Neptune's Bounty Shootout

* See also Neptunes Bounty
* See also Smugglers Hideout
* See also Frank Fontaine
* See also Raptures_Food_Supply
* See also Security_Systems#SecurityMen
* See also Sullivan
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A seminal moment in Raptures Timeline where Fontaine (faking his death) becomes Atlas, and citizens supposedly start questioning Ryan's Leadership and his Philosophy.
Apparently it was a planned move, with Fontaine making extensive preparations ( rather unlike the Moronic BaSx Fontaine/Atlas Character ).
The danger of the super-powered Splicers is exposed ( apparently it was shocking to the public in BS1 ). 
The problem of a potential power struggle between Ryan and Fontaine was thought solved ( Hence the New Years Eve Party months later ). That attack, and the following anarchy which Atlas's followers cause, disrupts Rapture.
In reality, it the story SHOULD have had a VERY DAMNING exposure of Fontaine's Crimes -- not just the dangerous Smuggling, but Fontaine's using Plasmid-armed monsters in an attempted insurrection, the criminal experimentation done during his ADAM research, and of his ABUSE of numerous children in his fake orphanages ( turning them into Slug-hosts/slave ). (( Sorry, that behavior is NOT 'Objectivism' Levine. Ryan allegedly is condemned as being the problem -- THAT belief was only a manipulative contrivance forced upon the gameplayer. ))
Unfortunately the game writers couldn't allow that reality, and downplayed that public realization to keep making Ryan 'the bad guy' for their story 'Twist'.
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Sullivan moved in to Neptunes Bounty - a big investigation ( the operation's remains seen there in BS1 ) - So Ryans actions were hardly a frameup.
Sullivan made extensive investigations into Fontaine's operations - and should have exposed/made-public his abuse of workers, corrupting of law officials, predatory business practices, murder in covering up his criminal activities ( things well beyond laissez faire limits ). The investigation also likely turned up evidence about the WYK plot against Ryan.
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