Is Columbia an alternate Rapture?

The process of entering Columbia is a mirror to that of entering Rapture: both journeys start at a lighthouse, but whereas the journey to Rapture is a descent into the ocean, travel to Columbia involves ascension in an airborne capsule.

Why is it called Columbia BioShock?

BioShock Infinite is set in the floating city of Columbia. Named for its female personification of America, Columbia is a flying metropolis, a veritable floating city in the sky, and a testament to the boundlessness of human imagination.

How was Columbia built BioShock?

Zachary later met Rosalind Lutece, a respected quantum-physicist, who was able to indefinitely suspend an atom in midair — her colleagues referred to the process as “quantum levitation”, while Rosalind herself dubbed it the “Lutece Field”. The two worked together and created Columbia within the year 1892.

Is Rapture possible BioShock?

Rapture is about 2000m below the surface of the ocean, which means it’s under some 200 atmospheres. And before you ask, yes… that’s a lot. Too much, in fact, for Rapture to exist in the form it appears in BioShock. Way too much to have windows as thin and unreinforced as what you see in-game.

How is Booker DeWitt also Comstock?

In one reality, Booker was unable to go through with the baptism, while in another he accepted it, and took on the name Zachary Hale Comstock. She and Booker travel to the place of Booker’s baptism, where he was “reborn” as Comstock.

Why did Ryan create Rapture?

As described in the games’ backstory and through in-game audio recordings, the city of Rapture was envisioned by the Randian business magnate Andrew Ryan, who wanted to create a laissez-faire and Anarcho-capitalist state with no ties to the rest of the world to escape what he saw as increasingly oppressive political.

Is Atlas Frank Fontaine?

With this long-awaited objective now accomplished, “Atlas” reveals his true identity as Frank Fontaine, the smuggler, mobster, and businessman who rose to power in Rapture’s society and challenged Andrew Ryan’s claim over the city, thus leading to its downfall.