Line #262 WMG/Defiance


1	[[WMG: The Gulanee are responsible for the arkfall and the Volge.]]
2	Think about it. When approached with the disaster that leads to the building of the arks the Gulanee were confident that they would survive and only sent small amounts of their species in exchange for their energy source ( http://en.defiance-wiki.com/wiki/Gulanee ). Maybe they aren't as ignorant of the risks of the event as others think they are and truly know the risks to themselves. They are secretive and unknown even to the other Votans, maybe the surviving Gulanee in their home system and the Gulanee in the arkfleet have a method of site to site transport unknown to the other Votans either as a innate trait due to their unusual nature or hidden tech.
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4	The Volge would be hard to stowaway effectively in large numbers as space on the arks is limited (the other votans had to choose who to leave behind), they are hated by all the other races and look extremely different. Maybe the Volge were never smuggled on the arks in large numbers at all. Maybe they stayed behind in their home system with the Gulanee and were brought to the arkfleet by the Gulanee at an appropriate time to destroy the arks and enter earth.
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6	The Gulanee make a good hidden agenda villain because unlike the other Votans they are starfish aliens, are seldom seen in the show and have an unknown motivation and nature. From Matti23.
7	* More like have yet to be seen in the show. There is one as a boss in the game.
8	** [[spoiler: It appears the Kaziri on Earth may have been responsible for the Arkfall, and/or Indogene agents on the Votan ships who knew about it. So probably Jossed.]]
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10	[[WMG: The Gulanee and Volge are working together for an unknown purpose or the Gulanee are using the Volge towards their own goals.]]
11	See above entry.
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13	[[WMG: The Gulanee intended for the Terraforming of earth to proceed the way it did.]]
14	Humans and most Votans can survive in a similar environment (air pressure, temperature, atmosphere) such as in Defiance, except for the Gulanee who die if they spend more than a few hours outside of their suits ( http://en.defiance-wiki.com/wiki/Gulanee ). Maybe the the other Votans would not be able to live in a stable long term Gulanee environment or they would not agree to the process. To this end they sabotaged the arks so that the terraforming would occur the way it did, with the end intention to make an environment they can live in without encapsulation suits. The current state of the earth is merely an intermediary state to the final intention of the Gulanee. Matti23.
15	* If this is true then Fridge Brilliance: If there is only one planet to terraform you can either terraform it so most of the Votan races and humans can live there or you can terraform it so that the Gulanee can live there naturally (they currently need suits). There's only one planet to go around and the Gulanee do not want to be left without a planet to live on, even at the expense of the other races currently on earth.
16	* Gulanite is a mineral that ONLY exists of the Gulanee homeworld (Gula) ( http://en.defiance-wiki.com/wiki/Gulanite ). It is found on the homeworlds of none of the other Votan races. Why is the terraforming process of an expedition forming an environment that doesn't exist on most of the Votan homeworlds? It might be because the Votan like having a power source at their destination but it might also be the first obvious result of the Gulanee terraforming earth to resemble Gula.
17	* Gula was a ''Gas Giant'', it seems like it would be a bit difficult to turn a rocky planet into a giant ball of gas. All the Gulanite on earth comes from Arkfalls.
18	** Plus, you'd think if the Gulanee wanted to create a world that felt like home, they'd have detoured away from the Ark fleet to Gula-form Jupiter or Saturn, and skipped coming to Earth at all.
19	* Good point about he gas giant thing although the wiki says that the terraforming process is actually duplicating gulanite on earth in addition to the gulanite from arkfalls. Maybe they don't need an environment identical to Gula, just enough to allow habitation outside of their suits?
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21	[[WMG: The "Kaziri" that Nicolette Riordon is looking for is an intact ark]]
22	Ark hunters can get large amounts of money and powerful artifacts just from small pieces of beat up arks. A complete, intact ark would be worth far more and would fit into Nicolette's justification that the humans would thank her for finding it. There are many Votans on a single ark, maybe enough to tip the balance of power between Votan and humans if the inhabitants are allowed to wake up. The technology on the ark may also threaten the balance of power between Votans and humans. Maybe its one of the arks Nolan saw crashing into St. Louis in the intro.
23	* Maybe the Kaziri key is needed to power it up or open the door?
24	* [[spoiler:Semi-confirmed. Not much is said, but we know that whatever lies underneath Defiance is some kind of extremely powerful intact Votan ship. It is confirmed in the season 2 arc that it was intended to be a colonization/terraforming ship, and two Irathients wanted to make sure it didn't contaminate an inhabited planet.]]
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26	[[WMG: The "Kaziri" is the reason the ground only enveloped St. Louis instead of just burying and crushing it completely]]
27	Maybe the Kaziri is or contains a defensive measure against Votan terraforming. It could be the key to reversing the terraforming process completely. Might still fit with previous theory as a complete ark may have defensive measures to ensure it doesn't get completely destroyed by its own terraforming technology.
28	* [[spoiler:Seems confirmed. If it directed or at least was "aware" of the Arkfall, it could have terraformed St Louis in this manner.]]
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30	[[WMG: Antarctica is not what it appears to be.]]
31	Antarctica may be overcrowded from all the ark hunters and people headed there. It may just be an image to maintain the morale of the people so that they can be convinced to complete tasks and work hard. The beach picture on the postcard may look nice but throughout the game and TV show Terraformed areas tend to be infested with hellbugs and other strange wildlife.
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33	Due to it's status as the ideal place and people flocking there en masse it may actually be a place unpleasant to the likes of Nolan and Irisa. Super Rich and powerful people from other parts of the world may have congregated there in large numbers and may exercise total control over the populace or at least dominate the lives of others there. All the most dangerous ark hunters and mercenaries that raised the money for the trip may cause problems for the people there as well bullying those who cannot defend themselves.
34	* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHMEyJ7S-4) The "Strongest and Bravest" of the ark hunters have retired there. In a business where people people hold each other at gunpoint and steal each other's stuff maybe she meant the most ruthless and violent. That would make Antarctica one hell of a place :/
35	** Considering people hold each other at gunpoint and steal each other's stuff on a regular basis in the world, it might not be as common in Antarctica, making it more of a paradise than anywhere else.
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37	[[WMG: During the series the relationship between the Votan Collective and the Earth Republic will deteriorate.]]
38	If this happened it would put a huge strain on the people of Defiance wouldn't it? Which leads into...
39	* [[spoiler:Possibly confirmed. The sudden terraforming attacks on New York and Belize could unintentionally reignite the Pale Wars.]]
40	** [[spoiler:Or it can actually have the exact opposite, as both E-Rep and the Votanis Collective lost a major city from each side, showing that neither one was responsible for the attack on the other]]
41	** Confirmed in Season 3. General Rahm Tak is all but drooling at the prospect of taking advantage of the loss of the E-Rep capital to launch a drive to take over North America and ethnically cleanse it of humans. He has at the very least the unofficial backing of the Votanis Collective to do this.
42	*** The VC ambassador expressly states that Rahm had gone rogue, and that his original mission was scouting and providing assistance to injured. Rahm is repeatedly shown to be a violent radical. I wouldn't call that confirmation.
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44	[[WMG: Something is going to happen to Antarctica during the series.]]
45	In any conflict between the Votan collective and the Earth Republic it may be a high value target due to the large amount of experienced personnel there such as successful ark hunters. People who invent significant tech for the Republic may also get rich and decide to settle there.
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47	Alternatively something in either the game or the TV show will reverse or interfere with the Terraforming there. Kaziri maybe?
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49	[[WMG: There's something in Storm Divide. (The place within which the EMS New Freedom crashed.)]]
50	(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHMEyJ7S-4) There's a region outlined in the video which the EMS New Freedom was flying over. This is the storm divide. The defiance wiki describes the region as having weather which is usual even for the defiance universe (http://en.defiance-wiki.com/wiki/Storm_Divide). Many people consider an attempt to cross it suicide. Maybe the region's anomalous nature is related to an important artifact inside it. Alternatively it could be related to the Volge or Gulanee.
51	* Might be a instance of TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: If the game concentrates on this region then eventually it may yield a discovery and event as important as what is happening in defiance and the Kaziri. It would help to balance the importance of the two and allow to the tv characters to hear about something important happening far off in the storm divide.
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53	[[WMG: The Volge aren't actually like the other Votans say they are. They are a maligned race]]
54	* The other Votans say they are warlike but how reliable is this? Maybe the only reason they have so many weapons is that they are picked on or discriminated against. Their actions may be a combination of lashing out to defend themselves and Nicolette Riordon's actions. They have been introduced as an always chaotic race so early, would get pretty dull if they just stayed that way in the future wouldn't it?
55	** Unlikely: In the game, the Volge happily attack anyone and anything which is not them unprovoked; whether heavily-armed Ark Hunters, E-Rep soldiers, Bandits, '99ers, Dark Matter, or the unluckiest, unarmed ranchers alive. Even if they weren't originally a pack of Chaotic Evil warmongers, they definitely are now.
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57	[[WMG: Stahma is actually not OK with Kenya sleeping with Datak.]]
58	She tells the mayor about how Kenya is sleeping with her husband and telling her about it, then she blackmails the mayor. Sounds like she was just being sarcastic or insincere about it.
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60	[[WMG: Nolan wasn't just one of the Defiant Few, he was the one who started the mutiny and rescue operation in the first place.]]
61	Because of his ChronicHeroSyndrome.
62	* Data recorders found in the game reveal that he and Cooper promised the civilians at Fort Defiance that they would protect them before the battle.
63	** A case of AllThereInTheManual. A survivor's account of the battle found on the website shows that, during the battle, a Castithan woman was caught in the crossfire. Nolan and several other humans, as well as several Votan, all stopped firing and crossed into No Man's Land to try and save the woman, which started the subsequent mutiny.
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65	[[WMG: Most people only know TheThemeParkVersion of the Battle of Defiance]]
66	Most people in the world only know about the aftermath of the battle where the Defiant Few refused to continue fighting and worked together to save civilians trapped in the ruins. Data recorders found in the game reveal that they fought together during the battle to protect the civilians at Fort Defiance.
67	* [[spoiler:They also ended the battle by activating a terra-spire killing both the Human and Votan armies.]]
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69	[[WMG: Humans and Votan are somehow related]]
70	Surely I'm not the only one to note that Irathients and Castithans look more like humans than Bio-men. And Amanda's comment that Irisa looked pure-blood seems to suggest that humans and Irathients might be able to interbreed.
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72	* So I'm thinking that thousands or even millions of years ago a humanoid species built an interstellar empire, colonizing earth and terraforming the Votan system (it had what, six terrestrial planets?), only to collapse. Over time the colonists evolved to adapt to the slightly different habitats of the various planets.
73	* [[HalfHumanHybrid Interbreeding between species]] is a common enough trope in SciFi to list subversions.
74	* Though it appears that Humans and Castithans can interbreed naturally, it appears that other species of Votans aren't as easily possible. In one of the Season 2 missions for the game, you are tasked by Eren Niden to help gather a medical history on a person who is the first Human/Irath crossbreed. It's explained that the mother was a geneticist, and was able to figure out a way to crossbreed humans and Irathiants (which wasn't possible due to the Iraths having an extra genetic genome that humans do not). So, it's possible for at least one species to do it naturally, while others may require some medical science to help.
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76	[[WMG: Not every Volge is chaotic evil]]
77	Considering there are artifacts in Amanda's office from all the aliens, including the Volge, makes me think there are those who just want to live in peace.
78	* Or she lifted one off the mass of corpses in the wake of the battle in the pilot.
79	* If there are, at least in context of the show, they're probably even rarer than Gulanee or Irathient since, well, as a race, they were literally built for war and to an individual, the other races wanted to leave them behind to die.
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81	[[WMG: A Volge will become a SixthRanger to Nolan and Irisa.]]
82	A Volge deputy would be pretty awesome. He/she could be limited in regular use by the fact that repairs and energy would be difficult to acquire.
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84	[[WMG: Stahma actually doesn't want Rafe dead.]]
85	She actually approves and likes Christie and Alak. But she knows that her husband never would approve of a traditional courtship so she's manipulating him into approving of it and not killing Rafe. She also knows that her husband is a strict adherent to the rules of caste and society - once Alak and Christie are married, she'll point out that while this makes Christie family and thus protected from Datar's scheming... but it also makes Rafe family too.
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87	[[WMG: Christie will turn out to be a LadyMacbeth on par with her mother-in-law-to-be, Stahma.]]
88	Not so much because there's evidence of it than because it would be very amusing to see if/when she finally reveals herself. Although she didn't so much as blink at the lie that Alak protected her during the hellbug attack.
89	* She doesn't seem that suspicious about a man "accidentally" falling out of an airlock, but to be fair she seems to have been a sheltered kid (or she dropped the subject because accusing your future mother-in-law of murder is never the best start to a relationship); this apparent lack of acuity led Datak to underestimate her and talk in Castithan, not realizing that a human girl dating a Castithan boy would want to start learning his language.
90	* Given that she so readily rolls with Datak's lie about who protected whom, she is probably picking up a lot of cues, pretty fast, about how the world actually works, especially when your future father-in-law is a mob boss in all but name.
91	** For that matter, her father isn't exactly a paragon of virtue where business is concerned. She can't be entirely blind to that.
92	** [[spoiler:Seems confirmed. Christie is beginning to master subtleties of Castithan culture and has even murdered Alak's mistress and pinned the blame on him to teach him a lesson.]]
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94	[[WMG: Irisa's "destiny" is tied to the Kaziri.]]
95	If only because it'd be an easy way to tie all the mythology together.
96	* '''Confirmed'''
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98	[[WMG: Something will happen to the arch.]]
99	In the teaser for the next episode, [[spoiler:a still shot shows a broken St. Louis Arch]]. Given that the Arch symbolizes the resilience of Old Earth against all the changes that have happened since the Arkfall, this will prove to be demoralizing to citizens of Defiance.
100	* Note that yes, they could rebuild it, but it would still be a shock.
101	** '''Confirmed'''
102
103	[[WMG: Irisa cares more about Sukar and the spirit riders than she does about Nolan, or anyone else in Defiance.]]
104	She doesn't seem to particularly care about the fact that Sukar attempted to STRANGLE Nolan during their fight, and risked the entire town in blind faith to a criminal she met earlier in the year instead of trusting the man who raised her. But when Nolan 'killed' Sukar, she treats him like the anti-christ. She either doesn't care about Nolan much (unlikely) or wants to be accepted by the spirit riders so much that it's superceded he prior relationships.
105	* In her defense, Sukar and the spirit riders are the first time she's had any real long term meaningful contact with irathiants (cult not withstanding). And Nolan didn't exactly have the resources to provide her with her cultural and biological heritage. She's shown to want to learn about who and what she is - losing Sukar probably felt pretty real because she latched on so quickly.
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107	[[WMG: Sukar will be back.]]
108	Those nanites are just too damn versatile a Deus Ex Machina not to.
109	* This troper hopes so. Sukar was a really interesting character in his own right and in his relationships with the other characters.
110	* A bigger surprise would be if he ''didn't'' wake up from a coma in season 2. Although, he may get bodily absorbed by the Kaziri, confining him to his SpiritAdvisor form.
111
112	[[WMG: Defiance takes place in the future of the 'Creator/{{Syfy}}' Verse]]
113	The Artifact that Luke has is one of those Series/{{Warehouse 13}} Artifacts. Rafe's Pilar would be Series/{{Eureka}}'s minor character of the same name
114	* Except that the invasion was in 2013 and there's a 2014 season of Warehouse 13 coming, though it will be short and the last.
115	* {{Jossed}} at Comic Con 2013
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117	[[WMG: Stahma is running a long con on the Rosewater sisters.]]
118	Pretending to be the neglected, abused wife is the perfect way to get under Kenya's skin, getting her to let her guard down and open up, and perhaps share a few family secrets or scandals. Promos for upcoming episodes indicate that Datak is going to run for Mayor. Becoming Kenya's lover puts Stahma in an ideal position to exert some leverage over Amanda. And if that doesn't work, she can always go crying to Datak over how Kenya "seduced" her and should be punished...
119	* [[spoiler: Jossed. It appears that Stahma actually had feelings for Kenya (as of Season 2's episode "Painted From Memory"), and is actually heartbroken when she discovers that she murdered Kenya for nothing after Datak tells her that he just wanted Kenya out of the way, not dead (and as the show's co-creator Kevin Murphy stated in one of the Behind the Episode videos, Stahma never took into account Datak's laziness when he had threatened to kill her).]]
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121	[[WMG: Stahma and Kenya are both conning each other]]
122	As the Madam of the NeedWant, Kenya wield some non-insignificant power that Stahma wants access to. Likewise, Stahma obviously has influence in Defiance, and at the very least, it seems like Datak's "protection" has stopped, so Kenya is obviously getting something out of the deal. Who will come out on top when it blows up is hard to say.
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124	[[WMG: Stahma started out wanting to con Kenya but actually has fallen for her.]]
125	Her statement to Kenya to learn how to play the game better was a subtle hint that a political game is happening but that she would rather see Kenya thrive (or survive at least) through the politicking rather than become a victim.
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127	[[WMG: Wrestling/RandyOrton will be a guest star]]
128	Considering Creator/{{Syfy}} has Smackdown on it and Randy Orton's from St. Louis, it'd go hand in hand.
129	* Maybe as a descendent of himself that happens to look a lot like Grandpa.
130	* Thankfully, as of three seasons the show was on, it has been thankfully JOSSED.
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132	[[WMG: Ark brain nanites and [=EGOs=]]]
133	The EGO is a more advanced and user-friendly version of the technlogy used in the Ark brain.
134	* Both give the host a HealingFactor.
135	* Both give advice and objectives to the host when they are on a mission. EGO is just more talkative about it.
136	* Both seem to be able to scan for items the host needs. Sukar didn't seem to have any trouble finding everything he needed to take control of the ark ship.
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138	[[WMG: Sukar will be back when a major Ark-related disaster comes to Defiance again.]]
139	After all, that is what the nanites in his body are designed to prevent (preserve Votanis life).
140	* Semi-Confirmed, as Sukar did return and was healthy, but is one of the many who apparently didn't survive the Kaziri event in the 7 months between Season 2 and Season 3.
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142	[[WMG: The series finale will involve the Sol system getting destroyed and everyone having to evacuate to a new system. A global government will be set up to organize this called the Earth Collective.]]
143	* Jossed, mostly due to SyFy cancelling the show, but the series ending in a way that the Season 3 finale could constitute as a series finale as well.
144	* Also jossed for the game, as the company that purchased Trion, Gamigo, has been pocketing the money made from the game and refused to invest it to create new content for the game, and it's least likely they'll produce anything for a final event for the game.
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146	[[WMG: The Votanis rogue element had contact with Earth long long ago.]]
147	This contact resulted in an Earth counterpart forming (to fight them off). The Votanis rogues feed information to the government when the star was going nova since they knew that Earth was inhabited and thus best suited for survival compared to taking a risk on other planets. In the interim, a rogue faction of the rogues split off to work with a rogue faction of the humans to accomplish some greater goal. So you have the Votanis Collective and the E-Rep who are, mostly not evil, rogue elements in both who dislike each other, and a communal rogue element who want to achieve something else.
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149	[[WMG: Rynn and Varus will come back to give Nolan hell]]
150	A recent event in the game revealed there were mercenaries looking for Nolan and Irisa. Rynn will also be coming back to Defiance after hearing about what happened to Sukar.
151	* Confirmed for Rynn appearing at the end of the recent episode.
152	* Confirmed for Varus as well at the start of Season 2. He caught up with Nolan in Angel Arc, but was easily handled by both Nolan and Irisa, but still left alive after the encounter.
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154	[[WMG: Irisa is pregnant...]]
155	With Tommy's child of course. It will die by abortion or miscarraige and become Irisa's supplicant. Then it will be absorbed back into Irisa's body, making her the "Devouring Mother".
156	* Well that's just dark and messed up.
157	* Jossed. Season 3 shows Irisa not getting pregnant.
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159	[[WMG: Stahma will become an AntiHero due to Kenya becoming her MoralityPet.]]
160	She'll start to see how Datak's schemes threaten Kenya and maybe more and so 'for his own good', remove him from power. Subsequently, she'll end up marrying Kenya.
161	** Jossed. Stahma [[spoiler: wound up killing Kenya.]]
162
163	[[WMG: [[spoiler: Nicolette]], Gordon, and Birch are all Indogene deep cover agents.]]
164	Yewll was intended to be their handler in Defiance but upon having her HeelRealization, took steps to prevent them from completing their mission. Thus there may be more agents in town that don't realize they are agents.
165	* Though it's confirmed that Nicolette is an Indogene that was converted to look human, Doc Yewll apparently wasn't a handler. It appears that Nicolette convinced Yewll to join her cause, but the death of Hunter Bell, her bringing the Volge down on Defiance, Ben's attempt to destroy the power plant under the town and the death of Jared the Liberata that worked at the NeedWant, it was enough for Yewll to end Nicolette's life. Yewll explained that Gordon was intended to be a prototype for the process to make agents, but it failed because he essentially became Gordon when imprinted with his memories.
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167	[[WMG: Stahma isn't actually in love with Datak. She's just knows how to use the cards she's been dealt to ensure the betterment of her son and those around her.]]
168	For instance, in the short time between giving Christie the Telo and giving her the veil, it's unlikely she'd have the time to actually make it. Thus she must have begun making it long before hand, knowing (or guessing) that Datak, Christie, and Rafe would act the way they did. And when Datak wonders why Christie isn't wearing the Telo, Stahma claims she doesn't know (when it was she herself that gave Christie the veil). Likewise, the wedding itself - she was the one that convinced Datak to allow it and the relationship. Secretly, she is a good person but she knows she could never openly act against the destructive (and possessive) tendencies of Datak. So she manipulates him.
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170	[[WMG: Stahma will manipulate things so that Kenya receives a significant ownership portion of the Hollows in order to provide for her and to give her protection against Datak and others.]]
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172	[[WMG: In the second season opener, Irisa will use the Kaziri to wipe out the E-Rep soldiers who are occupying Defiance. Nolan and the other human characters will try to get as many human residents of Defiance as possible evacuated before this happens.]]
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174	* Currently meta-jossed, despite how obviously this follows from the plot so far: there's been a lot of casting for E-Rep characters who are in Defiance to stay, so at a minimum, this is not gonna happen on S2 E1.
175
176	[[WMG: The Indogenes are pulling all the strings.]]
177	They're letting the Castithans think they're in charge because it permits them to work quietly behind the scenes. Everything that's happened since the Votan fleet reached Earth has been part of their elaborate plot to control everything.
178
179	[[WMG: The Conspiracy is to keep the artifact sealed, the artifact itself wants out]]
180
181	So the question which may be touched upon in season 2 is - what is the artifact going to do once it gets out?
182
183	[[WMG: Stahma killed her fiance because she felt she could better manipulate Datak.]]
184	Not only that, but she feels his violent and sometimes chaotic ways make it far easier to mask her own motives and means - she can give an order of her own desire, for instance, that seems perfectly in character for Datak.
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186	[[WMG: Stahma has no intention of getting Datak out of imprisonment.]]
187	She said it herself: Datak gave up right to his interests. She's simply stringing him along and acting like a proper wife to avoid suspicion.
188	* Confirmed. Stahma has been dragging her feet on petitioning for his release, and it's implied she would have kept doing so indefinitely if she could swing it.
189
190	[[WMG: Datak Tarr is Tom Neville in Castithian costume.]]
191	His gambit of purposely setting up an assassination that he averts is exactly like Neville's in ''Revolution''. Other personality traits are very similar, too.
192
193	[[WMG: Alak will [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]].]]
194	He's going to end up a ruthless Mafia Prince just like his father.
195	* Possibly Jossed, seeing how in Season 3, it's clear that Alak has had enough of being manipulated by his parents.
196
197	[[WMG: Stahma will try to seduce Christie.]]
198	She's far too intelligent and self-aware not to realize she was putting her ahem assets in front of Christie.
199	* Jossed, and [[spoiler: Stahma ends up killing Christie to save Datak]].
200
201	[[WMG: Stahma is a lesbian.]]
202	But in the patriarchal Casti society, she couldn't get away with that so she picks partners she can dispose of and husbands she can deceive.
203
204	[[WMG: Kenya is NotQuiteDead]]
205	Whatever Stahma did to "kill" her either wasn't fatal or was (or will be) undone at some point.
206	* [[spoiler:Talk about a good prediction. Kenya returns in Season 2.]]
207	* [[spoiler: And {{Jossed}}, turns out to be a modified Indogene agent. Stahma pretty much murdered Kenya in season one and buried her out in a field of purple flowers.]]
208
209	[[WMG: Bisexuality is the norm on post-event Earth]]
210	It's fairly obvious that, much like ''Series/DoctorWho'' implied, once contact was made with aliens, traditional Human sexual norms faded away. Nolan's issue with being kissed by a Liberata isn't that he doesn't want to get kissed by a male, it's that he can't tell their sexes apart, and he's a man who likes to know what he's kissing.
211	* Confirmed in a memory from "ten years ago" - i.e. approximately 2036, not long after the E-Rep/VC armistice - when Kenya and Amanda arrive at Defiance. They casually speak of marrying husbands or wives. Amanda says she wouldn't marry a woman, but only because she thinks women talk too much, not out of any orientation differences.
212	* And there was that "Goddess of the Wastelands" fan who wanted Irisa to sign his husband's copy of the book.
213
214	[[WMG: Pottinger will switch to the Votanis Collective]]
215
216	With all his character development, and all the conflict between him and Mercado, he just might switch to the VC to continue ruling Defiance.
217	* Why the Collective? Why not push for independence like Defiance was before the E-Rep moved in?
218	* And {{Jossed}}, [[spoiler: Amanda murders Pottinger in the E-Rep facility he's been living in after finding out he was her rapist]].
219
220	[[WMG: Viceroy Mercado will switch to the Votanis Collective]]
221
222	He'll take his Castithan love all the way. Pottinger could then make a play to rule Defiance again, and stay on the show, by being the loyal E-Rep man who fights Mercado.
223	* At least partly Jossed by [[spoiler: Pottinger's death]].
224
225	[[WMG: Berlin plans to blackmail Nolan]]
226
227	Her "fetish" for recording herself during sex was a ChekhovsGun. She recorded [[spoiler: her and Nolan having sex, and she plans to use that as leverage for something later.]]
228	* This seems unlikely, considering how upfront both of them are about boning the other.
229
230	[[WMG: That's not [[spoiler: Kenya]]]]
231
232	This is another freaky Indogene DeepCoverAgent plot.
233	* Confirmed, though not in the way one would expect.
234
235	[[WMG: Stahma is not at all what she seems to be.]]
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237	She knows ''way'' too much about exotic poisons to be just a simple aristocrat. She isn't. Back on Casti she was a SocialClimber on par with Deidre Lamb, who slept or killed her way to the top.
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239	[[WMG: Season 3]]
240	Now that [[spoiler:the arkbelt around the Earth is gone]], human and Votan will re-enter space once more and in doing so, restart the technological advances that had been left in stagnation after the HostileTerraforming and the Pale Wars.
241	* As awesome and Genre-shifting as that would be, it seems unlikely. A lot of those technological advances were on the arkships [[spoiler: that are now gone from orbit]], and there's a whole mess of lingering Human-Votan hostility that needs to be resolved before anything resembling a unified planet can be made. And considering that it was Votan tech [[spoiler: that destroyed New York City]], and the E-Rep's resident spin doctor (Berlin) has no motivation right now to get everyone to play nice, that's quite a hill to climb. Perhaps that story will take up the bulk of Season 3.
242	* Looking to be Jossed, as the VC is edging towards openly restarting the Pale Wars to take over North America.
243	** It's actually not the case: Rahm Takk was sent by the VC to scout Defiance, and he went rogue and nuts, intending to kill the humans in Defiance. The VC didn't intend for Takk to go rogue like he did. And since both the E-Rep and VC's homes bases were destroyed by the Kaziri at the end of Season 2, what's left are pretty much left more open to work together to survive than to restart a war.
244
245	[[WMG: Nolan and Irisa have been PutOnABus]]
246	At least the first half of Season 3 will focus on other characters, and they'll be nowhere to be seen, presumed dead [[spoiler: until someone finds the buried Kaziri completely by accident.]]
247	* Jossed, but it is true that they were missing for seven months in-verse, only to be found by two members of a thought-to-be-extinct Votan race.
248
249	[[WMG: Nolan was Amanda's rapist]]
250	They don't recognize each other, because Amanda never saw her rapist's face, and Nolan was enough of a bastard back then to have [[ButForMeItWasTuesday done this kind of thing plenty of times before]] so he simply doesn't remember her face. The truth with come out, and much Angst will ensue.
251	* Unlikely. The rape occurred during Amanda's time in New York City. The E-Rep don't like any Votans in the Columbia area, and since Nolan was raising Irisa, and he was truly dedicated to that, he wouldn't just up and abandon his daughter to drive from the start of Columbia's border to New York, rape some random woman and then drive all the way back.
252	* [[spoiler:Jossed. It was [[BackForTheDead Pottinger]].]]
253
254	[[WMG: Stahma will divorce Datak and marry Rafe.]]
255	Rafe seems to be warming up to Stahma and her culture. And Stahma seems to be developing a genuine sense of respect for Rafe due to his hidden roughness such as beating Alak.
256	* Jossed. [[spoiler:Rafe dies in the Season 3 pilot.]]
257
258	[[WMG: At some point, other races not tied to Earth will make themselves known.]]
259	More precisely, races from the Farscape universe. Given the Rockne S. O'Bannon connection between the shows and some similarities in design (most notably Grunchlk having an appearance markedly similar to Defiance's Castithans, and Jool (although her race - Interon - is named) bears many similarities to Defiance's Irathients), it's at least feasible.
260	* As much of a Farscape fan that I am, I have to say it's not likely. You have to remember, in Season 4, after John and the Moya crew ended up on Earth in present time, the planet soon found out about it. The aliens of the crew went on talk shows, had pictures taken of them and published in magazines and newspapers, and they went around the world to explore the different cultures. Yet, on the timeline for the show, there is no mention of a pre-Ark arrival meeting with aliens from another world, which would have been pointed out. Besides, the show also has some plot similarities to Alien Nation (which Rockne came up with), yet there's not mention of a group of aliens moving into Los Angeles before the Arks came.
261	* Confirmed. Hello, Omecs.
262	** Jossed. Omecs don't exist in Farscape.
263
264	[[WMG: The Season 3 Finale]]
265	In an EarnYourHappyEnding, Defiance will stumble upon another old EMC "black site" akin to the destroyed Arrowhead and use the immense collection of artifacts, weaponry and frozen DNA and animal samples to restart a small slice of "Old Earth" and improve the standard of living for those who live in it.
266
267	[[WMG: The Castithan homeworld was much hotter than Earth.]]
268	In the flashbacks we see to Datak's childhood, he and his father are bare-chested and the light of its sun(s) colors the sky a harsh shade of orange. It has parallels to Vulcan: a harsh desert world populated by a quasi-ProudWarriorRace. This would explain the cultural obsession Castithans have with bathing and cleanliness: keeping cool and managing health and body odor are great concerns in hot climates. This would also explain why every Castithan we've seen on Earth is bundled up from head to toe. It's not cultural modesty; they're ''freezing.''
269
270	[[WMG: Zero and his father never existed.]]
271	Only Nolan and Irisa ever directly interacted with them, and Nolan and Irisa are the ones with Kaziri tech implanted in their brains. They were just hallucinations.
272
273	[[WMG: The VC and Defiance will end up getting their alliance anyway]]
274	Due to the necessity of having to combine forces against the Omecs under Kindzi.
275
276	[[WMG: Nolan's SanitySlippage is mundane.]]
277	He's genuinely going crazy, and the Ark-Tech in his brain has nothing to do with it.
278
279	[[WMG: Yewll was one of the group of Votans who sabotaged the original Omec ship]]
280	She claims to "have done this before" when discussing how to board and damage one.
281
282	[[WMG: Amanda is SecretlyDying.]]
283	When the Omec raid Defiance while she's lying in the hospital, they smell her and dismiss her as "spoiled meat." It can't be simply because she's wounded; there's no reason that would deter a hungry Omec. Either the blade that cut her was poisoned or she has some kind of illness.
284
285	[[WMG: Yewll will be back before Nolan]]
286	The Omec still had one of her copies waiting in a tank in Old St Louis. Yewll's a smart lady with a strong sense of self-preservation; she could probably find a way to download her current memories and personality to that copy and switch it on to carry on serving the town of Defiance. Of course, it will probably take more than a pardon from Amanda to restore her patients' trust in her...
287	* It would still be a clone rather than her. And it might take a few years but still could reach Earth before the ship.
288	** This is slightly Jossed due to Season 3. Apparently, the source print of the Indogene retains copies of their memories to a certain extent, as well as copies of their personality. Kindzi, who made a copy of Doc Yewll's source print, mentions to Yewll that all of her copies made the same smart-ass remarks similar to how Yewll does, and due to Kindzi's interactions with Yewll's clones, she knew that Yewll would allow Kindzi to use the Omec control stim on her as a means of self-preservation (because the other option was death by Kindzi if she said no). So, in other words, if the Yewll clone in the tank in Old St. Louis was ever released, she's still retain the memories of Doc Yewll up to when she saved Nolan and Irisa by using the Omec tech and still retain the same personality.
289
290	[[WMG: Had the series continued...]]
291	Though Season 3 does a good job at wrapping up that season's story in a way that it could serve as a series finale, if the series had continued, The Omec would have come back, with Nolan and Yewll as their prisoners. And due to them wanting blood for the death of their leader, this would have resulted in an Earth/Omec War, which would have not just only played out in the town of Defiance, but in the Bay as well as they attempted to take over the North American continent.
292	* Semi-jossed, as Season 4 happened in the game, at least for the Bay area, with the local E-rep forces teaming up with a well-known VC unit, the Ekaru Kome, to take down Dark Matter's even more fanatical offshoot, the Neo-Votanis Front. No Omecs, though some of their tech does show up, implying Tev'gin likely traded it in Defiance and it found its way to the Bay area eventually.
293
294	[[WMG: Indogenes are mostly covered up for a reason.]]
295	Other than the obvious real world BTS reason as to why we never see Indogenes wearing T-shirts and shorts, there's a reason behind why Indogenes wear clothing that covers most of their bodies: skin-on-skin contact causes sexual stimulation. We've seen hints of this with how Lev rubs her forehead against Doc Yewll's in the Season 2 episode "Put The Damage On". For Indogenes, their hands and forearms are the least sensitive portion of their body due to their constant interaction with their environment and others (as we have seen Doc Yewll use her hands without gloves and Eren Niden is seen being gloveless and has her top's sleeves pushed up her forearms. But when you see any Indogene covered in head-to-toe outfit, the areas covered are more sensitive to sexual stimulation. This idea goes into Fridge Horror when you consider when Nolan cuts off a piece of her skin to use on T’evgin's injury in Season 3, as it explains why she acts the way she does afterwards.
296	* This also makes sense from the Omec designing the Indogene standpoint, as they would want to be able to make it possible to breed them frequently and having such a sensitivity would make both male and female Indogenes more willing to do so. Yes, Indogenes can be cloned and retain memories, but there's only so much the cloning tech would be able to do, and by having Indogenes breed, it could weed out some genetic defects.
297
298	[[WMG: Dodge is the only surviving automotive company in the United States.]]
299	Similar to how Taco Bell survived the Franchise Wars in ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Dodge as a company still exists in-world, but instead of manufacturing cars and trucks, they manufacture [=ATVs=] (explaining Cass' ATV with the Dodge logo on it after the Tutorial Mission), New World Rollers (using their Jeep frame design for the basis, as Dodge and Jeep are both owned by the Chrysler Corporation) and manufacturing parts for their various vehicles that may have survived the wars to keep them running (having put their car and truck design and manufacturing on hold). They relocated from Michigan to Alabama, given how it was one of the areas left unaffected by the terraforming event. Long after the events of both, they eventually go back to manufacturing cars and trucks for the world that comes after the New Frontier becomes a long forgotten memory. When they eventually begin to manufacturing cars and trucks again, they started with new designs of the Charger and Challenger that have high powered engines and superior suspensions for off-road use, labeling them "Ark Hunter Edition" in honor of those who braved what the New Frontier threw at them.
300
301	[[WMG: The [=PvP=] in the game and the Shadow Wars is a Mercenary-paid Battle Royale.]]
302	It's odd that when doing [=PvP=] matches or Shadow Wars is that your Ark Hunter character isn't being played. That's because you're playing a member of Echelon, the group of mercenaries that can be hired by people. They're out in the Bay due to Varus hiring them. However, the [=PvP=] and Shadow Wars are basically a paid Battle Royale, with several unnamed business people in the area (which might include Varus himself) paying them to literally fight to the death. And given the state of the world in Defiance and a lot of the FridgeHorror that the show and game have presented, there's a good chance people are desperate for money, even the mercs of Echelon, that they'd be willing to literally fight and kill each other for cash.
303
304	[[WMG: If a spin-off series/comic continuation/novel continuation ever comes to be..]]
305	If there is ever a spin-off/comic or novel continuation of Defiance, it will be either:
306	* A prequel that covers some of what we know about the show/game's back story, starting with either the pending destruction of the Votanis system (which includes the building of the Arks, as well as the discovery of Earth and the launching of the Kaziri), the Votanis Collective's arrival at Earth (which includes the secret establishment of the EMC) and their attempted integration into Earth's societies (think of ''Alien Nation'', but using some of the history that had been mentioned in the Defiance website, such as VC's "capital" in Brazil being set up), the cabal to start the war between the species, the assassination of Onulu Toruku and the start of the Pale Wars. The finale of the series/comics/novels would end with the Battle of Defiance. The story would include character's we've met in the show and game, such as young versions of Rafe and Pilar [=McCawley=], Datak and Stahma Tarr, Jon Cooper, Torc Mok, Nim and Ara Shondu.

Context WMG / Defiance