*~Introduction~*
"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."
-Andrew Ryan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J47ENHSomc8)
ANDREW RYAN
That was Andrew Ryan's hope for Rapture. Ryan believed that the world was filled with Parasites - People who would strip a flourishing society to nothingness. During WWII The use of the Hiroshima bomb caused Ryan to lose all connection to the outside world, and took to the oceans.
Here, he used his wealth to build Rapture. An underwater paradise. People could live a new life, free from envious parasites who would destroy them. nothing would stand in their way.
FRANK FONTAINE
Rapture was a success. People flooded to the place.
Then there was a law passed that prevented outside connection to the world. Those inside would be confined to Rapture.
This was when Frank Fontaine developed his business. he Smuggled in goods from the outside world, and bought them to Rapture to sell. He was initially a fisherman - hence Fontaine Fisheries came about. Fontaine was now rich - parallel to Ryan.
And then another discovery was made.
BRIGID TENENBAUM
A scientist named Tenenbaum was hardly know in Rapture until Fontaine's Fisheries. She - along with some Smugglers - discovered a sea-slug which secreted a chemical which contained totipotent stem cells - helping cell regrowth and genetic therapy. It was a cure. It was hope. It was ADAM.
Brigid approached Fontaine with a business proposition...
ADAM acts like a benign cancer, destroying native cells and replacing them with unstable stem versions. While this very instability is what gives it its amazing properties, it is also what causes the cosmetic and mental damage. You need more and more ADAM just to keep back the tide. From a medical standpoint, this is catastrophic. From a business standpoint, well... Fontaine sees the possibilities.
-Brigid Tenenbaum (https://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/ADAM_Explained)
YI SUCHONG
Yi was a medical genius. He used the power of ADAM to create (Under Fontaines instruction) Plasmids. Serum's which will use ADAM to alter the host's Genetic makeup. they were marketed as quick-fixes to the body, Instant fitness or musical ability. The possibilites were endless.
Plasmids would be injected into the host and change their genetic makeup. some would require top-ups of a formula called EVE which was a modified version of ADAM. These types of plasmids are called "Active" Plasmids.
but there was difficulty developing Plasmids, ADAM was in shortage, the Sea-Slugs didn't secrete enough ADAM for commerical use...
Then Tenenbaum made a discovery. The Slugs could use a human host to create a greater Yield of ADAM - 30 times as much, in fact.
The horrible truth, well, that is what was so controversial...
Tenenbaum... sometimes I pity the little freak. Such a tiny imagination... Content to sit there with her tanks of ADAM, tweaking and optimizing. I need to create... ADAM is a canvas of genetic modification... but Plasmids are the paint.
-Yi Suchong (https://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Plasmids_are_the_Paint)
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