Rufus Weller, the lead scientist of the ESU and the man who saved Chase from death, explains that Chase managed to survive his crash with his incredible will to survive and they managed to get him to safety before giving him the choice to be the first to pilot the new experimental technology, gen:LOCK. Dr. Weller meets with Colonel Marin, who is less than pleased that a Union spy was able to sneak into the base and warns that based on current estimates the Union will reach the West Coast in 6 months. A recruit’s talent for tinkering raises concerns. He also has spider-like legs attached to his back including 4 mechanical tentacles and three thrusters giving him flight capability. While preparing for their next skirmish, the gen:LOCK team receives a transmission from Migas, who reveals the Anvil and everyone inside is safe: the late Dr. Weller had figured out Union sympathizers were given a chip that could broadcast a signal to nanotech so that it would not affect them and manufactured a copy for the Vanguard that was put into effect when the Behemoth's nanotech attacked. The tank pilots challenge the recruits to a game of capture-the-flag, where they have to grab a flag without being shot by the line of tanks. Nemesis is one of the main antagonists in season 1 of the Rooster Teeth animated webseries gen:LOCK. Colonel Raquel Marin sends forces from The Anvil to defend the city, Chase among them. Chase tries reconnecting with Miranda and the Vanguard. [2], Adult Swim ran the first eight episodes of Gen:Lock from August 3, 2019 to September 21, 2019 on their Toonami programming block, albeit edited down to approximately 23 minutes to fit into a standard time slot. [19] The remaining six episodes released on a weekly basis.[19]. One pilot could turn the tide. Unfortunately, this results in the release of a massive nanotech cloud that quickly overtakes the battlefield and the entire base with most of the Vanguard's personnel inside. Four years later, a battle-hardened and still grieving Miranda is ordered by Colonel Raquel Marin to meet Dr. Rufus Weller and Yasamin Madrani from the Polity's Experimental Science Unit, who are moving their headquarters into the Anvil. On opposing sides of this fundamental debate, the Polity and the Union remained locked in a brutal and unforgiving war…. Dr. Weller runs an experimental field trial operation using test subject Julian Chase. City by city, free society is being forcibly absorbed into a vast autocracy. Back at the Anvil, with the three Strider pilots questioning the Colonel about the unknown mechs that helped them, Julian finally revealed himself through Mixed Reality to his old friends that he was alive, much to the shock and disbelief of his fellow soldiers who were convinced he perished in the Battle of New York.

Training for the gen:LOCK program continues, and though the recruits show progress, they have a difficult time forming a bond as a team.