- "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[1]
- "Cause that's the best number. It's like rock. Nothing beats rock or 7."
- — Michael Wu
7
Bungie has long enjoyed using the number seven (7) in its games in many prominent ways.[2] 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 7 being considered a lucky number in Western culture. 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.
After 343 Industries took over the Halo franchise in 2011, references to 7 have continued, possibly as an homage to Bungie.
Halo: The Fall of Reach (and Halo: Fall of Reach)[edit]
- Main articles: Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: Fall of Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved (and Halo: The Flood)[edit]
- Main articles: Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: The Flood
Halo: First Strike[edit]
- Main article: Halo: First Strike
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Main article: Halo 2
- Main article: Halo 3
Cortana Letters and Transmissions[edit]
- Main articles: Cortana Letters and 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[edit]
- Main article: I Love Bees
Halo: Contact Harvest[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Contact Harvest
- There were seven space elevators of the Tiara.[62]
- Seven main maglev train lines led out from each base of the space elevators.[63]
- Prophet Senior Ministry staffers could manage to travel in their anti-gravity chairs in groups as small as seven.[64]
- During the evacuation of Harvest, Loki changed the five minute interval for the containers to seven minutes.[65]
- The first space elevator to collapse was the seventh elevator.[66]
- Sif's electronics were stored in seven towers in the Tiara's control room.[67]
- First contact with the Covenant was made on January 17, 2525, i.e. 1/17/2525. 1 x 1 x 7=7. 2+5=7.
Halo: The Cole Protocol[edit]
- Main article: Halo: The Cole Protocol
- Seven ODST's were killed during the attack on the Redoubt.
Halo Wars[edit]
- 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.[68]
Halo 3: ODST[edit]
- Main article: Halo 3: ODST
Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
Halo: Reach[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn[edit]
- Main article: Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
- A Corbulo Academy training bunker is designated as "Field Depot 7".
- Cadmon Lasky tells his brother that his ODST unit engaged in a 7-hour firefight with Insurrectionists.[82]
- There are 7 fully identified members of Hastati Squad:
- Main article: Halo 4
Halo: Uprising[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Uprising
- In Issue #3, a UNSC Marine designated Blue Leader contacts "Site Seven" to establish connection to command.
Halo Legends[edit]
- Main article: Halo Legends
Halo: Cryptum[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Cryptum
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Halo: Glasslands[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Glasslands
- Dr. Halsey remarks her old age by reminiscing that she is no longer twenty-one years of age. 21/3=7[84]
- The completion of the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures could not be performed until candidates were 14 years of age. 14/2=7[85]
- 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.[86]
- Lucy-B091 suffered from a speech impediment for 7 years.[87]
- Lucy referred to Morse code as a "simple, seven-hundred-year-old system of on-off signals.[88]
- Mal noted seeing a lot of glassed planets in the last fourteen years. 14/2=7[89]
- Fred and Mendez go up seven floors in the Forerunner elevator.[90]
- At the Voi Memorial ceremony, Malcolm Geffen and the other Kilo-Five ODSTs wore their dress uniforms for more than seven hours.[91]
Halo: Primordium[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Primordium
Halo: Silentium[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Silentium
- Far Nomdagro is located seven lightyears from the Capital system.[96]
- Audacity had a crew of seven during its expedition to Path Kethona.[97]
- During a survey of a star system in Path Kethona, Audacity's sensor readings are disrupted by unknown objects less than seven hundred million kilometers from the star.[98]
- The fifth planet in the star system investigated by the Audacity is surrounded by seven rings of icy debris.[98]
- After discovering a fleet of ancient Forerunner vessels, the crew of the Audacity choose to investigate an outlying group of seven vessels.[99]
- Among the ancient Forerunner warships are what the Librarian assumes may be classified as sixth- or seventh- order ships.[99]
- During the Battle of the 78th Thema, twelve Fortress-class vessels are placed as apex control stations for seven hundred thousand Harrier-class vessels.[100]
- Requiem is orbited by seven ice-covered resource planetoids.[101]
Halo: Escalation[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Escalation
Halo: Broken Circle[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Broken Circle
Hunt the Truth[edit]
- Main article: Hunt the Truth
Halo 5: Guardians[edit]
- Main article: Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars 2[edit]
- Main article: Halo Wars 2
- In the level From the Deep, there are 7 watchtowers stationed around the map.
- Alice's base in From the Deep has 7 starting structures.
- On the level Lights Out, Jerome starts with 7 units.
- There are 7 Marines and 7 Hellbringers at the start of the level Last Stand.
- There are 7 waves of UNSC reinforcements on the level Last Stand.
- There are 7 Marines and 7 Hornets in total at The Signal.
- On the level The Archive, Voridus starts with 7 units.
- There are total of 7 units from India Company that were not captured on the level Gatecrashers.
Halo: Battle Born[edit]
- Main article: Halo: Battle Born
Miscellaneous[edit]
Sources[edit]
- ^ Bungie.net: Bungie Day Tribute
- ^ Marathon.Bungie.Org: The Number Seven
- ^ a b Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 19
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 21
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 22
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 43
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 96
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 139
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 140
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 144
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 149
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, pages 192-193
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 199
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 257
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, Epilogue
- ^ a b c Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Maw
- ^ Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, page ??
- ^ Halo: The Flood, page 31
- ^ Halo: The Flood, page 53
- ^ Halo: The Flood, page 177
- ^ Halo: The Flood, page 237
- ^ a b Halo: First Strike, page 36
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 53
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 94
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 114
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 122
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 127
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 154
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 165
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 208
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 246
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 262
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 268
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 298
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 314
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page ??
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 16
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 22
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 32
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 84
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, pages 83-84
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 85
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 86
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 87
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 161
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 189
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 218
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 232
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 236
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx page 270
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx page 271
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 291
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 297
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 305
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 321
- ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 311
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 378
- ^ Halo 2, campaign level Cairo Station
- ^ Halo 2, campaign level The Arbiter
- ^ Bungie.net: Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade
- ^ Perdita's Story
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 66
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 76
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 149
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 354
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 371
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 309
- ^ Halo Wars: Genesis
- ^ Bungie.net: Meet the Squad
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Mona Lisa", page 313
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, page 355
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, page 439
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, page 464
- ^ Data Drop Six
- ^ Bungie.net - Bungie Weekly Update: 10/08/10
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - December 4th, 2510
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - December 4th, 2510
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - July 30th, 2511
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - October 15, 2521
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - July 29th, 2549
- ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal - November 7, 2549
- ^ Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Part 3
- ^ Halo: Cryptum, page 26
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 14
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 109
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 133
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 99
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 123
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 153
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 243
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 415
- ^ Halo: Primordium, page 50
- ^ Halo: Primordium, page 166
- ^ a b Halo: Primordium, page 240
- ^ Halo: Primordium, page 374
- ^ Halo: Silentium, page 49
- ^ Halo: Silentium, page 61
- ^ a b Halo: Silentium, page 113
- ^ a b Halo: Silentium, page 120
- ^ Halo: Silentium, page 212
- ^ Halo: Silentium, page 279
- ^ Hunt the Truth "Major Breakthrough" blog post
- ^ Hunt the Truth, Episode 06: A HAIRLINE FRACTURE
- ^ Hunt the Truth, Episode 08: BOXING STORY
- ^ YouTube - Halo 5 | M57 Rocket Launchers Analysis
- ^ Halo: Battle Born, pages 187-188
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia, page 216
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