Things are not going well in Defiance. It's been 7 months since the McCawley mine has collapsed, there's high unemployment, severe electricity shortages and the stasis nets have to be periodically shut down. Doc Yewl is planning to leave and try her luck out west but Amanda talks her into staying. Two blue-eyed, purple-skinned visitors from an unknown race, arrive to mine gulanite and in the process free Joshua and Irisa who survived in a stasis pod. Meanwhile, Dara, Stahma and Rafe McCawley continue to track Rafe's ex-wife Pilar and rescue Christie, Alak and their newborn grandchild. They run into a squad from the Votanis collective and their leader, General Rahm Tak, who tells them he's headed to Defiance to kill all the humans and burn it to the ground.
—garykmcd