Sphere

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The Sphere is the overarching protagonist of the Independence Day franchise. It is an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence sent to serve as a liaison between Earth and the Resistance.
== History ==
=== Resistance-Harvester War ===
The Sphere belonged to a race that shed their biological existence and transferred their consciousnesses into artificial bodies thousands of years ago. At some point, their planet was conquered by a hostile alien race that harvested its core. The Sphere was the sole survivor of its kind and carries the combined intelligence of its entire species. It then traveled across space and encountered other alien races that were defeated by the Harvesters, and helping them find refuge on a planet and establishing a major resistance against the Harvesters.
=== War of 2016 ===
In 2016, the Sphere intercepted a distress message and learned of the aliens' first defeat at the hands of humanity on Earth. Knowing that the aliens would come to exterminate humanity, the Sphere traveled to Earth in the hopes of evacuating humanity and allowing them to join in the Resistance. But upon its arrival at Earth's Moon, the humans mistake the Sphere's spaceship as a hostile force and shot it down, causing it to crash on the Van de Graaff crater, before it even had a chance to communicate with them. The Sphere luckily, somehow survived the destruction of her ship and was found by ESD Director David Levinson, who deeply suspected that the Sphere's species weren't an enemy, but in actuality.... an ally.
After the Harvester aliens lead by their Queen arrive, the Sphere was taken to Area 51, where it had managed to explain its origins and original mission. This convinced the remaining human leaders that the Sphere's people weren't the enemy. Knowing that the Queen has become aware of its presence, the Sphere request the ESD to destroy it in order to prevent the aliens from acquiring the coordinates of the refugee planet. However, the humans refused and instead plan an attempt to kill the Harvester Queen by laying out a trap. The Sphere was secured in an isolation chamber as the ESD implement their plan. Although the trap succeeded, the Queen survived and assaulted Area 51 for the Sphere. The queen almost acquired the Sphere until the Queen herself was finally weakened and killed by ESD pilots using hijacked alien attackers. The loss of the Queen forced the Harvesters and their remaining forces to retreat from Earth, but not before taking back the only surviving and completely intact and fully funtional City Destroyer that survived the War of 1996.
The Sphere herself was impressed by humanity's tenacity and victory. In gratitude, the Sphere offered humanity new technology and asked them to assume leadership of the resistance in preparation for a potential assault on the Harvesters' homeworld.
== Personality ==
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== Trivia ==
* In an early concept art for Independence Day: Resurgence, the Sphere was originally contained in a 'womb'-like container. The 'womb' was later removed from the final design.
* The Sphere and her race are the first ever extraterrestrials in the Independence Day franchise encountered by humanity that are completely friendly, and are nothing at all like the Harvesters.
* The Sphere herself was voiced by actress Jenna Purdy. 
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