Battle of Denver

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By 1944, The Race had occupied many areas of the United States. In the Spring of that year, Atvar gave orders to launch an offensive in Colorado, towards Denver.

Unknown to Atvar, this was where the American nuclear project was based, and he had refused to bomb it previously, fearing the fallout would hurt the Race's invasion force.

At first, the Race advanced easily, sweeping aside American opposition and blunting an attack by an American unit lead by Rance Auerbach.

However, General Bradley had predicted that the Race would advance on Denver, and had ordered the city to be heavily fortified. By the time the invaders reached the city, they were faced by a defense in depth, several miles long.

The Race's attacks were heavily resisted, and the Americans inflicted extremely heavy losses on the Race. However, the enemy's superior technology slowly allowed them to push forward. Bradley and Groves began to discuss when and where they should deploy the one atomic bomb that they had to use.

The bomb was buried in an area the Race was advancing, and a clumsy U.S. counterattack left much of the American line open to attack. However, this was part of Bradley's plan, and when large numbers of the Race's forces moved into the area around the bomb, Bradley detonated it, destroying the southern prong of the Race's advance, and badly damaging those to the center and the north. In addition, Race pilot Teerts was knocked out of the sky and killed. Thus the battle ended in a U.S. victory.