Denver is a location in Wasteland 3.
Background[ | ]
Denver is named after former Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. It got its nickname, the Mile-High City, because its official elevation is one mile above sea level. Now it's more or less a sea of ruins, with isolated centers of civilization scattered across its expanse. Most of Denver is in ruins. During the end of the old world, a nuclear weapon exploded high in the air over the city, killing most of the inhabitants. The skyscrapers that remain are jagged, crooked affairs that lean against each other. In their shadows, the lesser buildings have crumbled, forming ever-shifting mazes and subterranean tunnels of broken concrete and rusted rebar.
These urban wilds are battlefields for the predators prowling the city, unaffiliated treasure hunters, and scavengers. Though the radiation is long gone, Denver is still a deathtrap, but one studded with buried riches from the old world. The Denver Airport Commune lies to the east of the ruins and is now a colony of artists, hackers, conspiracy nuts, mad scientists, and assorted eccentrics. The Commune is centered around the Space Shuttle Atlantis (which landed here sometime after the bombs fell), and is dedicated to strange experimentation, acts of cyber espionage against the Patriarch, and MANY other things.
In the north is the mighty stronghold of the Gippers.
Locations[ | ]
- Denver Ruins surrounding the Colorado State Capitol, renamed the Western White House by the Gippers.
- Denver Airport, taken over by the Machine Commune.
- Union Station, where the Hard Heads operate and Morningstar can be found.
- Tellurium Mine