
Unlike regular previews, the trailers for gen:LOCK were not made using animation from the series. Prior to Season 1, four trailers were to be released to introduce characters and concepts before the premiere. This is tied into the pairing of people and the world's gen:LOCK technology, which is a technological breakthrough on the protagonists' side of the war. The cultural nature of the war is based on identity and the ability to fight while still preserving your own. The Union organizes in order to do a territory grab and form mono-culture areas, and the opposing side, the Polity, resists them. There are no direct land borders, but clashes instead occur between those of alternate perspectives within the same location. In gen:LOCK, a war of beliefs is being fought within populations around the world. A light that, for Chase, will test his loyalty to the Polity… as he digs deeper into the nature of the war and realizes nothing he thought is what it seems… As we meet the figurehead of the Union - Brother Tate - and the citizens for whom he spills Polity blood, the nature of the conflict between the two sides will be seen in a whole new light. On opposing sides of this fundamental debate, the Polity and the Union remained locked in a brutal and unforgiving war…Ī war the Polity is losing, despite the heroic efforts of their greatest soldiers, the Gen:Lock team – Chase, Cammie, Yaz, Kazu, and Val, who continue to upload their minds to their Holon units and fight for their vision of a better future on the front lines. The future of humanity, if it is to have one, rests in some form of mechanization or digitization. On a dying Earth in the midst of a now unstoppable climate collapse, two utterly distinct visions for the future of the human race have come to dominate: The Polity and the Union.
