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The cast What is Gen:Lock ?  Gen:Lock is an animated, web series made by the company Rooster Teeth. At at the time of writing, there has been one season. Reportedly, there is going to be a second season. However, it hasn't premiered yet. What is the plot? In the later 21st century, the two political superpowers, the Polity (i.e. the good guys) and the Union (i.e. the bad guy), are at war. The Polity tasks our main characters (Julian Chase, Yasamin Madrani, Cameron MacCloud, Kazu Iida, Valentina Romanyszyn) with using Gen:Lock, an experimental form of technology that allows the user to download their brains into machines, to pilot giant robots to fight the Union forces. One thing that bugged me is how the never explained why the robots are necessary. We only see the robots do things a trained task force with tanks or a drone strike could accomplish. In addition, the Gen:Lock technology has numerous drawbacks: you need to meet numerous requirements to avoid frying your brain,