Nine months have passed since the Earth Republic took control of Defiance. Niles Pottinger in the interim mayor but clearly under the thumb of Viceroy Berto Mercado. Amanda Rosewater is running her sister Kenya's bar. Datak Tarr has been sentenced to 10 years and is incarcerated at Camp Reverie, a prison just 6 miles east of Defiance. Stahma tells him that their son Alak is running his criminal empire but that isn't quite the case. Doc Yewl is imprisoned as well. Rafe McCawley is working in the mines, doing the best he can to keep his former employees alive. Joshua Nolan meanwhile has been looking for his daughter Irisa and what he's learned has led him to New Chicago and another dead end. He has more luck in Angel Arc, formerly Los Angeles, but when he suggests to Irisa that they go to South America, she insists they return to Defiance.
—garykmcd