In Greel's time, the Earth was split into a number of warring alliances. The Icelandic Alliance and Greel's Supreme Alliance were at war. The Icelandic Alliance fell when Greel had the doll-like but homicidal cyborg known as the Peking Homunculus assassinate its commissioner Ingrid Bjarnsdottir (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane), setting off World War VI. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang)