A City Destroyer is a large Harvester vehicle used and manufactured by the Harvester race to destroy cities, as their name implies. They are detached from Colony ships to inspect life on other planets and to cover them. There were dozens of these ships seen in the film Independence Day, and one was seen in Independence Day: Resurgence.
Appearance[]
The City Destroyers are very large and can cover nearly an entire city (or at least half). In the very center of a City Destroyer is a large group of wing-like plates the unfold to allow large and violent explosions of light blue colored light which can wipe out an entire city, hence the name "City destroyer". The back of a City Destroyer has a sunken-in sphere-like hole which has a fin.
Specifications[]
City Destroyers are one of the many spacecraft used by the Harvesters as a means of exterminating cities. They are massive, saucer-shaped craft with advanced technology, capable of countering virtually any form of weapon used by the civilizations they have destroyed.
Destroyers are equipped with powerful shield generators that can withstand anything from an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile to a high-yield nuclear warhead. Their primary means of offense come in the form of large underside energy cannons capable of devastating a city with just one shot. They also come equipped with millions of Harvester Attackers which will defend the ship should it ever come under attack by opposing threats.
The destroyer has 2 weakspots, one being the shields. When the humans planted a computer virus into the Colony ship's systems, the shields of every vessel were lowered, giving the pilots on Earth a chance to attack the vessel. Even with their shields lowered, these spacecraft are durable and can take the punishment on their own. Even if there is insufficient damage to take it down, the spacecraft's city destroying cannon is also a weakspot. If a fighter flies up into the craft's weapon, the weapon will explode, causing a chain reaction that will cause the ship to go down.
Trivia[]
- The design and texture of a City destroyer is very similar to that of a Harvester Mothership.