Exosquad: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Exosquad Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Gathering
Dec 18, 1993
The General Assembly commissions Exosquad to eliminate the Tethysian Pirate.
The Embassy
Dec 25, 1993
A pirate spy for the Neosapiens threatens Marsh and DeLeon's mission. The Exofleet is blockaded on Io.
Pirate's Ransom
May 1, 1994
Typhonus offers a treaty of friendship to the Pirates in exchange for Marsh and DeLeon. When Simbacca refuses Typhonus' forces attack, wounding and capturing Simbacca. The Pirates
Ultimate Weapon
Dec 18, 1993
As the Pirate fleet leaves for Io, Simbacca tells Marsh to teach some pirates to fly e-frames. J.T. objects, citing the fact that e-frames are too complicated to learn quickly. Des
Expendable
Dec 18, 1993
Torres is put in the brig for attacking Jubail, who agrees to drop the charges as repayment of his debt to Marsh (who spared his life in The Embassy). Barca learns that the GRAF sh
Mindset
Dec 18, 1993
Marsh and Marsala coordinate with the Chicago resistance to free the imprisoned members of the Homeworlds Congress. Napier encounters Amanda Conner, his ex-wife, who is conducting
The Last Man
Dec 18, 1993
A Jumptroop assault on Ceres results in the discovery of a new type of Neo, the Neo mega. It is captured and causes problems on the ship, until it is launched out a docking bay int
Dragon's Rock
Dec 18, 1993
After discovering that the resistance cell on Venus that they were supposed to deliver weapons to has been destroyed, Burns and Bronski are themselves captured. After a march with
Inner Dark
Dec 18, 1993
Barca convinces Hallas to assassinate Simbacca, but only a serious wounding results. As Able Squad searches for Hallas, Barca attempts to lay a trap for them, but it results in the
The Dogs of War
Dec 18, 1993
Torres arrives in Phaeton City to coordinate with the resistance there, with the objective being the capture of a Neo mega. Anticipating this, Shiva's Neo mega advisor, Lucullus, s
The First Step
Dec 18, 1993
A replacement pilot, Yuri Stavrogan, preys on Kaz's hotshot tendencies, which results in his disobeying some of J.T.'s orders and causing tension between all three. The ExoFleet be
The Greatest Fear
Dec 18, 1993
Able Squad arrives on Venus with the mission of locating and estimating every Neo base and troop concentration on the planet, as a prelude to invasion. While investigating a secret
Flesh Crawls
Dec 18, 1993
DeLeon and Weston are to take the captured Neo mega, Lysander, and a mutating agent back to the planet Chaos for examination. But what they believe to be Lysander is actually a mel
Behind the Shield
Dec 18, 1993
Sullust, Neo mega advisor to Draconis, sets a trap on Venus for the ExoFleet using the old GRAF station and a new one constructed by Enleal. Only aware of the one installation, Abl
Venus Rising
Dec 18, 1993
The ExoFleet is having success in its campaign on Venus. James Burns leads the Venus resistance in an attack on Vesta, and he is severly wounded by Draconus in the process. Knowing
Miracle
Dec 18, 1993
The ExoFleet has taken Venus, but the Neo sapien Fleet, with Phaeton in command, prepares to counterattack. Barca sabotages the Resolute II, putting them in a precarious position.
Under the Skin
Dec 18, 1993
Phaeton's scientists have succeeded in creating a Neo sapien that looks like Alice Noretti, who was a member Able Squad when she was killed. Phaeton places her on a Terran worker t
Ultimatum
Dec 18, 1993
Marsala is kidnapped by former members of the Venus resistance, who demand that all Neo sapiens, whether loyal to ExoFleet or not, be deported from the planet. James Burns, who has
Warrior Brood
Dec 18, 1993
Nick Tyree, leader of the Australian resistance, disobeys orders from Napier and the ExoFleet and proceeds with an uprising throughout Australia. Able Squad and Napier go to Austra
The Dream War
Dec 18, 1993
Torres, Bronski, and Takagi return to Canberra to provide air cover for a withdrawal attempt by the resistance. The attempt fails miserably, and they are forced to retreat back int
No Surrender
Dec 18, 1993
Napier escapes with Marsala. Despite his own objections, General Shiva complies with Phaeton's demand that he capture Marsh alive. Shiva offers to let everyone else within Parliame
Fire Ship
Dec 18, 1993
An attempt by the ExoFleet to covertly land e-frames on Mars to investigate a gigantic complex fails miserably, with most of the e-frames destroyed and pilots killed, because a spy
Martian Luck
Dec 18, 1993
The capture of Marduk, a Neo sapien who has supplied the ExoFleet with information, prompts Winfield to send two exosquads to Mars. Eventually Typhonus uses the spy as bait to ensn
The Lost Patrol
Dec 18, 1993
Torres, believed dead by her fellow ExoTroopers, takes charge of the ExoScouts that found her. A few of them resent this, and while she tries to lead them all to her exosquad, they
Call of the Unknown
Dec 18, 1993
Able Squad blasts its way into the alien complex, and is pursued inside by Typhonus and his troops. After a battle which is made more difficult by interior defenses, Able Squad esc
Heart of Mars
Dec 18, 1993
Both Marsh and Typhonus make seizing the alien technology their top priority. Both the ExoSquads and Neo frames make it to a central complex, and a battle follows. A fusion pack ex
Winged Fury
Dec 18, 1993
Marsh finds himself in New York, facing down a group of Neo-Warriors sent to hunt him down (you'd think he threw Phaeton off a mountain or something). He encounters the last cabbie
The Night of the Traitor
Dec 18, 1993
Phaeton gives orders to Lucullus to begin work on a bunker underneath Phaeton City. Marsh attempts to rendezvous with Marsala and Felson in Maine, but realizes Turner's treachery a
Trial by Combat
Dec 18, 1993
A combined E-frame/Jumptroop mission to Antarctica to destroy the Neo warrior breeding complex becomes a disaster, as apparently only Yuri Stavrogan survives. Professor Algernon ha
The Perfect Warrior
Dec 18, 1993
Galba pretends, for the sake of Praetorius, to conjecture that the ExoTrooper they have captured is in fact Marsh masquerading as Takagi to avoid being taken to Phaeton (which is t
The Price of Courage
Dec 18, 1993
Phaeton has Shiva take most of what remains of the Neo Sapien fleets to Venus in a final attempt to destroy the ExoFleet. With the Resolute II undergoing repairs, Admiral Winfield
Dark River
Dec 18, 1993
Marsh, Burns, and Marsala go to South America to retrieve a Terran geneticist named Ketzer, who the ExoFleet hopes will help them discover a weakness in the Neo lords. Although the
The Art of War
Dec 18, 1993
A mission to deliver explosives to Earth Resistance lands Bronski and Takagi in Alaska, where they meet up with the Chicago resistance. They must place the explosives on a train so
One Small Step
Dec 18, 1993
As a prelude to the assault on Earth, the Exofleet retakes the moon.
Fifth Column
Dec 18, 1993
Napier and the Resistance commence the battle to liberate Earth.
The Last Jump
Dec 18, 1993
Captain Butler and the jumptroops try to take over Washington, D.C.
A Night Before Doomsday
Dec 18, 1993
J.T. Marsh and the ExoSquad attempt to destroy Phaeton's Doomsday device.
Abandon Hope
Dec 18, 1993
Marsh is being held prisoner; ExoSquad begins its final assault.