Forum talk:Something I don't get

All right this is what happened as far as I can make sense of it:

Fontaine started creating splicers first. He had a monopoly on ADAM and Tenenbaum was working for him (she needed supplies, particularly the little sisters to manufacture ADAM). However Ryan didn't like this at all so he tried to take down Fontaine. Fontaine faked his death and Ryan took over the plasmid business.

Then Fontaine or Atlas, whatever, attacked the New Years party which marked the beginning of this sort of civil war between Fontaine and Ryan.

Because of the danger, normal citizens of Rapture started getting all these plasmids for self defense or what not, except Ryan had started placing an additional effect into the commercial plasmids that made it so citizens with them were susceptible to pheromones that allowed him to control them (which is probably why thuggish splicers seem so reluctant).

At some point before the attack on new years, Fontaine had Jack created and brainwashed and sent out in the world to come back later.