Sofia Lamb

* See also Sofia Lamb Timeline
* See also The Rapture Family 
* See also Lambs Utopian
* See also Gilbert Alexander
* See also Eleanor
* See also Grace
* See also Stanley Poole
* See also Big_Sisters
* See also Characters/Personalities
Large Page MAY WANT TO SPLIT ?? (ie utopian page)
== "Sofia Lamb was a Dystopia of the Mind" - Andrew Ryan==
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'End Of The Self' - The Delusional Tyranny of Sofia Lamb
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Metamorphosis << need to do a whole examination on THIS thing ...
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Sofia Lamb was brought into Rapture to solve a problem : Of people there feeling 'closed in' in Rapture's environment ( which was largely like living inside one big building ), and it having negative effects upon them. Finding solutions to alleviating those negative effects was to be her job.
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Sofia Lamb was attempting to reorder the whole World, reprogram humankind, YET she couldn't even get her minions to slap a new Coat of Paint on her Headquarters (at Persephone). - "Zeus" at the time of New Rapture
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An 'Awful Lot' of the Survivors in Rapture just were not Dumb enough to fall for Sofia Lamb's psycho-babble, and the 'Church of the Lamb' Cultist stuff - Even many of the ones half-crazed with ADAM sickness. 
Examples of what she did to people who resisted (UNBELIEVERS), that should make it obvious she was just another tyrant telling 'what people want to hear' plausible lies ( Remember who the people were who came to Rapture ... Fundamentally to get away from that flavor of liar/cheat/charlatan/murderous criminal ).
There were plenty of other people capable of organizing things, and THEY would have their own propaganda warning people about what Lamb was up to, and what would await them if their fell under her power. There were others who had already gone thru the trial of the thuggish tyranny of Fontaine and the empty promises of Atlas. Knowing how to "push peoples buttons" doesn't equate to knowing how to successfully organize survival or rebuilding a city ( neither of which Sofia Lamb actually cared about ).
Minervas Den was obviously NOT controlled by Sofia Lamb's crazy cult.
Factions like Ryan's Loyalists in Hephaestus or the Fishermen of Neptune's Bounty had great leverage to face down Lamb's threats, and to help others contain her twisted Philosophy to that marginal part of the City she was centered in. Cutting her off from other parts of the City wasn't that hard to do. 
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The Family And Sofia Lamb Controlled All Of Rapture -- NOT !! :
Consider Minerva's Den just as one example. That is an 'area' of Rapture she obviously DID NOT control. The Minervas Den game levels (in total) are about 1/4 the size of everything we saw in BS2. And the Minervas Den complex controls more than what we saw to get all their needed supplies from. How much of the rest of Rapture could be similar ??
Clearly, Sofia Lamb and 'the Family' DID NOT control ALL of Rapture.
Again, we only saw a tiny bit of Rapture in BS2 -- a Southern corner of it, and alot of that is actually pretty marginal sections of Old Rapture at that.Defenses against Sofia Lamb - the Airlocks then would be heavily defended and controlled from the inside. Windows possibly would be covered over - to leave no easy method of extermination to the "Collectivist Bitch" ( as Sofia Lamb was called. ) We saw very few connections there going to any other parts of Rapture.
You cannot go by what Audio Diary Recordings say, as they are of limited or Biased perspective/opinion and NOT any kind of valid narration of the BIGGER story. Sofia Lamb, for example, can say whatever she wants, but it possibly clearly illustrated how deluded and manipulative she was ( Really, How hard was it to fool her followers - them being ADAM_Addled Splicers ?? ).
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The Need :
Did Ryan originally bring Sofia Lamb to Rapture to psychologically 'Control' Rapturites ? NO, Ryan did NOT seek 'control', it was more to do something about the closed-in feelings/unease/'Cabin Fever' that some Rapture citizens were having in reaction to the close environment. Ryan saw that unease as an impairment to normality in his city.
( Notice - Ryan did not just say "Tough Cookies". He took action to bring in some expertise to try to solve the problem. He realized many adjustments were required for People to live in Rapture ). 
NOTE - IF Rapture was more like what they are showing in Burial at Sea ( All airy caverns and it so spectacularly voluminous, with those ridiculously HUGE windows ), there perhaps would be alot less reason for the 'Shut In' complaints used by the BS2 game plot ( justifying Sofia Lamb to be in Rapture ). But, the DLC was an INFINITIZED aberration, foisted on the Players by Levine & Co in a quickly-made knock-off which was too much like their other recent work, AND was just as bizarrely distorted.
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Ryan Supposedly Erased All Public Record of Sofia's Existence ? :
What is this, "1984" ? Supposedly making Sofia Lamb disappear, just as he had allegedly done for many other public dissidents ? She was arrested, charged and exiled long before the 'civil war' disturbance's effects on Rapture society. Newspapers are not shown to be 'controlled' until WELL after Rapture's %27civil war%27 was being fought by Ryan. 
Is there any evidence of this 'Erased' other than the 'make her disappear' part, which may thus be more a case of putting Sofia "Out of sight, Out of mind", when she was taken out of the City and sent into exile at Persephone. Evidence to the contrary is that we see her clinics/posters in BS2 - If she was ERASED, wouldn't ALL of that be gone ?? Would she bother to put all that old stuff back up in that particular form when she 'Returned', and started foisting 'The Family' (and her control) on people outside of Persephone ?? Her propaganda would be much more directed towards her gaining and holding power with he new set of lies.
How much Sofia Lamb was able to 'stick her head out' before Ryan was 'dead' is a matter of speculation. Do you think Ryan wouldn't hear she was loose and just send someone down to make sure she wouldn't be a problem ever again, OR to reassert control of the Persephone Prison, and then put someone in charge to run the place properly ??? No, while Ryan was alive, she had to avoid his notice.
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Mishmosh - Game Story Creating Tyrants - Ryan vs Lamb :
Ryan for the severe actions he took had the excuse it was a 'civil war' Insurrection, Terrorism ... an Anarchists rebellion actually ... He had to take 'war measures to protect the city and citizens of Rapture. What excuse does Sofia have ?? Resistance to her deluded 'philosophy' ? Sofia's Rapture ( Really, how much of Rapture did she really control anyway ? Sure, she could claim to control Rapture, but as the game went on she sounded ever more deluded/insane ) with many people still hiding behind closed doors ("there's shooting .. ah, not my job" ...) Crazies are after Delta ( her minions, as ordered by Sofia, or just 'incidentals' ).
What a mess the place is - this is order ? This IS living off the rotting corpse of Rapture (Parasitic). Control ? Its just falling apart, with many sections looking like a refugee camp/homeless encampment.
Sofia Lamb is really aiming at creating her "Utopian" for The Surface ?? Or more its all just to justify HER POWER??? ( It is like Communists who say that 'It is just a phase that has to be gone through to reach the final goal of society without a government' - Which never seems to happen ... No matter how many millions they murder. ) Her delusion has convinced whacked-out people ( apparently with more than a little 'persuasion', as per the bodies nailed to the walls as 'examples' ) enough to make her part of Rapture operate - but still a state of shambles ( Maybe more congratulations should go to the people who built Rapture so well for it to survive so long without much active maintenance ).
Ryan built Rapture, and Sofia Lamb is presiding over its decay and moldering away.
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The more and more Sofia Lamb rants about how much a Tyrant Ryan and his ways are, the more you can see that SHE is talking about HERSELF.   Is this some kind of self-loathing she is exposing ? Which by making her "First Utopian", her angst will be ended ????
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 "My Struggles""My Struggles" - which is the same name for Hitlers seminal work "Mein Kampf" - by Dr Sofia Lamb
Someone saying ( like Sinclair ) about Sofia Lamb's gibberish 'Philosophy' and Those who ignored Sofia Lamb's publications - "Was Spared much Stupifying Trash." 
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Sofia Lamb tried to publish her 'Works' in Rapture previous to her being locked up for Sedition ( through a Vanity PublisherA Vanity Publisher is one that will print anything for the customer but only prints the media, and it is up to the customer to actually sell what has been printed. The books usually wind up stacked in someone's garage ... ), but it did not sell well - as would be expected in a place full of people who sought Individual Freedoms.
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Sofia Lamb Is Somehow A Svengali ? :
Lamb is Telling people 'What they want to hear' - that so-much-used manipulation : Telling them that THEIR actual Failures are not THEIR fault ( sound familiar ? ). And then she selects for them something to hate ( usually Ryan and Raptures Philosophy - which serves her agenda to take over Rapture ). You would think, with the type of people who came to Rapture, rejecting that kind of manipulation would be possible/likely, but the plot wouldn't work otherwise -- so plausibility is sacrificed.
Many reports of her behavior should have gotten to Ryan. He then had good reason to lock Lamb up as a subversive - someone trying to destroy Rapture. ( Remember that he sent Poole to gather sufficient evidence of Lamb's actions. )
Unfortunately, there is limited and narrow game evidence available to how destructive Sofia Lamb was trying to be, often via biased/opinionated points of view. The (BS1) Its Ryan's Fault for Rapture's Failing theme was still being followed by the writers. Just a few anecdotal scenarios are presented to represent ALL of what allegedly happened in Rapture ( it is a game, not a novel ). A realistic story is not told when a few handfuls of malcontents are distortedly portrayed as 'Everyone'. (( something Collectivists supporters do endlessly today )).
What ? Nobody disagreed with her 'Tearing Down' Ryan and Rapture's Philosophy ??? We never heard an Audio Diary about THAT, did we ? Nothing from someone denouncing her and saying they would be informing Ryan and the Rapture Council, and the People of Rapture to what divisive/corrosive use Sofia Lamb was putting her position and influence ?
BUT That, of course, would have supported Ryan's actions of having her locked up (jailed) for inciting rebellion, but the writers didn't want Ryan's actions to be shown as logical and responsible or right for Rapture - They wanted to portray him as a tyrant.
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One of Those Strange Rumors... ( like seen in the Novel ) :
A bit like the Fontaine-Tenenbaum hookup ... 
That Sofia Lamb working WITH/FOR the Japanese in WW2 ( was she running from an Allies collaborator prison sentence ? And THAT'S why she went to Rapture ??? ) and maybe even had met Suchong in Korea ( having been controlled at that time by the Japanese ). The Japanese had got up to all kinds of nasty experimentation, which Sofia similarly seems to have no qualms about inflicting upon people.
So, Strange shenanigans are alleged ( and stories to expand/reveal in the MMORPG ).
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Dark Secrets Exposed in the MMORPG :
Did Sofia Lamb have Dr Suchong killed ?? (Or attempt it) OR did he have the last laugh learning Sofia went to The Surface and was put in a Mental Institution ? ( Suchong Lives !!! )
Had Suchong seen her during WW2 working for the Japanese ??? ("Friends in Hiroshima" ??) And that little nugget would have likely been the end of her little insane crusade.
Do some of her "chemical inducers" come from the work she did in WW2 for the Japanese ?
You'd think that she would only be able to affect only a few handfuls of 'patients' ( What exactly can you get done in a 30/60 minute session ?? ) Unfortunately, the original game story simply leaves so much unexplained.
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Dial "L" For Lamb And Lunacy :
If you read Sofia Lamb's psycho-babble ( And heard her Audio Diaries ), it is quite obvious that she was deranged WITHOUT even having been effected ( as far as we know ) by ADAM as an excuse. But then, isn't it often the same with certain people in history to whom it doesn't matter how many people they murder to achieve their delusion ? 
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"Beneath the Myth, 'God' is just a name for our moral duty to others. It is that impulse which unites the Family." - Dr. Sofia Lamb
This should have been placed underneath those murdered 'Unbelievers' we saw in BS2 -- Apparently moral duty to others is really only properly what Sofia Lamb thinks and wants and demands.
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Sofia Lamb's Persephone Gambit - Too Easy :
Sinclair (and others in Rapture) should have known what was going on in Persephone, and told Ryan who WOULD have Sofia's power/air/heat turned off, then begun 'negotiations' for return of control of the facility. Followed subsequently by placing Sofia Lamb in solitary confinement PERMANENTLY ( her dangerous criminal insanity also may have required lobotomization ).
The Player was robbed of a REAL 'Moral choice' - The decision to kill/maim Sofia Lamb (or not) - Delta, now after being informed consciously of his own history with her (for a proper 'Choice') -- Of what impact it might have on Eleanor, instead of that arbitrary hidden (game) effect -- Not explained til it is 'a-done-deal' at game's end by short cutscenes.
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Sofia Lamb Controlled ALL OF Rapture - Who Says ? The Delusional Sofia Did ? :
Sofia Lamb's Collective likely had been only be a small part of the City (would be in the MMORPG). Prentice Mill talks of his AE Trains being in the 'old part' of the city ( which might be the South East edge ). Other post-Ryan Factions probably did NOT agree with Sofia's attempted Dictatorship, and may have simply cut her off, destroying the physical links to the city section she occupies. ( She has submarines ? Well, they do too ... )
Lots of people didn't Splice, and Ryan had all but won against Fontaine/Atlas by the end of BS1 ( and order was being restored, etc ... ) We really only have seen a very small part of the whole city, and the 'Violent' Splicers we saw (in BS1) were out for the Bounty Ryan offered on Jack (1000 ADAM), and anyone else probably headed the opposite direction with all the shooting and mayhem in Jack's vicinity. 
Same is likely true for BS2 ( that narrow path we took through many marginal places ) -- People have to eat, so probably will congregate more around the farms and other food sources ( like Neptunes Bounty ), and the saner ones are largely the ones left surviving after ~ 10 years - those who avoided violence and damaged areas, AND delusional murdering despots like Sofia Lamb.
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Sofia's Delusion :
Actually when you think of it : Combining the brain processes/mentalities of the typical Rapturite - individualism, hatred of collectivism, capitalism, freedom-desiring - THAT would be the LAST thing Sofia Lamb wanted for her Collectivist God-human she sought to create. ( There are Better Feebs up on The Surface for that ... )
So that's an MMORPG Idea : Rapture Family Kidnapping Surface Feebs, Forcing ADAM on Them, then their 'Sacrifice' for Sofia's "greater good". Pump ADAM into them (Sofia's Special Mix #42) and then Extractions ...
We might question if Sofia Lamb] actually cared much about that Project after its failures, and that she more used it as an excuse/means to maintain Power and Control while trapped in her corner of Rapture.
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Sofia Lamb - Just think of Her as Rapture's "Charles Manson" :
* "The Rapture Family"
* Sociopathic, controlling/murdering people to get what she wants
* Has a Plan to "Change The World"
* Manipulative - Gets others to do murder for her - guides others into crimes/barbarity
* Her Pack of BS as 'Philosophy' ...
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When Did Sofia Lamb Arrive in Rapture ? :
What year would the 'closed in' feeling have reached sufficient impact on the population for Ryan to recognize the problem and then take action ? ( And then the time for Ryan's Surface Organization to find a qualified Psychologist who was willing to come to Rapture ... )
Large numbers of people would start arriving when sufficiently complete sections of the City were ready ( ... at least by 1948 ?), and then reach its full immigrated population around 1952 ( and then mostly stopping ). Many people who were susceptible to severe alienation would probably start reacting within a year of their arrival. Time would be allowed for people to settling down before Ryan might finally become concerned. OTHER Adjustments may have been made to try to alleviate the problem, while primary construction was still in progress ( interior building modifications would still go on even after that ).
The timing ties in to when Ryan Amusements 'Journey to the Surface' was built. Evidence in (Audio Diary) indicates that was AFTER Sofia Lamb arrived, and in that 'Ride' it talks of children 'Writing to friends on The Surface' who also might be the kind of people who would want to come to Rapture ( strangely that part of the ride was NOT modified to omit that after 1952 when immigration largely stopped ). 
So the combined evidence points to Sofia Lamb arriving before 1952. How soon before isn't too clear.
Eleanor's age likewise sets an outside limit (being something around 17 when BS2 takes place in 1967) making Lamb's arrival likely prior to 1950.
As usual, details are vague ( There is no Audio Diary of Sofia Lamb's impressions of her arrival with a date given ).
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Does Sofia Lamb Believe Her Delusion ? :
After seeing the physical changes to humans, made possible by ADAM, does Sofia then assume that she can 'genetically' change human nature too ?? -- to eradicate what she declares afflicts All Mankind ?
She didn't seem to be paying attention as ADAM drove people insane - mental destruction instead of mental change. And all the desired effects not being permanent, as the human's genes reasserted themselves over time and eliminated temporary changes made to peoples bodies - and leaving damage and disruption in its wake.
ADAM in reality was used to only make minor physical changes genetically, and using existing natural patterns overlaid on a human to get some cheap carnival tricks. Completely changing humans into her Borg-like Utopians is fantastically more complicated. Her Project's assumption sets her as a match to the Fink's 'Caveman' level of ignorance about genetics, if not also philosophically.
Does Sofia Lamb care ? For many historic Collectivist leaders, they are really only after Power over others, and what they voice as their goals are most often lies - just a Means to an End - of THEIR Gaining Total Control. Make people believe in this so-good sounding Utopian thing - dangle it out in front of desperate traumatized (and in Rapture) mentally damaged people simply to get them to do as she asks ( and anyone not 'buying it' gets killed on her orders ). 
Fake religion is shown to be temporarily used to sway those with promises of 'good', before she betrays them all. "Useful Idiots" is a term Lenin used for those too deluded/ignorant to see the swindle. (( Its a shame that the writers think that so many people could fall for Sofia Lamb's philosophical tripe - Especially the people who came to Rapture. But then further Dystopia was what the writers needed to have, with her place in it. Too bad it wasn't created FAR MORE logically. ))
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An Ironic Name :
The name "Sofia" translates into 'wisdom' (Greek) : Never a more ridiculous moniker is possible there (( If ever intended to be 'symbolic' by the writers ----- Only a speculation ... )) for a character. The Buddha would have puked and Solomon would have had her 'cut in half'. Solomon (the epitome of Wisdom) asked for the gift of 'Knowing The Hearts of Men'. Sofia Lamb somehow thinks SHE can change Human Nature - a historically delusionally Foolish idea ( on par with the Nazi's 'Aryan Supremacy' ). 
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How Many People Would Really Fall For Lamb's Tricks ? :
How many of Raptures 20000-40000 people could have possibly been her patients ? One psychiatrist can only handle so many individual cases, and doing 'group' probably would get her little conspiracy/anti-Ryan philosophy spotted sooner than later.
Prentice Mill ( Audio Diary "Just_a_Fad" ) - "My rails only connect the oldest parts of Rapture now", and the AE Map ( Atlantic_Express System ). Evidence showing that what we see of Lamb's collectivist domain (in BS2) need only be a small part of Rapture - along the old AE Amusement Park Line.
So thus what of the rest of Rapture ? Perhaps with the type of person who came to Rapture, Lamb's Philosophy would sound as absurd as it was, OR too alike the manipulators they came away from on the Surface. Being half-insane from ADAM probably wouldn't change that judgement.
A question might be - how closely did she associate with Father Wales in the early days ( Did she use the want of Religion of some Citizens to draw people in to where she could get her psychologically-manipulative claws into them ? ) The Eleanor fetishism was after(?) she was recovered from Little Sisterhood - with by that time Sofia being incarcerated and may have needed Simon Wales as her 'front man' outside in the rest of Rapture ).
How many of the inmates at Persephone did she sway ( or how many fooled her/used her and would eventually try to wring her neck -- once she pressured them too much ) ? How many we insane or marginally-sane Splicers who you can't really control with any certainty ?
She obviously (previously) had managed to convince some idle rich people to fund her social 'experiments' (ie- Dionysus), but how many came to see it/participate out of boredom ( want of something new ) rather than any real interest in her Philosophy ? Her psychoanalysis business probably did NOT make her rich enough for any such projects, but we don't know how affluent she had been on the Surface ( and of any wealth she brought with her ).
At what point did she publish (for general distribution) her "Unity and Metamorphosis" book ( where to anyone intelligent, her ideas/plans would suddenly sound very ominous and problematical ). Perhaps it was one of the things that had made Ryan's say 'enough', and set in motion the investigation of her Sedition.
Sofia Lamb is a good example of "False Altruism". She talks other people into 'altruism', and gets THEM to expend their wealth and effort (and lives), while SHE obtains/maintains Power, eventually emerging as a murderous tyrant seeking to contaminate the Whole World with her insanity.
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Slight Miscalculation On Sofia's Part:
Remember she's a psychologist, not an Engineer... The explosives go off to (maybe) sever the structures anchoring Persephone ( or rather a section of it ) to the cavern ceiling AND ... It stays there, maybe moves a little bit. The building section floats. With all that air inside, even with a thick concrete shell twice as heavy as water, it still will not sink. Oooops, YES, Very dramatic speechifying and ranting, but it is much harder to "deliver the goods", Sofia. The realities of water displacement ( Laws of Physics ) strikes again.
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Sofia's Rants 
(There's no way in the game for the Player to tell her to STFU - - in the MMORPG THAT can be Fixed ! ) :
Sofia : 'Gift' of Eleanor ... Yes, kidnapped and turned into a Little Ghoul and then an Imprisoned Sleeping Princess -- I don't think I would care to get any 'gifts' from you Sofia, if that's how you think.
'Good intentions' ... Yeah ... I think some of the Nazis at their trials tried to use that excuse.
Amusing idea would be : Recycling a few Choice Scenes from BS2, and letting Delta 'have at her' with some choice verbiage ( If not real blows - What ending do you get if YOU (as Delta) kill Sofia Lamb ????? )
The UN-Audio Diaries of Ryan 'Tearing Sofia a New One' at a REAL debate ... ( You never found them because 'The Family' members destroyed them as they went against their 'religion' ).
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Silence of the Sofia Lamb Butterflies :
"Metamorphosis" is a different word for "Transformation" ( ex- from the movie "Silence of the Lambs" ).
Moths in the movie, Butterflies for "The Rapture Family". The BS2 story element seems to be a copy of THAT idea (not overly original). The guy raising them in all those cages in Paupers Drop.
Do you think that those murdered "Unbeliever" victims had butterflies stuffed into their throats like in the movie ?? At many Lamb Shrines ( ie- seen in Adonis Resort ) the Butterflies are NAILED to the wall ( kinda like Sofia Lamb's "Unbeliever" victims ).
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All Those Copies of "Unity and Metamorphosis" ... :
Seem to be all over in Sofia Lamb's domain ( and probably wisely were made out of paper that could Not serve as TP or for making cigarettes. Sandpaper-like consistency for the paper would be appropriate in the preservation ).
For Players visiting these 'Family Occupied' regions of 'the Ruins', the book pages make adequate kindling for fires and cheap patching on plaster walls.
A few copies would be preserved in the City archives/research library for their historical interest ( one copy for the New Museum of Insanity and Parasites ) ...
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Lamb-land Persephone :
If that's what her Headquarters looked like, then what kind of sh*thole did the rest look like ?? ...
* Corpses everywhere, after years of lying in same spot (very unhygienic)
* Persephone had been flooded previously ( it looks like it had been )? Another one of Sofia's little mass-murder sprees ?
* Therapy still in progress and prisoners still in cells ? Waiting to be 'sacrificed' to the Utopian ( Why else would Lamb have them still alive ? ) ??
* Jailers and Doctors still 'working ' ... ( This is her 'common good' ... ) Inmates are still locked up.
* Still making BDs LSs, Sinclair's fate, showed they were still capable (at least partially) of doing such processes.
* Where are the rest of the people ?? Someone had to provide food. After 10 years stuff from the old days would have long previous run out. Forced labor (the collectivist's way) must be 'out of sight' ( not 'out of mind' of those oppressed ). 
* Old Pre-Chaos supplies/tools would be pretty much gone/dwindling. This place would make Post-Soviet Cuba look good by comparison. Basic/crude methods - Sofia had her great 'goal', and little else mattered.
* Seriously - clearing bodies and debris, a fresh coat of paint - its not that much work to make Lamb-land a much happier ( or less disease-ridden ) environment. ( It would be a neat thing to learn in an Accu-Vox later that Plots were around designing to stick a knife in the back of Sofia Lamb's head to free themselves from her tyranny ).
Remember - Sofia Lamb was a 'Community Organizer', and very likely never did anything much of practical use in her life ( convincing others to do it for her and taking credit ... if any of it ever was 'of good use' ).
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False Fronts :
Lamb's Dionysus Park was not a 'Potemkin Village' ( a false front created by underlings/followers to fool a leader Comes from Catherine the Great's follower, Prince Potemkin, building fake happy villages besides roads the Empress rode thru.) , but camouflage covering Lamb's long hidden agenda to eliminate human individual freedom. 
More a kind of Theresienstadt ( a place orchestrated with reassuring fake appearance, but really with an agenda of death ). 
* Rich people there were fooled by the glitzy avant-garde art-isms and party accouterments into supporting their own destruction. We see similar 'art' other places in Rapture, so the attraction must be more than just that.
* Poor people being made dependent on 'make work' 'welfare' - just fodder/tools for Sofia Lamb's delusion and megalomaniac manipulation.
* A recruiting center for a collectivist who wants to overthrow human nature ( the usual destructive delusion ).
* A 'religion' which is actually a Cult ( with Splicer-Craziness adding into the mess of Fanaticism )
* Theater of the Damned (and gift shop)
* How can art be 'Unconscious' when you are Dead ?
* Piano Bar Of Unconsciousness
* Garden of Blue Butterflies ( did we see any of those disease-carrying pests anywhere in Dionysus Park ? )
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Sofia Lamb the Psychopath :
The Oddity of Sofia Lamb running pumps to 'fill'/FLOOD Sirens Alley ( apparently just to show Delta what little regard she had for individual human lives to get what she wanted, as the flooding was unlikely to kill Delta ). (( BTW, Sofia Lamb wound up in a mental hospital (asylum) on The Surface, OR as fishfood, depending on your 'choices' ... ))
Building Water Systems were built to avoid that. And no pumps are necessary to flood, just open a valve to the outside water. But why would any valve/opening be big enough to flood the place in a few minutes even exist ?? ( Or pumps to do that ?? - They can only handle minor leaks, routine seepage drainage, and slow-restoration after a catastrophic leak. )
Any water pipes used in construction would be capped off (to prevent accidents). Its unlikely there was some convenient valve like that one Stanley Poole supposedly used to flood Dionysus Park faster than everyone could escape.
Blowing holes into building structure ( which would accomplish what was shown ) would take ALOT of explosives, making hamburger of people insides anyway. We didn't hear any big explosions which MIGHT have caused such a water inrush.
A slower flooding might've been more dramatic with desperation and angst of the Splicers which Sofia Lamb is sacrificing/betraying ( save such a scene for the MMORPG remake/redo). I can hear Sofia telling her drowning followers that its all for the good of the Utopia ( and when the few sane ones curse her, she castigates them for being unworthy of her ).
Safety Bulkheads would have also contained much of any flooding, so they too would have to be disabled. ( They would be originally designed to NOT make that easy. )
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 Lamb's Domain -- How much of Rapture did Sofia Lamb actually Control ?? :
Sofia Lamb controlled about 1/4 of the City of Rapture at the time of BS2, from near the Atlantic Express Depot to the Greenbelt farming area north of Minerva's Den ( see map ). Other Factions had blocked further expansion ( destructively with floodings and destroyed connecting structures, and force and threats Lamb couldn't ignore ).
You would think that Lamb's Big Sisters could traverse the water gaps at the borders, but there were other Big Sisters who had been conditioned by the more able factions to counter this ( and protect THEIR Little Sisters - forcing Lamb's ambitions to seek a source of new Little Sisters elsewhere ).
Later threats from Hephaestus (Ryan's old followers) to 'turn off her power' brought a standoff truce and limited Lamb's trouble making in the rest of the City.
Food to feed Lamb's minions was available from the Greenbelt farming area, and large numbers of her 'Family' toiled there. Being cut off physically and ideologically from Neptune's Bounty had lost the staple of fish from that source. But then, low protein diets are perfect for numbing down peoples mental capacity and making them more malleable.
The research center ( and the remaining staff ) at Fontaine Futuristics fell into her hands, enabling her warped ADAM experiments ( with Gil Alexander and an unknown number of children being the victims of her search for the first 'Utopian' ).
Technical expertise in Minerva's Den remained out of reach, with simple firepower blocking her attempts to seize it ( think bigger Ion Lasers firing at Big Sisters and submarines thru windows ). Similarly, expansion into Hephaestus was denied ( shouldn't mess with people who can turn your power, heat, water and air off ). Lamb tried to infiltrate both, but failed ( with some of her 'agents' being Pneumo'd back to her from Hephaestus ).
When Simon Wales fell fully into his cult organizing roll ( and spliced himself into insanity ), Lamb lost one source of know-how that could have greatly assisted in improving her section of Rapture ( and her subjects living conditions ). But then, such things were not that important to her ultimate goal.
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Sofia Lamb obviously had some submarines ( which she used for the Big Sisters to grab children from The Surface ) which were largely of the smaller privately owned type. For longer distance submarines ( like those used by Neptune's Bounty she possible had a few of these ). A few fell into Lamb's control early in the Faction Wars that began after Ryan's death. Simon Wales had access to resources ( he had been working on installations for Rapture's defenses for Ryan in the past, before he 'got Religion' ) which we saw some of in BS2 ( ex- the torpedo incident ).
The existing Rapture infrastructure was still usable by Lamb and the people under her control - the Pneumo still worked where it wasn't cut off by damage, the communications links ( propaganda is a first priority for a tyrant ) continued to function for Lamb's endless pronouncements, heat/power/air/water still flowed to more than enough habitation space. Garbage disposal wasn't a high priority, but it was simple enough when it got too thick to push it out of an airlock. It was likely that leaving everything in a state of wreck and ruin was to Lamb's purpose, first to blame Ryan and second to make it easier to get 'The Family' members to give themselves up to be killed to achieve her mad delusion.
With Sofia Lamb gone, it would be one more step in the direction of Rapture's road to restoration.
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Atlantic Express To Lamb-land ... :
Explanation for why the Mk2 AE trackage (the other lines) were not used in Sofia Lamb's territory ( the Mk1 Trains do connect more than a few locations in that zone ) : The main connecting tracks down below the AE Depot were cut/damaged in the faction wars - and the other connection thru the Freight Yards (see the AE - Map) had long been flooded. All the AE Mk2 equipment was blocked in at the damaged Depot facilities. The remaining accessible Mk2 train equipment eventually failed from lack of maintenance. Whereas, the Mk1 connection to the Depot ( "The Short Line" that you traversed most of in BS2 ) survived, allowing access to repairs and spare equipment and allowed continuance of the limited train operations.
The Trolley 'Street' system in her territory sort-of worked in a limited way - due to a mix of incompetence and Sofia Lamb deciding that insane people would be 'safer' walking ( and thus restricting her 'subjects' movements, which made them easier to control ).
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In BS2, Collectivist Sofia Lamb was contrived to be let into Rapture, when a simple investigation into her background would have caused her being Instantly Rejection by Ryan ( especially for something as influential as her task was to have her be ). 
Better writing would have has a few details explaining how that all happened (how she HID her agenda) -- After All BioShock was supposed to be about STORY, wasn't it ?
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 "The North Atlantic Passage"ref to the phrase "the Middle Passage " frequently used about slave ships between Africa and the New World - reflecting children kidnapped by Sofia Lamb to turn into Little Sister slaves :
Sofia Lamb (in the BS2 story) was able to access The Surface - Supposedly sending Submarines thousands of miles away to KIDNAP children, and to haul them off into SLAVERY. It is not likely/plausible the Big Sisters ONLY could carry out that task.
So someone else, having at-least competent Henchmen, who would operate the Subs to navigate and to 'restrain' and transport the terrified children ( and coordinate such operations ). Think - Children drown easily, so they have to be 'accommodated' carefully, and might be emotionally damaged (more) if not handled properly. ( One would suggest some 'Knockout' gas be utilized ).
The Children had to be put somewhere almost immediately after they were snatched ( it is inefficient to get only one per trip ). The "Acquisitions""Acquisitions" - a euphemism for the many Children which Sofia Lamb obtained ... needed to be 'tested' to meet Sofia's criteria (for LS), and unusable ones 'disposed of''disposed of' - another euphemism which collectivists use< ( same as the inconvenient parents/bystanders ). Drugging them was likely employed. Mishaps and fatal accidents with 'the quarry'Euphemisticliscious !!!! (As Sander would say) ... also likely were not impossible/unlikely.
WHAT ELSE did Sofia Lamb have to acquire up there ? And How ? :
* Looted artworks to 'fence' 'Fence' - selling on The Surface - See The_Smuggling_Operation#Operation for other useful items ? 
* Robbing banks/homes/ships for 'fencible' goods ?
* More human 'sacrifices'/donators (kidnapping adults) to obtain more Utopian 'memories' ( ones less mental than the typical Rapture Splicer - people not previously associated with ADAM dementia ).
* Simply food because of the general ineptness/incapacity of her captive/compulsion-based population ( At least for her 'trusted' minions ).
Sofia needed contacts/agents up there to help manage such things ( like the smugglers had needed ). They had to be at the low end of the ADAM-affected ( and 'true believers' so as not to take the opportunity to simply escape Rapture and Sofia ), to move about and spy out targets. Perhaps it was still fairly half-assed ( SERIOUSLY, kidnapping children 'one at a time' from a dozen places with a clumsy Big Sister raid ... that smacks of disorganization, and a critical lack of concerted/planned effort, and ignoring many easier/simpler alternatives ).
Sofia may also have been forced to be Clandestine in her Surface activities because Ryan's Faction forces where STILL ACTIVE AND working to counter her. Her followers might be a bit 'too odd' to appear in normal society ( even if not Splicers ). Ryan's Faction also had its Surface Agents ( They still had access to Ryan's Surface Organization ), which could lead to some interesting MMORPG Flashback scenario situations ( and confrontations and FREE-FIRE combats up on The Surface ).
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Sofia's Look Of Surprise :
I saw this (Art Deco) picture and thought :
" Its the 'Other' BS2 Ending ( and Eleanor Teleported out a second before ... and has a future like Jack - Decision to Leave or Stay in Rapture ) "
ITS the reality of what happens when 2 Tons of (even mediocre) explosives 'go off' in a contained space with an OPEN door leading in to that escape 'Life Boat'. In milliseconds, Sofia Lamb ( and whoever else is inside ) is turned into hamburger ( like Delta always should have been, when he is 5 feet away in that Explosion Scene near the end of BS2 ).
We can have lots (Plot Trees) of 'alternate story paths' in the REDO of the Solo games - Made utilizing the MMORPG's mechanisms/tools -- quite possible through alot of Player Creativity and Imagination.
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That "Utopian" - Sofia's Delusion ? :
Is it the hallucinogenic visions, the 'Ghost Stories' in BS1, being what the writers based the idea of Sofia Lamb's delusion of herself being able to create an All-Knowing ( and supposedly Greatly Wise ) 'Utopian' in BS2 ?? Don't all Collectivist instigators assume THEY themselves are wiser, so they can mandate themselves the power to decide the fate of others ?
Actually, when you think of it : 
Considering the thinking process/mentality/attitudes of the typical normal Rapturite : Being orientated towards Individualism, hatred of Collectivism/Collectivists (from experience), embracing Capitalism, and being Freedom-desiring - THOSE ATTRIBUTES would be the LAST thing she wanted combined into her Collectivist God-human amalgamation, she sought to create. Sofia might have a hard time finding sufficiently compatible adherents to her Philosophy to merge into that Being.
ADAM-Addled Splicers, susceptible to her wiles and coercions, also might be too thoroughly damaged for whatever 'wisdom' she thought she could 'merge' (harvest). Splicers also would be far less stable than her usual victims.
Perhaps, while ordering the stealing of children from the Surface in "There's Something In The Sea" ( the BS2 Web Promotion Flash Adventure ), Sofia Lamb ALSO kidnapped many Surface adults, and perhaps 'Ground Them Up' to feed to her minions so that more 'well-balanced' DNA/RNA 'memories' were made available.
(( BTW - All of a humans RNA and DNA has some millions of functional 'bits' of data - base pairs ~3.2 billion bases long AND containing 20,000–25,000 distinct protein-coding genes ( but many of the patterns apparently being redundant or leftover genetic garbage ). It is hardly something to base a human mind ( or even ideas/images/thoughts/memories ) within the human brain which uses ~30 billion nerve cell neurons, many having some 1000 non-digital/varying/multi-values, forming a holographic neuron synapse connection network. )) 
Maybe it was all just HER 'con' (as Fontaine thought) - simply the usual Collectivist's Fraud to simply get Power for Herself. 
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Why Weren't All of Sofia Lambs "Businesses" Seized like Fontaine's ? :
Seized BY THE CITY like Fontaine's business assets ?? Seized and sold off to Rapture Citizens to be run (or shut down if they were only a front for one of Fontaine's criminal activities) ? That is often done to 'recoup' a City's incurred expenses. Likely, the proceeds would have also gone to Fontaine's victims ( or the businesses given back to those he had strong-armed/extorted from - If he had left them alive ).
For Sofia Lamb, perhaps she only owned part (or very little) of the establishments we saw ( supposedly 'rich' people funded much of it - avante-garde museums and public art galleries don't really make money, so just maintaining the Buildings would have meant alot of expenses ). We never did see her 'Clinic' or wherever she practiced her 'psychiatry'/brainwashing activities. One wonders how many of those 'rich' people would have funded Sofia if they had known the extent of her plans.
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We never got much of the story after Sofia Lamb] mentions the 'friends' she had in Japan ( linked vaguely to Hiroshima/Nagasaki A-bomb incident stuff ).
Note - the Japanese did medical 'experiments' on humans -- to POWs and conquered peoples -- EQUALING the horrendous things the Nazis did.
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 "The Science of the Lamb's" :
Lamb allegedly runs a previously disrupted research establishment ( First at Fontaine Futuristics, then at Persephone ) ? Had years to bring about some true horrors ( Crematoria in Persephone used for all the 'failed' Little Sister experiments ? ) with attempts to create her 'Utopian'. Is it 'no wonder' that Eleanor thought : "I have to get the hell out of here !"
With sustaining more than mere survival, it is clear that all of Rapture must not have been as decrepit as the ruined places we went through in BS1 and BS2 for people to be able to do much of anything. Though the place did look to have the 'Living Standards' of a Soviet Gulag ( and probably a similar survival rate ). 
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The Flood ... :
It is interesting how Sofia Lamb so easily discards the 'Church of the Lamb' ( in Sirens Alley ) once they were no longer useful to her. But then, her delusion calls for killing everyone, so what do a few more matter ... It is a shame that the Player wasn't given/offered the 'Moral Choice' of deciding the fate of Sofia Lamb at the games end.
I'm not really sure how the Game Company thinks that killing hundreds of Splicers through the game is somehow different than Killing/Not-killing a few 'bosses', when it comes down to adding up your actions for the 'ending'.
(Likewise killing Innocent Big Daddies don't seem to count either.)
Note - the typical tendency for a Collectivist ( what Sofia Lamb pretended to be ) to murder huge numbers of People to further their agenda ( which allegedly was supposed to be FOR THE BENEFIT of ALL ). A question remains : Was Sofia Lamb only really after gaining Power for Herself ?????
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Lamb Psychiatry Poster - "Test your DNA" :
Many Posters seen in Paupers Drop, would have dated from the Pre-'civil-war', Pre-Lamb-locked-up-for-Sedition period. 
Posters had other psycho-babble stuff you would expect, but WHY "Test your DNA in out state-of-the-art Facility" ?? So she was already up to no good at that point. Who was she dealing with to get connections to genetics-oriented science ( Audio Diaries indicated it wasn't Fontaine ). Or was she experimenting with some kind of chemical manipulation at this point ( assisted by some ethics-free technician associates ) ? Easy to slip in an injection of some nefarious chemical into her victim while 'taking a DNA sample' ...
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Lamb's Dirty Money :
For a Collectivist 'Utopia' there sure is alot of money on the Splicers around in BS2. Shouldn't 'The Rapture Family' members share everything equally and money should NOT be required and actually should have all been destroyed ??
But then Lamb's 'Utopia' was much more extreme/unworkable than Ryan's, and if anything far more disastrous and certainly hypocritical. Maybe its like in other collectivist societies, the money was largely valueless - With little to buy with it. Old joke in Soviet Union : "They make believe they pay us, and we make believe we work". 
Coercion was the real coin of Sofia Lamb's realm.
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A Sofia Taunt Button :
With all the inane blathering and whining Sofia Lamb does at you ( and at Eleanor too ), I sometimes wish I had a button in the game that would make 'cutting replies'/snide-remarks to her collectivist/utopian/psychobabble drivel. They should have given us that, at least, as we never were allowed to get our hands on her in the game so that we could "Make a REAL Moral Choice" with her. Alphas can't speak ?? Then an air horn to blast at her over the radio. ( Big Daddies with air horns ... Hmmm that would have been interesting - an accessory on Big Daddies. )
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Beloved Leader is Still With Us :
After Sofia Lamb's disappearance, one of her more clever/daring minions ( she never allowed any real lieutenant's who might be well-tempted to 'Slit her Throat one Night'Something most dictators FEAR incessantly. ), after someone dispatched her, pretended to be HER. This pretender then would try to maintain the fiction that Sofia was still alive and in-power and in-charge. 
There had been a collection of technicians and experts ( many who had been in Sinclair's think tank in Persephone ) later working for Sofia, who tried to stay organized -- 'running' the remaining Little Sisters, and controlling the Big Sisters ( How ? and to what extent ? ). The charade lasted for a while, including handling the lack of Father Wales's influence and other disorders caused by Delta . It lasted until one point where the pretender was exposed ( the wig fell off ) resulting in the pretender's demise and general disappointment and feelings of betrayal when the truth came out. 
New Rapture was then forming and many of the now disorganized/abandoned 'Family' Splicers soon were being caught and 'Cured' ( often by being simply bribed with food after the disorganization ). Many of the locations Sofia had controlled were captured, while a few of Sofia's old thug minions still held out in small pockets.
THE BELOVED LEADER SHALL RETURN !!!!
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 "We are but the STONES to Pave the WAY" ( Lamb-ite Propaganda Stuff Seen On Wall In The AE Depot In BS2 ) :
I don't think all those people that Sofia Lamb murdered ever got gravestones.
Hmm, what exactly did 'The Family' do with the bodies of the latest "Joiners with the First Utopian" -- "Soylent Green is made out of Splicers !!!" -- A Good theme for at least one quest/mission ( If you see something labeled "Soylent Green" out there in 'The Wild/Ruins', best just leave it where it lies. )
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RAPTURE HAS FALLEN - and It Can't Get Up !! :
Look what a state Rapture is in after Sofia Lamb has run it for 8 years ( or her part of it - for all we know the rest of it is doing fine except for this 'quarantine zone' ... )
What did she do in all those years ? Not much by the look of the place and the untidy old corpses left laying about. The latest thing is this experiment which destroyed Gil Alexander, has started kidnapping children from the Surface ( and attracting attention ), and she plans to 'experiment' on her drugged out daughter ( Mother from Hell ).
Her delusions and self-loathings are not abating ( You can hear it in her endless whines at you and those unfortunates under her power ). She plans on 'saving humanity' by destroying it.
I doubt she has told her minions that she will leave for the Surface when the 'Lamb is well done', and leave them to their fate ( They probably will be better off for her going ).
After the events of BS2 (if she survived) Sofia is now up there in a mental institution for the criminally insane, getting her daily dosage of Thorazine to keep her 'calm'. If instead you wasted all those annoying 'bosses', then Sofia's molecules have probably gone around the Oceans 'Circle of Life' a few times already.
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Glitz ( Sander Cohen Had It, Other People Wanted it !! ) :
Just imagine Sofia Lamb putting on a stage production ... Heh, that would be a good one for the MMORPG -- where presenting the truly/properly lame and awful is more challenging that the pretty/'awesome'.
Think "Springtime for Hitler"The Producers ( or more appropriately Stalin Serenade Major Mass-Murdering Collectivist ), except done seriously ...
Appalling goodness ( choreographed song and dance numbers using the StageDirectionTool|Stage Direction Tools. )
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Tyranny Speaks :
Unity and Metamorphosis - Sofia Lamb's 'little red book' which we see many copies of laying about in BS2. Excerpts :
 
* Rapture was to be your paradise. You grasped the so-called The Great Chain|Great Chain of Progress, and pulled hard in your own interest. But then, the Great Chain snapped. Now, paradise is dying, and you with her. But we are never alone. We shall live on. Join the Rapture Family and be reborn !
* Look around, my friends. Rapture is a mass grave. Here lies the holy self, a budding Mozart rots beside a girl who might have surpassed Einstein. Those who survived the war still crave the ADAM drug. Locked within ourselves, we were unfit for utopia.
* Ryan was wrong. To hand sufficient power to any individual is to create a tyrant. We must therefore eradicate tyranny at the genetic level. To end sin itself, that is the Family, that is our cause.
* Ryan saw the individual as a hero, a noble survivor. And Rapture was his paradise, a shrine to the supremacy of the self. The result? Slavery, genocide, chaos. Now that the tyrant is dead, we are a true collective, a single Family.
* Each of us has a moral duty to increase the common joy, and ease the common pain. Alone, we are nothing, mere engines of self-interest. Together, we are the Family, and through unity, we transcend the self.
* Why faith ? Is the Rapture Family religious, or secular? The question is irrelevant. Observe instead our mutualism. Beneath the myth, God is just a name for our moral duty to others. It is that impulse which unites the collective. Faith is that which lives on. Snuffing it out merely spreads the blaze.
* Rapture was a city founded to exalt the self, a society of I. This is a contradiction in terms. The individual naturally subverts the collective, resulting in chaos. And so, Rapture failed.
* The fall of Rapture was a product of Darwin's bounty. Evolution is no miracle. It is greed and fear, shaped by brutal selection pressure. We need no external devils to tempt us. Biologically speaking, original sin lies in the genes.
* With each generation of blind gambling, the gene grows more expert at concealing its teeth in a smile. But beneath the veneer of etiquette, we are all subjected to constant temptation.
* The tyrant looks upon the world, saying, "All this is mine." And by force or guile, he makes it so. To the tyrant, the whole of creation is held in the relative; sun and moon revolve for him alone. For the tyrant, even justice is whimsy. He alone is fit to weigh, to measure, and to cut.
* The tyrant has no family, no friends, no country; only slaves, chained in his wake. To his fellows he asks, "Of what use are you to me?" Those who love him are his subjects, for the tyrant accepts only worship or fear.
* The individual, with even the least malicious intent, is prone to self-bias, resulting in great agony for those she loves. It is only the collective will that allows us to transcend this inner tyrant."
* In times of calm, the tyrant asks, How will my lot increase?" In times of crisis, the tyrant asks, "How will I be saved?"
* Ryan's moral impulse was sound. He observed the world and asserted, simply, "We can do better." But Utopia cannot precede the Utopian. It will exist the moment we are fit to occupy it. Not a place, but a people.
* The human animal, like the gene, serves only the self. We are born believing that the world turns for us alone, and we die in the futile attempt to make it so. I've treated them all, from career prostitutes to titans of industry. The only constant is dissatisfaction.
* To the individual, his or her own instincts appear divinely ordained, but our drives are the product of evolved self worship and are, therefore, naturally corrupt. Alone, we are enslaved to our own perspectives. It is a kind of protagonist syndrome, of which we are all afflicted.
* Free will evolved, my friends. The illusion of control is a trick of the gene, vanishing in an instant the moment we are sufficiently tempted. The gene makes a tyrant of us all.
* This is not a sermon. I will offer no insight. Every word I speak, you already know.
* My father was a physician. He raised me not to echo him, but to model the world as it ought to be. I was to teach a simple moral calculus, each choice as though the world must bear it, each life or death for the common good. He called it the triage imperative, and would laugh without smiling.
* Utopia. Said aloud, it evokes heaven on earth, yet the word means both "good place" and "no place," an ideal unreachable. Even in the naming of it, we refuse to believe. And yet, we will forever seek Utopia, driven always to want more, no matter how much we have. It is among the grandest of human ironies that our very drive to find Utopia has kept us from abiding there.
* Think "I will smile," and act as such. Congratulations, you have just experienced the illusion of free will. Now think, "I will never become angry again," and act as such. The illusion begins to break down. Your genes have no objection to an empty smile, but anger, to the gene, is part of the program. I submit the following conclusion -- the gene is the enemy.
* What is good? Only one definition endures. Good is pleasure in the absence of suffering. What then is the greater good? To calculate pleasure or suffering in the majority, we must account for the dimension of time. Each act must be measured not merely within the moment, but against all causality. The greater good, therefore, equates to total pleasure over time.
* What is the soul? An ineffable spark of continuity, living within us, yet beyond us. Mortality, our eldest truth, and the soul, our eldest contradiction. I submit the following conclusion -- the soul is not in us, but between us.
When Sofia Lamb speaks in 'Unity And Metamorphosis' about tyrants and tyranny, it is funny that she makes a very good description of her own actions. Ryan at least had a War to win ( to save that which HE built ) which forced him to relinquish a number of his principles ( if temporarily ).
Read the rest of it and you learn that Sofia Lamb saw all of humanity as only consisting of the defectives she treated -- either willfully ignoring the rest, or her pronouncements are just more of her self-serving manipulation.
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Sofia Lamb's Gulag :
There were Farms in Greenbelt ( the farming area nearest Persephone that did not get cut off from her control ), where a large number of her 'Rapture Family' toiled to feed all the rest. Farmers are generally conservative/practical people, so few joined Sofia Lamb's Collectivist delusion. Thus her 'farms'Farms : See Rapture_Agriculture were not particularly efficient. But, such inefficient manual labor was a perfect excuse for keeping so many of the 'Family' busy, while waiting to be 'sacrificed' to Sofia's mad scheme ( actually MUCH easier to convince them under those circumstances ). Various Tonics and simpler chemical methods were used to 'dumb the workers down' ( general lack of Protein will do that ... ) so that they would be less trouble and incapable of refusing their drudgery. Quotas for 'no longer living' Splicers to supply harvestable ADAM would be met by culling the most useless workers ( All very systematically/practically done, no doubt ).
It might be interesting for the MMORPG to show ( let the Players explore ) the working infrastructure of Sofia's domain. We only saw areas that were patrolled by her armed minions and some of her technicians and servant type sycophants, but not all the ones that provided resources that kept everyone alive. A common sight would be a miserable 'worker' pushing a wheelbarrow full of collected excrement, who is out collecting more for use as fertilizer for the farms. After 'the Rapture Family' started to disintegrate, these mind-numbed drones probably continued their tasks pretty much on automatic, until being grabbed as pawns by the various new/surviving Factions ( Everybody still has to eat, and the farms were thus of strategic importance - with much fighting over them ).
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( Hmm, Mini-Game - Sim-Sofialand -- Can you manage to keep Lamb-land fed and the supply of 'volunteer' ADAM-donors flowing and prevent a revolt leading to the death of the Beloved Leader ??? -- "Tropico"Game : "Tropico" - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropico style societal-control devices, etc ... It has got potential for some imaginative Player to create). ( Note - as long as you meet your 5-year-plan, your 'sacrifice number' will put you amongst those "Who Will BE Sacrificed LAST" ... )
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Sleeping with the Fishes ( The Glowing Fishes ) :
The Abyss was used by Sofia Lamb to 'dispose' of people she didn't care for ( as in anyone who wouldn't do what she said or anyone smart enough to resist her manipulations or people who saw her for what she really was ). Seems a waste of 'tissue' but maybe it was one of those 'threats' that was used to terrorize her minions into doing her bidding ( when the brain-washing 'just wasn't enough' ... ).
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Little Brothers of Lamb's Hell ( The Murdered Innocents ) :
With Big Sisters kidnapping numerous children ( We only saw/heard-of a fraction of the incidents in SitS ), with probably/most-likely grabbing many by accident who were inappropriate for future Little Sisters. So besides simply disposing-of-them, they may have fed the experiments she was doing attempting her "Utopian". 
Many of the original ADAM experts had died or fled out of Sofia Lamb's reach, so much of the methods would need redeveloping or NEW research in a direction previous ADAM Technology had not gone. The 'Doctors' required many human experimental subjects ( preferably not already ADAM-tainted/warped ). We saw many cremation ash canisters in Inner Persephone ... Possible evidence of the many attempts and failures.
The concept art of those Little Brother 'tents' could be made use of to reflect some of the Child Experimentation, possibly employed to subject them to breathing various weird shit -- to either 'change them', or to 'keep them from dying' from the experimentation. (( Shhh ... Secret Project using 'rapid growth' (like Jack's) to turn children into troops for Sofia's army to facilitate bringing 'The Surface World' into her 'Utopia' ))
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Amusing "WTF" Mind Control Phrase :
BioShock had the 'WYK' thing for Jack, and Sofia Lamb ( hearing it not quite right ) and not getting many details except about its effectiveness. Somehow she holds it up as some great achievement/goal of being 'selfless', except for the fact that someone IS issuing the commands -- She can't see this simple difference between being 'selfless' and a robot slave. Could she possibly be this delusional ? Or the whole thing is just a sham for her own tyranny ?
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WTF ? Sofia gave the Dock Access Key to 'Sinclair' so that Delta could take it ?? :
But then she was leaving in the "Life Boat". But why not just activate it herself and not risk unpredictable outcomes with Delta in play ? Might some of her less psychotic followers see HER abandoning them ( or arranging to blow them up or 'send them on a one way trip' into the Abyss ) and decide to beat their Beloved Leader into hamburger -- so she would "always be with them" ? ( Mementoes, like bits of her skull, might be cherished keepsakes later in 'The Rapture Family' ... "WE GOT A WHOLE TOE FOR OUR ALTAR !!!!" )
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Excerpt from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShock2 -- A seriously informative website chockful of good stuff :
* The fact that Sofia Lamb used her psychiatry sessions not to comfort vulnerable and needy people, but rather to Mind Rape them into believing they were horribly selfish, "cure" them of their "selfishness", and get them to join her creepy 'Utopian cult' is utterly evil, and utterly terrifying. More than one diary talks about how the speaker was so awful before Doctor Lamb "cured" them, but now they can serve the Family and do some good...
* The fact that she is just waiting next to Eleanor when Delta finds her in Persephone, prepared to smother her own daughter just to stop him. This pretty much drives home the fact that she doesn't see Eleanor as a daughter; as something to care for as a person. She sees her a tool to be used as she sees fit and for nothing more and no-one else, and is fully prepared to nearly kill her if it means she's denying her to someone else.
* Her demeanor, which seems so cold and detached in comparison to Ryan. Ryan at least showed passion in keeping "his" city alive, whenever he communicates with Jack. Sofia just seems cold and uncaring, speaking to Delta like he is just some especially troublesome organism on a lab table that won't stay still.
* The Novel makes it clear that Sofia Lamb was like this before coming to Rapture, but it wasn't until she had easy access to desperate people incapable of escape that she started thinking about a 'revolution.' At first you chalk up Ryan's hatred of Lamb to her being a Dirty Communist, but then you realize the utter disconnect between her terrifyingly soothing public face and her utter lack of empathy for anyone, from her followers to her daughter. Sofia Lamb] emphasizes 'caring for everyone equally' to the point where she does feel the same thing for everyone : Absolute indifference to their status as humans, concerned only with how they can advance her Greater Good.
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Sofia's Redemption (or NOT) :
The BS2 Ending where Sofia was left alive by Eleanor... Just because others might be willing to forgive her and NOT give Sofia the punishment she deserved, doesn't mean that Sofia would embrace that forgiveness/chance to reform. She could even spit in their faces at some later time. ( One more opportunity to use others, while pursuing her demented goals ). I could see Sofia Lamb on the Surface in a Mental Institution after she started ranting about Rapture/her Utopian. Medication with Thorazine should fix her.
The "Strategy" of hiding out in Persephone - Of course as Rapture fell apart, things like food and such got short or disappeared completely, which would kill people just as fast as Crazed Splicers could ( via starving to death ... ). So the prison existence couldn't have been so isolated - If there was to be anyone left alive during the course the %27civil war%27 ( which went on for at least a year ). Ryan apparently kept the rest of Rapture alive ( with some great effort because of the destruction/disruptions of infrastructure which Atlas caused ), but I doubt Ryan would have sent food to a place known to be controlled by Sofia Lamb. 
Hmm, Cannibalism in Persephone ... the untold story. 
To Sofia Lamb people are tools to be used, then discarded, or destroyed if inconvenient. Lets consider the children kidnappings from the Surface : How many botched kidnappings were there ? - I don't recall any SitS newspaper clipping mentioning 'red lights in the water' happening with brutal slayings of parents/relative or the child itself being killed or maimed during an unsuccessful kidnapping attempts.
It would have happened many times as Big Sisters weren't the most Subtle beings.
How many more kidnappings ( successful or unsuccessful ) were there than the SitS info showed ( How many were never reported, etc ... ) What happened to all the children who were kidnapped, but who were NOT successfully usable for the Little Sister 'conversion' ?? Those whom it did not work for, or who couldn't be conditioned for the task ? - What was their fate ?? ( Those canisters of crematoria ash in Persephone may be a clue ... )
What of the Death toll of 'Unbelievers', who found out later that what Lamb and her lackeys said one day was no longer true the next. We only went thru a small part of the areas Lamb controlled and aw a number of bodies displayed as a warning - the usual despotism of the collectivist. Cult of Lamb - talking people into 'offing' themselves for 'the common good' ?? It takes pretty strong coercion to overcome a human's self-preservation ( and remember these weren't like Japanese people taught from Childhood that they should "Die for the Emperor" ... ) Remember - Those who 'Offered their ADAM' need not be alive or willing.
"Whilst living in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II," : I don't know who came up with (wrote) this stuff, but incarcerated in a Japanese foreigner concentration camp would be the only way Sofia would be "living in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II", OR, can we add 'collaborating with the enemy' as a separate possibility ? ( seemingly Ryans people did a miserable job of vetting Sofia for inclusion into Rapture ). Remember that the Japanese were very xenophobic, and their militarist expansion phase started way back in the early 1930s ( when they invaded China ). Foreigners were treated with suspicion, even without a war in progress. Sofia would probably have to have come AFTER Hiroshima, and THEN she would have to had spoken Japanese fairly well to do her psychology ( and apply it to Japanese psychology/culture as well ). They should have said she had previously practiced in Hawaii where there were large numbers of Japanese, to develop her skill, etc ... 
"long, dear friends she made in Hiroshima" : So Sofia Lamb was a collaborator with the Japanese in WW2 ?? "long dear" ? Japan became extra militaristic (coup) in the early 1930s, and would have seen her as a alien spy - unless she worked for them.
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Sofia tinkering with Plasmids and Gene Tonics : From 1959 to 1960, while remaining in Persephone, did Lamb tinker with Plasmids and Gene Tonics on her willing (?) test subjects, and make tactical excursions to bring more supporters there ? One hopes she was assisted by ADAM experts. Like Suchong/Fink it is ludicrous that she could ever be skilled in too many different scientific/technical disciplines. " Tinkering with Plasmids and Gene Tonics" sounds like a scenario with alot of human experimentation in which she would characteristically have had little regard for casualties. Sinclair had been working with ADAM products ( Audio Diary messages mention that ), and maybe that gave Sofia ideas and got her started. She was doing her psychological 'pacification' therapies on inmates for the Warden, many who were Splicers. 
Sofia said (talking about Ryan) : "One man chose a city, free of law and God. " : Except that Ryan's Rapture could NOT be free of Law. You cannot have a modern society ( Rapture did last 1946-1958 without significant failure ) without some laws. It was more a case of "Free from Government", which Ryan saw as a channel for parasites to gain power over others. There still would be a Social Contract with agreed upon limitations of individual and group Rights ( as in - 'Your Freedom ends where it starts interfering with someone else's Freedoms' ). The game's writers are ignorant ( willfully ?? ) of the parts of Objectivism they conveniently omitted - taht which is specified for it to be a working system. Again, the writing is merely a forced creation of a Failtopia for a Shoot-Em-Up game -- literature-wise, the backstory would be rejected even by desperate pulp fiction publishers as unrealistic and stilted. Sofia cares nothing for the Rights or Freedoms of others, and has dictated that many shall die to bring about her delusion.
Sofia was a trained manipulator, and because she is such a liar the whole 'I will drop Persephone into the trench' is also all a lie. The fake explosions were just more manipulations on Sofia's part. Probably not solid evidence, but if you look at the way Persephone is constructed ( use the cheats to go outside ) it is well embedded in the surrounding rock. The amount of explosives needed to 'sink' it, as they went off would tear the whole structure apart and quickly take Sofia Lamb with it. A second thought is : that Eleanor may be just as good a liar and uses her mother's lies to get 'her Father' Delta to clear the path to the 'Lifeboat' to escape, (and perhaps for him, her new henchman, to escape with her).
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Sofia had been collecting ADAM ( "Just for the Memories ... ) to pump into Eleanor to turn her into her All-Knowing Utopian. The process may have been hardly started. Eleanor already had many powers of a Big Sister ( So then why didn't she take care of Sofia herself ?? ). The ADAM-Collecting from Sofia's followers, and other unfortunates, no doubt had 'gone on' for awhile. SO, where is the big stash of ADAM ?? ( Sounds like some potential for Treasure Maps for the MMORPG ... )
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"Columbarium" ( a Place where Crematoria Urns are Kept ) :
We saw canisters of ashes in Persephone. And Crematoria in BS1. I don't know if the Game's Writers might have figured that Sofia Lamb would have gone through ( as in Dead-ification ) HUNDREDS of children in her Experimentations - so to revive the Little Sister Conversions and Conditioning processes, AND also to figure out how to UNDO the 'Little-Sisterization' of Eleanor ( I doubt Sofia was on 'Speaking Terms' with Tenenbaum ... ) Further 'research' on 'Utopian making' possibly absorbed many additional Lives.
(( That would be an appropriate name for Kennyboi's last gameworld, with its lil Corroded 'Pots of Ashes' from things that went before ( so much recycled stuff inappropriate to the proposed historical setting, and so 'dumbed-down' - reducing/killing gameplay potential. ) The funerary-fate/final-resting-place for the BioShock genre - soon to be forgotten and ignored after the paid weepers are long gone. ))
"That Columbarium" - what Teddy Roosevelt named the wreckage of Columbia ...
The Ashes of Good BioShock ...
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Lamb's Little House of Horrors in Persephone :
Remember what we saw there was YEARS after Sinclair ran the place as a psychiatric hospital and insane asylum (and prison). Since then, Sofia Lamb has been busy acting out her little Collectivist Hell. (( The later Soviets used 'asylums' to 'correct' people who blatantly didn't believe in their ideology. ))
It became Sofia Lamb's headquarters ( apparently around the time of the Kashmir Massacre ), and a place to implement her vast delusions.
Those Electro-Shock 'therapy' rigs ( seemed recently used in BS2 ) - used for 'persuasion' to obtain 'cooperation' from unfortunates living within Sofia Lamb's 'Family' Collective.
( BTW, what we saw in BS2 was HARDLY all of Rapture -- likely not even a third/quarter of it. Splicers might be insane, but as to them all becoming collectivists and falling for Lamb's BS, many weren't that Stupid or Powerless ).
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Sofia's Spew At Delta :
Sofia Lamb : " I had thought you some golem of Sinclair's, brought here to hold Rapture’s arms as he rifles through her pockets. But no, you are aware of your plight. "
Sofia's usual condescending verbiage, naming YOU a lackey to a 'thief' Sinclair - Communists and other collectivists consider any commerce as a crime, apparently not realizing their own live would still be in miserable mud huts IF their ideology held sway from the start, and that they themselves did not have the Modern Capitalist World to be parasites upon. Consider - Pol Pot would have had Sofia's skull crushed in a heartbeat for showing a fraction of her 'intellectual' expression in HIS 'People's Paradise'.
Sofia Lamb, by even talking about Sinclair, implies that he has significant resources still ( to do what she is concerned about - opposing her ). His Resources and knowledge/know-how is probably the reason Sinclair is still alive ( and has kept out of Sofia Lamb's reach ).
She now knows YOU (Delta) are not just a robotic thug, but someone she can attempt her manipulations/coercion upon.
I forget ---> was a Security Key ( held by Sinclair ) needed to unlock the 'lifeboat' ???
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Sofia Lamb's ideas for The Surface World wasn't going to make it a nice place.
"Unbelievers" Not Wanted !!! ( extermination was mandated according to her Philosophy as we SAW in the game ).
Sofia Lamb might have had some 'low income housing' build for her followed in Rapture before she got locked up for Sedition. Maybe some was built ( Seriously, how much money could she have to do it ? ) - So it was not just Sinclair making use of the surplus from the Decline of Constructions in Rapture ( He built Sinclair Station with his Sinclair Deluxe, which looked far superior to the chicken coops that Sofia thought proper, or to Fontaine's tenements).
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A Change For The MMORPG : Sofia Lamb Did Not Rule All of Rapture 
Actually, she would have controlled only a Corner of Rapture. The People in the MMORPG's Rapture were a bit more capable than 'the Feebs' which the Solo Gamewriters lazily made them out to be. Many Rapturites would fundamentally reject Sofia Lamb's crazy Philosophy ( and MANY were never Splicers ).
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