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[/float]Location/Role: Andrew Ryan is the founder of Rapture and the owner of Ryan Industries, which controls a majority of the city’s industry. Ryan is also the chairman of the city council and the owner of the Hephaestus Power Facility that provides the majority of the city’s electricity.
Ryan rarely leaves Rapture Central Control, the fortress-like building that houses controls for nearly every system involved in maintenance of the city. While Ryan can claim that the city is a meritocracy, his ‘nationalization’ of Central Control and ownership of the other major industries makes him the de facto despot of Rapture, a fact that many of the citizens are frustratingly aware of.
Story: Andrew Ryan was born in tsarist Russia near the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. As a young boy, he witnessed the violent overthrow of the tsar and the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Ryan's experiences under Soviet rule led him to his personal philosophy: the modern world was created by great men who strove to make their own way. Any time ‘parasites’ gained control of such a world, they destroyed it. The Soviets did so by ‘trading one lie for another,’ the autocratic rule of the Czar for the repressions of Bolshevism.
Thinking himself a ‘great man,’ Ryan fled Russia in 1919, arriving in America soon thereafter and anglicizing his name. As he came to age, Ryan adored his adopted country, seeing it as a place where someone of his intellect and talent could flourish through hard work and determination. This all began to change in the 1930s, when ideas of socialism and collectivism infiltrated America and rewarded those who didn’t deserve it. Ryan viewed Roosevelt and the ‘New Dealers’ as ‘parasites’ who were feeding America Bolshevik poison. Rather than allow the government to nationalize a forest he had purchased years prior, with many people telling him that ‘God put the forest there’ and that it should be a park. Ryan torched the forest to the ground.
For Ryan, the atomic bomb was the final straw. In the bomb’s creation and usage, he saw all the ideas of science, hardwork, and determination he idolized being used by ‘parasites’ to destroy what they couldn’t outright seize. Ryan set out on a plan to build the idea society, and he dedicated his entire life’s savings to this end. His goal was to create a community where ‘the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small.’ When it was finished, the city would be populated by the world’s greatest minds.
Before Ryan could see his plans come to fruition, he was called to the Omniverse. After his conversation with Omni, Ryan realized that, due to his talent and genius, he had been personally ‘raptured’ by a god. While he found himself without his previous means and connections, Ryan couldn't help but find himself awed by the tabula rasa this new world provided him.
Approached by envoys from the Empire, Ryan accepted an offer to work in Coruscant. Just as he had experienced in the twenties, Andrew Ryan enjoyed a period of productivity and happiness in the new environment, thriving under the freedoms he received as not only an intellectual genius but as a prime. In this Omniverse, Ryan truly was one of the ‘great men’ he had idolized as a youth.
Unfortunately, the situation soon soured, as the Empire tried to push Ryan to focus on their own agenda. Appalled at the notion of having to channel his brilliance to create war machines, Ryan stormed out of Coruscant, vanishing in the middle of the night. Imperial authorities caught up to Ryan in Costa Del Sol but failed to apprehend him before he slipped out of town. Vanishing into the Vasty Deep, Ryan wandered for a period of time before sightings of him stopped.
A few months after his exodus from Coruscant, reports came back that a city had appeared on the ocean floor. This beautiful underground metropolis was the a workers’ and scientists’ utopia. Drawing inspiration from his arrival into the Omniverse, Ryan named the city ‘Rapture.’ As Ryan predicted, the economy flourished and the city was politically stable. Science flourished, particularly after the discovery of ADAM in sea slugs. ADAM allowed for genetic manipulation on an astounding level but also resulted in crippling addiction that could lead to insanity. In his ignorance of ADAM’s potential, Ryan passed on a chance to have a controlling stake in its production. This in term led to Fontaine Futuristics acquiring the bid and the vast amount of wealth that came with the commercialization of ADAM and plasmids, especially once a large percentage of the population was addicted.
As time goes on, the dream of Andrew Ryan continues to thrive, but even to an observer, it is clear that cracks are beginning to form. As a society of so many ambitious and talented men and women, Rapture is very top-heavy. Poorer citizens of the city, many who were drawn to Rapture after its creation, suffer the worst. These citizens are then targeted by individuals pining for influence and control. Smuggling and black market sales of ADAM have also been on the rise. Tensions continue to mount in Rapture, with many believing that an armed scuffle may occur between Ryan and Frank Fontaine.
[/float]Location/Role: Andrew Ryan is the founder of Rapture and the owner of Ryan Industries, which controls a majority of the city’s industry. Ryan is also the chairman of the city council and the owner of the Hephaestus Power Facility that provides the majority of the city’s electricity. Ryan rarely leaves Rapture Central Control, the fortress-like building that houses controls for nearly every system involved in maintenance of the city. While Ryan can claim that the city is a meritocracy, his ‘nationalization’ of Central Control and ownership of the other major industries makes him the de facto despot of Rapture, a fact that many of the citizens are frustratingly aware of.
Story: Andrew Ryan was born in tsarist Russia near the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. As a young boy, he witnessed the violent overthrow of the tsar and the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Ryan's experiences under Soviet rule led him to his personal philosophy: the modern world was created by great men who strove to make their own way. Any time ‘parasites’ gained control of such a world, they destroyed it. The Soviets did so by ‘trading one lie for another,’ the autocratic rule of the Czar for the repressions of Bolshevism.
Thinking himself a ‘great man,’ Ryan fled Russia in 1919, arriving in America soon thereafter and anglicizing his name. As he came to age, Ryan adored his adopted country, seeing it as a place where someone of his intellect and talent could flourish through hard work and determination. This all began to change in the 1930s, when ideas of socialism and collectivism infiltrated America and rewarded those who didn’t deserve it. Ryan viewed Roosevelt and the ‘New Dealers’ as ‘parasites’ who were feeding America Bolshevik poison. Rather than allow the government to nationalize a forest he had purchased years prior, with many people telling him that ‘God put the forest there’ and that it should be a park. Ryan torched the forest to the ground.
For Ryan, the atomic bomb was the final straw. In the bomb’s creation and usage, he saw all the ideas of science, hardwork, and determination he idolized being used by ‘parasites’ to destroy what they couldn’t outright seize. Ryan set out on a plan to build the idea society, and he dedicated his entire life’s savings to this end. His goal was to create a community where ‘the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small.’ When it was finished, the city would be populated by the world’s greatest minds.
Before Ryan could see his plans come to fruition, he was called to the Omniverse. After his conversation with Omni, Ryan realized that, due to his talent and genius, he had been personally ‘raptured’ by a god. While he found himself without his previous means and connections, Ryan couldn't help but find himself awed by the tabula rasa this new world provided him.
Approached by envoys from the Empire, Ryan accepted an offer to work in Coruscant. Just as he had experienced in the twenties, Andrew Ryan enjoyed a period of productivity and happiness in the new environment, thriving under the freedoms he received as not only an intellectual genius but as a prime. In this Omniverse, Ryan truly was one of the ‘great men’ he had idolized as a youth.
Unfortunately, the situation soon soured, as the Empire tried to push Ryan to focus on their own agenda. Appalled at the notion of having to channel his brilliance to create war machines, Ryan stormed out of Coruscant, vanishing in the middle of the night. Imperial authorities caught up to Ryan in Costa Del Sol but failed to apprehend him before he slipped out of town. Vanishing into the Vasty Deep, Ryan wandered for a period of time before sightings of him stopped.
A few months after his exodus from Coruscant, reports came back that a city had appeared on the ocean floor. This beautiful underground metropolis was the a workers’ and scientists’ utopia. Drawing inspiration from his arrival into the Omniverse, Ryan named the city ‘Rapture.’ As Ryan predicted, the economy flourished and the city was politically stable. Science flourished, particularly after the discovery of ADAM in sea slugs. ADAM allowed for genetic manipulation on an astounding level but also resulted in crippling addiction that could lead to insanity. In his ignorance of ADAM’s potential, Ryan passed on a chance to have a controlling stake in its production. This in term led to Fontaine Futuristics acquiring the bid and the vast amount of wealth that came with the commercialization of ADAM and plasmids, especially once a large percentage of the population was addicted.
As time goes on, the dream of Andrew Ryan continues to thrive, but even to an observer, it is clear that cracks are beginning to form. As a society of so many ambitious and talented men and women, Rapture is very top-heavy. Poorer citizens of the city, many who were drawn to Rapture after its creation, suffer the worst. These citizens are then targeted by individuals pining for influence and control. Smuggling and black market sales of ADAM have also been on the rise. Tensions continue to mount in Rapture, with many believing that an armed scuffle may occur between Ryan and Frank Fontaine.
Curious about me and the characters I play? See the 'Staff' page! See also the rosters for my characters Samus Aran or Enel if you'd like to see examples of well-formatted rosters. Hope you enjoy the Omniverse!