What does 117 mean?

[333]

I am playing multiplayer and half of the players has 117 number

[Kidd Nelson]

It’s the default tag, 117 is chiefs number.

[rathalos]

117 is Master Chief's code number. It's your default Service ID.
You can change it on the options menu

[333]

Thanks everyone

[Jabroni Gomer]

He was child #117 out of however many kids were adopted(kidnapped?) and ended up becoming Spartans through the Spartan program. Does anyone know the amount of Spartans to there were?

[rcf5089]

Master Chief is John 117 (number 117 out of 150 Spartan II candidates) It is also meant to be a reference to the Bible verse John 1:17

[angstlicht]

he's the 117th soldier:

(Taken from Terminal 2 in Smells Like Napalm, Tastes Like Chicken! in Marathon 1)

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the text string '2117' appears a bunch in the security breech terminals in marathon. it's also all the same digits of 7/11 which is where halo 4's mobile game was set.

clovis is the character from the destiny franchise who invented robot-people.

essentially, there's a series of 'magic' artifacts (more like stalker zone artifacts than magic though) that the powers-that-be collect to resurrect great soldiers from history. master chief is a reclaimer of a lineage of great soldier reincarnations, which is why a lot of his themes are named stuff like 'leonidas returns'.

in halo 1, he was nicknamed 'flawless cowboy' in some marketing material if i remember right. in the tie-in halo novels and tv show he's from eridanus 2, which is possibly in reference to the greek river near athens and/or the po river in italy.

you can think of what the UNSC and ONI did to create the spartan-iis and iiis as a bit like a combination of universal soldier and timecop. they raided outer colonies for 'special' (ie, historically heroic) genetic patterns, and replaced them with fraudulent copies that withered away; it's analogous to abducting leonidas out of actual history to help you fight a modern day war. or jabroni gomer necro-ing this thread 5 years later for no discernible reason.