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"Some of you may be wondering - "What's up with this unhealthy obsession with the number 7?" This page offers some insights."

— Brian Jarrard, linking to this very page

"Cause that's the best number. It's like rock. Nothing beats rock or 7."

— Michael Wu

Bungie has long enjoyed using the number seven (7) in its games in many prominent ways. 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 constructed accidentally through 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. 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.

Halo: The Fall of Reach (and Halo: Fall of Reach)

Main articles: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: Fall of Reach

Halo: Combat Evolved (and Halo: The Flood)

Main articles: Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: The Flood

Halo: First Strike

Main article: Halo: First Strike

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

Main article: Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

Halo 2

Main article: Halo 2

Halo 3

Main article: Halo 3

Cortana Letters and Transmissions

Main articles: Cortana Letters, Transmissions

• Cortana signs her second letter with seven 'X's and 'O's.
• Cortana sends eight emails. But Letter Three was likely never intended, so seven messages were planned.

I Love Bees

Main article: I Love Bees

Halo: Contact Harvest

Main article: Halo: Contact Harvest

• There were seven space elevators of the Tiara.
• Seven main maglev train lines led out from each base of the space elevators.
• Prophet Senior Ministry staffers could manage to travel in their gravity thrones in groups as small as seven.
• The first space elevator to collapse was the seventh elevator.
• Later Loki changed the five minute interval for the containers to seven minutes.
• Sif's electronics were stored in seven towers in the Tiara's control room.

Halo: The Cole Protocol

Main article: Halo: The Cole Protocol

• Seven ODST's were killed during the attack on the Redoubt.

Halo Wars

Main article: Halo Wars

• There are 7 Sangheili deactivating camouflage in the Halo Wars Announcement Trailer.
• In Halo Wars, both the UNSC Fortress and Covenant Citadel possess 7 expansion sockets.
• There are 7 types of buildings for each UNSC and Covenant.
• In the beginning of level Relic Approach, the lockdown on the Alpha Base will not end and the main gate will not open until the player trains five more squads of marines, bringing the total to seven.
• When playing on Easy or Normal the player begins the level Arcadia City with seven units: six Hornets and Sergeant Forge.
• The player begins the level Scarab with exactly seven units: 2 Rhinos, 2 Marine squads, 1 Scorpion, 1 Warthog, and Sergeant Forge.
• There are 7 power nodes that you can destroy to make the Super Scarab's searchlight move slower on the level Scarab.
• The player begins the level Beachhead with exactly seven units: 4 ODST squads, 1 Hellbringer, Sergeant Forge, and Professor Anders.
• The cryo pods in the last cutscene are row 3 and 4. 3+4=7
• Following the events aboard the UNSC Prophecy, Sergeant Forge required seven doses of anti-radiation treatment.

Halo 3: ODST

Main article: Halo 3: ODST

Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

Main article: Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

Halo: Reach

Main article: Halo: Reach

Halo Legends

Main article: Halo Legends

Halo: Cryptum

Main article: Halo: Cryptum

• 7 humans belonged to the crew that assisted Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting in inevitably finding the Cryptum of the Didact.

Halo: Glasslands

Main article: Halo: Glasslands

• Dr. Halsey remarks her old age by reminiscing that she is no longer twenty-one years of age in Halo: Glasslands. 21/3=7
• The completion of the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures could not be performed until candidates were 14 years of age. 14/2=7
• New Llanelli was glassed 7 years before the Human-Covenant War ended, as remarked by Tom Muir, who complains that the UNSC's presence during the events of Halo: Glasslands were 7 years too late.
• Lucy-B091 suffered from a speech impediment of a 7 year duration.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Main article: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

• All the references from the original game apply here.
• The player has to escape the Flood Containment Facility within 21 minutes to get the Breaking Quarantine achievement.
• The Anniversary Map Pack released with the game is made up of seven maps.

Halo: Primordium

Main article: Halo: Primordium

• As Chakas and Vinnevra visit a crashed Forerunner escape pod, Chakas counts the partial remains of about 7 dead Forerunners.
• The Forerunner Lifeworker Genemender Folder of Fortune is said to have 7-fingered hands.
• The victorious Forerunner assault on the humans at Charum Hakkor were staged of 7 slipspace portals.
• 7000 human warriors and 70 human vessels were assigned to protect the timelock that contained the Timeless One.
• The flashbacks of a recovered fragment of 343 Guilty Spark, formerly known as Chakas, primarily take place on Installation 07, one of the 7 Halo rings.

Related links

Internal

• List of references to religion in the Halo series
• List of Marathon References in Halo

External

• "7" on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Bungie.net: The Bungie Code: Septionary: Every 7 Letter Word In The English L...
• Gruntipedia: List of "Three" References in Halo - Parody of this list at Gruntipedia.