Area 51

Area 51 is a military base in the state of Nevada. It was founded in 1947 after the Roswell Incident. Following the War of 1996, it became one of the largest military installation base on Earth and is the headquarters of Earth Space Defense.

Foundation
The military site that would become known as Area 51 was founded by the the U.S. Armed Forces in response to the Roswell Incident. The base contain the crashed ship and the three alien occupants. Two of the alien died right away, while the third one died within weeks at the facility. In 1971, California Institute of technology graduate Brackish Okun was recruited into the base. For remainder of years, Okun and other scientist were unable to crack into the aliens ship and technology. In 1967, newly appointed CIA director Albert Nimiski learned of the base existence.

War of 1996
After the arrival of the aliens and destruction of Washington D.C., President Whitmore and his staff landed here after they were informed by Nimiski now Secretary of Defense. Upon witnessing the aliens attacker and the alien corpses, Whitmore assigned David Levinson to help the other scientist with the newly activated technology with Area 51 being temporarily the government of the U.S. Later that day, an alien captured by pilots Steve Hiller and Jimmy Wilder was brought to Area 51 to be examined. The alien pilot however broke free and attacked President Whitmore thought telepathic thoughts before being gunned down. After a plan devised by Levinson went underway, Levinson and Hiller used the now operational attacker to infiltrate the mothership. Meanwhile back at the base a battle broke out between remaining U.S. forces and a nearby City Destroyer. The battle concluded when Russell Casse sacrificed himself to destroy the Destroyer.

Post War
After the war of 96, Area 51 retained it site as the government of the United States for the rest of the year. After ESD was founded, Area 51 was chosen as its headquarters. With recovered alien tech, the people at Area 51 was able to turn the base to a futuristic military installation base. In 2005, the cornerstone to a city nearby was stated that did not finish until 2011. The city became known as City 51.

War of 2016
During the 20th year anniversary, General Joshua Adams inspected the loss of Rhea base by a wormhole and the strange behaviors of the remaining alien prisoners. After the Queen's mothership landed, former President Whitmore, his daughter Patrica, Hiller, David, and Jake Morrison arrived at the base. Whitmore allowed himself to be interrogated with an alien prisoner. Most of ESD squadron including Legacy Squadron left Area 51 to launch a retaliatory strike on the aliens. Later, Levinson and Dr. Okun opened a found container revealing the Sphere, a benevolent AI that came to help humanity. David and Steve came up with an idea to bait the Harvester Queen which now president Adams approved. Another battle broke out at Area 51, in which Whitmore sacrificed himself to to destroy the Queen's ship, before the Queen was killed by Jake, Dylan Dubrow-Hiller, Charlie Miller, and Rain Lao.