Machine

Machine
General Information
Series	Season 1
Episode	4
Production
Aired	February 9, 2024
Writer	Syp The Mighty Revoltge
Director	Syp The Mighty
Starring	Intro-Mind Ella Rhee Xanthe Folan Syp The Mighty Revoltge TheIdsStudios Blankslate Speakonia
Continuity
Previous	Fax
Next	Replacement

Machine is the fourth episode of Season 1 and Guard Duty overall. This episode sees the guards encountering a repair robot sent by HQ to fix their broken fax machine.

Description

A repair droid arrives to fix the fax machine, but it provides a little more than what the guards were asking for.

Characters

Black Out Guards

• Geff Rodrigo
• Sarah Daws
• Nicole Vega
• June Vega
• Mitchell Miller

HQ

• Robot

High Ground Guards

• Cayde Jasper
• Jack O'Brien
• Frank Collins
• Diego Jones
• Linda Kelen

Other

• Emery Eden
• Prim

Trivia

• This episode occurs one day after the previous episode.
  • The title of this episode combines with the prior episode's title, Fax, to make "Fax Machine," to signify this episodes continues directly after it.
• The repair robot's appearance is an intentional reference to Pink from WarGames and a subtle one to June as she appeared in Classic Season 1 with the Mark V helmet and CQB chest plate.
• This episode reintroduces the guards of Outpost High Ground from Major Malfunction and WarGames. Blankslate reprises his role as O'Brien from the latter.
  • This episode also introduces Jasper as the original captain of High Ground before being killed by Emery. He was originally planned to appear in Major Malfunction, to be introduced in its unrealized fourth episode with Blankslate providing his voice, though he was to be established as always having been there via retcon and be the same rank as Collins and Jones. Regardless, Blankslate did indeed provide Jasper's voice in this episode over ten years after this scrapped appearance, albeit with different voice direction that would later lead to him taking over as Miller from Syp in the following episode.
• Revoltge and TheIdsStudios reprise their roles as Emery and Prim respectively from Classic Season 2.
• Nicole being a fan of BIONICLE is mentioned again, first established in Heated, when she calls the repair robot a "Bionicle reject".
• Sarah's title as engineer is once again questioned by Miller, first doing so in Wish.
• Sarah calling Miller a "sad, strange little man" is a reference to the 1995 animated film Toy Story, in which Buzz Lightyear calls Woody the same thing.

Errors

• The word "Premiere" is misspelled during the end credits as "Premire." Syp only noticed after the episode was uploaded, but felt it was not a big deal.