Kashmir Incident

* See also Rapture Timeline
* See also Welcome Center
* See also Atlas the terrorist.
Also Referred to as The Kashmir Massacre and The Kashmir Terrorist Attack
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The Major Terrorist attack incident which signals Terrorism being done buy Organized Anarchists to topple Ryan's Society in Rapture. 
Started on Midnight New Years Eve 1958.
It included a Bomb attack intended to kill Andrew Ryan and other City Leaders at the Kashmir Restaurant.
Other attacks happened simultaneously in other parts of the city.
Fontaine/Atlas was largely behind this atrocity.
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IT WAS AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT :
It is really NOT MADE CLEAR : The Terrorist attack was meant to Kill Ryan and other Important Rapture Leaders.
But Ryan was not there. But several important people were KILLED/MURDERED -- But we didn't hear their names ( no real reason for the game to emphasize this - after all Atlas is 'Your Pal' ... ), and we had no further info of what the murdered people did to help build Rapture or make it run.
THIS Makes it SO STUPID STORYWISE that Ryan would then become a Surrender Monkey to such murderers https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=surrender%20monkey as the Dim Writers later had happen in their game plot.
The families who lost people to this act of MURDER would have been AFTER Ryan to "get those murderers" ( and might even take it into their own hands later - There is lots of good MMORPG story possible from THAT ).
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Rapture Back to Normal :
Morale IS an important thing, so the Kashmir Ball would be important as a means of restoring confidence to the City after the 'taint of Fontaine' (The Shock of the violence of the criminal Fontaine being killed resisting arrest. ).  Remember that Rapture ( up til then) had already weathered/recovered from a large economic downturn years previously ( ~1952 when city construction largely ended ).   I don't remember if 'Atlas' already was a known 'rebel' before the Kashmir Incident.  But if he was, he might have been seen as a minor problem (protests ...) 
The environment at the New Years Party does NOT seem to be of worry (and the Burial At Sea DLC seems to show/expand the state of this normalcy more -- If you look at the way people acted on Market and High Street and the ambient News Headlines).
Unexpectedly, there was this violent bunch of Terrorist attacks in Rapture. Fontaine's resources and ADAM Plasmid stockpile (in particular) to use as a powerful destructive weapon to make that happen, and so things quickly escalated.  Remember, without ADAM in the equation, the conventional methods Ryan was using to restore order probably would have easily worked. The disruption to the City became so bad that common Citizens supposedly had to arm themselves with Combat Plasmids to 'defend themselves' ( That's the story given for why there was suddenly a mass use of ADAM leading to mass insanity ).
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Note : I have added the larger Kashmir Restaurant (the PvP DLC map) to my Welcome Center level map. The in-game location is more a Lounge venue.
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Fortunate that Ryan was not at the Kashmir Restaurant's Lounge on New Years Eve when Atlas's attacks started.
The MMORPG might revisit that whole event episode ( via Flashbacks ).
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There likely were 'more secure' parts of Rapture while the %27civil_war%27 raged.
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