Another Life season 2

 Time for a another series to scratch of the still to complete list, as I watched through the second season of Another Life at last.

The first was okay but didn't grab Noshi's fancy, so it went to the wayside for years.  But as I`m painting again, that also means I can play series while doing so.

So slowly but steadily, as the army grows, the backlog shortens...

Picking up where we left off in season 1, the Salvare is stuck in a debris field, unable to perform an FTL jump after the destruction of the planet Zakir.  They can use the bubble to protect themselves, but when August and oliver are working on the ring, an Archaian ship arrives and attacks the Salvare, resulting in the two engineers being incinerated in a plasma leak.  Iara, being interrogated by Eichard and niko, contacts the Archaian ship negotiating that Niko can visit them for a peacefull negotiation.

Inside the vessel, Niko, learns more about the Archaian and how they are all connected with the artifacts on various worlds, while Iara hacks in the system to gather data about them.  As more ships approach, Cas spacewalks to get Niko, as Richard jumps the Salvare away.  When a magnetar unleashes energy surges, both the Salvare as well as the Archaian vessel are forced out of FTL, as these pulses severly damage and even disintegrate the mechanical aliens.  The Archaian vessel is destroyed by Iara's doing, but she denies having done so.  They come across a colonisable planet, awakening colonist leader Paula to touch down on it.  William is struggling though, as his predecessor AI code, Gabriel, tries to get to the front.

The colonists decide to settle down on the planet, as William is forced to be reset and effectively reborn blank in order to erase the Gabriel programming.  They discover cosmic strings allowing them to communicate with Earth, and that theoretically they can generate a wormhole to bring the ship home.  Back on earth, Eric learns that the Archaian's want humanity to abandon FTL drives and remain confined to their own solar system, in exchange to restore the biosphere and save the planet.

The salvare succesfully goes through a wormhole, reappearing near Jupiter, but had to leave a part of the ship with Niko and Richard behind.  They rush to Earth on impulse to tell them the Archaians cannot be trusted, but agents on Earth with implants prevent the news from getting out.  Niko and richard try to make a solar sail, but are picked up by an unknown vessel.  This is a race of creatures that experiment on all they encounter, and Niko is sent to a frozen planet to retrieve a power core.  She finds Paula, heavily mutated and learns the colonists where soon picked up after Salvare's leave and are all dead now.  Niko mercy kills her, but has found a way to kill their captor, with intese cold.  They take him out, and use the ship to go to an Archaian artefact nearby with a plan to become ambassador's to return to Earth.

The plan works and as they return, prepare to take out the Archaian vessel approaching Earth with the Salvare as a massive energy cannon.  But more vessels approach, and using a captured Archaian they devise a computer virus to once and for all drive them off, receiving strange messages from across the universe thanking them they defeated this threat.  A new mission, with the Salvare 2, is prepared as humanity steps out there.

Well, it was an okay season for an okay series, but this definitly won't go down as a sci-fi classic I`m afraid.  It's worth checking out for some entertainment, but not a must see to be honest.