reference to 7, as 7x7=49.
There are seven triangles on both sides of the Battle Rifle's stock.
A contact number featured on Tsavo Highway, when multiplied, is a multiple of seven.
"Believe," a marketing campaign for Halo 3, contains seven letters.
There are 7 Flood doors on the level Cortana, and each door has "7" segments.
Various radio sets in the campaign and multiplayer maps have a dial that is turned to 7.
Firing the Plasma Rifle without stopping after first pulling the trigger until it overheats will only deplete 7% of its energy.
While I lovebees was technically created by 4orty2wo Entertainment rather than Bungie, it is highly probable they were aware of and continued the tradition.
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 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 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).[52]
When Rani tries to start a chatter business with a friend Trevor, their equipment only manages to produce 49. 49/7=7
Rani leaves with 14. 14/2=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
Jorge-052 is another reference to the number 7. 5+2=7
Carter's DMR always contains 7 rounds in the mag.
On the level "New Alexandria," there are 7 bottles in a row in Club Errera bar.
On the level "New Alexandria," there are 7 fuel rods in the Club Errera bar.
In the level "ONI: Sword Base," close to the end, there are 2 Mgalekgolo, 1 Sangheili Minor, 2 Unggoy and 2 Army Troopers, adding up to a total of 7.
In the cutscene before the level "New Alexandria," it says the date and time: August 23rd, 15:34 hours. 15+34=49, which is 7². Also, August is the eighth month 8+2-3=7.
The Announcement Trailer was 1:17 minutes, or 77 seconds long. Also a reference to John-117.
The assault rifle Carter kicks to Noble Six in the Winter Contingency cutscene has seven rounds in its magazine.
The achievement KEEP IT CLEAN requires the player to kill 7Moa on the second mission of the games campaign.
In the level Winter Contingency, there are seven possible BOB spawns, another possible reference to the number.
It is possible that the release date of Halo: Reach is also a reference to seven as the release date is September 14, 2010. (14/2=7; "Sept" is seven in French and Latin, and September was once the seventh month)
The Monument to Noble Team is composed of 54,439 individual points of light. (54,439=7x7777)
Including Thom-A293, Noble team is made up of 7 Spartans.
Rosenda, the cancelled replacement for Noble team, has 7 letters in her name.
In Invasion, when the countdown goes below 7, it will only recharge back up to 7.
At the very end of the credits, in the small grid, the number 7 flashes briefly before fading to the "Lone Wolf" mission.
After the mission, "Lone Wolf," there is a cutscene with "New Reach" in the background and Noble Six's helmet on the ground. Notice the date is July 7th, 2589. July is the seventh month of the year. This is also a reference to Bungie Day.
At the main title screen, while various battle sounds are playing, occasionally a clear seven shot burst from an Assault Rifle can be heard.
On the 7th level, Exodus, the player can find an ad on the world cuisine stands for a Moa combo costing 7.77 cR.
It is a common occurrence to get 777 as well as 313 (3+1+3=7) on the post game slot machine online
Jun A-266's service number is also a reference to seven, 2+6+6=14, 14/2=7.
The player begins the 7th level, Exodus, with 25 extra Magnum rounds. (2+5=7) In addition, there are 7 rounds left in the starting magazine.
There are 14 jets on the back of the Pillar of Autumn. 14/2=7
At the beginning of the level The Package, the time is shown as 26:16. 26+16=42=6*7.
At the beginning of the mission "Nightfall" there is a poster in the first building with 35 black people and 1 red person on it. The red person is on the bottom row 7 places from the left. 35 (the # of black people) divided by 5 is 7.
In the seventh mission, Exodus, Civilian Transport 7 survives.
Pressing the hidden switch in the level "The Package" results in the Tribute Room door opening and 7 Sangheili emerging with swords.
The serial # of a Falcon is 1611513214. (1+6+1+1+5+1+3+2+1+4=25, 2+5=7)
The grenade launcher starts off with 7 grenades.
When falling without forward momentum, the fall distance for minimum damage is 7 units. Units are from the "Nudge" tool in forge.
In the Deliver Hope trailer, seven seconds pass between Kat being hit by the Banshee Bomb and the next time the MFDD is shown.
Carter A-259's service number is also reference to seven, 2+5+9=16, 1+6=7.
The cR you achieve for completing a match always can be divided by 7.
On the Collar/Breacher armor, there are 7 shotgun shells.
Frigate Grafton is spelled with 14 letters total. There are 2 words in "Frigate Grafton." 14/2 = 7
There are 7 Sangheili Zealots encountered within the campaign; a pair of Zealots assisting the Field Marshall in Winter Contingency, a third in Tip of the Spear, 3 more assisting the Field Marshall in the Pillar of Autumn, and the final one who kills Noble Six in Lone Wolf
Kat-B320 is also a reference to seven. 3+2=5 B is the second letter of the alphabet. 5+2=7.
The radio station on all radios is 7.070.763, which is divisible by seven.
The Pelican Whiskey 035 that appears during the New Alexandria level contains a seven reference, as 7x5=35.
In several buildings (including the very first one in Winter Contingency), there is a poster displaying thirty-six human silhouettes, and the 34th is highlighted in red. 3+4=7
In Winter Contingency, after you talk to the farmers, the next building you enter is labelled building 7. Also, there are 7 bodies in this building (5 civilians and 2 troopers).
The garage of the bunker where you rescue the troopers in Winter Contingency is garage 7.
The price of the entire Emile armor for matchmaking including Emile firefight voice is 777,000 CR.
The Eternal Armor effect was made unavailable for purchase on July 7 (7/7).
7 appears on screen after the credits.
The average height of an Unggoy, in Halo: Reach, is 5'2." 5+2=7
In Forge World, "Mount Skullimanjaro" was named after the killstreak "Killamanjaro" which is when a player gets "7" kills.
The battle between John-117 and Thel 'Lodamee lasts 7 seconds.
When Frederic-104, Kelly-087 and John-117 enter the Covenant Flagship Kelly says, "We got three minutes" indicating that the space battle lasted 7 minutes.
In the E3 2012 Stage Demo, Cortana stated that the UNSC Infinity crashed 77.8 kilometers from their current position. "8" is the rounded up form of an unending seven.
The Magnum carried by John-117 at the beginning of the level Requiem has 7 rounds left in the starting magazine, much like the Magnum at the beginning of Exodus from Halo: Reach.
There are seven warthogs in the Dawn's crash site on the level Requiem.
The first living humans John-117 encounters number 7 of which included Thomas Lasky, Sarah Palmer and four marines.
Four years, seven months, and ten days after UNSC Forward Unto Dawn was split in two was the date on which Cortana woke John-117 from cryogenic sleep. (4+7+10=21 21/3=7)
There are 7 different pre-order bonuses: the Pulse armor skin for the GUNGNIR armor, the Artic skin for the Battle Rifle, the Circuit skin for the Oceanic armor, the Forest skin for the HAZOP armor, the Raptor skin for the Venator armor, the Web armor skin for the CIO armor, and the Deadeye helmet skin.
In Spartan Ops Episode 7, Invasion, Dr. Halsey uses the A.I. override phrase "Undid Iridium" on Roland. On the Periodic Table of the Elements, the atomic number of iridium is 77.
In the Cortana Letters "... In my palace deep, Lyca lies asleep ..." is mentioned on the 7th letter and is believed to be from the poem "The Little Girl Found-By William Blake." One section says:
"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."
In the preview of Halo 3 featured at the Seattle IMAX theater, Bungie gave away a prize to the person sitting in seat G7. (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 slogan saying: Tru7h. Carnage. Bungie.
All known "Monitor" Forerunner A.I.'s have I.d. numbers that are powers of seven.
Also, with "93% packet corruption," 7% was left uncorrupted.
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, 20077/7/07
Bungie's The Art of Halo 3 was released on November 25th, 2008 (2+5= 7).
There are 7 Vidmaster achievements.
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.
In many cultures, 7 is considered to be lucky, and John-117 is seen by Cortana to be "luckier" than the other Spartans, in both The Fall of Reach and the beginning of Halo 3.
Many Covenant weapons have Type-52 or Type-25 at the beginning of their official names (5+2=7 and 2+5=7)
The Quito Space Tether was officially given its name in the year 2401, exactly 32,196 days after its completion (including leap days). (74=2401 and 3+2+1+9+6=21 21/3=7)
When a Spike grenade detonates, its spikes will stay hot for seven seconds.
Dr. Halsey's journal has 7 pages unwritten (excluding the text at the last page with the copyrights).
There is a section of Dr. Halsey's journal that says
"I outlined a corrective matrix calculation, revising the dimensional parameters in my head (she used 7 when she needed 16).
The Human-Covenant war started in 2525 (2+5+2+5=14/2=7) and ended 28 years later(28/4=7) in 2552 (2+5+2+5=14/2=7).
Using the iPhone Bungie App, you can offer a star to 7 people.
Several Spartans (other than main characters) also have instances of seven in their tags.
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