


In the new movie, viewers learn that about three dozen of these spaceships attacked Earth back in 1996. Thousands of aliens swarm inside the Harvester, including a huge queen alien, who serves as a point of collective intelligence.

It is many times larger than the City Destroyers. Once it lands on a planet, it can drill into a planet's core and shut down the magnetic field - in the movie, this deprives the planet of its atmosphere.In "Resurgence," the aliens arrive in a ship called the Harvester. The spaceship also has a massive force field that can repel attacks.

This makes it large enough to have artificial gravity (which can be used to swoop up nearby ships or objects and throw them into a planet, as necessary). The spaceship is roughly the diameter of Jupiter's moon Europa: 3,000 miles (4,830 kilometers). Steve Hiller (played by Will Smith) stands in his driveway and sees a ship called a City Destroyer, hovering over the nearby metropolis, blotting out most of the horizon. We all remember the scene in the 1996 film when Capt. (Note that some of this information comes from the film, and other info is from the fan-made "Independence Day" wikia page.) Read on to see what fictional spaceships were used by both aliens and humans. The battles between humans and extraterrestrials feature all sorts of cool spaceships, and unlike in the first "Independence Day" movie, the war takes place across the entire solar system. In the new movie, the once-defeated aliens have spent the past two decades mounting a comeback. Note: This article contains minor spoilers for "Independence Day: Resurgence."Ī group of aliens bent on destroying humanity has returned to Earth in the movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," a sequel to the 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day." The new film, which is playing now in theaters, continues the story of the original movie and is packed with action, suspense, drama and - best of all - amazing spaceships!
