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- For the DLC of the same name, see Rapture Metro Pack.
The Rapture Metro system was founded by Anton Kinkaide and was made up of three separate modes of transport. The system utitlized bathyspheres from Austen Bathysphere Co. to carry citizens between separate regions of the city, and the tram system shown connecting different residential areas. A hub of the tram system was located at Apollo Square, and it had branches running to the upscale apartments of Athena's Glory and Mercury Suites in Olympus Heights, to the working class Artemis Suites, and the poorer Hestia Chambers. Sometime after Prentice Mill became bankrupt, the Atlantic Express was bought by the Austen Bathysphere Co. and integrated into the Rapture Metro system. The company kept the system functioning during the war when bathysphere travel was put on lock down, and after, when much of the metro system had been destroyed by the chaos.
Rapture Metro Stations
- Apollo Square
- Arcadia
- Fontaine's Department Store
- Fort Frolic
- Hephaestus
- Neptune's Bounty
- Olympus Heights
- Medical Pavilion (Emergency Access Route)
- Point Prometheus
- Welcome Center
Atlantic Express Stations
- Atlantic Express Depot
- Dionysus Park
- Fontaine Court
- Fontaine Futuristics
- Minerva's Den
- Pauper's Drop
- Persephone
- Ryan Amusements
During the Rapture Civil War the Rapture Metro system received serious damage, becoming flooded in many places. Some bathyspheres remained functional, but Andrew Ryan restricted their use to only his inner circle, having them coded with "genetic keys". In a removed service announcement from Bioshock 2, it advised citizens to make use of the Atlantic Express to get around in response to the lockdown. [1]
Bioshock
- Main article: BioShock
By the time Jack arrives in Rapture, during the events of BioShock, the tram system is non-functional, but the bathyspheres can still be used. Years later, when Delta was active, it seems some repairs had been made, as Mark Meltzer was able to get around Rapture.
BioShock 2
- Main article: BioShock 2
The main transportation device in BioShock 2 is the Atlantic Express, which goes through the older parts of Rapture. Only a single Rapture Metro bathysphere station is found in Adonis Luxury Resort, that Mark Meltzer used to gain access to Rapture.
Subject Delta traverses through Rapture via the Atlantic Express line from the Atlantic Express Depot to Fontaine Futuristics. As he travels through the ruins that was once the shining city of Rapture, Delta is able to see what remains of the Rapture Metro transit systems, with torpedoed bathyspheres and derailed traincars scattered across the ocean floor. After Sophia Lamb took ownership of Rapture, she prevented citizens from attempting to leave the city.
It is revealed that though the Atlantic Express was originally owned by its founder, Prentice Mill, sometime after the Rapture Bank Crash, Prentice Mill gave ownership of the express to Austen Bathysphere Co., a subsidiary of Anton Kinkaide.
BioShock 2 Multiplayer
The Metro in the multiplayer version of Fort Frolic.
- Main article: BioShock 2 Multiplayer
The Rapture Metro serves as the main transportation device for the player in BioShock 2 Multiplayer. The player was provided a personal bathysphere by Sinclair Solutions, with their apartment, giving him or her access to the different parts of Rapture. Almost every site has a inaccessible Metro station somewhere on the map, including locations that didn't have them in the single player version of the specific place, such as the multiplayer version of the Farmer's Market and Pauper's Drop.
The tram system, in working condition but not operating, can be seen from the entrance of Fontaine's Home for the Poor and Mercury Suites.
Minerva's Den
- Main article: Minerva's Den (DLC)
Though the Rapture Metro system was not used by Subject Sigma during his journey through Minerva's Den, an Atlantic Express station exists within the establishment but it inassessable and possibly heavily flooded. A downed bathysphere can be found on the rockbed near Minerva's Den, where Sigma must retrieve a signal beacon. Reed Wahl, co-founder of Minerva's Den, took extreme measures to cut off any contact outside of Minerva's Den, including preventing or destroying any possible means of transportation or ways of travelling to the Den.
Bioshock Infinite
- Main article: BioShock Infinite
Elizabeth guides Booker towards the Bathysphere Station in the Welcome Center where they take a bathysphere to the Lighthouse in an inverse manner to Jack's arrival to Rapture.
Burial at Sea - Episode 1 and Episode '2
- Main article: Burial at Sea - Episode 1
- Main article: Burial at Sea - Episode 2
In Burial at Sea - Episode 1, as Elizabeth and Booker descend in a bathysphere to Fontaine's Department Store, amongst the city and its outskirts, the duo can see other bathyspheres in the distance. After floating down past the building's two departments, the bathysphere parks at Fontaine's Station. Another broken bathysphere blocks the other entryway.
In Burial at Sea - Episode 2, to prevent prisoners from escaping via bathyspheres found within the department store or in the Bathysphere DeLuxe showroom, mines were set up around the Housewares perimeter and a reminder is played throughout the department warding off the possibility of escape. It is revealed that Apollo Square had another Rapture Metro Station in Artemis Suites.
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