<P> In June 2011, Syfy announced that they would be producing a television series which was being developed by Rockne S. O'Bannon and would be produced by Universal Cable Productions . It was also announced that the TV series would be connected to a video game being produced by Trion Worlds . It was later confirmed that Syfy had ordered thirteen episodes for the show's first season, which would premiere in either late 2012 or the summer of 2013 . In July 2012, the network announced that the series and game would debut in April 2013 . </P> <P> Casting announcements began in January 2012, with Grant Bowler being the first to be cast . Bowler plays Joshua Nolan, "the law keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world's few oases of civility and inclusion ." On February 8, TVWise revealed profiles for five of the main characters . It was later reported that Gillian Anderson had been briefly considered by the show's producers to play either Amanda or Stahma . However, that casting did not move forward as they assumed she would not be interested in returning to episodic television . On March 8, 2012, it was announced that Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran and Jaime Murray had been cast in the series . Julie Benz plays Amanda Rosewater, the mayor of Defiance; Stephanie Leonidas plays Irisa, "a beautiful warrior who is part of an alien race called the Irathients"; Tony Curran plays Datak Tarr, "the right hand to Amanda"; and Jaime Murray plays Stahma Tarr, "Datak's beautiful and proper wife". </P> <P> Production of the first season began in April 2012 in Toronto . </P> <P> For season 1, linguist David J. Peterson developed two full languages for the different alien races, for the Castithans and the Irathients . Basic language sketches were prepared for two of the other races, the Indogenes and the Liberata . By the end of the series, David J. Peterson had developed three full languages (the addition being the Omec language, Kinuk'aaz) in addition to the development of four different scripts for Kastíthanu, L'Irathi, Indojisnen, and Kinuk'aaz . </P>

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