Infinite Timeline Problems

* See also Columbia_Timeline
* See also Infinite BS
* See also Humorous_Corrected_InfiniteBS_Timeline
* See also Quantum Hokem
* See also Timeline (Rapture's)
==An Incredibly Compressed Story and Peculiar Events==
The Writers just shoving together whatever came into their heads ???
The gamewriters, while attempting to tie the game story in to Historic Events and Character Ages, created a ridiculously and impossibly tight Timeline which ignored any realistic timespans when as corelated as a whole.
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==Infinite BS COLUMBIA TIMELINE== 
1890 
* Booker Dewitt is supposedly 16 years old 
* Booker in US Army (Cavalry - 7th Cavalry) Weird enough THIS little gamewriter contrivance - Hint : TOO YOUNG FOR ENLISTMENT. More logical might have been : as an assistant 'Scout' ( considering the possibility of Booker's Vague half-native origins ).
* December, Booker at Battle of Wounded KneeA nice controversial Massacre event which might have been heard of by students in their public education curriculum . 
* Booker Leaves U. S. Army ? How ? Deserted ? Section 8 ? Unfit for Duty ? Real Age discovered ? 
1891 
* Booker/Comstock is now 17 ? Baptism Incident ('Life path "Choice"') ... "Baptism Incident" (Schrödinger's) CatBox - Booker Is or Isn't drowned ....
* "Comstockish guy " (now) Meets Lutece ( Carnival act ? ) with the Strange Technology (???)
* Preacher DeWitt (??) has dream(s) of a Holy Floating Eden/Ark ? 
* 'Prophet' DeWitt a big hit ( using the Lutece Through-Tear-Seeing machine is implied QUESTIONABLE : HOW you can have time for 'Big Enough' (impressive) predictions to be made, and then to 'come true', and be publicized as "Miraculous", and then such be repeated to get big 'influence gaining' 'Fame'. Then there is the SELLING (promoting) of this "Miracle" so as to develop 'a Following' to achieve the alleged political influence. Moneymaking having the same difficulties. This also assumes somehow 'Picking' which timeline is the Prophets Timeline. The game writers maybe do not understand (or care) that most 'smarter than a village idiot' people DO NOT fall for such things, and certainly would give any RELIGIOUS attribution 'a wide berth' - Particularly to anyone building a Pseudo-Christian cult-like following. ) 
1891 or 1892
* Premature Aging of Comstock ( effects of exposure to Lutece devices), starts ? Premature Aging via use of Lutece Device At 18, Booker supposedly now looks older ...
* Comstock Influence Over High-level US Politicians ( How/Why ?Influence Over High-level US Politicians : These Game Writers apparently have little understanding of period/era Congressional operations and the people involved, NOR of the limited ALREADY-assigned moneys available. ) in Washington DC
* Lutece Floating technology proven/demonstratable/engineered for use Floatyshit(tm) - It is hardly likely to get Government Funding without a large-scale demonstrable (WORKING) floating technology. And there is ALWAYS a difficult/extensive process of turning a 'lab experiment' or demo rig into a full size SCALED working mechanism ( ie- something at least like a City Block floating ) - And further, for it to be made a Safe and Robust/Reliable implementation. 
* Comstock 'Influence' is used to get US Congress to Fund a Huge Floating Thing for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.The Taxpayers Money for something incredibly expensive at such a short notice - When Money is already allocated to the politicians OWN projects.
* Government Bureaucrats organize and contract 'Columbia' construction workThe Floatyshit(tm) Technology is accessible to Spies, Foreign and Domestic.
1892 
* Comstock/Booker now age 18
* Building of the Flying Exhibit "Columbia" ( Floating 'Show City' made to work ) Rapid Construction would be via exposition building expediency - "Staff" : https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Staff_(building_material) - Plaster and Burlap and Lathing and 'painted on' Stonework. OTHERWISE it is something which TAKES YEARS.
1893
* Booker/Comstock age 19
* A Depression starting in the USA ( signs and expectation in the previous year )
* May - Oct Columbian Exposition (Chicago) 
* 'Floating' Columbia Exhibit is at Chicago Exposition ( Columbia is shown off )
1895 
* Elizabeth is born ( OR if some age differential required, was 'TimeTravel' stealing-involved from anothrer universe via Tears 'portaling' ?)
Unclear Date : 
* When Columbia is no longer under control by US Government Officials, and is under Comstock faction control.
1899 - 1901
* "Boxer Rebellion" in Peking China ( Columbia allegedly 'plays some part' Columbia drops chunks of Bricks on Boxer Rebels who threatened the 'white people' in the Legation Quarter of Peking - How could they (Columbia) have any huge guns at this pointy ??? US Government dont pay for exp[ensive shit like that ... Comstock can then mnake-up whatever he wants about it later. )
1902
* Comstock steals Columbia ( US Government Property ) : Secession ... ( Up til that point Columbia was controlled by officials of the US Government ... )
Unclear Date 
* Arrival of Masses of (Comstock Supporting) Population in (enlarged ?) Columbia 
* Years of Vague Stuff happening to convert Columbia to a Flying Cult Compound
1909 
* The Two Lutece are murdered on Comstock's orders in a malfunction of their Tear Machine.
1912
* Game Events
* Elizabeth 17 ? Booker/Comstock 38
7 Subsequenc Decades of No Difference to HistoryHistory changed by the simple knowledge and demonstation of 'quantum' technology - THEN applied by 100 X the brightest minds of the World, and 1000 X the Money and Resources. Seriously, game writers have to ignore so much to force through their Simpleton plots.
1958/1959 
* Events in Rapture ( Burial at Sea overlap )
* Alternate ( Femme Fatale ) ElizabethElizabeth still exists after the End of Infinite BS ??? Ooops. It is DLC RetCon.
1985 
* Elizabeth 90
* Attack on New York City ( in one unrealistic universe ) 1985 - In every other Universe, Columbia 'no longer exists', or is now shot down by nuclear-tipped AA Missile --- which have existed in the Real World for decades.
NOTE - All dates are subject to being Comstock Propaganda and reflect what was related to have happen in ONE Timeline in the mnulti-Dimensional Cosmology the writers created.
Note - ALL EVENTS are subject to being a Fever Dream of Booker's, Who is 'on' some Bad Patent Toothache Medicine back in his Office.
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Dates and Events Obviously Chosen to have Booker look 'daring' (and NOT too old), and for Elizabeth to be a 'proper' age for the Disney Princess 'look' and self-determination. 
* 'The Story' had to miss Big Events around World War One ( too much World change ).
* SteamPunky theme ( Zeppelin using era - late-Victorian/Edwardian )
* 1900 'evil' America Capitalism period ( "The Gilded Age", 1877 to 1896 ) and stylings
* Scientific period with early advancements of Physics ( Madame Curie, Einstein, etc ... )
* 'Name Dropping' of involved historic (name-recognizable) events the writers weaved together Selected HistoricalEvents : which read like something written down on a Denny's Napkin during brainstorming - remembering aspects from 5th grade history class. .
* No mention of World Events changing AFTER the Booker Mission *Fail* time (1912) for other universes ( any significant effect on later History by 'powerful' Columbia ).
* NO MENTION of how the known existence of Lutece Quantum Tech ( just Floatyshit(tm) ) would have SIGNIFICANTLY changed the Rest of the World from 1893 on ( or even before that as Columbia was built with that Technology ).
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With all the 'Namedropping' the game backstory did, they left out a logical thing to link to.
What a great chunk of infrastructure to grab from the Ocean depths - Even just seeing its pieces in the distance welded into a part of Columbia ( THAT would have been something very interesting and imaginative for the game ).
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/images/d/d2/HandoftheProphetChalkboardTimeline.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/799?cb=20180306153355
https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/File:HandoftheProphetChalkboardTimeline.png
Chalkboard Timeline from in the "Hand of the Prophet" - with alot of math/science gibberish, and some obvious cut-n-paste of smaller chalkboard images.
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