User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Important Discussion for Rapture Storyline page/@comment-75.36.142.227-20140329223049/@comment-75.36.141.88-20140402052703

When did Jack arrive? The Death of Ryan and Atlas/Fontaine was the 'end' of the Civil War.

Even in that period when something was said is important to tell when certain shifts in events took place -- like how long before Atlas got established after the Kashmir Events, and when the Pheromone System was in effect,  When did many of Ryans security 'war measures' go into effect  and what events precipitated them? Example is if Atlas was disrupting things all across Rapture then Citizens were being killed in terrorist attacks and then starving as the infrastructure started failing (like food production)  -- the longer that went on before Ryan got the upper hand and suppressed Atlas's murderous splicers, the more people would be dead  and he would have more and more to repair to rebuild Rapture.

'Nationalization'  - Ryan isnt a 'nation' -- that refers to the City Seizing it and then Ryan was a logical candidate to run it to keep that important ADAM flowing to the population who was now addicted to it (imagine what happened if it was 'shut down'...). Notice Ryan retained many of Fontaines old employees to run the operation - TO KEEP IT RUNNING. He inheritted the Little Sisters (not yet harvesting ??) and had to use them as part of that working operation. Other businesses we really dont get that much details about, just vague mentions of 'Shut Down', but for how long? How long would investigations to root out the rest of Fontaines criminal operations last ? Not much is mentioned. Looked like it was still going on even by time Jack showed up, but notice the  Fishery isnt 'closed down'- fish IS being procesed - the City has to eat... Peach Wilkins was still there, why not one of Ryans minions if it had been 'Taken Over' ???

Im not saying you need exact dates for everything, but you 'often' get no clue when something was said and often from biased/opinionated sources which DONT have to even be true  (again its not authorative narration and cant be applied as that).