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The Guardians have a storied history with the ''Halo'' series, with their core idea dating back to the development of ''[[Halo 2]]''. Notably, the Guardians were heavily developed for ''[[Halo 3]]'', with many pieces of concept art created for their design. The Guardians were to feature in the eponymous level ''[[Guardian Forest]]'' as enemies, with a model and animations being created for them, and the in-game character in iteration. In the level, the player would have been able to rip out the Guardian's "eye" and use it as a laser weapon.{{Ref/Site|Id=GDC|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-09/play/1284|Site=GDC Vault|Page=Building Your Airplane While Flying: Production at Bungie}}{{Ref/Site|Id=Powerpoint|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=http://downloads.bungie.net/presentations/gdc_bungieproduction_march2009.pptx|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Building Your Airplane While Flying: Production at Bungie|Detail=Original presentation download}} Unfortunately, the level and the Guardian enemy had to be cut, with the level being repurposed as the ''[[Guardian (map)|Guardian]]'' multiplayer map and the Guardian enemy model itself used on ''[[Epitaph]]'' in holographic form. The Guardian was intended to be similar in size to the similarly-cut [[Strato-Sentinel]]s.{{Ref/Site|Id=Vic1|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://twitter.com/vicdeleon/status/1304910772313575424|Site=Twitter|Page=Vic DeLeon|Quote=Fwiw this is almost exactly what the Guardians looked like back when they were first imagined on Halo 2, only they were much larger, almost like the Strato-Sentinel.}} While not seen in the final game, their design was later used in ''[[Origins]]'' for two Forerunner constructs seen escorting a [[Keyship]] to the [[Portal at Voi]].{{Ref/Film|Id=OriginsI|HLeg|Detail=[[Origins]]}} The Guardian hologram reappears in ''[[Halo Infinite]]''.{{Ref/Site|Id=InsideApril|D=30|M=4|Y=2021|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/inside-infinite-april-2021|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Inside Infinite - April 2021}} The ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]]'' reveals that the holograms of the Guardian Sentinels were repurposed as in-universe holographic representations of [[Offensive Bias]].

Additional information provided by Halo 3 Campaign Environment Lead [[Chris Barrett]], who is cited as being the creator of the Guardians, reveals that the Guardian had two states, a regular and a "deployed" state, the deployed state being ultimately repurposed as the Epitaph hologram in the final game. {{Ref/Site|Id=Barrett1|D=11|M=6|Y=2023|URL=https://twitter.com/cgbarrett/status/1639168845536722944|Site=Twitter|Page=Christopher Barrett}}  [[Jaime Greisemer]] would also provide information comparing their intended movement design to that of the Compilers from Marathon. {{Ref/Site|Id=Greisemer1|D=11|M=6|Y=2023|URL=https://twitter.com/32nds/status/1639161407534170112|Site=Twitter|Page=Jaime Greisemer|Quote=My recollection is that they moved like the Compilers from Marathon.}}

File:HINF GuardianHoloStructure.jpg|The ''Halo 3'' Guardian design has since been re-used again in the campaign of ''[[Halo Infinite]]''.