User blog comment:Unownshipper/Can "Burial at Sea" be counted as canon?/@comment-3967731-20131114022302/@comment-71.155.151.197-20131115032648

If it were as alternate, then this kind of research would have continued into 1 and 2, but its only been relevant for a couple months prior of BaS, and the only knowlege of these things so far was by Suchong, Fontaine Futuristics (after its nationalization by Ryan Industries), and mostly in Fontaine's Department Store, which a bit of it was on Market Street, for a Pneumo Jet Postal delivery box. Also, if Rapture wasn't reachable by Tears, then how the hell does Fink, Elizabeth, and the Luteces know about it in both this and the regular game, let alone Booker and Elizabeth able to go into there in both games? Also, Cohen didn't just run a Orphanage, as much as treating it like it was trafficking to make a profit, and he was even questioned by the authorities about his own stability around children, which even Booker knew not to trust him, especially when he mentioned Cohen was halfway through Splicing. It wasn't even just on BaS that Cohen was as unstable around dealing with kids: this was even something in BioShock's Challenge Rooms. How much of a coincidence that Cohen is featured on the comicbook cover loading screen for challenges to save Little Sisters in dangerous areas, where in BaS, he gets Booker and Elizabeth to go find Sally in a sunken Department Store?

Elizabeth's "constants" remark was towards the Air Grabber because she's familiar with it as a Skyhook. Even Booker tells her about how it was made by kids that used it to ride the Pneumo rails, just like how we know the original makeshift Skyhooks were made by kids that used it to ride the Skylines. If it was by that and not an actual product, then it was coincidence that it was going to be eventually made because of a high rail delivery system. There's a Radar Range that's new in BaS, but you don't see Columbia have any guns equivalent to that.

Suchong did take Fink's intellectual property on his research, but it was mostly in retaliation to how Fink did that to him, and because of that and finding more Tear abnormalities to research, its causing Rapture to be delluted with these things that shouldn't exist. Whatever the source that caused this to be suddenly visible in Rapture for those months would have needed to be closed off.