Ryan personally chose the location of Rapture from his ship, "The Olympian." He created shield companies on the surface like Warden Yarn (an anagram of his name), and through it conducted business with suppliers, such as Orrin Lutwidge's Scarlet Sovereign Import and Export, to purchase materials necessary to build his city. Ryan's response was to use his entire fortune to build Rapture 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," in the only place he felt the "Parasites" could not touch-the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Main article: Rapture “ In what country is there a place for people like me?” ― Andrew Ryan In his eyes, the bomb was the ultimate corruption of his ideals-science and determination harnessed for destruction, creating a weapon that gave the "parasites" the ability to destroy anything that they could not seize.Ī bust of Andrew Ryan in The Lighthouse. The final straw for Ryan was the destruction of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb.
When the government attempted to nationalize it as parkland, Ryan's response was to burn it to the ground to deny it to the "Parasites". In Ryan's philosophy, one could only own what one earned-Ryan himself once owned a large forest as a personal retreat, one that many groups envied (one group told him that it "belonged to God," demanding that he establish a public park there).
he considered Roosevelt and his "New Dealers" to be "spoon-feeding" Americans on the "Bolshevik Poison"). His experiences in the "worker's paradise" made Ryan despise the ideals of Socialism and Collectivism, as he believed that those who benefited undeservedly from others were "Parasites" (e.g. However, the state-run social programs created in the 1930s increasingly tested that devotion. ? Soon he was among the wealthiest men in America, owning Ryan Oil, a large chunk of America's coal, and her second largest railroad. įor a time, Ryan was devoted to his adopted country, grateful for the wealth and fame it awarded his intellect and determination after he managed to get rich by fortunately striking oil on his property and investing wisely afterwards. He later anglicized his name to Andrew Ryan. As a boy in 1919, he fled to America, believing it to be a place where a great man could prosper. Any time "Parasites" gained control of such a world, they ruined it. ? Ryan's experiences under Bolshevik rule led him to his personal philosophy: everything good about the modern world was created by great individuals striving to make their own way. Ryan also watched as the Bolshevik Red Guard executed his aunt and uncle during a purge for associating with Ryan's father and other opponents of the Communist regime before fleeing with his father to Constantinople. In 1917 he witnessed the Russian Revolution, which eventually brought the Bolsheviks into power and also destroyed Ryan's family's business. Minsk was on the front lines in the First World War. In 1919, I fled a country that had traded in despotism for insanity.” ― Andrew Ryan Īndrew Ryan, born in a village near Minsk in the Russian Empire (modern-day Belarus), grew up in a Jewish-Belarusian family during the reign of the Tsar. History Early Life in the Russian Empire (Belarus) “ My journey to Rapture was my second exodus. 1.1 Early Life in the Russian Empire (Belarus).
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