Steve Hiller

""Everybody! Don't forget, this will invasion will be the last.""

Steven "Steve" Hiller is a former U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot and Captain of the Black Knights squadron stationed at El Torro in Irvine, California. He is a war hero of the War of 1996 in which he was instrumental in the destruction of the alien mothership. Following the war he along with Daivid Levinson and Thomas Whitmore founded Earth Space Defense, with Hiller becoming its Director.

Early Childhood
Steven Hiller was born on February 7, 1965 in Detroit. When he was 2 his father was killed by corrupt police officer who pulled him over. His family then moved to Los Angeles when he was 6 years old. He was often bullied in school and often left lonely. Like his father, Hiller dreamed of being a astronaut. When he was in 7th grade he became friends with a boy named Jimmy Wilder who saved him from bullies. After graduating college, Hiller joined the Air Force along with his friend Wilder.

Early Service in Air Force
Becoming a fighter pilot, Hiller still applied for service with NASA, with support from Wilder. However despite his excellent service record was rejected every time. While at his mother's birthday Hiller's younger brother Leroy was injured in a gang shootout and was transported to a hospital where he died. Later on he became met stripper named Jasmine Dubrow. Going on a blind date, they soon fell in love. Steve soon became acquainted with her son Dylan Dubrow.

War of 1996
On July 2nd 1996, when the aliens first arrived, Steve and Jasmine were sleeping unaware of the phenomenon going on around the world. Going outside, Steve witness a City Destroyer hover over Los Angeles. Steve was called back from his leave despite Jasmine's protest and fear. To reassure her, he told her to bring Dylan and her to stay with him at El Torro.

Arriving at El Torro, Steve received a letter from NASA once again rejecting him much to his dismay. When the alien began their attack, Steve participated in in a counter attack against the destroyer near what remained of Los Angeles. The counterattack was futile since the Destroyers had their own defense shield that made them invulnerable to their missiles. The attack wiped out all of Black Knight Squadron accept Steve and Jimmy with Steve managing to take down one of the pursuers. Crashing the aircraft in in Nevada where he met up with Jimmy. In the process the Steve subdued the alien pilot.

The duo then wandered across the Nevada dessert until they were rescued by a large convoy of refugees, in which Steve and Jimmy were offered a lift by Russell Casse. Steve and Jimmy helped guide the convoy to Area 51, where he present the unconscious alien as "clearance" and granting the refugees access to the base. After taking the alien to isolation, Steve and Jimmy were introduce to President Whitmore before Steve request to General William Grey for permission to return to El Torro only to be told that the base was destroyed, leading Steve to believe that Jasmine and Dylan were dead. Unknown to him, they survived and arrived to EL Torro after the attack. Despite Jimmy's protest, Steve stole a helicopter and flew to El Torro where he rescued Jasmine and the rest of the survivors which induced First Lady Marilyn Whitmore. He then brought them back to Area 51.

When a plan was proposed by David Levinson to launch a counterattack against the invaders, Steve volunteered to be the pilot of the repaired attacker, with Levinson accompanying him to implement a computer virus and plant a nuclear missile on board a the alien mothership; with Jimmy support, Hiller reasoned that he had seen the ships in action and was thus uniquely qualified to what it was capable of in the flight. Prior to their mission, Steve married Jasmine with Jimmy as his best man. Steve and David successfully carried out their objective and barley mange to escape as the nuclear warhead completely destroys the mothership. The two safely managed to safely crash land in the dessert of Area 51 and are greeted by their families and are congratulated by President Whitmore.

Post War
After the War of 96, Steve was promoted to Colonel. Hiller and Wilder participated in neutralizing surviving aliens remaining in Europe and Africa. During the fighting in the African country Umbutu, Hiller came across the only remaining fully function City Destroyer, which was dormant something Hiller informed the government about. In 1997, Hiller and his family temporarily moved to Washington D.C. while the capital was under construction. He along with President Whitmore and David Levinson founded Earth Space Defense (ESD). In 1999, He and his family moved to Nevada where served as a test pilot and flight trainer. He and Wilder were then sent to China as technical advisors where they became antiquated with Jiang Lao and his niece Rain Lao, whom they gave her their autographs.

In 2004, Hiller, Levinson, Wilder, former president Whitmore and many more War of 96 heroes were honored by President Johnathan Larson at the fully constructed White House, with Hiller and Levinson personally having a statues built at the entrance of the White House. In 2007, Wilder volunteered to test flight the an experimental alien hybrid fighter at the 2007 ESD Spring Expo much to Levinson fear. The fighter malfunctioned and exploded killing Wilder much to Hiller's horror. Following his best friend's Hiller took over his job and oversaw the finishing construction of ESD Moon Base. At the 2009 ribbon cutting ceremony both Hiller and Levinson participated where Hiller was named Director of ESD. In 2011 Hiller gave a speech at the newly constructed Washington D.C. In 2014 Hiller's stepson Dylan joined Legacy Sqaudron, something Hiller was very proud of and soon befriended Dylan's squad mate Jake Morrison. In 2015 Hiller was stationed at the ESD Moon Base where he over saw the completion of the the base energy cannon. In 2016 to prepare for the upcoming 20th anniversary, Hiller gave a pep talk to his son Dylan who was selected to lead Legacy Squadron first flight across the moon.

War of 2016
Getting ready for the upcoming 20th anniversary of the War of 1996, Steve met with President Elizabeth Landford and Patricia Whitmore at the White House. Hiller reunited with his stepson. Heading to Area 51, Hiller called his wife to reassure about their sons safety during the celebration flight. Steve later arrived at the ESD Moon Base with Legacy Squadron where he met Jiang Lao. During his stay there, Steve was contacted by his old friend David, who told him about the recently activated City Destroyer in Umbutu that Hiller came across years ago. David warned Steve about a distress signal the aliens sent before the ultimate defeat. Hiller sent this news to President Langford but was told to uphold the news until after the celebration. Steve was then informed of the loss the Rhea Base much to Hiller's concern. However just then, an unknown alien space ship arrived at the moon base. Seeing that they showed no hostility David rationalized that the species belong to a different alien race and they would start another war with another species with Hiller agreeing. However Langford and the UN Security Council voted to shoot down the alien space craft. Knowing that they something was up, Hiller called David the the duo proposed to go to the moon and salvage the remains of the ship. David called ESD pilots Jake Morrsion and Charlie Miller to take him and Hiller to the moon, reluctantly allowing Umbutu leader Dikembe Umbutu, Dr. Marceaux, and government accountant Floyd Rosenburg to join in their investigation.

Heading to the crash site Steve, David, and Jake ventured through the wreck where they discovered a container holding a spherical object. However, just then a massive alien mothership arrived. Steve and his group tried to flee but were caught in the ship gravity field. The group helplessly watched as the mothership destroyed the ESD Moon Base and Earth's planetary defenses. Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, the group watched as the ship gravitational pull pulled up most of Europe and Asia before Steve and Jake were narrowly able to escape the catastrophe in London. Heading to Area 51, Hiller was informed by his stepson that Jasmine was able to get to underground bunker at the hospital where she worked, much to Steve's relief. Later on Steve along with David witness Whitmore interrogating an alien prisoner, with the alien vaguely calling that "she" has arrived. Steve asked who was "she" to which the alien replied "she" was all before trying the choke Whitmore. In the shootout, the alien was killed by Dikembe. Steve was called to the command center to discuss their next move. Davd analyse the alien mothership to realize the aliens are being led by a queen and that they are here to dill into Earth's core. Steve proposed that they just simply kill the queen and that by doing so the aliens would retreat. President Langford and ESD acted on Steve's suggestion and launched a retaliatory strike on the mothership. However the alien queen led them into a trap and ESD squadron was nearly decimated, with Jake, Dylan, Charlie, and Rain Lao being able to survive.

The container was soon open up by David Levinson and Dr. Brakish Okun to reveal a giant white sphere of artificial intelligence. The Sphere soon revealed to be benevolent. The Sphere explained that it had come to Earth to evacuate humanity and join a resistance force of other alien survivors of worlds decimated by the aliens now called "Harvesters". The Sphere then implored the humans to destroy it to prevent the Harvester Queen from possessing it. However David gets and idea, given the fact that the Harvesters know about the Sphere, they could hide the Sphere and duplicate its signal to lure the Queen into a trap of salt flat, where cold fusion bomb could be denoted and contained in a force-field. However Steve replied that by doing so a pilot would have to sacrifice themselves. Steve then asked who would volunteer would be and to his surprise Thomas Whitmore volunteered to be the pilot.

Steve then tasked himself to lead the squadron to fight off against the alien attackers. When the Harvester Queen and her hive arrived, Steve and the remaining squadron were able to shoot down most the attackers. However the overwhelming decimated by reinforcement leaving Steve, Patricia, and dozen other survivors. Whitmore was able to sneak into the Queens personal ship and detonate it. However the Queen survived due to her own personal defense shield. The enraged Queen chased down David and his father Julius who had arrived with a school bus filled with children. Steve was able to take down the Queen's energy field and is force to eject, when the Queen's tentacle hit his aircraft. Steve was almost killed when, Jake, Dylan, Charlie, and Rain saved him from hijacked alien attackers. The Queen then used her telepathic powers to control her hive use it as her shield. Finding the Sphere, the Queen was attacked again by the hijacked attackers, which ultimately killed the Queen.

With the Queen dead, the Harvesters cease their mission and retreat from Earth. Steve is reunited with his son and are congratulated by Acting President Joshua Adams. Dr. Okun then inform them group that the Sphere wants humanity to lead their resistance for a possible attack on the Harvester's home world.