Forum:Help with a College Project:

Hi! My name is Luke Higgins and I am currently focusing on Bioshock for my end of year project at college, my project is based around a non-cannon part of Rapture called Undertow and its rediscovery after around twenty years of falling into the ocean trench. I am currently writing a document to justify how Undertow would exist within the cannon of the game and I am having trouble with the vast amont of information that I have to take in. I urgently need help in trying to connect Undertow to the story of the game so that it fits well without there being any plot holes.

Here is some basic information:

Underow was built in 1943 as a precursor to the City of Rapture, it's purpose was to experiment with the possibility of living under the ocean. The project was the brainchild of Martin Mcchain who was born into the thrall of the First World War and had ultimately came to see the human race as a savage species with no redeeming qualities. He thus built Undertow to be an escape from the surface and partered with Andrew Ryan who had started thinking about Rapture ten years before he bagan construction.

Undertow's community is based on a fusion of Objectivism and Altruism called Altrujectivism, the idea was to allow greater freedom to the people while things like the Market and the Press were controlled by Martins Company as a means to prevent competition and lies being spread through the community. Many part of the district were owned by the comapy while a few other buildings were privatly owned for the express purpose of living facilities. Undertow sent data back to Ryan as per the agreement  and ten years later Ryan bagan construction on Rapture.

Undertows location is near the outskirts of Rapture and the district is perched on a small opening overlooking the ocean trench that Persephonie also overlooks. In 1951 Martin realised that he had lost control of his people  of whome had become manipluated by his own company and thus he held a vote against their knowledge in the district to see weather the people wanted to become a part of Rapture or stay independent. The two part of the city had seperated prior becuase of a conflict of community. In the end they decided to join Rapture but before anything could be done the cliff that the district was perched on broke off causing the district to fall into the trench.

It was rediscoverd just after the events of Bioshock 2 when Persephonie crashed into what was left of the district that had become wedged between two cliff faces.

I am still writing the basic details and will publish it on this site once it is done, I really need help by those who are more well versed in the lore than I am to help me get things right.