Langford

* See also Farmers Market
* See also Arcadia
* See also Rapture_Agriculture
* See also Rapture Air
* See also FrankenTrees
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A Botanist who was responsible for making Rapture's air recycling more efficient/operative using Plants and many other Agricultural improvements/innovations.
Use of Rapture's farms, and then using ADAM-modified/improved plants to convert Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen, in Rapture's air ( obviating large-scale siphoning of air from the ocean surface ). This would have been a significant improvement for Rapture's air recycling systems.
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Like many of the secondary ( and even primary ) characters in the game, they re-used/recycled a Splicer figure to represent her.
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Langford's Sturdy Potatoes Carried Rapture Through Its Worst Periods :
One of those project developments which selected and adapted Surface varieties to Rapture's environment ( the Real World introduction of Potatoes to Little Ice Age Europe lead to a major increase of utilization of marginally arable land (as it also later did in China when the European traders reached there ).
Potatoes are Growable in poor soilRemember in "The Martian", the desperate marooned astronaut grows potatoes in freeze-dried human poop ... , with less than optimal lighting/warmth, with minimal care/tending.
Heck, you could even make batteries out of the damned things ...
Fish and Chips Again !!! How long has it been since the inhabitants saw any red meat ? And that bit of rat don't count !!
The national drink of Ireland ( "Poteen" - Poitín ) is made from potato distilled alcohol ( which is better than from fish poop ). 'Langford's Own Potato Vodka' ( Branding - More as use of her name being an eminent Botanist ... I smell a Sinclair link here ... ) Flavored Vodkas - That has MMORPG possibilities ...
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Revelation : Langford isn't Dead ( Wasn't Killed ) :
With Ryan now not considering any stupid pointless suicide on his own part in BS1, and having an intention to recover/restore Rapture, WHY would Ryan kill-off someone so important like Dr. Langford ( who is so valuable to Rapture's survival ) for some trivial malfeasance ( and with an improper legal consequence ) ? WHY Destroy an agricultural expert ( who would be critically important to further efforts producing Food and Oxygen for the damaged/disrupted City ) ??? Consider this is supposedly punishment for a mere contract infraction, and for trying to save her plants in Arcadia, which was her duty ? Since he was playacting with Jack and wanted to confront him, then this little 'puppet play' with Langford would be more of the same.
You walk in the room immediately after she has been 'Poisoned' ... and are Fine - not even a 'choke' . Seriously, do YOU think that Ryan would pre-booby trap her workroom ? -- Made it all ready for some future betrayal ? Splisah Pleaz ... Imagine what HE WOULD/SHOULD THEN HAVE SIMILARLY DONE against Fontaine or Sofia Lamb, his MORE obviously DANGEROUS enemies ( but DID NOT ). 
He might teach her a lesson, but then again REMEMBER : Ryan already knows about Fontaine being Atlas ( his WYK ante room board shows this ), and very likely HE would think of a 'fake' killing of her to "play along" to set HIS Trap for Fontaine. 
(( So with it being a SETUP with that stupid alleged "Poisoning all of Raptures Air" ploy, Ryan would hardly actually murder Langford. It is lucky that Jack is an ignorant 4-year old, and Fontaine's intelligence is similarly limited to not understand that Arcadia is only a TINY part of Rapture's Air Recycling capacity. The writers perhaps were also as limited in their understanding about the needed scale of that city function. ))
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Law - Someone has to Arbitrate, and Someone has to Enforce :
Commercial Law, at least : You CANNOT operate complex commercial environment without it (ie- business contracts)
Would Langford have agreed to a Contract with Ryan where she could be killed for a violation ( that contrived 'scene' ) ??? Ryan was made to be such a stickler, so he really couldn't exact a penalty not in the Contract ...
Sorry, there should be NO unreadable/contorted "Fine Print" - THAT is a Dishonest Parasite Trick ( Objectivism implies adherence to agreements between individuals ).
Constables enforcing what law ? There MUST be Ordinances and Laws, or else Why have "Constables" in Rapture ????
Even just 'Rent' is an agreement/contract to pay, within limitations/stipulations. Skip the lawyer tricks and complexities - THAT is Parasitism.
Everyone's Ability to insist on a contract ( no whim of the parasite's double dealing ). SO the AE train tickets must've been a whole sheet of paper to contain all the legal statements of the contract ??? ( Really they would reference standard law/legal contracts publicly posted somewhere - like the back of the paper schedules RR timetable/schedules - https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=railroad+timetable).
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Laissez Faire is exactly what ? Where all the advantage is on one side ? Not in Rapture. Even the game's excuse for so many 'Atlas' followers is a illusion ( a plot contrivance ), as THE MARKET adjusts to shortages ( Many surface-bound 'construction workers' never made it into Rapture due to the preponderance of the surface manufacture/assembly of Rapture's prefab structures ). Construction workers also would be 'smart enough' skilled people ( largely automation/machinery operators - not all 'gofers'/manual-laborers/sweatshop/assembly-line drones ) to adjust to Other Work, once THE Expected END to Construction ( of the city ) happened ).
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Consequences ... :
Did YOU Set Professor Langford's unconscious body on fire after Ryan 'gassed her' as 'a lesson' in her office in Arcadia ? No ? You didn't think he would really kill her, did you ? 'Breach of Contract' hardly warrants the Death Penalty ( If Ryan was so "ruthless" "Ruthless Ryan" - sounds like some kind of thing Atlas's propaganda would have in it. , he would NOT have thought twice about simply drowning Apollo Square and Atlas or Jack for that matter ). Why should Ryan kill Langford when he knew he wanted to confront Jack and pull off his own 'Faked Death Scam' upon Atlas/Fontaine ( and then rebuild Rapture ) ???
How do you know Langford was actually dead ? Did you check her pulse ? We saw plenty of other 'just pretending' Corpse-Splicers suddenly get up and start attacking you ... Maybe Ryan even told Dr Langford to act that way, and 'To make it look damn real' ??
With various system failures, and with all the damage to Rapture at that point, Ryan would SERIOUSLY be needing such experts to stabilize, sustain and get Rapture back on its feet.
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Langfords Office had a safe.
Langford has a mission for you. The Lazarus Vector. But then Ryan gets to her first. But perhaps Ryan knows alot more about what all is going on, and is just playing with you while he is trying to find out where Atlas the Terrorist ( who keeps talking to you) is hiding. All of Rapture can't possibly be supplied with Oxygen by what you see in Arcadia, so Ryan's trick seems to have fooled the conman (Fontaine). 
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Dr Langford would keep developing improvements in her Laboratory.
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I could see Dr Langford having a hobby, and with ADAM to use she might get creative ( and with working all day with plants she might relax and apply some attention to animals ). We had no indication she was a Splicer, but she might have toyed a bit like the Insane Taxidermist we visted the house of in "Red Dead Redemption 2".
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