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He also meets Augustus Sinclair , the shady owner of Sinclair Solutions, who guides him throughout his quest to find Eleanor. Subject Delta awakens ten years after his death at the very same location Sofia Lamb forced him to commit suicide. He receives a radio call from a woman, but the signal is very weak. Delta discovers that Rapture has decayed, and that his Little Sister is missing.

Delta then encounters a Gatherer's Garden and has a moment of confusion when a young woman mentally communicates with him. This woman is Eleanor, his bonded Little Sister now ten years older. Eleanor has left a gift for him, the Electro Bolt Plasmid, which he injects himself with.

As Delta recovers from the Plasmid's initial effects, he sees a Little Sister telling him to find Eleanor, before she is suddenly taken away by a Big Sister. Delta restores power to the resort by charging the generator with electricity. He is then contacted again by the same woman when he first awoke, Brigid Tenenbaum , and she wishes to meet him at the Atlantic Express Train Station.

While Delta tries to find her, he soon realizes what is happening. The people in Rapture have changed and little girls kidnapped from the surface have been made into new Little Sisters, while the woman responsible for his death, Sofia Lamb, has become the new leader of the city by establishing a cult following.

Delta battles her, but she escapes and floods the resort. Delta survives the ordeal thanks to his diving suit and leaves the resort going outside underwater and into the airlock system that leads to the Train Station. After Delta enters the Atlantic Express, Tenenbaum guides him to the ticket booth where they will meet. On his way there, Tenenbaum tells him what has happened in the past ten years.

The fall of Rapture was due to ADAM, which caused people to turn into vicious, mutated drug-addicts known as Splicers. The founder of Rapture, Andrew Ryan , has been murdered. Ryan's political rival, Sofia Lamb, now rules the city with an iron fist.

After Delta goes through part of the station, he is trapped and contacted by Lamb. She sends Splicers to kill Delta, but before dying he falls through the weak floor and proceeds through the station. Delta is then contacted again by Eleanor Lamb, who begs him to find her, and has arranged for him to receive the Telekinesis Plasmid. When he is near the ticket booth, Delta is informed by Tenenbaum that he is dying because of the Pair Bond Mechanism and that his bonded Sister, Eleanor Lamb, is waiting for him at Fontaine Futuristics.

Delta finally meets Tenenbaum in the ticket booth of the railway station where she has already saved some Little Sisters. Before Tenenbaum can even state her plan to Delta, Sofia Lamb sends her Splicers to attack the station. Delta protects Tenenbaum and the girls while they escape to a new safe location. Tenenbaum leaves Delta, but introduces him to a rather suspicious new ally known as Augustus Sinclair.

Sinclair tells Delta to go into the train and meet him at Ryan Amusements. While driving the train, Delta has to make a sudden stop because the railway station exit is iced over. Sinclair states that in order to melt the ice, Delta will need a Plasmid known as Incinerate! The Plasmid can be found in the amusement park but Delta needs a ticket to enter. While Delta searches for said ticket, Sinclair explains to him that he is an old Protector model known as an Alpha Series.

Sinclair also reveals his own agenda, which is to sell Rapture's wonderment to the surface world. The amusement park has displays that show the city's achievements and Andrew Ryan's reasoning for building Rapture.

The museum tells the story of Rapture's history-in-the-making. The main part of the park is Journey to the Surface , a ride where children travel in Bathysphere -like tram cars and go through a city-like setting that shows how the people's work, art, lives, money, and freedom are taken away on the surface world by God and Government, all designed to scare children to never go to the surface.

After the Little Sister has finished gathering from the corpses in the park, Sinclair informs Delta that to get the remainder of the ADAM, he has to either rescue the Little Sister using a special Plasmid created by Dr. Plasmid and heads to the Hall of the Future where a Gatherer's Garden is situated. After Delta purchases the Incinerate! Plasmid, he is attacked again by a Big Sister but he manages to kill her.

Delta then returns to the train station and melts the ice. It is here that Delta meets Sinclair face-to-face. Sinclair enters the train before they are ambushed by Lamb's Splicers. Delta fights them off, and with Sinclair on board, the two depart to Pauper's Drop.

Delta arrives at a poor-housing district known as Pauper's Drop, when suddenly Rapture is put on a citywide lockdown by Lamb. Knowing that they can't proceed, Sinclair states the only way they can continue on to Fontaine Futuristics is to acquire the override key from the Drop's governor, Grace Holloway , who resides in Sinclair's own hotel The Sinclair Deluxe.

As Delta proceeds through the Drop, he learns that Grace was a patient of Lamb as well as a former jazz singer, and that she took custody of Eleanor when Lamb was imprisoned. When Eleanor was abducted, Grace felt she had failed Lamb. The Big Daddy broke Grace's jaw when she approached Eleanor, thus ending her career as a singer. Grace has wanted revenge upon Delta ever since.

As Delta approaches the hotel, a Brute Splicer throws debris in his way, blocking the entrance, and the only way he can brush away the rubble is to get the Drill Dash weapon upgrade. After doing so, Delta returns to the hotel and clears the debris.

Delta reaches Grace on the top floor, where she is waiting for him in a safe room. She allows Delta to take the override key from her, but it is left to the player the choice to kill Grace or spare her life.

After using the key to lift the lockdown, Delta and Sinclair leave Pauper's Drop behind. After Delta awakens underwater on the seabed, he figures that he is between Dionysus Park and a place called Siren Alley , originally Rapture's mason's quarter, now turned into a pleasure district. Sinclair tells him that he is trapped and running out of air in the flooded Dionysus, and advises Delta to go into Siren Alley and drain out the Park from Pumping Station 5.

Wales preaches in the Pumping Station which is locked by a code, and his brother, Daniel Wales , knows the code. Daniel resides in a brothel called The Pink Pearl. Delta enters the Pink Pearl and fights Daniel, killing him. He obtains the door's code and heads deeper into Siren Alley, where he discovers the Little Sister's Orphanage where Eleanor was taken to before being transformed into a Little Sister and bonded to Delta.

Delta then enters the Pumping Station and encounters Simon. Delta kills him and collects his override key, which he uses to drain Dionysus Park and save Sinclair. Sofia Lamb, however, overloads the district's pumps and floods Siren Alley, killing everyone inside except Delta, who makes his way to Dionysus Park. Delta enters Dionysus Park, and Sinclair reveals to him that the place was Lamb's property used by her to gather and entertain her followers, but one day it was flooded, killing everyone.

Delta is then contacted by a man named Stanley Poole , a former reporter of the Rapture Tribune who wishes to meet him at the ticket booth. Delta arrives at the meeting place, only to find that Stanley has locked the train car and holed himself up in the ticket booth.

He is paranoid about the recycled ADAM containing the memories of its users, which could reveal his dirty secrets to Lamb. Stanley orders Delta to find and deal with the Sisters spread around the Park, and will then let him proceed on his way. While Delta goes after the Little Sisters, Stanley reveals to Delta that he was originally a diver who found Rapture while on an underwater expedition, and was nicknamed "Johnny Topside" by the city's populace. As Delta rescues or harvests each Little Sister, Eleanor shares with him her own memories of past events.

Apparently, Sofia was arrested by Ryan because of her conflicting ideals. She left Stanley in charge of Dionysus Park, and thus her money, but he used Lamb's wealth to splice-up and throw mad parties. One day, young Eleanor confronted Stanley and threatened to tell her mother about what he had been doing while in her absence. Poole panicked and sold Eleanor to the Little Sister's Orphanage , revealing he was the reason the girl was turned into a Little Sister.

Poole got the news that Lamb would be returning, and in an act of paranoia sabotaged the Park's drainage pipe line, flooding Dionysus and drowning all potential witnesses.

Stanley wanted Delta to get rid of the Little Sisters as they had knowledge of his past deeds. Delta is contacted by Lamb, who says that she knew all along that Poole had flooded the park and that he was a spy for Ryan, planted as a mole in The Rapture Family by Sinclair. Lamb overrides and opens the locked door to the ticket booth, and it is left to the player to decide Stanley's fate.

Delta and Sinclair then proceed to Fontaine Futuristics. Delta is now close to where Eleanor is being held captive. Sinclair informs him that Sofia is injecting large amounts of ADAM containing the memories of the citizens of Rapture into Eleanor, so that she will become The People's Daughter , the first true Utopian. As Delta approaches Fontaine Futuristics' main building, a man named Gilbert Alexander contacts him using a pre-recorded transmission. Alexander states that he worked on the Big Daddy development program in the past and that his now spliced, inhumane self resides in the Laboratories.

He is currently under the W. Delta encounters a unique Security Bot being controlled by the spliced, demented Gilbert Alexander, now calling himself 'Alex the Great'. Throughout Fontaine Futuristics, Alexander's past self tries to help Delta by way of old messages, as 'Alex the Great' tries to impede his progress. The former Alexander reveals the password that will allow Delta to enter the security room, and unlock the doors to the Laboratories where 'Alex the Great' resides, however, the bot controlled by 'Alex the Great' short-circuits the voice activated lock that will allow Delta to enter.

Sinclair informs Delta that the only way he can now enter is to destroy the control panels on the Security Shut-down switches scattered around the facility. While doing this, Delta discovers that before he was turned into a Big Daddy, he was a show-room Plasmid Product Tester for investors and many other citizens who wished to see how the Plasmids work.

After Delta destroys all of the Control Panels, the 'Alex the Great' bot shuts down, allowing Delta to use the voice activated lock to the security room. He enters and uses the main switch, opening the way to the Laboratories. Delta proceeds to the Laboratories by going outside underwater. He comes across a Fuel Station and a wall covered in boulders, a facade to hide the secret entrance to Persephone where Eleanor is kept.

Sinclair explains that to enter Persephone, Delta needs to get a genetic key from 'Alex the Great'. Delta enters the Laboratories, and finds the mutated 'Alex the Great' residing in a large tank of liquid, who then hides away. After retrieving the plants and luring 'Alex' out, Delta takes a gene sample from him and makes the genetic key needed to access Persephone and find Eleanor.

Gil Alexander has a last message explaining that the button on the lab's control panel will electrify the tank containing 'Alex the Great', killing him, and asks for this to be done as a final wish, while the current Alex begs for mercy instead. Once again, this choice is left to the player.

After dealing with Gil one way or the other, Delta takes the key and goes outside to put it in the Fuel Station, revealing the secret entrance to Persephone hidden by boulders.

Delta enters it and takes the elevator down to find Eleanor. As Delta rides the elevator down and makes his way to where Eleanor is being held captive, Sofia Lamb attempts to stop him one last time by sending two Big Sisters to kill him. After Delta kills the Big Sisters, he uses the quarantine switch to the glass door of Eleanor's chamber. The door does not open and Delta loses contact with Sinclair on the radio. Sofia appears before Delta inside the chamber with Eleanor, who is in a deep sleep.

Sofia reveals that Eleanor brought Delta back using the Little Sisters to take his genetic code and inject it into a hacked Vita-Chamber. Sofia also says that Eleanor has been watching every move Delta made on his quest to find her and that she has been influenced by his decisions on how to survive. Sofia is distraught by her daughter's actions and explains the only way to end the bond between her and Delta is to put The Pair Bond Mechanism failsafe into effect. This failsafe was installed into all Alpha Series Big Daddies, including Delta, forcing a Big Daddy into a coma leading to eventual death if his assigned Little Sister is separated from him.

Sofia takes Eleanor's pillow and smothers her with it, making Delta collapse as Eleanor's heart stops beating. Eleanor survives her mother's attempt on her life, but is left very weak. Delta awakens and is contacted by Eleanor, who informs him that their bond is now broken and he will die within hours. Delta is restrained on a gurney and sealed in a secure room guarded by Lamb's goons.

Eleanor, however, has an escape plan, and sends a Little Sister to give Delta an injection that will enable him to take control of the girl's mind.

Delta can now see through the Little Sister's eyes and sees Rapture as a heavenly place instead of the nightmarish reality that it is. Eleanor explains that she needs a Big Sister suit to fight by Delta's side.

Delta then controls the Little Sister to gather all of the various parts of the suit and take them to Eleanor. This is where the player's choices affect the storyline: if Delta rescued the Little Sisters, then Eleanor will follow in his footsteps, becoming a forgiving and loving person.

If Delta harvested the Little Sisters instead, then Eleanor will become selfish and cruel, caring only about her own survival. Lamb is devastated by Eleanor's rebellion, and is willing to bomb Persephone, bringing it down to the bottom of the trench below, killing everyone inside. Delta and Eleanor find Augustus Sinclair's lifeboat which they intend to escape in, but Sinclair is missing. Lamb puts the penal colony on lockdown, trapping Delta and Eleanor.

They try to find the security override key to lift the lockdown, and find an Alpha Series Big Daddy with it.

An agonizing Sinclair explains that he still has some self-will remaining, and pleads with Delta to kill him, preferring to die than live under Lamb's control. His last wish is for Delta and Eleanor to take the lifeboat and escape. After Delta fights and kills Sinclair, he takes the key from his body and ends the lockdown. Lamb is determined to sink the facility and turns her attention to the lifeboat, bombing its ballast tanks , causing it to flood and become too heavy to launch.

Eleanor thinks the only way to get rid of the water is to boil it away, but this will require a large amount of ADAM, which will have to be obtained from the few Little Sisters kept in the Pediatric Wards.

The player's past choices will affect the storyline at this point, as what the player has done to the Little Sisters determines what Eleanor will do to the girls to get the ADAM. If the player rescued the Little Sisters, then Eleanor will also rescue the girls and transport them to the lifeboat. All of their ADAM combined can boil the water away. If the player harvested the Little Sisters, then Eleanor will harvest all of the girls, to get the ADAM and boil off the water by herself.

When the water has boiled away, Eleanor informs Delta that the elevator shaft is flooded and that flooding the facility will equalize the pressure. Delta destroys the water conduits, flooding Persephone. As the final series of bombs in the facility detonate, Eleanor races with Delta to reach the lifeboat's elevator.

A set of charges go off directly in their path, forcing Eleanor to teleport to the rising lifeboat. Delta is stunned by the explosion and stranded on the outside of the lifeboat, but manages to cling to the ascending vessel as his heart weakens more and more. Eleanor makes it safely inside and finds her mother there, drowning inside the flooded lifeboat. The player's choices that were made earlier in the game will now determine the outcome of the storyline and the final ending.

The player's decision to spare or kill three previously encountered non-playable characters Grace Holloway , Stanley Poole , and Gilbert Alexander , and how the player dealt with the Little Sisters, will affect whether Eleanor takes pity on her mother and gives her oxygen to save her life, or whether she pulls her down to suffocate her. It will also influence Eleanor's behavior in the final moments of a dying Subject Delta on the lifeboat's outside platform, after it emerges near the Lighthouse.

Eleanor drowns her mother as she tries to reach a pocket of air in the flooded escape pod. Depending on how the Little Sisters have been treated Eleanor says different things during this sequence. As Sofia Lamb struggles to reach a pocket of air, Eleanor will hand her a small air tank to breathe from, allowing her to live. If Delta has rescued all of the Little Sisters and been merciful towards at least one of the NPCs, then Sofia Lamb will be saved from drowning by her daughter.

Eleanor brutally harvests Delta's ADAM against his will, preserving his experience and survival instincts for herself. She then watches as the dead bodies of Splicers rise to the surface. The corpse-filled ocean, which is crashing violently as a powerful thunderstorm rages overhead, foreshadows the bloody future the world will face, as it will now confront the full might of Rapture's godlike genetic technologies wielded by the ruthless genius and unimaginable cruelty of Eleanor.

If Delta rescues at least one Little Sister and harvests at least one Little Sister he gets a choice ending, in which he can choose to either live or die. Delta allows Eleanor to preserve his mind and essence within herself rather than let him die.

Eleanor then calmly watches as the dead bodies of Splicers rise to the surface. The corpse-filled ocean, which is crashing violently as a powerful thunderstorm rages overhead, foreshadows the bloody future the world might face, as it may now have to confront the full might of Rapture's godlike genetic technologies wielded by the genius and cruelty of Eleanor. Delta refuses to let Eleanor preserve him, possibly feeling that she shouldn't be tainted with the essence of a murderer.

Having used up the lives of the Little Sisters to secure their escape, Eleanor laments being all alone in the world, and she drags her dying guardian to the edge of the submersible. As she cries in misery and pain, she thanks Delta for giving her freedom. Delta looks at his reflection in the calm sea, while a gloomy sky blocks out the sun. Feeling his life fading away, he uses the last of his strength to look at Eleanor one last time before collapsing, his view shifting to the dim lighthouse in the distance, noticeable as it desperately struggles to shine in the darkness.

If Delta rescued every Little Sister, then on the surface he will draw his last breath in Eleanor's arms and she will lovingly extract his ADAM, allowing him to become a part of her.

Eleanor and the rescued Little Sisters gather together under bright warm weather as she contemplates her future potential in the world. The following events are occurring some time during the course of BioShock 2.

She learned that this supercomputer may help her to create a cure for ADAM sickness, but it is kept in Minerva's Den by Reed Wahl , Porter's former colleague gone mad by splicing. The path to The Thinker is difficult as Wahl takes immediate note of Sigma's arrival at the Den and sends his forces after him.

Led by Porter via radio, Sigma reaches first the Operations sector where he creates a jamming device in order to pass through Sofia Lamb's torpedo defense grid, which prevent bathyspheres from leaving Rapture.

Then after overcoming Wahl's defenses, Sigma finally reaches The Thinker's Core where Wahl awaits, trying to solve the equation that he believes will help him solve the mystery around Porter's return and Sigma's reactivation. After Sigma kills Wahl, Dr. Tenenbaum tells him to print The Thinker's hard-code out. As the computer scans Sigma, it is revealed that he is actually Charles Milton Porter himself, and the Porter that had been guiding him throughout the Den was The Thinker impersonating him.

Tenenbaum directs Porter to his office with the promise that they will meet soon. There among the several possessions of Porter, an audio diary can be found recording the first use of the personality duplication program on The Thinker, which successfully managed to simulate Pearl Porter , Charles' deceased wife for whom he never stopped mourning. Once Porter leaves the office, he arrives at his private bathysphere dock.

Inside the bathysphere is Tenenbaum waiting for him. It is revealed that the two reached the surface and she managed to undo Porter's Big Daddy conditioning, restoring his humanity with the help of the recovered processing capabilities of The Thinker. As a final goodbye to his wife Pearl, Charles stands by her grave and leaves a bouquet of flowers and an apology letter, finally resigned to let her go.

Nothing is known of the ultimate fate of Rapture and its remaining survivors since the events of Rapture remained undiscovered to the rest of the world, for at least at the time of the release of this documentary. BioShock Wiki Explore. There's Something in the Sea Industrial Revolution. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Rapture Storyline. Edit source History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Rapture, a metropolis built at the bottom of the sea.

Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Market Street and High Street Main article: Market Street Main article: High Street Elizabeth first leads Booker through Market Street on their way to meet one of her contacts, who she believes will deliver the information in his possession with the help of the detective's persuasiveness. Fontaine's Department Store Main article: Fontaine's Department Store Booker and Elizabeth enter the closed off store through the bathysphere station located in the main building.

Housewares Main article: Housewares Booker and Elizabeth witness Sally hiding herself from the Splicers in the building's ventilation system right after their arrival at Housewares. Looking for Suchong Elizabeth is guided by the sound of Booker's voice speaking to her through the radio, who reveals himself to be a mental projection of her own subconscious rather than the man she once knew.

Repairing Suchong's Device While riding an elevator to the upper levels, Atlas contacts Elizabeth by radio and reminds her of their deal, putting pressure on her by threatening Sally's life. Back to Rapture Elizabeth is only able to return through the machine's Tear after completing another task for Suchong, who is keeping her from coming back. The Room and Dr.

Suchong's Free Clinic Main article: Dr. The Crash Main article: The Lighthouse Jack , a passenger on a commercial aircraft flying over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, reads a letter attached to a gift from home that begins with "Dear Jack, Would You Kindly not open until The Welcome Center Main article: Welcome to Rapture After Jack enters the lighthouse, he descends into the ocean city using a bathysphere , as the history of Rapture is told through a pre-recorded film narrative by Andrew Ryan, the city's founder.

Perhaps a third game could see Rapture taken over by misguided centrists, fascists, nihilists, or anarchists, but those critiques could just as easily be done in another setting, as BioShock Infinite proved.

BioShock 4 is expected to feature an open world , which may offer the most obvious reason to avoid Rapture. Even if the game was set pre-war, the city wouldn't exactly be "open" - just a series of corridors and concourses with the occasional sub trip. Missions would probably be as gated as ever. BioShock 4 needs broader horizons, both literally and figuratively. By Roger Fingas Published May 23, Well I hope the link can help answer your question.

I found a more specific article on the wiki, that answers your question better than that article, if you are interested. Google 'Bioshock wiki rapture civil war' if you don't trust the link.

He used his entire fortune to create rapture,a paradise of freedom and fairness,a place that reflected his beliefs,where the great would prosper. These very beliefs are the reason for his downfall,but here's the very basic version. ADAM was used on an incredibly casual level,for medicine,beauty products,self defense,security,it got so bad because of lack of awareness of the addictive,cancerous side effects that occurred after a long time and more exposure,so since no one knew how bad it was gonna be everyone and their grandma used it.

ADAM needed to create a new cell type once it enters your body,This new cell could be manipulated into what you want,thus you can use powers now,neat. Its also extremely addictive which ain't good,because now your gonna turn into a tar-man even faster,if people addicted to ADAM didn't get their fix they would go very much insane,thus the reason splicers are fighting so desperately for ADAM as after the fall of rapture ADAM stopped being produced,so the only sources are little sisters sucking it out of other ADAM ridden people.

Since only the great could prosper in rapture,the lame and stupid basically became jealous,and grouped together in a civil war,add ADAM to that and you have a civil war times ten on steroids. I haven't played the game in ages however so i might be wrong on some parts,but that's really the gist of it. Oh yeah and major spoilers,super sorry if i ruined the story for you,but this is stuff you learn through audio stuff. So basically because Andrew Ryan is incompetent?

I just always wondered why he did let this all happen, despite his believes he still should have had intervened by criminal acts. Or maybe he was the problem, because did not limit the use of the drug. So he basically did create a society where any criminal can do anything and where is no social support? I mean the society in rapture it does rather sound as anarchy.



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