London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, situated on the River Thames in the south-east of England.
Fictional History[]
Scarecrow Series[]
Scarecrow[]
Some time after the King's Tower was built in London, the Mossad established a secret headquarters for their agents to be able to operate out of, and established a front law practise.
Shortly before mid-2003, the "billionaire's club" Majestic-12 decided to enhance their overall fortunes, and began planning to initiate a new Cold War, which their individuals businesses would benefit from and improve their wealth. Deciding to utilise a pair of top secret American projects known as Kormoran and Chameleon, which involved disguised battle tankers and clone missiles respectively, M-12 could make several western countries believe they had been hit by terrorist missiles. As M-12's plan began to take shape, the Kormoran ship MV Talbot, stationed in the English Channel, was surreptitiously loaded with Chameleon clones of Iran's Shahab-5s, which would launch missiles targeting London, Paris and Berlin.
In October 2003, Mossad agent Benjamin Rosenthal was recalled to London's King's Tower so that he could debrief his superiors on what he had learned about Majestic-12's plans and to keep him safe, since Rosenthal had been made one of fifteen targets M-12 had ordered hunted down. When another target, Shane Schofield, decided to see what the Mossad knew about the hunt, he sent Mother and Book II to the Mossad's London headquarters. Unfortunately, the bounty hunting group IG-88 assaulted King's Tower to claim the bounty on Rosenthal's head, and despite the Marines' efforts, Rosenthal was killed.
Luckily, Book II was able to collect several of Rosenthal's notes, and he and Scott Moseley discovered what M-12 had planned. As Schofield was one of only a few individuals who could disarm the CincLock-VII security system, he and his team infiltrated the Talbot. Despite the resistance from the Nigerians, the Marine was able to reach the missile control panel and abort the launch of the Chameleon missiles, saving London.
Hover Car Racer[]
During the growth of the hover car industry, and the accompanying racing sports, the professional league established the Masters Series of races. Among them was the London Underground Run, a gate race which took place throughout the city's subway system. Over several years, the Underground Run was successful in drawing race fans to London, with the tourism providing a boost to the local economy.
Time Tours[]
In the VR-simulations developed by Time Tours International, at least two of them contained recreated versions of London; one in the WWII-era Operation Overlord, and another in the more modern-like Superstar. Two booths containing emergency exit portals could be found within the London simulations, one in Trafalgar Square and the other in the belltower at Westminster Abbey.
When Humbert Hughes went rogue in Operation Overlord during Time Tours' launch, he united the Allied and Nazi forces and invaded London, taking them through the Trafalgar portal to the world of Superstar so that he could capture Laura Bush. When Mitchell Raleigh entered Superstar from Dinosaurland after deciding to aid Nathan Black in rescuing Laura, he emerged at the portal at the Abbey, witnessing Black get gunned down by Hughes' Nazi forces. As he and Pi enacted a rescue, Raleigh used a liquid plasma-RPG to bring down Big Ben to keep them from being pursued back to the Abbey as they made their escape from the simulation.
Jack West Jr Series[]
The Five Greatest Warriors[]
After the defeat of the French forces under Napoléon Bonaparte at the Battle of the Nile in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities Bonaparte had collected were confiscated by the British army and taken to London to be presented to the British Museum. Among the artefacts was the Basin of Rameses II, which had incorrectly identified by Bonaparte and his troops as the Basin of Monutuemhat.
During the Coalition of Minnows period of research before the placing of the Third Pillar, Alby Calvin began wondering why so many artefacts that Bonaparte and the French had discovered were on display in London rather than France. In the course of his follow-up research of the artefacts, Alby came across a photo of the Basin of Monutuemhat, and realised that the British Museum was unknowingly in possession of the final Sacred Stone. As a result, Pooh Bear, Stretch, Julius and Lachlan were dispatched to London to steal the Basin from the Museum.
Pooh Bear entered and toured the Museum, and then, knowing that security would be watching him out of the concern that he could be a potential terrorist simply because of his Arabian heritage, created a bomb scare. In the commotion caused by the departing tourists, Julius and Lachlan retrieved the Basin from its display and absconded with it while members of London's bomb squad arrived. Once Pooh Bear was released following the apparent misunderstanding, he and the others departed London.
After locating and collecting water from the Spring of the Black Poplar in Scotland, Pooh Bear's team began heading back to London by train, only to be intercepted by Iolanthe Compton-Jones and her forces.
The Three Secret Cities[]
In the years after the Machine-restoration mission, Lachlan and his wife Eriko Kinoshita lived in London, where they raised their children Caleb and Willow, and allowed Julius to live in detached flat on their property.
After Iolanthe was recovered by Zoe Kissane-West, Mae Merriweather and Julius, Jack West Jr instructed them to meet with his group at a safe-house his team had in London to plan their next move.
Meanwhile, Lachlan and his family were abducted by the Knights of the Golden Eight, a group of mercenaries who had been hired to kill Jack West Jr and kidnap Lily West, and were duct-taped to the seats of the family car, while a passenger-filled double-decker bus was also captured.
Once the Knights had prepared their trap, the Knights had Lachlan and his family dangled over the river Thames near Big Ben from a helicopter drone, which despite the early hours quickly caught the media's attention. Jaeger Eins took control of the news feeds to show off what he had done to Jack and his allies, and then, with the whole world watching, blew up the car, killing Lachlan and his family. Eins proceeded to call out Jack and Lily, demanding they meet them on Westminster Bridge before sending a remote-piloted Challenger tank onto the bridge and had it fire at Big Ben and the London Eye.
When Jack and Lily arrived on the Bridge, Eins had the captive double-decker bus dropped into the river from a Chinook. Having expected that Jack would take control of their tank to bring down their aircraft, the Knights used the opportunity to grab the isolated Lily after she dove into the river to release the people on the bus. Though Jack jumped in to try and save her, he was soon captured by Yago DeSaxe, while the remaining Knights were free to escape out of London beneath the surface of the Thames with Lily.
Zoe, Mae and Iolanthe spent the next few days in London researching possible places the Royal Prison of Erebus could be located so that they could rescue Jack, while the confrontation on the Thames was soon seen as one of many highly unusual incidents by various new outlets over the next week.
The Two Lost Mountains[]
As Hardin "Sphinx" Lancaster prepared to head into the Supreme Labyrinth, he sent his forces to many of the world's major cities, including London, and had a Siren Bell rung over them, sending the citizens in those cities who heard the bells' tone into a coma-like state, with Sphinx intending to wake the people as his slaves once had had prevented the Omega Event. The incident of London and the other sleep-struck cities caused the world to cower in fear of what would happen next.
The One Impossible Labyrinth[]
As Iolanthe, Bertie de Montreuil and Nobody learned that the Orphean bell was hidden within one of the Cleopatra's Needles, Chloe Carnarvon interrupted them via radio to reveal that she had already examined the statue of Priam and gloated that the bell was in London before setting off an explosion in an attempt to kill them.
However, having survived thanks to Bertie's sacrifice, Iolanthe revealed that Chloe was wrong, and that it was the obelisk in New York and not London that she and Nobody needed to get to. Not long after, Chloe arrived in London and failed to find the blue bell in the obelisk, and she and her forces rushed off to New York.
After the Omega Event was averted and Sphinx and his forces defeated, Jack and his team proceeded to use the Orphean bell to awaken the sleep-struck citizens in the cities affected by the Siren bells, including London.
Tournament Stories[]
The Tournament[]
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Roger Ascham and the Dead Queen's Command[]
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The Secret Runners of New York[]
Around a week before a cosmic gamma cloud was due to pass through the Earth, social upheaval and anarchic acts of violence against the wealthy and powerful started taking the world by storm as humanity panicked. In London, gangs of masked hoodlums who had been instigated on social media ransacked the homes of people in well-off neighbourhoods such as Belgravia and Mayfair, causing a spate of home invasions that were too numerous for the police to handle.
Ultimately, when the gamma cloud arrived and began enveloping the Earth, Lodnon - like all major cities around the globe - were affected; as the electrical signals in the brains of almost every living thing were disrupted, people in Paris died instantly, and a tiny fraction of people who survived due to being unaffected by the cloud were left to roam the city.
Notable Locations[]
King's Tower[]
An office building in London that includes the Mossad's London headquarters.
British Museum[]
A public institution which is dedicated to the preservation and display of human history, art and culture.
Palace of Whitehall[]
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Westminster Bridge[]
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River Thames[]
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London Bridge[]
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Events[]
London Underground Run Hover Car Race[]
A professional-league hover car race that take place exclusively in London's subway tunnels. The London Underground Run is the second of the Grand Slam Races.
Trivia[]
- London is the third-most populous city in Europe, and accounts for 13.4% of the U.K.'s population.
- London was once known as Londinium when it was founded as a civilian township by the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago.