Porta

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A Porta opens for Master Chief.

A Porta is a sphincter-like orifice embedded into the floors and walls of Flood Hives that acts as the Flood analog to doorways. Portas were sighted in the Flood-infested High Charity and in the Halo 3 multiplayer map, Isolation. There are also seven portas on the level, Cortana.

Trivia

• Portas may or may not be the doors on High Charity, covered in Flood biomass.
• Portas have at least two 7 references in them, one being that Portas are made up of seven segments, and that there are seven Portas on the level, Cortana.
• The name, "porta", probably comes from the Greek word porta (πόρτα), which means door.
• Porta is also Latin for "door".
• On the Halo 3 multiplayer map, Isolation there is one porta. Sliding down a hole on the top part of the map will lead you to slide down a tube. A porta will open, letting you into the Flood-infested cave.
• Portas make an appearance in Halo Wars, on the Flood Barracks.
• There is a running joke among gamers that the Portas are the Gravemind's intestinal openings, due to their sphincter-like appearance.