Examination of the captured alien's helmet reveals the aliens' eyes are sensitive to sunlight.

When the alien's armored suit proves impervious to small-arms fire, Alex lures it into the line of fire of the destroyerвЂ™s 5-inch gun, which Raikes uses to obliterate it. Other aliens arrive and retrieve their comrade, but one stays behind to sabotage the ship.

Aboard John Paul Jones, naval personnel capture a semi-conscious alien, which forms a telepathic link with Alex, showing him their history of destroying worlds. Mick determines they will use it to re-establish military communications with their home planet. After becoming aware of the aliens' presence, they encounter scientist Cal Zapata who works at the communications array and informs them the aliens took it over. Army lieutenant colonel and double amputee Mick Canales on a mountain hike. On Oahu, Sam is accompanying retired U.S. The aliens meanwhile launch drones to destroy military installations and roads leading into OahuвЂ™s mountains, taking great care to avoid civilian casualties. The fight is ended when John Paul Jones disengages to recover the survivors from MyЕЌkЕЌ, including her commanding officer Captain Yugi Nagata, with whom Alex began a rivalry after he accidentally kicked Hopper in the face during a soccer match earlier. Stone then orders the John Paul Jones to fire a warning shot above the first alien ship, prompting the alien ships to open fire: In the resultant engagement, the MyЕЌkЕЌ is destroyed, the Sampson is lost with all hands including Stone, and the command crew of John Paul Jones are killed, with Alex, the next senior officer, reluctantly assuming command. Stone issues a warning via a sounding of the horn, and the first alien ship responds in the form of a sonic burst that shatters most of the glass on the bridge and gives minor injuries to the crew while also scrambling the SampsonвЂ™s equipment.

When Alex touches it, it blasts him away and generates a force field that encloses the Hawaiian Islands, isolating them and the three destroyers from the rest of the world, while jamming all radar and communications in it. Sampson, John Paul Jones, and Japanese destroyer JDS MyЕЌkЕЌ are ordered by Admiral Shane to investigate, and they discover a floating structure. Their communications ship is damaged upon colliding with a satellite while entering the atmosphere and crashes in Hong Kong causing many deaths while the other four plunge into the waters off Hawaii. During the 2012 RIMPAC exercise, five alien spacecraft arrive. In 2012, Alex and Sam are in a relationship Alex serves as a Tactical Actions Officer as a lieutenant aboard USS John Paul Jones while Stone is the commanding officer of USS Sampson, but Alex is in danger of receiving a disciplinary discharge. His brother, Commander Stone Hopper, forces Alex to join the U.S.

Meanwhile, Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Sam Shane, the daughter of Admiral Terrance Shane. In 2005, a planet designated 'Planet G' is discovered to be a potentially habitable planet with conditions similar to Earth and a communications array is built by NASA in Oahu, a year later, designed to send transmissions to the planet to establish contact with any intelligent life.

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