Editing BioShock (section)

===Setting===
''BioShock'' takes place in [[Rapture (BioShock)|Rapture]], an underwater city built in the 1940s by [[business magnate]] [[Andrew Ryan (BioShock)|Andrew Ryan]], who wanted to create a [[utopia]] for society's elite to flourish outside of government control.<ref name="gamesradar_2010-02-10">{{cite web|author=Staff|date=February 10, 2010|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/bioshock-101-the-story-so-far/|title=BioShock 101: The Story So Far|website=[[GamesRadar+]]|url-status=live|access-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210110501/http://www.gamesradar.com/bioshock-101-the-story-so-far/|archive-date=February 10, 2018}}</ref> To protect and isolate Rapture, Ryan bans contact with the surface world.<ref name="John 18–20">{{cite journal|last=John |first=Lanchester |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Is It Art? |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/john-lanchester/is-it-art |journal=[[London Review of Books]] |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=18–20 |access-date=October 3, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005125352/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/john-lanchester/is-it-art |archive-date=October 5, 2016 }}</ref> 

As Rapture flourished, wealth disparities grew, and criminal Frank Fontaine used his influence over the disenfranchised working class to establish illegal enterprises and obtain power—enough to rival Ryan. With doctors [[Brigid Tenenbaum]] and Yi Suchong, Fontaine created his own company dedicated to researching plasmids and gene tonics. As ADAM became addictive and demand skyrocketed, Fontaine secretly mass-produced ADAM through slugs implanted in the stomachs of orphaned girls, nicknamed "Little Sisters". Fontaine was killed in a shootout with police, and Ryan took the opportunity to seize his assets, including control of the Little Sisters.

In the months that followed, a man amongst the poor named [[Atlas (BioShock)|Atlas]] rose up and began a violent revolution against Ryan, with both sides using plasmid-enhanced humans (known as "Splicers") to wage war on one another. To protect the Little Sisters, Ryan created the "[[Big Daddy (BioShock)|Big Daddies]]": genetically enhanced humans surgically grafted into gigantic lumbering diving suits designed to escort the sisters as they scavenged ADAM from dead bodies.<ref name="bit-tech" /> Tensions came to a head on New Year's Eve of 1958 when Atlas ordered an all-out assault on Ryan and his supporters. The conflict turns Rapture into a war-torn [[dystopia]], resulting in societal collapse, countless deaths, many Splicers becoming disfigured and insane from ADAM abuse, and the few sane survivors barricading themselves away from the chaos<ref name="theatlantic_2010-02-18">{{cite web|last=Serwer|first=Adam|date=February 18, 2010|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/02/welcome-to-rapture/36180/|title=Welcome To Rapture|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url-status=live|access-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725223421/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/02/welcome-to-rapture/36180/|archive-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name="IGN_2007-08-16">{{cite web |url=http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813214p1.html |title=''BioShock'' Review |website=[[IGN]] |last=Onyett |first=Charles |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=August 16, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817035302/http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813214p1.html |archive-date=August 17, 2007 }}</ref>