London

London is the capital of the United Kingdom, a sprawling metropolitan center of government, military command, and civilian life. It endures as a constant nexus of crisis response and political authority, but its character shifts dramatically across the decades. In the 1970s, the city is a besieged war zone: fungal webs choke Oxford Circus and Trafalgar Square, Yeti patrol the Underground, the Intelligence's blight claims captives in Piccadilly, and the Defence Minister coordinates emergency oxygen shipments from Whitehall. By the 1980s, London has become a bureaucratic battleground, hosting confrontations between figures like Gold and the Minister, and serving as UNIT's logistical base for evacuations and traffic management. It later becomes the target of the Master's nerve gas attack, with UNIT strategizing across its streets. Decades on, London is remembered by Jo Grant as the site of her comfortable youth, yet Ky inverts that memory by revealing it as the unseen heart of the Overlord empire that plundered Solos—a polite, smog-choked metropolis built on colonial violence. In later years, London recedes into a generic metropolitan setting, its Tower of London and districts standing as unremarkable backdrops.