A lot has changed from season 1 to season 2 of Modified Carbon. Anthony Mackie is playing Takeshi Kovacs now, 30 years later, and we're on a completely new planet. That new world, Harlan Land, it has a history and quizks in touch, but it doesn't really check.
So, let's talk about Harlan's angels of the world and their angel.
We'll avoid as much spoilers as possible, but the last few episodes contain the most wasteful things of season 2. We'll put extra warning ahead of those subsections.
What is Harlan's Land?
About 400 years before Season 2 took place (thus, 370 years before Season 1), the human colonies left the world in a colonial ship. They came to a planet that was to be known as Harlan Land, named by one of the world's founders.
Earth could support human life, but it was (almost) completely surrounded by an automated hexagonal network orbitals
Konrad Harlan, played by Neal McDonough, found (at least takes credit for finding) a hole in the angel network that would allow their ship to land.
The elders
Angels were not the only thing found in Harlan & # 39; s World. It soon became clear that the planet had always been the type of people it named The elders. We actually see the Elder Fossil at the Mayor's Office in episode 1.
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The elders made angels, but no one knows why.
Some old drawings of old have been found all over the world. Groups of "archaeologists" and AI have been studied at archaeological sites around the world. Dig 301, whom we meet in season 2, is one of those AI. We have seen evidence from the past from these excavations in both seasons. The study of the unique alloy in those Grandma's artworks is what led Quellcrist Falconer to invent stacks – those immutable hard drives that keep one’s mind as a digital human asset (DHF).
The angel of fire
Angels around the World of Harlan are still very active. At night, we see beams of white light blue, called the angel of fire by the locals, going on a collision between angels like lightning – it's a strange thing because of the bee's system of angels. It is not yet clear what the light lines are, but it is thought to be the pressure of the emission or contact.
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When something gets too close to the lift of angels – like the rocket-propelled rockets we see in Episode 4 – the orbitals destroy with an even more powerful explosion of that bright white energy. This is probably why the flying cars we saw on Earth in Season 1 are not in Harlan & # 39; s World.
The important thing to note here is that the fire of angels is only visible in the sky. As long as nothing goes near the angels from the surface, they are completely harmless and are generally regarded as protectors of the earth.
Full interview with Angels Season 2
Angels, fire angel, and seniors are all major points of Carbon's Second Amended Season. In Episode 6, Quellcrist appears to be controlling angels and using them to summon angelic fire against protected powers.
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In Episode 7, we learn that it was not the Archangel who controlled the angels, but the elder with whom he shared the stack. We see that again in episode 8, where Takeshi uses an angel of fire to kill himself and the Elder – however, he seems to have been saved by Poe.
This tells us a few interesting things. The rotating network of angels seems to be pointing at the top of our planet out of space, which sounds a little bit like defense and something like that. However, we also see that the Elders can control angels, so they may not have been put by anyone else there.
Which raises the question: What were the elders hoping to contain in their world? Finish your fingers in season 3.
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