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-*This level is a reference to the ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' level, ''[[The Library]]'', and the ''Halo 2'' level, ''[[Sacred Icon]]'', where the player has to retrieve Halo's [[Activation Index]] and that it is a pure-Flood level. The only difference is that there are no Sentinels.
 *The section of the level after saving Cortana is called 'Nor Hell A Fury...', referencing the poem by William Congreve 'The Mourning Bride'. The entire line is 'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned', possibly referencing Cortana, who, after months of torment, now has the ability to light the newly constructed Halo ring and destroy the Ark as well as the Flood.
-*Thematically, this level also has much in common with the levels ''[[Keyes]]'' and ''[[The Maw]]''. It depicts the Chief venturing alone into a vessel to rescue a comrade or friend, from the Flood, most specifically for a data construct in their possession; and detonate the fusion reactor core. In this case the objective is the Index to fire Halo; in Keyes it was [[Jacob Keyes|the Captain]]'s neural implants to destroy the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}.
 *One of Cortana's lines, "There will be no more sadness. No more anger. No more envy," appears to reference [[Marathon]]'s stages of Rampancy; Melancholia, Anger and Jealousy, respectively.
 *The line "It's the coin's fault," is a reference to a factor that brought [[John-117]] into the Spartan program. He identified the side of a 20th-century quarter owned by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey]] that was about to the hit the ground before it did in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''.