The Alien War
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Introduction
The Opening Phase
After the first X-COM base was established it immediately started conducting combat and scientific operations, intercepting its first UFOs and conducting its first ground assault on one of the crashed UFOs.
Progress and Initial Expansion
Alien Escalation
"A losing battle on Earth"
The interrogation of the first live alien that was captured produced a wealth of information regarding the aliens but one conclusion made from the data was that it was impossible to stop the aliens on Earth. Another event that occurred at this stage was the first negative review of the CFN, which resulted in budget cuts preventing the hiring of desperately needed additional personnel and equipment. Besides fighting he aliens X-COM would also be in a desperate race to prove its worthiness to the CFN.