

Kitai is given Cypher's Ranger weapon, a wrist communicator and six oxygen capsules so he can breathe, since human lungs can no longer tolerate Earth's air. Inside is the backup beacon which they can use to signal Nova Prime.

Cypher instructs Kitai to locate the tail section of the ship which broke off during the plunge to the surface. Both of Cypher's legs are broken, and the main emergency beacon has been damaged. However, their spaceship is caught by an asteroid shower forcing them to crash-land on Earth, now a Class-1 quarantined planet. Kitai's mother, Faia ( Sophie Okonedo), convinces Cypher to take Kitai on his last voyage before retirement.įorced together by the mission, father and son start to bond during the trip. His application for the Ranger Corps is rejected due to his recklessness, and Cypher views him as a disappointment. Not wanting to fail his father again because of her death, Kitai trains hard to become a Ranger just like Cypher. Meanwhile, Cypher's son, Kitai Raige ( Jaden Smith), blames himself for the death of his sister, Senshi ( Zoë Kravitz), at the hands of an Ursa. After teaching this technique to the other Rangers, he leads the Ranger Corps to victory. The Rangers struggle against the Ursas until Cypher learns how to completely suppress his fear, a technique called "ghosting". Their secret weapon are the Ursas, large predatory creatures that hunt by 'sensing' fear. One thousand years later, The Ranger Corps, a peacekeeping organization commanded by General Cypher Raige ( Will Smith), comes into conflict with the S'krell, alien creatures that intended to conquer Nova Prime. The exodus ends when humanity settles a new pristine world they call Nova Prime. In the future of 2018, an environmental cataclysm forces the human race to abandon Earth and venture beyond the Solar System in search of a new home.
