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Hmm, no not the movie. I'm posting about the significance of the number seven, obviously Bungie have their septagon/seventh piller, but I'm refering more it's useage in the Halo series. (Thus will contain some spoilers for Halo 1 and 2)
I'm not totally sure if I remember right, but was seven considered a lucky number or was it one of "religious significance", tying in with that motif in the games. Eg - "The Covanent", "John: 117", "The Ark", "Halo" etc.
However, back to number crunching, we've got the monitor of installation 04 - 343 Guilty spark, and the monitor of installation 05 (otherwise known as Delta Halo) - 2401 Penetant Tangent. How here's the connection. Delta is the 4th letter of the greek alphabet, NOT the 5th. Suggesting installtion 04 is Gamma Halo, (the 3rd letter), working back, can we assume that installation 01 is not a "Halo" as such, we know there are 7 Halos (or at least 7 installations in the series for Flood Prevention?). There's that number again.
Back to the monitors, Delta Halo (Halo 4) has monitor 2401, the 4th route of which is 7, and that of Halo 3 (The 04 to Delta's 05) has monitor 343, the 3rd route is again 7. See what I'm getting at?
Is installation 01 not a Halo then, is it the "Ark" perhaps? In any case, you're probably familar with the story of Noah, the ark there was built to save human kind from "The Flood" (dun dun dun).
So? Where might this ark be? Penetant Tangent doesn't get around to telling us in the game, but we know at least in speculation that humanity was preserved and then seeded out once more from the Ark. It makes sense then that the Ark, is or is on "Earth". Now, a long time after the first activation of the Halos, humanity starts reassurting itself in the galaxy. To me, this suggest human kind and Forerunner kind are inherently the same species, on some evolutionary level, thus the recognisation by the monitors as "Reclaimers" (I haven't looked into the significance of this word in particular).
What else do we have to think about? Well, there's how the Prophet Regret found Earth when he was looking for something else (?), was he acting on information about installation 01, the Covanent after all have been digging into Forerunner artifacts for centuries. Do the heirachs perhaps know of the connection between Forerunner and Humanity, after all this Holy war they're waging seems unfounded, considering The Covanent (agreement) is based over a wide range of species, or are 7 enough species to incorporate?
Edit - Ah something else just came to me: The time God sent the flood and wiped the earth clean, is also when He made a *new agreement (covanent) with man. I'm speculating then, that the first activation of the Halos and starving out of the Flood, is also linked to the origin of "The Covanent".
*The original covanent, the 10 commandments (the fragments of the stone tablets they were carved on, were said to be carried in the Ark of the Covanent)
[Edited on 11/21/2004 5:25:15 PM]