Dread Harvest

The Dread Harvest is a fictional event referenced in the Syfy Original Series Defiance. The Dread Harvest is an event originating with the Omec culture. During times when the Omec home world shared an orbit with other worlds, members of the race would attack other planets and consume living beings as food. Originally, T'evgin brought his people in stasis to Earth with the intent of initiating the Dread Harvest on this world as well, but changed his mind after finding things in Defiance that he valued.