Site Unseen

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Site Unseen
Start date:	May 2, 2023
End date:	May 16, 2023
Number of tiers:	10
Includes content for:	Halo Infinite

Site Unseen was a multiplayer event for Halo Infinite that was held between March 7 and 21, 2023. The third, final event of Season 03: Echoes Within, as well as the fourth and final narrative event, Site Unseen continues the story that was left unresolved with Mindfall upon the launch of Echoes Within.

Site Unseen was intended to be followed up on in Season 04: Infection, although the narrative and its intended cutscenes would end up being scrapped following a wider change in studio direction at 343 Industries. Eventually, the narrative would be continued in 2025 with the release of Halo: Battle for the Academy in May of that year, while Part 2 would release the following month.

Overview

Plot

After receiving Hieu Dinh's personal Bandit, Rook assists him in uncovering a hidden Office of Naval Intelligence facility under the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science.

Transcript

Vault Lines

“

Newly accepted into the pack, you and Spartan Dinh explore the Academy's hidden depths.

”

At night, the Player's Spartan wanders into the underground section on Live Fire, where they discover Spartan Hieu Dinh kicking the BLDG-09 door. The door's console has been torn from the wall, still hanging on via its wires.

• Spartan Hieu Dinh: "C'mon! Dammit!."

Dinh sees the Player's Spartan, and gestures them to come closer.

• Spartan Dinh: "Give me a hand!"

The Player's Spartan walks towards Dinh, glancing at the console as they do so.

• Spartan Dinh: "You hear this noise? Grab the door!"

Dinh runs over to the console, and the Player's Spartan kneels in front of the door to prepare to lift it. Dinh manipulates the wires behind the console, and it turns green, unlocking the door. The Player's Spartan starts to lit the door up, with Dinh moving over to help them.

• Spartan Dinh: "Ready? Let's do it!"

The two Spartans lift up the heavy door.

• Spartan Dinh: "Just... a little more!"

The door fully opens, revealing an empty elevator shaft lit only by red emergency lights. Dinh lights up a flare, and glances down the shaft, before turning to smile at the Player's Spartan.

• Spartan Dinh: "The Office of Naval Intelligence always did like to bury their secrets."

Dinh drops the flare down the shaft, and it drops for several moments without the floor becoming visible. Dinh turns and salutes the Player's Spartan.

• Spartan Dinh: "See you at the bottom!"

Dinh howls like a wolf, and jumps backwards into the shaft. The Player's Spartan shakes their head, and jumps into the shaft shortly afterwards.

Unbound

“

After breaching a hidden ONI facility, you and Spartan Dinh find evil at its heart.

”

Within a pitch black room, a large door opens as Spartan Hieu Dinh (still holding the flare) and the Player's Spartan enter. The camera pans to the Player's Spartan's perspective as Dinh leads the way.

• Spartan Hieu Dinh: "ONI built this place at the start of the war against the Covenant. Top secret. Real Section Three black magic."

The Player's Spartan glances at a pile of the room's abandoned objects, which include crates and chairs alongside deactivated computer terminals and server blocks. Dinh walks up a small ramp in the center of the room.

• Spartan Dinh: "I was here, back in the day. It's where I got my first set of armor."

Dinh steps aside, revealing a set of stripped-down Semi-Powered Infiltration armor held up within a Brokkr Armor Mechanism.

• Spartan Dinh: "Just like this one. And if I know about this place? Then so did Iratus."

Dinh takes a moment to shine the flare around the SPI armor's faceplate.

• Spartan Dinh: "Eklund's right. Maybe it's time I let things go."

Dinh lowers the flare and the room dims. Suddenly, Iratus chuckling can be heard.

• Iratus: "But there is so much more to see..."

Red sparks begin to arc around the server blocks to the side of the room, with their computer screens lighting up with the Banished logo. Dinh and the Player's Spartan glance back to the room's entrance, which is now lit up by a red barrier.

• Iratus: "The entire history of the Spartan program. Your weaknesses. Your failures."

The Player's Spartan turns to look at a table in the corner of the room. Sparks arc around what appears to be a set of armor underneath a white sheet that is laid on it. As the Player's Spartan circles around to get a better look, the computer terminal attached to the maintenance apparatus lights up, also with the Banished logo. The maintenance apparatus begins moving, detaching the armor from the device.

• Iratus: "And now -- all of it -- belongs to the Banished!"

Dinh looks concerned at the Player's Spartan. The SPI armor's helmet is detached from the body, confirming that it is empty, before the armor is fully separated from the maintenance device, where it adopts a slouched posture. Sparks fly around the suit as Iratus takes over and laughs, displaying his face and extra pieces of armor as holographic projections.

Site Unseen content

Site Unseen's content could originally be earned through a 10 tier event pass over the course of its two week tenure. Like events that arrived during the Winter Update, progress could be furthered through the completion of one of ten weekly challenges available to the player, or through XP earned by playing the game with the newly implemented "Match XP beta".

Helmet options earned through Site Unseen would be made available on all armor cores during Season 05: Reckoning, with shoulder pad options following with the release of Spirit of Fire in January of 2024. Armor coatings earned would be made available on all armor cores with the release of Fleetcom in July of the same year. Rewards earned through Site Unseen's event pass would be added to the Exchange during Brute Force in January of 2025.

Event pass

Content	Event pass tier	Exchange cost
Detection Protocol	1	Brute Force, 500
UA/FRONT PLATE	2