

When Simon got his brain scanned by Munshi, a copy of his consciousness was saved to the computer. She then reveals that Simon himself is also not human, but a Cortex Chip implanted in a dead woman's body, Imogen Reed, wearing a Haimatsu Ductile Suit, and that the "original" Simon has been dead for a hundred years. Simon then discovers that Catherine is not human, but a scan of a human consciousness placed into a robot's body.

There are no signs of any normal, living humans, though Simon does encounter a few robots who believe that they are human, as well as other robots that act as some of the protagonists of the game.īefore Simon reaches Catherine upon arriving at site Lambda, she is heavily injured by a humanoid creature.

The walls are slowly being covered by a black, seemingly organic substance, that sprawls across the entirety of PATHOS-II, as parts of the facility are blocked off and destroyed by it. It quickly becomes apparent that PATHOS-II is an underwater facility in serious disarray. Simon manages to find an Omnitool and eventually comes into radio contact a woman named Catherine Chun, who tells him to come to site Lambda and meet with her. The combination for the locked back-door in a journal, he meets with David Munshi, who reassures Simon that the scan will feel about as uncomfortable as "having your picture taken."Īs Simon's brain is scanned, there is a bright flash, and Simon suddenly wakes up in PATHOS-II, at a site called Upsilon, without any idea of how he was transported there or what is going on. He discovers an office closed for remodeling, with no one at the front desk. After locating and taking the fluid, he departs for PACE Laboratories. He wakes up in his apartment and receives a phone call from David Munshi, who reminds him that he has to drink Tracer Fluid before the scan. The game begins after a brief cut-scene in which Simon has a nightmare of the aforementioned crash. Because of the lingering effects of the crash, Simon agrees to an experimental treatment involving a brain scan. Simon survived the incident but was left with permanent brain damage. The main protagonist of SOMA is Simon Jarrett, who, prior to the events of the game, was in a fatal car crash that killed his friend and passenger Ashley Hall. The only way out is to do something unimaginable. The world around them is turning into a nightmare. Machines are taking on human traits and alien constructions have started to interfere with routine. As isolation bears down on the staff of the remote research facility, strange things are happening.
