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Britain before the apocalypse
In 2012 London hosted the Olympics, in the opening ceremony however Al-Qaeda backed extremists caused a terror attack almost on the scale of 9/11. The Olympics were over before they began, almost 1000 people were left dead and the country disgraced. In the aftermath of the attack British security was stepped up tenfold, travel in and out of the country become increasingly harder and every police officer was issued with firearms. The ministry of defence had pinpointed the origin of the attack to an Al-Qaeda cell in Pakistan and was preparing to ship a major expeditionary force to the country when the war with Russia erupted.

The end of the world
Sometime in 2013, the unimaginable happened, and the superpowers of the world turned on each other. No one knows who fired the first shot but by then it was already too late, the end of mankind set in motion. The exact date long since forgotten, but the events that transpired that day forever burning in humanity's memory.

In London three nuclear weapons landed within the city itself, one in Stratford, Camberwell and Kensington, while atleast 10 all together fell on the area. Chemical and biological weapons are also employed, notably on areas or structures of importance or historical/cultral significance. Convention non-atomic weapons were also used to bombard much of the city outskirts as well as outlying towns.

Elsewhere in Britain near enough every military base or airfield suffered a nuclear strike. Every major harbour and airport was destroyed -but somehow Heathrow was spared- and almost every settlement with a signifcant population was raized to the ground. Those that survived the initial bombing and were unlucky enough to not make it underground in time were left to slowly succumb to the radiation, or worse.

No one knows the fate of the rest of the world, most of the survivors in the London undgerground speculate that America suffered much worse than Britain, but with a higher population and a great deal of US cities possessing their own subway, most suspect many more Americans than British survived the apocalyspe. Many of the survivors believe a great deal of Moscow may also have survived, their metro being designed to also be used as a fallout shelter.

War of Heathrow
The war of Heathrow was a short conflict that began just days after the apocalyspe and ended by the time of winter. The conflict was between the three airline companies that used to use the airport as their main hub, in the chaos each group sought to try and take charge of the airport and it's survivors, each with a different vision of what should be done. Members of airport security and the Transport Police who have been trapped in the airport along with the survivors tried to quell the fighting but soon they too became caught up in the fighting, and split off to join one of the three groups. Each group took control of an airport terminal, and fought for the remaining two as the power balance constantly shifted between them. By the time the first winter arrived many were now dying from starvation and hypothermia, and more and more sightings of stange creatures around the airport were being made. The three groups formed a truce and formed the State of Heathrow, the groups shifted their stance from being mere milita into political parties to decide who should control the state democratically, work began dismantling all the aircraft and vehicles in and around the airport to fortify the terminals and regular expeditions into the city to gather supplies began.

The battle of London Eye
The events of Tube 2022