Gatherers and Protectors

* See also Protectors_Too_Soon
* See also Little Sisters
* See also Big Daddy
* See also Alphas and Delta
* See also Little_Sister_Fortress
* See also Corpses_Everywhere
Team : Little Sister and Big Daddy
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Ryan Stealing Children ? :
'Masha Lutz' wasn't 'given', but was kidnapped, and by whom is NOT mentioned, other than she wound up a Little Sister. Nothing says it was by Policy of Ryan, and that is was not, instead, corrupt underlings, OR even a whole separate set of ADAM 'bootleggers' ... or Fontaine/Atlas's doing.   AND Were all Big Daddies controlled by the City ??? Or the had the bootleggers taken advantage of the BDs behavior to help ANY LS ( That's a neat idea for a MMORPG short story ).
To save Rapture by stabilizing it, Ryan could rationalize use of Little Sisters ( Moreso the ones already existing he inherited from Frank Fontaine. Consider the chaos that would happen if the ADAM supply suddenly ceased ... ).  New Little Sisters, Ryan probably would not like/want, and possibly ( officially for him ) the 'Gathering' was a program to try to increase/maintain ADAM production without requiring new Little Sisters be created ( Note - that project for Robotic Little Sisters he funded ).  Unfortunately, Ryan could NOT run everything himself, and many of Fontaine's "ethically-challenged" employees were still around ( maybe if Ryan had more time, he could have weeded them out ??   But the 'civil war' started just then, so he had mass-murder, anarchists and destruction to contend with ... )
We really are never told what plans Ryan had to fix the ADAM problem ( seems he was killed before he had even won the 'civil war' ... very conveniently to the Failtopia story ).   If he had continued after ridding Rapture of Atlas ( and thwarting Sofia Lamb's ambitions ), resuscitating his City meant dealing with the ADAM issue.
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Ryan Announcement - "Attention Rapture, ADAM Production has been Shut Down to Free All the Children Enslaved by Fontaine.   Be aware that all criminal violence will continue to be met with deadly force by Rapture Security.   That is all."  
It was Ryan who brought the Little Sisters out into the open (publicly showing their existence) - the  ones (how many ??) that Fontaine had kept well hidden.  But what to do with them ?   Apparently there  was no way (then) to undo the implantation, so ...  ( Remember Tenenbaum didn't have her "Rescue"  Plasmid til about the time Jack arrived. )
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I still don't think recycling ADAM from bodies would help much in increasing the available ADAM supply,  particularly with the continuing loss of 'Gatherers' ( who are also the primary ADAM 'generators' ) while  doing that dangerous activity.
A constant entropy of ADAM in the system.  What was the efficiency in recovering it from a Corpse -- How much was recoverable from each ? ( Particularly if it degrades with time in the users body ... )  It might have made sense immediately when the 'civil war' was generating many corpses, but eventually that supply would decrease greatly.  Fresh corpses becoming very rare when the remaining surviving Splicers became more clever, more cautious, or just didn't have much ADAM anymore to use. 
Fewer and fewer bodies ( and not everyone was an ADAM-addict ),  further and further apart, more and more desperate Splicers wanting to 'Harvest' the LS -- Til it wasn't worth the effort or risk to 'Gather' anymore.   After the Pheromone Control was instituted, would there be many (any) more bodies ?
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=====WE Gots to have the game offer that "Moral Choice" to the Player ... (was developer hype ...)  BS.   What moral Choice ?  When you get as much for NOT killing them as for 'Harvesting' them ?   The game designers 'wussed out' ( So much for the game being exceptional, or 'something new'... or 'moral' or 'choice' ). Consider : You killing Big Daddies did not much matter to them.=====
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Bonding Info
It was planned at some point that Delta was the Big Daddy that killed Suchong, but the audio diary was removed from the game after the story underwent revision.
BS2 Removed Audio Diary "Lamb's Gambit" (Gilbert Alexander) :
: "After what I did to Sofia's daughter, I owed her my silence and more. It's just that lives were lost as she advanced her plan ... People I worked with. Dr. Suchong had to go, for certain... when he ... when Delta dispensed with him on Lamb's orders, they were forced to give her the whole Little Sister project to continue, even from captivity. The protectors as well. No one else had the experience conditioning them."
Yes, alot changed there...
The BaSx explanation is that Suchong’s Big Daddy was the first successful Protection Bond.
Delta was the first successful Pair Bond, but it was deemed too extreme/impractical as the Big Daddies were permanently bonded to one Little Sister and would go into a coma or go crazy if something happened to the Little Sister.
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Audio Diary "Protection Bond" (Suchong, Apollo Square, Artemis Suites, BaS2) :
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: Suchong : Clinical Trial Protector System Plasmid Lot 255. Dr. Suchong/client Ryan Industries. Very frustrating day. I can't seem to get the damn Big Daddies to imprint on the little brats. The protection bond is just not forming ...
: Little Sister : Papa Suchong!
: Suchong : Get, get away... maybe if I modify the genetic sequence to ...
: Little Sister : Papa Suchong!
: Suchong: Shush, shoo... sequence to allow for ...
: Little Sister : Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong!
: Suchong : Get away, you filthy little shit! *smacks Little Sister* *Little Sister starts to cry* ...What? *Bouncer Roars* What are you doing? Get back ... get back!!! Argh! 
: *Sound of drill whirring; Recording cuts out*
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Audio Diary "The Pair Bond Mechanism" ( Gilbert Alexander, Siren's Alley, BS2 ) :
: "The Pair Bond is a success! If somehow an Alpha Series wanders too far from his Little Sister, our physical failsafe kicks in : a chemical trigger that induces coma. It is a symbiotic relationship, enforced by the girl's pheromone signature. The first successful candidate was ... Delta, I believe. It is unfortunate that poor Dr. Suchong will not be here to raise a glass."
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SO this BaSx picture is from BEFORE the Kashmir Massacre (start of 'civil war' ...) ?
Since the botched (RetConned) BaS Canon illogically has Little Sisters existing and out wandering about the city then Nothing really says that this 'bloodbathed' Little Sister necessarily was out playing "Little Vampire Ghoul" in the streets. ( The existence of Fontaine's LS abused children had been 'outed' by that time, and would be now included in many news articles ).
Proper logic would have LS only be out doing the game BS1/BS2 activity MUCH later -- AFTER the 'civil war' justified their being there with the (THEN) available masses of corpses. 
IF there were any such thing here, shouldn't THAT be the Headline "MASSACRES ACROSS RAPTURE" here on this newspaper ?? But No - NO MENTION ON ANY OF THEM.
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Maybe Fontaine (or Ryan's lab guys) had created a Burial Club for Indigent Splicers ( 'Free Body Pickups' - so the City doesn't have to do it at public expense ), *AND* was already employing some LS in that gruesome way ( and THIS is related to that ). 
(( Except THAT'S A CHARITABLE ATTEMPTUnfortunately there are too many gaffs in the DLC and any charity given for only a few mistakes are quickly exhausetd to desperately salvage the BaSx story from its illogical stupidity )).
Maybe it is Sensationalism ( something not unknown for newspapers to employ ) ? "Bloodbath" in a more literal and Strange-o-liscious expression ( perhaps the result some of Sander Cohen's fetish 'performance art' ? ) Some new 'Splicer' slang ?? Too bad we don't have the whole article to see what it is 'REALLY talking about'.
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Were 'Corpses' Really a Sustainable Resource for the Production of ADAM ? :
Seriously, they start to run out after most Splicers ( who are only a subset of the population ) are dead ( and used up/recycled already ).   It can't be a 100 % recovery either.
Also, the longer the remaining Splicers go without more ADAM, then isn't there less and less of it in their bodies as it breaks down ?? ( reason why they need more in the first place ... )  Corpses are more often those who's abilities (ADAM) 'ran out' ?
Of course, with fewer people (or Splicers, rather) left alive, then there IS a decreasing demand ??
Little Sisters do create ADAM whether they 'drink' corpses or not. ( Unless they get killed out there trying to find the ever more rare corpses ).
Burning corpses destroys the ADAM in them ??  Freeze damage likewise ??  Even electrical current destroys tissue ( and potentially(pun) any ADAM in it ).  Lots of bodies simply are NOT recoverable, and rats and thing gnaw on some as well, before LS ever can find them.  More ADAM gone....
After the Pheromone Control is in operation, will Splicers be killing each other all that much any more ?   Many fewer corpses ??  More and more LS should be back sitting home, generating ADAM safely.
Was Fontaine actually using 'Soylent Green' to feed the poor people he was scamming ( He called it 'SPAM', but really what was it ?? )
Even at the start ( Eleanor and Delta 'gathering' on New Years 1959 ), but were there that many corpses already around Rapture to have warranted 'Gatherers' ? ( and before that, since there was a significant lead time to be able to create 'Protectors', as well ).
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Observation About Bonded Delta and Little Sister Eleanor :
The (early type) bond ('pairing') was one-to-one - Delta didn't trade-her-in for another. So why should he let her leave, and how would he find her again ? ( Walking them back home might've been the process ? )
Eleanor probably would, by Delta, be escorted to wherever she "handed over" (nice term for regurgitated) the ADAM she collected -- at Fontaine Futuristics ? Or some local collecting spot ( It never was disclosed where the 'vent' things actually went, and how far (like miles ?) the Little Sisters had to crawl through them. )
The later Big Daddies were more flexible, and 'adopted' any unescorted Little Sister they happened upon. They apparently also did some repairs while waiting ( We saw some fixing stuff 'here and there' in the Solo games, though those may NOT have been 'Big Daddies, just the un-distracted/non-Protector City Maintenance Cyborgs ).
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Changes Post-BS2 :
With New Rapture a-building, and Sofia Lamb gone, there weren't as many corpses as there used to be. So you might find two Little Sisters fighting over who gets a corpse :
"Its Mine !!!"
"No Its Mine !!!"
"My Daddy is Bigger than Your Daddy!!"
"No he's not !!!"
"Yes he is !!!"
They might be this way for a while, with the Big Daddies looking at each other shaking their heads, until ...
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DO you mean to tell us that WE coulda been collecting ADAM the whole fricken time with one of those things ( which we saw several laying about in Rapture ) ??? 
Makes you consider : They coulda collected had body fluids from corpses and delivered it to Little Sisters kept in safe locations and NOT risked them being out on Rapture's dangerous streets.
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I suppose that THIS is a form of "Pheromone Control" used to influence Little Sisters. The Big Daddy watertight suit seals off the BD's body which would be the natural source of the Pheromone in question, so it may be artificially place on the suits outside. It even my be fully artificial and used from the start of the Protector program to enhance/induce the relation between Big Daddies and Little Sisters.
We find this substance in Point Prometheus, and Tenenbaum obviously knows about its use, so with that it seems that it was a artificial mechanism.
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How The ADAM Extractor Worked :
That baby bottle has a one-way valve at its top, and the 'Lil Sis' sucked on that nipple thing and made a vacuum in the bottle which then was used to draw out the collected body fluids.
Long Needle for probing into the 'best' bits, where the corpse's ADAM-rich fluids exist ( The tumors were particularly high in value ? ).
The valve handle/lever used to activate/work/pump the fluid vacuum extraction from the corpse.
The one-way valve then allows ingestion of the fluids ( the trigger valve open so there's little resistance )
Consider that the Sea Slug shits into the child stomach ( Realisticness can be rather Icky ...)
Consider That all the Corpses might not be dead , just immobilized ... Zombies
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