History WMG / GenLock

They are losing North America - they already lost the major industrial areas of East and Great Lakes - and they didn't seems to have any workable strategy to remedy that. They lost New York after rather limited action. Their hopes for Holons actually demonstrated their desperation - its the losing side that usually seek "wunderwaffe" as game-changing measure (like Germany in WW2). They spend their best troops on low-value evacuation efforts, instead of saving them for any kind of push. And it doesn't seems that they implemented any kind of command economy to boost up production of military hardware.

Yaz's declaration that it's "Not my Union" is similar to the "not my president" cry used by many on the left who feel alienated by the Trump presidency. The Union is also noted to be extremely hostile to LGBTQ rights, much in the same way the Trump administration has been accused of trying to roll back rights for the LGBTQ community. Furthermore,the Great Union of the Fourth Turning Republics references the Fourth Turning theory. This theory of human history has gained popularity on the American right in recent years, with a number of prominent Trump advisers, such as the infamous Steve Banon, subscribing to its teachings.

[[spoiler: the Union has a digital mind at their disposal as well as a Holon. As such, they have been mass producing copies of Chase and his Holon, with Nemesis merely being one of many.]]

[[spoiler:During his death, Nemesis interfaces with Chase like Chase did before to get or show info, and it shows an image of a growing number of multiple Evil!Chases in his mindscape, all while Nemesis command Chase about killing the copies (which will be Cammie, Kazu, Yaz and Valentina) and about a copy of copy of a copy. This is going to show up in the next season where it is revealed that Nemesis has copied himself into Chase as a virus and is slowly infecting Chase's Holon body, resulting in Chase developing a EvilWithin and causing one or multiple
BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.]]

[[spoiler:At some point, a major breakthrough will be discovered that will allow pilots to return to their bodies even after exceeding uptime.]

In the mindscape before Nemesis' death, he reveals to Chase that he himself, is a copy of the captured Chase, and that he is not the only copy. However, this is because in order to create Nemesis from Chase, they cloned his mind and pitted the clones against one another - using survival of the fittest to produce Nemesis - the most brutal and strongest copy of Chase, as a result of constantly having to fight copies of himself. As a result, Nemesis is the only Union Clone of Chase, and with his death, the Union likely no longer has Chase's mind.
* Whether or not the original Chase is alive is hard to say, though it's likely that he perished long ago as a result of Union torture and
experiments.

[[spoiler:During his death, Nemesis interfaces with Chase like Chase did before to get or show info, and it shows an image of a growing number of multiple Evil!Chases in his mindscape, all while Nemesis command Chase about killing the copies (which will be Cammie, Kazu, Yaz and Valentina) and about a copy of copy of a copy. This is going to show up in the next season where it is revealed that Nemesis has copied himself into Chase as a virus and is slowly infecting Chase's Holon body, resulting in Chase developing a EvilWithin and causing one or multiple BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.]]

* Whether or not the original Chase is alive is hard to say, though it's likely that he perished long ago as a result of Union torture and experiments.

* Dr. Weller's HeroicSacrifice was punctuated by him using an explosive like device, with the only visible effects being a bright light and breaking the windows. Most likely, based on the fact that after he used it, the elevator the gen:Lock group was using stalled, that device was an EMP of sorts. Now, EMP's have been shown to be used before during the Battle of New York, where Chase and Razzle used them to try and stop the Behemoth. While Razzle was shot down by the Behemoth after it managed to detect her, when Chase used it, it managed to work, shorting out the Behemoth ''and'' the Nanotech. Chase only survived because the Nanotech attacking him was shorted out by the EMP and ESU got to him in time. So Dr. Weller more than likely was holding a handheld version of the EMP. If he had one, its possible the other rooms in the base did too, or he had one strong enough to affect the entire Anvil.

** Chase being unable to contact anyone after the Anvil was overrun by Nano-tech doesn't necessarily mean they're dead. Back in Episode 4, when the Nemesis attacked Cammie it completely encased themselves in a dome of Nanotech, and upon doing so, Cammie was unable to contact the others outside of it, a map Colonel Marin and Dr. Weller looking at showing the area was suffering from satellite interference. With the Anvil covered in Nanotech, Chase would naturally be unable to call anyone still in the Anvil, meaning its possible the others are still alive.
** Dr. Weller's HeroicSacrifice was punctuated by him using an explosive like device, with the only visible effects being a bright light and breaking the windows. Most likely, based on the fact that after he used it, the elevator the gen:Lock group was using stalled, that device was an EMP of sorts. Now, EMP's have been shown to be used before during the Battle of New York, where Chase and Razzle used them to try and stop the Behemoth. While Razzle was shot down by the Behemoth after it managed to detect her, when Chase used it, it managed to work, shorting out the Behemoth ''and'' the Nanotech. Chase only survived because the Nanotech attacking him was shorted out by the EMP and ESU got to him in time. So Dr. Weller more than likely was holding a handheld version of the EMP. If he had one, its possible the other rooms in the base did too, or he had one strong enough to affect the entire Anvil.
** Lastly, there is precedence for the Union to take prisoners. Episode 5 detailed that the Union took several Polity scientists, including Dr. Henry Wu, as prisoners after their attack on the Polity's base in Cape Canaveral. Dr. Weller is undoubtedly someone they'd want taken alive, if only for the gen:Lock tech and knowledge he possesses. Whether they'd want anyone else alive is unknown, but possibly Colonel Marin and Migas, the Colonel for being the enemy commander and for public execution, Migas for doing maintenance on Polity Weaponry including the Holon's, meaning they could use him for upgrading their tech. [[spoiler:It helps that the Nemesis has access to the gl MindHive, and since those in it can share memories and dreams, the Nemesis would know that Migas is responsible for the Holon upkeep.]]

[[spoiler: In episode 6, Valentina mentions that, after sharing their mind with Kazu, they now seem to remember learning how to play the guitar sitting on a rooftop in Japan. The pilots clearly share memories when "meta-melding" and retain those memories even after downloading. So in a future episodes, after they have already melded with each other a whole bunch of times, at least one character will have a breakdown about no longer being sure which of the things they remember are their own memories, and which ones are from other team members.]]