It wasn't just the fumes and garbage stenches that permeated everything, although the city had those, just like every other major metroplex. London’s peculiar effluvium was a legacy of the terrorist attack of 2039, when the radical group called Pan Europa had released a bioagent in retaliation for England’s supposed part in the break-up of the EEC. The bug had been supposed to break down the sheathing element of the metroplex’s newly completed dome. The terrorists must have been pleased to see the biofabric skin had evaporated under the ravenous organism. But had they known what effect their organism would have on other biological fibers?