Killing the Harvester Queen Main article: Second Battle of Area 51
The Harvesters were also aware of the Sphere's presence and will make their attempt to capture it in order to learn its vital secrets. The situation worsened when the ESD learned that the Harvester is drilling into the Earth to harvest its molten core for fuel, which will destroy Earth's magnetic field in the process, and thereby rendering the planet lifeless. The entity explained to the humans that it was sent by a party of refugees to help evacuate humanity to a planet occupied by a resistance force of countless other races which opposed the Harvesters. After being literally swept up by the arrival of the Harvester Mothership, Levinson and his companions took the container to Area 51 and opened it to reveal an artificial intelligence dubbed as the Sphere. Only 7% percent of the ESD fleet survived and returned to Area 51.ĮSD Director David Levinson was on the Moon investigating the wreckage of the unknown ship and recover a container. The bombers that were able to drop their payload were intercepted by alien drones, which they contain the explosions with force-fields. Hiller attempted to lead the bombers into the mothership, but the aliens anticipated this move and launched their counterattack in which they unleashed a electromagnetic-like pulse that disabled the ESD fighters and destroyed ESD satellites, and downing human communication in the process. ESD forces utilized aerial drones to disable the mothership's energy shield and allowing ESD fighters to escort bombers to drop cold fusion warheads on the mothership.Īfter succeeding in disabling the shields, ESD fighters led by Captain Dylan Hiller were assailed by alien fighters and the mothership's defense weapons, which makes it impossible for the ESD to make a direct attack on the vessel. The ESD rallied available and surviving military forces to launch an counterattack on the Harvester Mothership in an attempt to kill the Harvester Queen, on the basis that this will cause her attendants to fall in disarray and retreat from Earth. The mothership landed over the North Atlantic Ocean and caused the floating structures and debris to rain over Europe, and its landing annihilated the entire United States East Coast and much of northwestern Europe. The sudden arrival of the enormous spacecraft caught Earth forces off guard, as the aliens' mothership quickly and effortlessly destroyed the ESD Moon Base and Earth's Orbital Defense System before entering the planet's atmosphere.ĭue to the immense gravity of the mothership conflicting with the Earth's gravity, massive chunks of earth along with cities and people from most of Asia and the Middle East were pulled towards the ship. The Harvesters arrived in Earth's orbit on July 4 during the midst of humanity's celebration of the 20th anniversary of the War of 1996. Unfortunately, humanity was too late to prepare their defenses against the new invasion. The ESD were then alerted of the aliens' return from captured footage of the aliens' massive mothership.
Believing the unknown spaceship is responsible for the destruction of Rhea Base, the ESD were then given order by the United Nations Security Council to attack the ship in which the ESD Moon Base fired its main weapon at the ship and causing it to crash on the lunar surface.ĭespite humanity believing they have eliminated a hostile alien threat, the ESD soon lost contact with their base on Mars, which was destroyed by the same aliens of the 1996 invasion. Soon afterward, an unidentified alien ship emerges through a wormhole near the Moon. On July 3, 2016, the Earth Space Defense lost contact with Rhea Base and learned that it was destroyed by an immense wormhole that was created near Saturn's orbit. Within a span of twenty years, humanity reverse-engineered alien technology left over from the 1996 conflict to prepare for a second invasion.ĭue to time being relative in space travel, the distress message finally reached the Harvesters' home planet in 2016. The transmission was noticed by human scientists, who strongly believed it to be a distress call and implying the undoubted possibility that the aliens would one day return to Earth. Shortly prior to their defeat in the War of 1996, the Harvesters on Earth sent a transmission into deep space.