Originally Posted by
Thr0nes
Quentin McCawley says the drawings on the cave wall, where the artifact came from, date back to 1811. Implying that a sect of Votan colonists arrived much earlier than the collective fleet arrival in 2013.
My prediction is that they were Irathient cultists, who arrived 200 years before their prophet was born, to prepare for her arrival. The artifact is the key to a Irathient teraforming device, that would create a forest/eden-equese world like their home planet.
Nolan and Irisa will be driven in-doors and underground by the razor rain. They will then scooby-doo the plot, have everything handed to them nicely, uncover the secret in the nick of time, and be forced to make the moral decision to either teraform the world or live in the world of Defiance... after much turmoil, they will destroy the device, someone will cry, someone will get shot, and we will never get to see an Infector in the show.