The space tug is caught in the mothership's gravitational pull, which also lifts buildings and structures from most of Asia. Suddenly, an alien mothership 3,000 miles wide emerges and destroys the Moon base before approaching Earth. Against ESD orders, pilots Jake Morrison and Charles Miller picks up Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug and they head for the crash site, where they recover a container. Levinson is convinced that it belongs to a different extraterrestrial race that is benevolent and urges the world's government not to attack, but President Elizabeth Lanford gives permission to shoot it down regardless.
President Thomas Whitmore experienced recurring visions of extraterrestrial logograms ever since their personal encounters with the aliens, and Umbutu is learning how to read them.Ī spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near the ESD's Moon defense headquarters. Aboard the ship, they discover that the ship was drilling a hole before the aliens' final defeat and had sent a distress call to its home planet. Catherine Marceaux and warlord Dikembe Umbutu, who lead him to an intact alien destroyer.
In Africa, ESD Director David Levinson meets with Dr. The main defense force uses technology salvaged from the remains of the alien forces, with military forces assembled on the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, while the Area 51 base has become the Space Defense Headquarters. Twenty years after the events of the previous film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system.