Ryan Industries

* See also North Atlantic Project
* See also The Surface
* See also Surface_CASH
* See also Technologies
== Andrew Ryan's Companies ==
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Ryan's holdings IN Rapture
* His Real Estate Holdings In Rapture - the buildings and infrastructure his own wealth had built. Rents would be taken from these.
* The primary utility company in Rapture ( ie- The Hephaestus Complex )
* His product research efforts. ( Including his genetic research and development )
* Ryan's investments in various smaller businesses and ventures.
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 Ryan's Remaining Surface Assets/Properties/Businesses 
It took a long time to sell off Ryan's Surface holding to pay for Rapture - Slowly to get close to their full value ( and do that for many Rapture Immigrant's properties/holdings as well ).
This Organization continued, with assistance to Rapture throughout its existence. It was a role needed to correct gaps/shortcomings which were preventing the City being Self-Sufficient.
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Ryan Owned Ships and Airplanes Which He Used In The Construction of Rapture
This kind of amphibious plane was called a "Flying Boat", long-range ( for their time ) passenger airplanes, which could ( as their name implies ) land and take-off from the water. They are something that could make direct transits to Rapture AND were available in the era ( Similar planes had operated pre-war 1930s ... ). They could also land and take of from other clandestine locations outside of Rapture. Unfortunately, they need fairly calm water - which is generally not what you would have in the North Atlantic much of the year.
Such planes also had limited capacity, and were not cheap to operate ( required substantial facilities to operate from ). 
Something like this (or smaller) might have been used for the Second Phase Survey Crews who went to likely locations for Rapture. Doing that in the War Years would have required some excuses to be created to justify the activity. Victory in Europe was May 8 1945, so these Atlantic operations could then be stepped up.
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Apollo Worldwide Airways System ( Ticket on Luggage in Porter's Bunker ) :
add to business list ??
Had this been one of Ryan's corporate businesses ( like Hughes and his TWA ) ??
It is a rather pretentious name for the early years of Rapture, and its scope may have been far less than 'Worldwide'.
Using seaplanes to get to and from Rapture may have been done on a small scale. The North Atlantic's weather may have made such operations problematic much of the time. This might serve for smaller shipments not warranting an entire ship. Dropoffs/deliveries of cargo (via parachutes) and recovery by submarine/boat may have worked for some high value/critical cargo. Operating range for smaller seaplanes would be 500 to 1000 miles, and require refueling at the destination.
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"Flying Boats" Rapture (NOT Some Infinite BS Weirdness...) :
The Novel has Ryan arriving at an a-building Rapture with McDonagh on a plane. "Flying Boat" type planes were used for long distance travel ( with water landing ability ) before WW2 ( because of their ability to refuel mid-ocean at islands, and did NOT require an airport ). They were later superseded by long(er) distance ground-based planes using new aircraft technologies developed/advanced during the war ( but THOSE require a land airport to operate ).
With possible industrial uses ( Sea Construction Projects ), Ryan's companies may already have had this type of plane long before Rapture was started.
A Problem is trying to dock such a plane at the Lighthouse, a situation mostly like being on the open Ocean. Small boats would be used to transfer to the Lighthouse landing steps ( from the plane anchored at a safe distance. ). The cargo tonnage involved is also limited.
Those planes would still be used for quite a while to deliver small 'express' freight to Rapture, and likely to transport the richest immigrants coming to Rapture.
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Various Shell Companies :
Scarlet Sovereign Import and Export (company owned by Lutwidge) 
Various Shell Companies were used as one conduit for controlled imports of needed goods ( even after the 1952 cutoff/isolation ). This company (Scarlet Sovereign Import and Export) was mentioned in the BS2 promotional Something In The Sea as part of some shenanigans dealing with Mark Meltzer and mentioning various efforts Ryan organized to keep Rapture secret.
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Ryan's Doppelganger :
Thinking about Ryan being VERY Rich ( like one of the richest in the World ) being plausible to pay for building Rapture ( even with may more average rich people chipping in ) ... IF he disappeared, it would be a World Wide news story. Howard Hughes was a known reclusive figure ( by the 1950s ), BUT Neither the Game story nor the Novel portray Ryan that way.
SO Ryan's disappearance from The Surface is a bit problematical. This could be repaired with a few backstory clues with him becoming more and more mysterious/reclusive, until by 1952 he is completely gone, OR have some 'doppelganger' still around 'Up There' to keep up appearances in his still existing Surface Empire ( what's left of it ).
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A HAH!!! Story there for why Ryan is still alive !!! We can have The Duplicate being the one whacked with the golf club ... ( Still better though that it be a Ryan mannequin that is whacked by the ADAM_Addled assassin Jack. )
OK, now we have the story for BioShock 4 ( or one better than what it was ).
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Ryan Institute for Deep Ocean Research :
On The Surface - It would do more the Effort of Sorting through scientific/engineering developments done by others -- Ryan doesn't have the ( INFINITE BS FANTASY ) CASH for too many more big projects. 
And then, it is set up only doing research specifically for Rapture ( before its even built ) and later channeling useful information down. Development of undersea construction techniques would be 'good' to have predate Rapture's-being-built by MANY years (( Seriously, I am DISGUSTED BY the many Wave_of_the_hand storytelling flawed unrealities which Infinite BS and BaSx have in them concerning this and similar subjects. ))
Similar 'information'/research efforts would be made for many other Rapture project technologies/processes. All the latest developments would be examined.
The Institute was a good cover for the original Mapping Project to find a site to build Rapture.
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Ryan talked a group of scientists into coming to Rapture who would get an 'Opportunity of a Lifetime' via Rapture's direct access to the Ocean environments.
Remote facilities would be located somewhat away from Rapture's side-effects ( environmental disruptions/disturbances and pollution of various sorts ).
More than a little of the Institute's work was meant to indirectly find profitable resources for Rapture to make use of ( Ryan was always worried the Surface World would destroy itself before his City was self-sufficient ).
Various resource surveys were carried out in the areas near the City ( ... Info for MMORPG Players to find on expeditions to what's left of the "Institute" ).
The Institute would be attributed with making some/many Advances in submarine/diving technologies ( and indirectly leading to the Big Daddy program - who were use for maintenance initially ).
* Fish Farming
* Ocean Agriculture
* Mining and Materials
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To Help Hide Rapture - DISINFORMATION and CONFUSION :
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Creating Rumors - the North Atlantic Project :
Ryan's surface agents investigated reports that Hitler was hiding in Hollywood. Such were whispered into the ears of various media folk. The more there were of such crackpot rumors, the less attention might be paid to 'rumors' about Rapture.
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 "Wired A Photo" (Wirephoto) - Picture Transmission over Telephone Line/Radio :
Long Distance Picture Sending ( like from The Surface )
Scanning and Sending of a paper image using audio amplitude over a ( early on was usually a dedicated ) phone line (or via Radio), copying a drum-rotated paper image to a matching receiving machine, both using a fixed size drum rotating at the same speed.
This was able to be done in the 1920s (and earlier), but better in the 1930s. Mostly used by newspapers to send pictures, but was in used by police agencies as well.
WTF does this got to do with Rapture ??? ( Where there's little point because of the short distances. )
Pictures were sent halfway around the World by telegraph with a similar mechanism in 1899 ( So Columbia can get in on some of this technological goodness -- and not a quantum was in sight for this ... )
Maybe its Stuff Ryan's Organization (on the Surface) keep sending to Rapture by Radio about World Events or "People of Interest" ( troublemakers who MIGHT have has hidden their past ) ... Encrypted so isn't obvious what its about, or who its to. In the MMORPG, maybe you find an abandoned Room full of years of 'The Sendings' (No, it DIDN'T keep going with nobody there - this isn't Pixie-Dust-Land here in Rapture). 
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Codez :
Secret Code machines used by Ryan to communicate with his Surface Organization ( He was smart enough to NOT sell it off in a 'Fire Sale' while funding Rapture's building, and used it to sustain Rapture during its stabilization/adjustment phase ).
Various mechanical code machines had already been devised long before the much mentioned 'Enigma' machines ( which was a variation of code mechanisms used in commercial communications well before in the 1930s ).
The ultra-low frequency radio system in Rapture Central Control was best suited to Morse Code signalling which matches this type of code machine.
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