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Subject: The Se7enth Sign

that which is not dead can eternal lie, but with strange aeons even death may die.

Se7en is also Darker

and there are 7 columns in the 7th Column.

plus. 7 is the best and most perfect number.

  • 03.01.2007 3:36 PM PDT

this will explain alot

Seven is darker
This is how the number 7 is bungies number

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Halo: The Fall of Reach
"Spartan" is a seven-letter word.
"MJOLNIR" is a seven-letter word.
"Cortana" is a seven-letter word.
"Beowulf" is a seven-letter word.
The book takes place mainly in 2525 and 2552. 2 + 2 + 5 + 5 = 14, or 7 x 2.
Pillar of Autumn is 14 letters long. Or 7 + 7.
The Master Chief's Spartan number is 117. It also may be a reference to 117649, 7 to the sixth power.
Jericho of Jericho VII is a seven-letter word. Also, VII.
Lieutenant Keyes notes he graduated from UNSC OCS "only seven weeks ago."
"Warthog" and "Pelican" are both seven letter words.
Johnson of Sergeant Johnson is a seven letter word.
Cortana comandeers COMSat 419 during the test of the MJOLNIR Mark V armor.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: The Flood
There are seven Halo Installations.
The Pillar of Autumn has 14 letters in it (7 + 7 = 14)
The Pillar of Autumn, ingame, is 1.17 scale kilometers long.
343 Guilty Spark: 343 is 7 raised to the third power.
"Smart" AIs have an operational life span of 7 years.
In Chapter Seven of The Flood, the date is "Seventh Cycle, 49 units (Covenant Battle Calender)". 49 = 7 x 7
The Kanji character for seven is on the Pistol.
You need at least seven needles from the needler to make a small explosion.
Echo 419: 4 + 1 + 9 = 14 or 7 + 7
Major Antonio Silva wishes he had 6 more soldiers like First Lieutenant Melissa Mckay, making 7 in total.

Halo: First Strike
There are seven Covenant ships in the system after Halo's destruction.
Spartan-104 accidentally spamms FLEETCOM 7 during the descent of the Pelican Bravo 001.
Cole Protocol, Subsection seven, is stated.
"Polaski" is a seven letter word.
The master chief's recognition code is TC 340. 3+4=7
The Spartans on Reach arrive at ODG Facility A-331. 3 + 3 + 1 = 7
The Spartans try to save Reactor Complex Seven
There are seven surgical bays in the infirmary of CASTLE Base.
Kalmiya is a seven letter word.
(Page 127) Beowulf is a seven letter word.
(Page 127) As she is deleting Beowulf, Dr. Halsey tapps the level seven security barriers.
Ascendant Justice arrives in Epsilon Eridani 700,000 kilometers from the system's center.
(Page 175) Haverson orders the dropship on a course of 2-3-0 by 1-1-0. 2 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 7.
There were seven service drones aboard the Gettysburg.
(Page 227) Stanforth orders the ship on a course of 2-4-0 by 0-3-5. 2 + 4 + 3 + 5 = 14, or 7 x 2.
(Page 246) Dr. Halsey boosts counterintrusion measures to level seven.
(Page 268) The dead crew of the Gettysburg is places in cargo bay seven.
(Page 305) The Spartans must move seven kilometers further up the top lobw of the Unyielding Hierophant.
(Page 314) The Master Chief sets his Lotus Anti Tank Mine detonator for seven seconds.

Halo 2
2401 Penitent Tangent: 2401 is 7 raised to the fourth power.
Serial number of the In Amber Clad is FFG-142. 1 + 4 + 2 is 7.
One of the special Zanzibar Signs occurs on 07/07.
The Gravemind speaks mostly in iambic heptameter (poetic style with seven beats per line).
On Outskirts, in the small dark room where the IWHBYD skull is located, there is a number 7 on the wall.
At the end of the credits the "t" is replaced with a seven in the sentence "And a whole load of people we didn't get time to 7hank"
The Halo Limited Collector's edition comes with a 7-Eleven slurpee coupon
To obtain the IWHBYD skull, one must face seven waves of Elites.
On the map Coagulation, if you look at the back of either base you will notice 2 flags hanging from the roof by the back door. one flag has a snake and the other has an eagle. on the bottom of one of the flags in roman numerals is V and the other is XII and you can add 7 to 5 to get 12 or subtract 7 from 12 to get 5 or subtract 5 from 12 to get 7.
The Master Chief's current armor model is Mark VI. For Halo 3 the Chief may receive a Mark VII class suit(This is unlikely because he is aboard the Forerunner Ship.)
On the level Cairo Station where the Arbiter gets branded with the Mark of Shame, there are seven tiers of bleachers for the audience.
The words Arbiter and Dervish (early name for Arbiter) are seven letter words.
There are 7 Game types
There are 16 weapon sets (1+6=7)
The Ark has in total seven characters (including the space)
In Outskirts on your way to the blind skull there is a sign bearing the number 7 nailed into the wall.
"Phantom" is a seven letter word.
"Spectre" is a seven letter word.

Halo Movie
The movie is set to come out in 2007. Some fans speculate 07/07/07 as a release date.

Cortana Letters and Transmissions
There are 14 transmissions. 14 = 7 + 7.
Cortana signs one letter with seven 'X's and 'O's.
Cortana sends seven emails. Alternatively, Letter Three was likely never intended, so seven messages were planned.

I Love Bees
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 voicemail, 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 storytale 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 Pharoah had a dream about seven skinny cows that ate seven fat cows).
Two security guards see Jan breaking into a military base on security camera 34. 3 + 4 = 7

Misc
The Master Chief stands 7'tall.
Most of Halo is set in years begining with the number 25. (2+5=7)
Elysium City. Elysium is a 7 letter word
If the number of 343 Guilty Spark of installation 04 is 7 raised to the power of 3 and 2401 Penitent Tangent is 7 raised to the fourth power and there are 7 rings in total, we can calculate that the monitor of installation 07 is 117649, 7 raised to the sixth power. That number starts with "117" which is Master Chief's number. We can speculate that very important events will possibly happen on installation 07. Also, 1+1+7+6+4+9 = 28 or 7X4.

  • 03.01.2007 3:44 PM PDT

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You're not exactly correct on the human head openings.

The human head with skin has five (perhaps seven, it depends on how you look at it) openings. Mouth, nostrils, and ears. I don't count the eye sockets, because they are blocked by the eyes. So, in that case, there are only five.

Now, the skull, on the other hand, has more than seven. Nine, I believe. Mouth, nostrils, eye sockets, ears, and sinus cavities.

  • 03.01.2007 3:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Blitz2o MKII
Se7en is also Darker

and there are 7 columns in the 7th Column.

plus. 7 is the best and most perfect number.

Nice emblem, jerk. /jk
The number 7 truly is everywhere and it truly gets on my nerves.

[Edited on 3/1/2007]

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Im more of a #3 person

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Posted by: The Slayer
The number 7 truly is everywhere and it truly gets on my nerves.


Se7en.

  • 03.01.2007 4:03 PM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Se7en rounds in the S&W 686P I use to maintain order around here.

All of you, put your hands in the air and move to the Underground!

  • 03.01.2007 4:38 PM PDT
Subject: The Se7enth Sign

"In order to be effective, truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt." -Wei Wu Wei

I didn't really know where it was appropriate to post this, so I'll just file it under Septagon since it has to do with sevens.

Why are we so obsessed with this number? The number seven has many connections to human society, and may be a sub-conscious force steering our interpretations of the world around us. But why is it that this number has such significance to Bungie in specific. I looked up every relevant detail I could find about the number seven, in the hopes it would show me why they chose THIS number.

What I came across was of a far greater significance than I was prepared to handle. But to begin with, lets look at the source info:

SEVENS IN MATH

-When asked to pick a number between 1 and 10, Seven is the most common answer
-When rolling a pair of six sided dice, Seven is the most common result
-There are seven notes in a Western musical scale
-There are seven primary colors

SE7ENS IN RELIGION

-There are Seven days in a week, and the Seventh day was sanctified as a day of rest
-In Judaism the Torah is divided into Seven aliyahs, read during Shabbat by Seven people
-Jewish newlyweds feast for Seven days after their wedding
-God promised the Israelites they would displace Seven nations when entering Israel
-In Christianity there are Seven deadly sins, and Seven virtues
-The virgin Mary has Seven sorrows and Seven joys
-The Roman Catholic faith has Seven sacraments
-In Christianity Seven represents the union of man (3) and woman (4)
-There are Seven miracles (ayat) in the first chapter of the Qur'an
-In Islam there are Seven heavens and Seven earths
-Buddha took Seven steps at birth
-Atlantis was said to have Seven main islands

SE7ENS IN SOCIETY

-Movies: Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, Seven year Itch, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Seventh Seal, and of course Se7en
-Sports: Seven game series, seven players in Handball and Ultimate Frisbee
-Geography: Seven Continents, Seven seas, Seven Wonders of the World
-Astronomy: Seven visible planets, Seven stars in the Big Dipper, Seven saints per constellation according to Indian Astrology

SE7ENS IN GENERAL

-There are Seven openings in the human head
-There are Seven basic principles of Bushido
-There are Seven chakras
-There are Seven colors in a rainbow
-Seven is the largest number of sticks (cylinders) that you can bundle into a static shape

But my personal favorite is George Miller's essay, "The Magical Number Seven". In it he uses the scientific method to uncover the secrets of how the human mind really works. It's fairly complicated but it basically says that humans can store seven pieces of information in their conscious brain at any given time. This means when we are forced to think all at once about complicated subjects, we have to categorize or otherwise group the information until we've reduced the "clusters" to a number under Seven.

Bungie's use of Seven is prolific. Guilty Spark 343 (7x7x7=343), Penitent Tangent 2401 (7x7x7x7=2401 or 2+4+0+1=7), Seven Halo's (six now thank to MC), Seven step plan to World Domination, Marathon was carved from the moon Deimos (discovered in 1877, photographed in 1977). There are more, but these are the most obvious and widely accepted instances.

Perhaps Bungie chose Seven for no reason other than it's history as a sacred or lucky number. Maybe, like an inside joke, there is some special significance which we would all be pretty disappointed if we discovered. But I propose, that despite what they may believe, they chose seven for the same reason everyone else in history seems to have. It's an interesting number, with many natural and man-made relevancies. It even has religious and metaphysical significance. It's both Human, and other worldly, much like my favorite game, Halo.

  • 03.01.2007 2:04 PM PDT

­"You have to aim above the head, but then a little lower so you actually get it."

-John Mayer

Posted by: CNC MadDogg
-When rolling a pair of six sided dice, Seven is the most common result

Impossible.

Posted by: BobBQ
Se7en rounds in the S&W 686P I use to maintain order around here.

All of you, put your hands in the air and move to the Underground!


I'll bust out my 9!

[Edited on 3/1/2007]

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Kamatzu, the thread starter said a pair of six-sided dies.

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May the Great Journey await you, may your enemies writhe in hell, and your line continue forward, and gain honor. May your scattered body go beyond the limits of your mind... Beyond the limits of our worlds, to the places our ancestors dream and sang of, and the Prophets speak of.

He said it was impossible because their are an Infinite number of chances if you infinitely role them. The only way to say that the most common number is 7, is if you put a control variable in there, which would have to be a limit to how many roles you can make in the experiment.

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Another Religous relation you missed is the perfect being.

Jesus, the son of God 111
Satan, The Fallen Angel 666

666 + 111 = 777

777 = The perfect being in religion.

But then again there is also the more scientific Holy Number PHI (pronounced fee) also known as the Divine Proportion. 1.618

Anyone know what it is?

I'll give you a hint, study Leonardo Da' Vinci's Vitruvian Man sketch. If you cant figure it out I'll post it later. You'd be surprised.

*snowmanaxt is a huge fan of Leonardo Da' Vinci*

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this will explain alot

Seven is darker
This is how the number 7 is bungies number

Posted by: natedogr
Halo: The Fall of Reach
"Spartan" is a seven-letter word.
"MJOLNIR" is a seven-letter word.
"Cortana" is a seven-letter word.
"Beowulf" is a seven-letter word.
The book takes place mainly in 2525 and 2552. 2 + 2 + 5 + 5 = 14, or 7 x 2.
Pillar of Autumn is 14 letters long. Or 7 + 7.
The Master Chief's Spartan number is 117. It also may be a reference to 117649, 7 to the sixth power.
Jericho of Jericho VII is a seven-letter word. Also, VII.
Lieutenant Keyes notes he graduated from UNSC OCS "only seven weeks ago."
"Warthog" and "Pelican" are both seven letter words.
Johnson of Sergeant Johnson is a seven letter word.
Cortana comandeers COMSat 419 during the test of the MJOLNIR Mark V armor.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: The Flood
There are seven Halo Installations.
The Pillar of Autumn has 14 letters in it (7 + 7 = 14)
The Pillar of Autumn, ingame, is 1.17 scale kilometers long.
343 Guilty Spark: 343 is 7 raised to the third power.
"Smart" AIs have an operational life span of 7 years.
In Chapter Seven of The Flood, the date is "Seventh Cycle, 49 units (Covenant Battle Calender)". 49 = 7 x 7
The Kanji character for seven is on the Pistol.
You need at least seven needles from the needler to make a small explosion.
Echo 419: 4 + 1 + 9 = 14 or 7 + 7
Major Antonio Silva wishes he had 6 more soldiers like First Lieutenant Melissa Mckay, making 7 in total.

Halo: First Strike
There are seven Covenant ships in the system after Halo's destruction.
Spartan-104 accidentally spamms FLEETCOM 7 during the descent of the Pelican Bravo 001.
Cole Protocol, Subsection seven, is stated.
"Polaski" is a seven letter word.
The master chief's recognition code is TC 340. 3+4=7
The Spartans on Reach arrive at ODG Facility A-331. 3 + 3 + 1 = 7
The Spartans try to save Reactor Complex Seven
There are seven surgical bays in the infirmary of CASTLE Base.
Kalmiya is a seven letter word.
(Page 127) Beowulf is a seven letter word.
(Page 127) As she is deleting Beowulf, Dr. Halsey tapps the level seven security barriers.
Ascendant Justice arrives in Epsilon Eridani 700,000 kilometers from the system's center.
(Page 175) Haverson orders the dropship on a course of 2-3-0 by 1-1-0. 2 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 7.
There were seven service drones aboard the Gettysburg.
(Page 227) Stanforth orders the ship on a course of 2-4-0 by 0-3-5. 2 + 4 + 3 + 5 = 14, or 7 x 2.
(Page 246) Dr. Halsey boosts counterintrusion measures to level seven.
(Page 268) The dead crew of the Gettysburg is places in cargo bay seven.
(Page 305) The Spartans must move seven kilometers further up the top lobw of the Unyielding Hierophant.
(Page 314) The Master Chief sets his Lotus Anti Tank Mine detonator for seven seconds.

Halo 2
2401 Penitent Tangent: 2401 is 7 raised to the fourth power.
Serial number of the In Amber Clad is FFG-142. 1 + 4 + 2 is 7.
One of the special Zanzibar Signs occurs on 07/07.
The Gravemind speaks mostly in iambic heptameter (poetic style with seven beats per line).
On Outskirts, in the small dark room where the IWHBYD skull is located, there is a number 7 on the wall.
At the end of the credits the "t" is replaced with a seven in the sentence "And a whole load of people we didn't get time to 7hank"
The Halo Limited Collector's edition comes with a 7-Eleven slurpee coupon
To obtain the IWHBYD skull, one must face seven waves of Elites.
On the map Coagulation, if you look at the back of either base you will notice 2 flags hanging from the roof by the back door. one flag has a snake and the other has an eagle. on the bottom of one of the flags in roman numerals is V and the other is XII and you can add 7 to 5 to get 12 or subtract 7 from 12 to get 5 or subtract 5 from 12 to get 7.
The Master Chief's current armor model is Mark VI. For Halo 3 the Chief may receive a Mark VII class suit(This is unlikely because he is aboard the Forerunner Ship.)
On the level Cairo Station where the Arbiter gets branded with the Mark of Shame, there are seven tiers of bleachers for the audience.
The words Arbiter and Dervish (early name for Arbiter) are seven letter words.
There are 7 Game types
There are 16 weapon sets (1+6=7)
The Ark has in total seven characters (including the space)
In Outskirts on your way to the blind skull there is a sign bearing the number 7 nailed into the wall.
"Phantom" is a seven letter word.
"Spectre" is a seven letter word.

Halo Movie
The movie is set to come out in 2007. Some fans speculate 07/07/07 as a release date.

Cortana Letters and Transmissions
There are 14 transmissions. 14 = 7 + 7.
Cortana signs one letter with seven 'X's and 'O's.
Cortana sends seven emails. Alternatively, Letter Three was likely never intended, so seven messages were planned.

I Love Bees
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 voicemail, 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 storytale 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 Pharoah had a dream about seven skinny cows that ate seven fat cows).
Two security guards see Jan breaking into a military base on security camera 34. 3 + 4 = 7

Misc
The Master Chief stands 7'tall.
Most of Halo is set in years begining with the number 25. (2+5=7)
Elysium City. Elysium is a 7 letter word
If the number of 343 Guilty Spark of installation 04 is 7 raised to the power of 3 and 2401 Penitent Tangent is 7 raised to the fourth power and there are 7 rings in total, we can calculate that the monitor of installation 07 is 117649, 7 raised to the sixth power. That number starts with "117" which is Master Chief's number. We can speculate that very important events will possibly happen on installation 07. Also, 1+1+7+6+4+9 = 28 or 7X4.

Please.
That only scratches the surface.

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Posted by: Kamatzu
Posted by: CNC MadDogg
-When rolling a pair of six sided dice, Seven is the most common result

Impossible.

Either you're being cocky because you like pointing out chance errors in sentences and acting smarmy in response, or you don't understand.

I can't believe you made me do maths on the weekend!
-TGP-

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S7eve Vai's 777 Universal Gui7ar, with seven s7rings

All his bes7 songs are 7he 7th 7rack

I have seen him live 7 7imes.

Played his gui7ar for Mar7y! who 7his morning a7e 7 M&Ms (& = number 7 on a keyboard)

7hats 7he tru7h!

Regards

Camperman

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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

I like the number 7 because it has that totally sweet horizontal line sweeping from directly from left to right, not stopping, curving or deviating from its path in any way. When reaching the end of its journey, the line does not rest, retire, or continue on in the same old path. It boldly takes a 135 degree turn to the right and goes in a new direction. A new path, for new ways and new discovery. That path is longer and more important, and at the end it abruptly stops and says, "Here I am in the lower-left hand corner, punk! What are you going to do about it?!?!"

And don't forget the 7s in riddles:

"As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with se7en wives.
Every wife had se7en sacks,
Every sack had se7en cats,
Every cat had se7en kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?"

  • 03.02.2007 2:36 PM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

It's mainly because Bungie is so obsessed with 7 and always will be.

Se7en is darker.

-Alex ;|

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What if Se7en is just a cover word for something considerably more darker...Or perhaps lighter. I forget how it works.

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se7en's in literature

The number of dwarfs in the movie Snow White.
The number of rings given to the Dwarf Lords in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, seven is referred to as "the most magical number".
The number of the ages of man into which William Shakespeare divided a lifetime.
007 as the codename for Ian Fleming's Bond

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7 is the number of God!

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Posted by: CNC MadDogg
I didn't really know where it was appropriate to post this, so I'll just file it under Septagon since it has to do with sevens.

Why are we so obsessed with this number? The number seven has many connections to human society, and may be a sub-conscious force steering our interpretations of the world around us. But why is it that this number has such significance to Bungie in specific. I looked up every relevant detail I could find about the number seven, in the hopes it would show me why they chose THIS number.

What I came across was of a far greater significance than I was prepared to handle. But to begin with, lets look at the source info:

SEVENS IN MATH

-When asked to pick a number between 1 and 10, Seven is the most common answer
-When rolling a pair of six sided dice, Seven is the most common result
-There are seven notes in a Western musical scale
-There are seven primary colors

SE7ENS IN RELIGION

-There are Seven days in a week, and the Seventh day was sanctified as a day of rest
-In Judaism the Torah is divided into Seven aliyahs, read during Shabbat by Seven people
-Jewish newlyweds feast for Seven days after their wedding
-God promised the Israelites they would displace Seven nations when entering Israel
-In Christianity there are Seven deadly sins, and Seven virtues
-The virgin Mary has Seven sorrows and Seven joys
-The Roman Catholic faith has Seven sacraments
-In Christianity Seven represents the union of man (3) and woman (4)
-There are Seven miracles (ayat) in the first chapter of the Qur'an
-In Islam there are Seven heavens and Seven earths
-Buddha took Seven steps at birth
-Atlantis was said to have Seven main islands

SE7ENS IN SOCIETY

-Movies: Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, Seven year Itch, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Seventh Seal, and of course Se7en
-Sports: Seven game series, seven players in Handball and Ultimate Frisbee
-Geography: Seven Continents, Seven seas, Seven Wonders of the World
-Astronomy: Seven visible planets, Seven stars in the Big Dipper, Seven saints per constellation according to Indian Astrology

SE7ENS IN GENERAL

-There are Seven openings in the human head
-There are Seven basic principles of Bushido
-There are Seven chakras
-There are Seven colors in a rainbow
-Seven is the largest number of sticks (cylinders) that you can bundle into a static shape

But my personal favorite is George Miller's essay, "The Magical Number Seven". In it he uses the scientific method to uncover the secrets of how the human mind really works. It's fairly complicated but it basically says that humans can store seven pieces of information in their conscious brain at any given time. This means when we are forced to think all at once about complicated subjects, we have to categorize or otherwise group the information until we've reduced the "clusters" to a number under Seven.

Bungie's use of Seven is prolific. Guilty Spark 343 (7x7x7=343), Penitent Tangent 2401 (7x7x7x7=2401 or 2+4+0+1=7), Seven Halo's (six now thank to MC), Seven step plan to World Domination, Marathon was carved from the moon Deimos (discovered in 1877, photographed in 1977). There are more, but these are the most obvious and widely accepted instances.

Perhaps Bungie chose Seven for no reason other than it's history as a sacred or lucky number. Maybe, like an inside joke, there is some special significance which we would all be pretty disappointed if we discovered. But I propose, that despite what they may believe, they chose seven for the same reason everyone else in history seems to have. It's an interesting number, with many natural and man-made relevancies. It even has religious and metaphysical significance. It's both Human, and other worldly, much like my favorite game, Halo.


1492, Christopher Columbus's first voyage, 1+4+9+2=16 1+6=7

Sir Isaac Newton first attended college in 1661 (1+6+6+1= 14=7x2)

A common ladybug has 7 spots.

Vermont became its own country in 1777

etc.

Seeing how there is a near infinite number of possible events, calculations, dates, etc. that relate to 7, coincidence in inevitable. It always is. However, 7 is not an ordinary number.

  • 03.03.2007 12:57 PM PDT