David Levinson

> For 20 years I have been preparing for this day, and now that its here we never stood a chance
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David Levinson is a former MIT Satellite Technician who was instrumental in humanity's victory in the War of 1996 being responsible for disabling the aliens force field and destroying the alien's mothership. After the war, David co-founded Earth Space Defense (ESD)

### Occupation

MIT Satellite TechnicianESD Deputy Director

## Appearances

### Appears in

Independence DayIndependence Day: Resurgence

## Biography

### Early Childhood

David Levinson was born in May of 1962 in New York City to Julius Levinson and Sarah Holtzman. David younger sister Judith died of cancer when he was 7 years old. At the age of 10 David was highly intelligent and graduated elementary school. When he was 17 years old, his father taught him how to play chess, to which David would regualry beat him, much to his fathers dismay. While at college, David became an environmentalist, he prefer riding bike over cars, and was very supportive of recycling.

### MIT Satellite Technician

In the 1980s, David worked for Compact Cables. While spending a rare night off, he fell in love with Constance Spano. He later married her in 1986 becoming acquainted to Constance's friend Thomas Whitmore. Constance started to become Whtitmore's campaign manager. In 1992, when Whitmore was running for President, David (who was rarely drunk) thought he was having a affair with his wife. This ended in a physical altercation between the two which ended David and Constance marriage in 1993. David constantly kept his wedding ring.

### War of 1996

On July 2nd, 1996 David was in the middle of playing chess with his father when he was called to work by his boss Marty Gilbert. At Compact Cable, Marty asked David to fix the company that has been suffering from an unknown interference that has been disrupting television and satellite transmission across the Northern Hemisphere. David discovered a signal embedded into the satellite feed to which David was able to decode. However the cause of the signal reveled itself to be massive alien ships invaded major cities across the world. David was able to decode the message to reveal a countdown to a coordinated attack by the aliens.

David with his father help was able to get to Washington D.C. to warn the President Whitmore and his wife to evacuate the cities. They were able to narrowly escape D.C. just as the ships destroyed most of the major cities including Washington D.C., New York, and Los Angeles. The next day on Air Force One, David overheard a meeting between Whitmore, General William Grey, and Secretary of Defense Albert Nimiski, with the latter suggesting a nuclear attack, something David strongly opposed. During the madness Julius proposed going to Area 51 much to David's embarrassment. However, Nimiski sheepishly revealed that these accusation were true. Heading to Area 51 Whitmore and the rest of the group were introduced to Major Mitchell and Dr. Brackish Okun who was the chief scientist. Upon seeing an alien attacker retrieved from the Roswell Incident from 1947 and the 3 dead pilots, David was requested by Whitmore to study the alien and their ship.

Soon afterward, a live alien pilot was captured by fighter pilots Steven Hiller and Jimmy Wilder, the only survivors of Black Knight's counterattack over destroyed Los Angeles, was taken to be studied on. Making contact with the alien, they learned that the aliens go around space harvesting planets natural resource to help their species. Upon learning this, Whitmore ordered nuking them. However, the strike was unsuccessful, and The next day, David was still angry over all the failed attempts. He was found and consoled by his father who inadvertently an idea on how to defeat the aliens. Calling everyone at the facility to come over, David then proposed a plan to enter the mothership to hack into their computer mainframe give it a virus, which in turn should disable the City Destroyer's defense shield and afterward use a nuclear warhead to take out the mothership with Hiller volunteering to pilot the ship. Whitmore agreed upon the plan and called on all remaining U.S. forces to begin coordinating across the world about the counterattack. Before the operation began David and Constance attended the weeding of Hiller and his girlfriend Jasmine, where he and Constance reconciled with each other.

On July 4, David and Steve entered the alien attacker and head off into space to infiltrate the mothership. Heading to the command center, David was able to hack into the alien's main computer and palnt the virus, which disabled the City Destroyer's shield. David was then able to launch the warhead into the command center and Steve was able to narrowly escape the destruction of the mothership. Safely landing in the Nevada dessert, David was reunited with his wife and father and was congratulated by Whitmore.

### Post War

After the war, David worked at Area 51 and worked with other scientist on the recovered alien technology and was concerned about the facility limited research and application on the recovered alien technology found from the war . In 1997, He along with Steve Hiller and Thomas Whitmore founded Earth Space Defense (ESD). In 1998 David oversaw the construction of New York City with David moved his family to New Jersey for the time being. By late 2002, David went across the world to study more alien hybrid weapons and aircraft. In 2004, David was honored at the newly constructed White House and was personally honored with a statue along with Hiller. Later at the first Spring Expo that year he befriended Dr. Catherine Marceaux. In 2007, during the Spring Expo David opposed against testing the new alien hybrid aircraft due to the technology still being not understood. However the The Larson Administration ignored David's warning and proceeded with their plans. The aircraft malfunction and exploded killing war hero Jimmy Wilder.

Wilder's demise caused David to become deputy director of ESD. In 2009 he and newly appointed Director Steve attended the moon cutting ribbon of the newly constructed ESD Moon Base, later that year his wife died in a car accident. David tried proceed with his life but remained distraught. While speaking at the 2011 Tedx Conference he came across Dr. Marceaux again and a romance blossomed. In 2015 David moved to D.C. where he started to investigate the only remaining dormant City Destroyer in Umbutu, Africa.

### War of 2016

In July 2016, David was granted entry in Umbutu by their leader Dimkebe Umbutu to study the destroyer which automatically reactivated. There he was reunited with Dr. Marceaux. The trio investigation lead to the revelation that the alien sent a distress call to their Queen to warn them about their defeat. David sent this information to Director Steve Hiller. During his stay there, David was informed abut the loss of Rhea Base and the sudden arrival of a sphere like spacecraft . Meeting with President Langford and the UN Security Council, David urged that the alien were not the same one as the alien species that attacked the Rhea Base. Despite his warning however, Langord and the UN voted to shoot down the ship. Needing to investigate, Hiller called David and the duo along with Dr. Marceaux, Umbutu, government accountant Floyd Rossenburg used a space tug piloted by Jake Morrison and Charlie Miller to go to the moon and investigate the wreckage site.

David, Steve, and Jake then explored the site, only to discover a spherical object. Before they could contain it, a massive mothership arrived. As they tried to escape, they were caught by the ship's gravity. Entering Earth's atmoshpere, the group was able to safely land to Area 51. Entering the facility, David witness Whitmore interrogating an alien prisoner. The alien prisoner announced the arrival of "she" who was "all" before being killed by Umbutu. Meeting with President Langford, David analyzed the mothership and realized their mission is to dill into Earth's core destroying all life across the planet. Steve offered they kill the Queen to which David and Langford agreed upon. The retaliatory strike was a disaster though and most of the squadron was killed. The mothership then used a wave to take out their communication, much to David's horror.

Reunited with Dr. Okun, David decided to open up the container only to reveal a sphere AI. The Sphere, which was benevolent, was a AI that arrived to evacuate humanity to a hidden world of resistance fighter who were survivors of planets decimated by the Harvesters. However since the Queen was on they way to retrieve the AI, it proposed that the humans destroy it. However David developed a plan, to used the Sphere's signal to bait the Queen and put cold fusion bombs into Jake's moon tug and lure the queen away into a contained force-field and detonate it. Hiller then revealed that they would need a pilot willing to sacrifice themselves. To their surprise, Whitmore volunteered to pilot the ship.

David oversaw the distribution of the shield generators from Area 51 and head over into the Nevada dessert. During the battle David was surprise to see a school bus driven by his father into the shield perimeter. David flagged them out of the perimeter shortly before the Queen fell into the trap. However the Queen survived the explosion due to her personal field. Enraged the Queen chases after David, Julius and children from the bus as David tried to drive them away. They were saved by Hiller, Patrica, and hijacked alien fighters piloted by Jake, Dylan, Charlie, and Rain. The result ended with the death of the Queen. With the Harvesters retreating from Earth, David was concerned about another alien invasion but was reassured by Dr. Okun who revealed the the Sphere wants humanity to lead the Resistance in order to stage an attack on the Harvester's homeworld.