Guard Duty is a machinima comedy web series created by Syp The Mighty and Revoltge, premiering on December 22, 2023 and filmed within the Halo video games. The series features an ensemble cast starring Intro-Mind, Ella Rhee, Xanthe Folan, Syp, and Blankslate as a dysfunctional crew of soldiers stationed on Outpost Black Out over five-hundred years in the future. As a fan work, Guard Duty loosely takes place in the world of the Halo video games. It is a reboot of Classic.
Characters
Main article: Characters
| Character | Portrayed by | Series | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Rat's Nest | ||||||
| Geff Rodrigo | Intro-Mind | Main | TBD | ||||
| Sarah Daws | Ella Rhee | Main | TBD | ||||
| Nicole Vega | Xanthe Folan | Main | TBD | ||||
| June Vega | Syp The Mighty | Main | TBD | ||||
| Mitchell Miller | Blankslate | Main | TBD | ||||
| Emery Eden | Revoltge | Recurring | Main | ||||
| Prim | TheIdsStudios | Recurring | TBD | ||||
| Ignacio Dominguez | Syp The Mighty | Recurring | TBD | ||||
| Randy DeLuca | EthanChaotic | Recurring | TBD | ||||
Main Series
Season 1
For more information, visit Season 1
Season 1 is the first major installment in the Guard Duty series, airing since December 22, 2023.
A Guard Duty Story series
Rat's Nest
For more information, visit Rat's Nest
Rat's Nest is an upcoming prequel installment to the Guard Duty series. It will air sometime after Season 1 in 2024.
Trivia
- Unlike Classic, in which Syp The Mighty primarily wrote by herself, Revoltge has co-written every episode of this series and Rat's Nest.
- Though obviously non-canonical to the Halo video games as a fan work, Guard Duty seems to occur sometime after the events of Halo 4 whilst being filmed within the Halo 3 engine.
- While Miller was voiced by Syp The Mighty in the first four episodes of Season 1, Blankslate took over the role in its fifth episode and will additionally dub over the lines for those episodes in the season's planned At The Movies re-release.
- Before the development of Classic Season 2, various attempts at rebooting the series were attempted between 2012 and 2022 including:
- A reboot that Annoyances was to be the first episode of that was originally made while Syp was part of machinima group Firelight Studios to be set entirely on Outpost Black Out. Six episodes were written for this version, with Revoltge co-writing the first two episodes, structured like a sitcom. This version was scrapped upon Syp's departure from Firelight Studios, with Revoltge never being part of the group to begin with.
- A second reboot that Question and Bagels were made to promote. This version was fully written, with 10 episodes, and would have had a completely different plot with more mystery elements. This alternate version only had two episodes written, with little plot. When Syp took an extended hiatus from video making to focus on her own original webcomics, this version was scrapped.
- A third reboot while Syp was part of a sketch comedy group 06 Media, with fellow members Dagnarrow and Dazalaras to star with her. This version was also fully written, with 19 episodes, once again with a completely different plot that would have saw Jace Casper as part of the main group instead of June in addition to Jones from Major Malfunction as a sixth guard. When 06 Media went on an indefinite hiatus, this version was scrapped.
- Various unmade versions including a pilot for a fourth reboot set earlier in the timeline of when the guards first meet, an original live action comedy short for 06 Media featuring Geff and Jace, an original webcomic reboot part of Syp's Space Comics series, and an original stop-motion reboot using figures hand-crafted by Syp. All of which would be scrapped upon the production on this season.
