Invader

Invader
General Information
Series	Season 1
Episode	7
Production
Aired	July 7, 2024
Writer	Syp The Mighty Revoltge
Director	Syp The Mighty
Starring	Intro-Mind Ella Rhee Xanthe Folan Syp The Mighty Blankslate HezArt1 Revoltge
Continuity
Previous	Dysfunction
Next	Stashed

Invader is the seventh episode of Season 1 and Guard Duty overall.

Description

An intruder has entered Outpost Black Out, much to everyone's annoyance.

Characters

Black Out Guards

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

HQ

• Robot
• Ignacio Dominguez (voice only)

High Ground Guards

• Cayde Jasper

The Damned

• Corvus
• Kazi
• Fazeka
• Riel

Other

• Pathfinder
• Forge

Trivia

• This is the first episode to feature animation outside of the Halo 3 game engine, animated by EprothStudios. Originally, the scene was going to be traditionally filmed like machinima before Syp considered asking Eproth due to the scene's complication.
• June regains her Mark V helmet from Classic, revealed to be Robot's helmet fixed and given to June by Sarah with Nicole's help.
• Sarah and Nicole reference the 1984 film The Terminator when discussing Robot's helmet actually being a helmet rather than its whole head. Syp had actually planned on editing a still image from that film to represent Robot's head before the scene's animator EprothStudios suggested the modified helmet from The Master Chief Collection version of Halo 3.
• This episode reintroduces Corvus, Kazi, Fazeka, and Riel from WarGames, albeit with Corvus having a new voice direction.
• Revoltge didn't actually record any new audio for this episode, with Syp using two of many unused takes from Ambush.
• It is revealed that Jasper survived his encounter with The Spartan in Machine, only for him to truly die at the hands of Corvus.
  • Rather than have Blankslate record new audio, Syp instead utilized alternate takes from Machine as she had written the scene very late into production.
• Pathfinder is introduced in this episode, though her role in the story has yet to be revealed.
• Forge was intended to be a different character voiced by Revoltge, but this was changed at the last minute as Revoltge lacked the time to record the lines.
• This episode aired on Bungie Day, a community day for the developer of Halo 3, albeit unintentionally.

Errors

• Syp is not credited as Ignacio in the end credits, with Syp simply forgetting his presence in the episode by the time she was editing the credits.
• The audio for Forge is louder than intended, with Syp not realizing until after the episode had already aired. Syp changed this for the season's planned At The Movies re-release, with JaxBeetle taking over the role.