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 Heza 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 EprothStudios due to her desire for unique character animation.
• 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 director's cut of Season 1, with JaxBeetle taking over the role.