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The Earth Space Defense (ESD) is a program that serves as an early warning system and united global defense unit against future extraterrestrial threats. It was founded by the United Nations on May 25, 1998. David Levinson was appointed as its Director in 2007.
History
The ESD was founded two years after the War of 1996 and coinciding with political unity between Earth's nations. Upon its inception, the ESD began a worldwide publicity and recruitment campaign. Furthermore, the ESD was also tasked with reverse-engineering alien technology left over from the 1996 invasion. The result of the research leads to enhance humanity's capability in space and military technology, and the colonization of Earth's moon, Mars and Saturn's moon Rhea.
The ESD was first headed by Director Strain, who pushed for an expedited test-flight of a hybrid fighter at the 2007 ESD Spring Expo. The fighter exploded mid-flight, killing the pilot, Steven Hiller. To prevent further government negligence, Levinson was appointed director by Lucas Jacobs after the accident.[2]
Mandate
The ESD is a Corps sized unit, tasked with becoming experts in anti-extra-terrestrial (AET) warfare. Their primary task is to be trainers for the world's military forces. They develop, plan and execute a vigorous training program to keep general combat forces familiar with AET tactics, doctrine and weapons. They deploy in small training teams around the world for training purposes. Their secondary mission is to man space stations and moon bases, develop new tactics and techniques and conduct field practical training on newly developed weapon systems.
Weapons & Technology
The ESD has studied the alien technology retrieved from the remains of the spaceships destroyed in the War of 1996 to integrate with human technology.
The Chinese military helped develop the transport and heavy lifting technology in addition to research and development to understand the alien's structural, integrative, and life-support capabilities. In return, the United States focused on research and application of low-acceleration anti-gravity and stable fusion reactors.
Thanks to this combination of technologies, the ESD owns weapons of various kinds.
High Impact Orbiting Units
An artificial satellite orbiting near the High Impact Orbiting Units: you can see the two constellations, disposed in a longitudinally and a latitudinally way.
These units represents the earth's first line of defense: these are two constellations (latitude and longitude) of orbiting units that use the same technology of the City Destroyers laser cannons.
ESD Moon Base
After great efforts and technological innovations, the ESD has finally managed to build a base on the Moon. This base serves both as a monitoring center of the solar system and as a point of attack and defense of the Earth.
Hybrid Vehicles
The ESD possessed various kinds of hybrid vehicles equipped with hybrid anti gravity fusion drives allowing colonization of the solar system. Marine One was outfitted with such a drive as well as H-8 Defender fighter jets and Space Tugs.
Weapons
Blaster rifles are the standard weapons of ESD soldiers. They are based on their alien counterparts.
The ESD also develop advanced cold fusion weapons carried by the bombers and were instrumental in the July 4th, 2016 conflict.
Directors of Earth Space Defense
| No. | Image | Name | Term of Office | Served under: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Began | Ended | President | ||||
| 1 | Strain | 1999 | 2007 | |||
| 2 | 
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David Levinson | 2007 | Present | ||
Gallery
Appearances
- Independence Day: Crucible (first appearance)
- Independence Day: Resurgence (novelization)
- Independence Day: Resurgence