Pre-Invasion London

Pre-Invasion London was a sprawling metropolis of ceaseless motion, where automated walkways ferried pedestrians between luminous arcades and bold-faced newsmarkets, and the Chelsea Heliport drew crowds to marvel at the stars above. Streets thronged with laborers and dreamers alike, from dockside pubs resonant with whispered bargains to office towers where the future's pace hummed in the air. The Daleks erased this vitality in a single purge, leaving behind a hollowed shell of gaslit alleys and crumbling grandeur, its lost dynamism invoked most often in hushed tones by those who once moved through its crowds—or schemed to escape it. Even after the occupation took root, London’s underbelly persisted as a knot of bribery and escape routes, where ambitious souls traded whispers of the old world for survival, only to find their bargains ensnared them deeper in Terrall’s coils.