Elizabeth helped bring the British Commonwealth through the chaos the English Blackout of 2048 started. By number of people affected, it was the largest Islamic Brotherhood attack targeted at the British Isles. The entire central power grid went down, along with far more of the data networks than the English had disaster plans for. Only those buildings with backup or decentralized power generators managed to remain active. It was a bad time for the English. It was a bad time for all of Europe.