“The sky is pitch black w/ smoke. The ocean is dark, incredibly dark. In the distance I can see land. According to navigation it’s Lisbon and the coast of Portugal. Any signs of life? Over. Hopper? It’s on fire, everything is on fire. The flames they’re reaching all the way to the sky. It’s unreal.” Massive chills
The Curie was a large power source. The Wau tries to stop you from disconnecting that source. And the bodies are skeletonized because they weren't wearing diving gear inside of their ship.
I don't think the jiangshi is able to teleport. I rather think it's able to put its victim into sort of a short circuit, where the state of mind of the victim is put on kind of a pause or stasis for a few seconds, giving the impression the jiangshi is teleporting. Kinda like an interjected petit mal seizure. Wouldn't that make sense?
I think he uses the EMP's that every Monster in SOMA emmits. Everytime you're near a Monster, your vision starts to glitch. So I think Jiangshi uses the same thing. He emmits EMP'S to pause our vision so we think he is in one place and the next our vision comes back to normal, but he .moved and its closer. Same thing with the door. He opens that door while our vision is "paused"
@@tiagoviana9316 I don't think its so far fetched that it can teleport though, I mean the WAU did take it upon itself to put Simons' conciousness into a tripod sticking out of a corpse. Who knows what that technology is capable of, definitely far more than humans if it's implanting consciousnesses into microwaves and such.
This is late as hell but theres a voice line in the game that explains its exactly that, it causes interference in simon which has the effect of it appearing to teleport, its a similar reason as to why he blacks out when attacked by any hostile robot/creature.
In my opinion, the Jiangshi are the last survivors of the ship. The rest of the staff starved when they ran out of food supplies, and they were cannibalized one by one as they died (hence all that remains are bones). The WAU arrived in time to preserve (or possibly reanimate) the last alive as the Jiangshi.
I always used to wonder how the Flesher (or Jiangshi) could teleport. Even a hundred years in the future that technology would be farfetched. So I just settled for a theory that, since it is (as Catherine put it,) "exploding with electromagnetism" and "gives the senses a good punch", it's still walking normally and the teleportation is just an effect Simon experiences when that part of the monsters movement is... cut from his vision or memory when he's near it. Not sure if that makes sense. I tried. :)
ShadowMan That's exactly what happens - it EMPs, and since you're a machine, it cuts your video feed (and other feeds) for a couple of seconds. Then, if it moves, it appears to have teleported.
I read this from a comment a while ago. The 'teleportation' of the Chinese vampire could be due to its EMP emission knocking out Simons systems temporarily and when he 'wakes up' again he has no sense of time passing by like how Catherine described it as sleeping without the dream when she was in the omnitool. Perception is quite the deceiver
You have a slight essence of Rod Serling's narration - a charisma which is decidedly lacking in this day and age. Love your style and appreciate your research. Thanks for these videos!
TL;DR Comet impact did not cause any damage to CURIE whatsoever and CURIE sailed and operated for many months afterwards. CURIE was not damaged in Collision Event in any way. It submerged entirely to prevent damage. (Proof: CURIE was warned that all salvation attempts for surface failed, and had time to prepare for apocalypse. Also, it is mentioned the ship was undamaged) CURIE was sailing along North Africa/Western Europe coast after impact, collecting data and searching for SOS signs and transmissions from land, but to no avail (Proof: report about Lisbon and hellfire on continent. CURIE had to sail very close to coast to notice that because of ashes and smokes blocking the sun. Also, PathOS-II complex was very far from coast, it was completely impossible to look at Lisbon from crash site of CURIE from the game and PathOS Also, citation from SOMA Wiki: "When the Impact Event occurred, the CURIE remained safe by submerging itself. In the aftermath the remainder of the crew began touring the Atlantic coasts to observe the desolation left by the comet's crash. They eventually tried returning to PATHOS-II but ultimately died (presumably from starvation or asphyxiation), leaving the CURIE floating on the surface of the ocean above Lambda. Around December 18th, 2103, the members of the salvage crew sent to Lambda attempted to use the CURIE to leave the station when Lambda was on the verge of imploding. They were able to remotely draw it closer to the docking platform and were able to enter it. Upon entering the CURIE they encountered an unspecified monster, forcing them to flee the ship and let it crash near the station. In the months that followed, the WAU was able to spread onto the shipwreck and stabilize its reactors.". Only unsure thing is how Jiangshi appeared onboard, as MS Curie was floating 90m above seabed. I suppose WAU could deliberately hax CURIE to submerge to board some controlled Mockingbirds to fix generators, and then, to prevent possible damage on the bottom of the sea, resurfaced the vessel. EDIT: Oh, and as to why there was only skeletal remains onboard: I think that crew died due to starvation. And, as it happened many times in human history, cannibalism occured. Maybe the monster from CURIE is the last member?
@@thunderfox53 but why does the monster not attack you if you look away? I'm all for it being a cannibal crew member who got twisted even more with consuming too much black goo.
@@kosmara1901 im a bit late, but my guess is that, though its been heavily mutated by the WAU, it still has some form of consciousness within it. I think it’s well aware of what it is , or what it’s become and because of that has this “dont look at me and the monster ive become” vibe to it. (Kind of like the rake) I think maybe it prefers isolation, and would rather be ignored than to be acknowledged. Idk if i made that make sense
The CURIE closely resembles the real world vessel, the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) which stands up on end for extreme stability while performing scientific research at sea.
First of all, great videos! About the Curie's reactor, I think the WAU's intervention had two purposes: preventing the reactor failure as you said in the video, but also providing an alternative power source. This would also help explain why the WAU didn't seem to be hindered significantly when Upsilon's power plant was shut down: it had a ship's reactor all to itself!
That theory does make a kind of sense; one could argue that the WAU detached the EV itself, and used the female flesher to "save" more Pathos staff. But I'm also partial to the idea that the Flesher doesn't really listen to the WAU, similar to the way Ross doesn't, just without the same degree of sentience. My theory has the Flesher consuming its prey. That seems at odds with the WAU's desire to preserve life. The problem is this area is a bit too open-ended and the information provided in game is so sparse. Ideas repel and bounce off one another :-/ Either way, glad you liked the vid. More to come soon. Stay tuned!
+Gameological Dig Seeing as the escape vessel works underwater it would be possible that there are some form of diving equipment on board. Possibly survival suits or a few minuets of oxygen from a tank and mask. After that a repair team left Landa and found the pod and rescued the crew or if they were dead, took the bodies to bury them later.
+Matthew Pike It's possible. Like I said, the CURIE section is the most nebulous in the game. There isn't enough information to go by, and one theory could be just as credible as the next. Though I don't know if I could imagine the staff taking the time to bury their dead. I'd imagine they'd want to ensure the bodies wouldn't be accessible for the WAU or the proxies, since it seems they can revive them. If they did anything with the deceased, I'm partial to the idea of cremation. But again, who knows?
Gameological Dig From the logs you find later in the game you find the staff did not believe the WAU was reanimating bodies. Vanessa Hart was the only survivor to come out of Labda. She tried to tell the crew at Theta but she was discredited. Because she was the only survivor there was no proof. So there is a chance they would bury there dead. Maybe even repurpose a room into a morgue. Sure we don't see a morgue but then again we can't see every room in pathos II.
+Matthew Pike That's interesting, because logs at Omicron indicate that (at least some of) the staff was aware that the WAU and the structure gel could reanimate the dead. The mice they experimented on was proof enough of that. And I imagine there must've been some cross-pollination of their studies amongst the various sites of Pathos-II; Omicron didn't go silent until late December 2103, so I'm curious about this now.
I think their are two distinct possibilities. By keeping the crew controlled and safe in the ship, the WAU had a much better chance at insuring their safety. By evacuating the EV pod by itself, it was able to save those on the ship in a controlled environment. The "Hopping Vampire" is more intelligent than we thought and actually used the EV to lock it's prey in the ship.
Those are both credible theories. I find myself bouncing back and forth between different ideas. I'm especially partial to your first theory, since it makes the most sense. I also wonder if the WAU's presence on the CURIE was to prevent the ship from exploding and causing damage to the neighboring sites. There are so many possibilities.
@@GameologicalDig I can't help but think about the reactor tentacle and be reminded that before Simmon wakes up... the WAU is basically running on batteries, maybe tapping into that reactor (as a side gain, while keeping a safe env for humans on board) was a goal in itself.
Love the perspective on the Jiangshi, I didn't know that's what it was called. I think your hypothesis that it may be cannibalistic is probably a great assumption, considering the evidence you cited. Very interesting food for thought, and definitely makes me look at it in a different way. I was under the impression, though, that it attacked Catherine's machine body in the control room when you first enter and she tells you not to look at it. She makes some comment about it being a brute and knocking her down - what purpose would this serve the Jiangshi? Is it the influence of the WAU? It seems that it has been affected by the WAU, but we know that Catherine and Simon have as well, so perhaps we can assume that the WAU isn't simply gobbling up and controlling these machines and organic life, but rather providing them the means to "survive" in whatever warped perception of survival it is going by, and then somewhere along the line these beings become or regain independence and "sentience". I mean, we know Simon basically acts like he's just a living person - except for one instance, when Catherine asks in Theta about why he is shoving his fist into buttholes, he replies with something like "Cuz I NEED it" and gets very Golum-like. So maybe it is influencing them in the background in ways we can't really understand from our Human perspectives, ways that seem almost alien, but at the same time it's trying to preserve their living essence. Makes me wonder what kind of catastrophe caused the Jiangshi to become what it is. Makes me wonder who it was before, and how it died. It's honestly very sad.
I just found about theese videos about SOMA and I'm so happy that you made them with such good narration, use of the sinister atmosphere and, above all, love and dedication.
I think the WAU stabilized the reactor because A it needed power after it couldn't access upsilon of B it didn't want it to explode and potentially harm/kill any wander or salvage crew
I would imagine that a world wide firestorm would probably boil off a considerable amount of the ocean. Pathos-2 is only supposed to be about a hundred meters down. If they were able to survive, it seems reasonable that underground structures would as well.
the EV contained the flesher who was turned into the Jiangshi, they tired to walk/swim after the EV was brought low too early by the WAU and as a result of not having the correct high pressure diving gear they "died" but nothing is allowed to die. So it made something that could survive.
the biggest issue with the Flesher eating the Curie crew is that its digestive system doesn’t seem to be available anymore since the whole entire head has been mutated and replaced with that structure gel blob. where would its mouth be?
Wasn't there another audio recording on the Curie that seems to suggest they tried to deflect the comet? I'd always assumed the Curie pitched 90 degrees so it could fire something at the comet from the surface. However since Catherine never mentions that and only saying it was a transport vessel puts paid to that idea. So, who exactly failed to stop the comet and what was their plan?
Lol, thanks. I really wasn't planning on doing a longer vid for the CURIE, since it's such a short area. But when I started writing and reviewing the content, it all started to fall into place. Stay tuned, I def will be doing more SOMA stations soon.
if the curie was about 100 meters long, it would make perfect sense for it to turn 90 degrees so that the bottom part could dock with an offload site like lambda. also, to answer your question about the remains, the crew of the curie are skeletal cause they perished maybe within days of the impact event, which was january 2103. but the other people have diving suits on and perish much more recently, like the theta evacuees in front of omicron only in december 2013 and the story takes place only a few months later in may 2104. by this time those ms curie crew have perished for 1.5 years.
You say that it's a mystery how the Curie still maintains power but as we all know and you say in the video it's thanks to the WAU. The remains are skeletal because I think it's likely that most of the crew died a lot sooner than most of the other bodies we see, because they're all from Pathos employees who survived the impact and had diving suits. Still great video and series overall, and I do also wonder why the WAU was interested in the Curie tho, perhaps some of the crew survived and the WAU turned them into the monsters.
It's gotta be said; your voice is the non-british equivalent of Ahoy. Same kind of quality in every way. Subscribing now and gonna make myself comfortable now to watch the latest video. Keep up the AMAZING work and you'll soon get the recognition you deserve.
In Transmission, Cronstedt mentions that they radioed for help from the Curie. So I suspect that the Curie went to help out, but ran into trouble. The crew couldn't contact Lambda with the Lumar probes, so they send one of their own in an escape vessel to check it out, but, on the station, they are attacked by the creatures of the WAU (perhaps Holland or Davis whose corpses disappeared). After being taken over by the WAU, the jiangshi returns to the Curie, where it kills and devours the crew and allows the WAU to infiltrate the ship.
Another great episode in this series. This reveals so much that I never noticed or even thought of at all. It really makes me appreciate the game and the story even more. It's like playing through the game is just scratching the surface of a much larger narrative and these videos unearth all the evidence that reveals it. Gameological Dig indeed. Awesome series and I van't wait for the next episode. Will you be covering other games for this series and if so do you know what the next one will be yet? Input! Input! I must consume more content! Lol.
Great video man! Seriously! This was easily my most favorite story in a video game...and I've played plenty. It was bleak and depressing (which might be why I liked it).
The Xianshi is the sole survivor on board the Curie. The WAU used structure gel to fuse him with the last diving suit and created the thing you see in the game. I'm guessing the ribcages are the result of it needing to feed.
Amazing work, instant subscription! You style is close resemble a lots of Dark Souls lore videos - slow pace and haunting atmosphere. Also a fact for analysis - there are 2 kinds of flesher creatures - male and female. Male ones are inside the ship, female - outside (one encounter for when you forget you omnitool, another - in lambda), so maybe they were the crew that's been infested inside the ship, while one female crew member was trying to evacuate outside?
Late reply, sorry Max. But yeah, Vaati's lore work was a huge inspiration on this series/channel. In regards to the second Jiangshi, I found out about its existence sometime after the recording. I read a similar theory sometime ago, and yea, it's the only logical reading of the detached EV that I can imagine. So I think it's a sound theory.
the curie was flooded the crew died, the proxy broke in before the WAU could attempt to reanimate the corpses, and it ate them all, leaving bone remains. The WAU connected to the ms curie for power, since it prioritized itself around the core
thank you so much! I remember playing this game and had a few questions that I couldn't answer because I didn't want to redo it but these videos answered those question.
Well, I think there's one good reason why the WAU bothers at all with the Curie. There's still a 'crewmate' alive in it. The Jiangshi. If the ship goes critical, it goes with the ship, after all.
As far as i know, disco ball monster doesn't teleport at all and it arguably was explained : When ure looking at it, Simon gets glitches, he is lagging so considering this thing is moving very slowly, Simon gets disconnected and falls unconscious for seconds or even minutes, while the monster is slowly moving towards him, then Simon gets back to his perception, but the monster is already closer. So this is how his "teleportation" works, since SOMA is more about science and future and cyberpunk, than mystics and paranormal things This probably makes not much sense, cuz I didn't tell anything about MS Curie... But i like this idea with glitches and disconnects soooo much
I think the flesher name is a direct hint at the bones in the ship, since it fleshes out the victims. Secondly I believe, like some sort of mind-flayer, it absorbs the consciousness of its victims, hence the big head with many lights/eyes. Looking at its visual features, it's clearly a bio-techno fusion similar to WAU's constructs, a different type of evolution and manifestation of WAU. It also looks, rather fat, and androgynous. I also believe based on other evidence that its victims live a heavenly bliss in the flesher's mind.
I feel like the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies in the CURIE might be partially due to the fact that they weren't wearing as protective diving gear as, for example, the bodies outside of Theta/Omicron. Sure, they were submerged, but the ship shouldn't have flooded until the aftershock from the comet. Really interesting ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these videos.
Using the evidence you found, I think your theory is most likely the correct one c: Cant think of another way to re arrange the events. Well done^ Looking forward to the rest :D
I watched the 'game movie' for this that was done by Gamer's Little Playground. They did a great job, but to improve the flow they sometimes have to cut out the little details. So thank you very much for going further into the story of this game.
Ha, no, thank you for watching. All the little details make up so much of what I love in this game, I couldn't imagine having to condense this down to movie length. That's a job I wouldn't want.
I think the Curie was launched before the WAU got to the ship but after the Shockwave. Would explain why the Curie was busted. Maybe it was an exploratory portion of the crew, trying to get help for the larger crew. Then the WAU came along and made escape impossible. Then the creature came after, killing the rest.
Awesome series! I loved how you narrated and explained the story in a way that it is easy to understand like story-telling. I hope you get more subscribers! Great quality content, thank you for all the effort you have put in this.
Jiangshi, being a reanimated corpse, and the misc missing body parts around the ship, leads me to believe that the jiangshi is possibly the WAU infected body parts of the crew. Left to be mended together in a fucked up sort of Chimera. At least in my head cannon.
and also most of the other bodies are from people who survived for a while after the impact, and while there is no confirmation I don't think most of the Curie crew did
In regards to the remains of the CURIE crew, there's a more simple clue as to what the monster does to its victims, simply in its official name in most places as I've seen it, which oddly enough you don't mention at all in this video- most sources I look at refer to it not as the Jiangshi, but as the Flesher. Apt name for something that strips something of its flesh.
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I'm really liking your analysis so far. Well done. BTW, your voice reminds me of Ron Perlman's, whenever he did narration for the older Fallout games. :-) Fun fact about the MS Curie's design. It has been actually tried in the real world, mostly for oceanographic research ships. Here's one of the existing examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP Though unlike the Curie, that particular ship isn't self-propelled, it has to be towed. I suppose the Curie's meant to be a futuristic successor to the older ships utilising the "submerge part of the ship and make it into a floating tower" concept.
The escape pod is close to where Catherine and the first Jiangshi are - perhaps the Jiangshi was on that pod and then went into and resided where we find Catharine. The lockdown on the pods likely happened after this, or perhaps because of it.
+Gameological Dig If you watch/watched Toonami on Cartoon Network, he was the voice of Tom. Or, if you watched Cowboy Bebop, he was the voice of Spike. He has a lot of other voice acting credits to his name though.
You also need to remember is that the ship was remotely brought to Lambda by the the Lambda crew as a means to use the ship to check on the surface but they found the creature on the curie and abandoned it soon after so the escape vessel could of been used by the Lambda crew.
If the crew was killed the WAU might still have a reason to enter the ship. The WAU doesn't know what "preserving human life" means; that's why the monsters exists after all. So perhaps it saw the Curie and thought "well maybe I can preserve human life here somehow" and maybe found a bloated corpse and turned it into the monster. Maybe repairing the generators was just part of it's programming. That's it's job after all; an AI to monitor the base. So in it's pursuit of persevering human life it also repaired the ship.
Or the WAU just strapped itself onto the ship to take the ship’s power. We know from the prequel shorts than Imogen Reed attempted to kill the WAU by shutting down the power plant at Upsilon, so it needs power.
My question is what is the jiangshi? The WAU was intent on preserving the lives of Curie's crew, but we also know that those it infects tend to become hostile. Since the body of the jiangshi looks like a drowned man, maybe the WAU got to the Curie intending to preserve the crew, but one of the crew members got mutated by it and killed everyone else. I dunno.
Here's something about the Jiangshi name: It's called a "hopping" zombie/vampire in Chinese, but the name itself actually means "stiff corpse". According to Chinese legends the stiffness of the joints prevent the zombie from walking, so it hops. It's not exactly a vampire in terms of blood-sucking, nor are there lots of tales talking about it devouring people. The term Jiangshi simply does not imply the Western image of a vampire or zombie. Now on the other hand, since it's just a game, the devs can call it whatever they like. Just thought I would add a piece of my opinion to this already extensive analysis.
that first quote by carl is pretty neat. makes you really think like even our cyborg replacers or ai replacers, will they be able to pass the great filter? i guess we'll have to wait and see.
The crazy irony is the main character was never human and is himself a copy. The real simon died. So simon any dread or feelings are copies but no less real then the original simon. This existence is a snapshot and doesn't grow the way simon did before he died possibly accepting death
Well this is my guess but let's say that the shock wave hit the Curie and caused the damage. This would allow the creature to get in and some bodies to go out into the water or in areas where the creature can't reach. All the skeletons are the people that got killed while the rest were ones that didn't. There is no real set of time for the incidents it could have happen so quick or been slow but my best guess is kind near each other.
Never got the chance to play this game but I really dig the narrative. It always sends me into an artistic frenzy. It's the atmosphere more than anything that gets me. You've captured that well in your commentary here.. bravo!
Wonder why there weren't more ships and submarines with crews that managed to survive the comet. There's still sea life. They should have been able to survive on that for a while.
I like thinking that artifical intelligence in "virus" movie from 1997 is somehing like ark from alien race and it tries to recreate it's survivors by using earth's resources and technology.
These types of stories are an interesting look into secularism, and secular problems such as what makes a human... Human. It's interesting to me, since it's such a foreign way of thinking.
the cutie is actually based off of real freighters that can turn in a 90 degree angle the purpose of them i completely forgot but i do know they exist from many hours spent on the discovery channel
While watching this video there is popping up a question in my mind. Simon is not human. He doesen't need any nutriment except from electricity power. Couldn't he swim to the surface (I mean, he's a diving suit...) and maybe others like him that the WAU will create and then they could repopulate the earth? It's not as paradisiac looking like in the ark... but it is more real (?).
You mentioned at the end the EV that is found Outside Lambda. I think I have an idea for what happened with the Curie. After the Jiangshi entered the ship, I feel as though the crew of the Curie attempted to leave the ship, but failed in some way, being unable to dive out due to the lack of diving suits. Then they most likely released the escape vessel, doing this to prevent the Jiangshi from leaving the ship, and possibly attacking other stations. Obviously this did not work, due to the Jiangshi's ability to teleport, but I believe the crew of the Curie were most likely unaware of the abilities of the creature they were hunting. Simon/Catherine know of the creature's powers, and this enables them to avoid it, but the crew were most likely unaware of the creature, or those that did know did not take full advantage of it. This gives a possible explanation to why the EV is found outside Lambda.
Also, I feel as though the Wau entered the ship before the Jiangshi did, most likely due to wanting to prevent the ship from dentonating and destroying the surrounding area/the crew on the ship.
In regards to the EV could it be possible that someone got a case of cabin fever and launched it as a way to prevent others from leaving believing attempts to leave could cause the deaths of everyone on board the main vessel? I haven’t played SOMA could there might not be any evidence to support such a claim but that the only explanation I can think of. At least, other than someone was in the EV and left it in search of the Station you start the game in perhaps not releasing how far it was, or not caring so long as it meant not dying at the hands of that creature or waiting for a slow death as resources dwindled and possibility of the crew turning on each other.
Hey considering that we only explore a part of the ship, so maybe in the top of it there was somebody alive. Then the wau saved them that kinda makes sense
Hey Gameo, I found this on the wiki page for MS Curie. "Around December 18th, 2103, the members of the salvage crew sent to Lambda attempted to use the CURIE to leave the station when Lambda was on the verge of imploding. They were able to remotely draw it closer to the docking platform and were able to enter it." Was there anything in the game to suggest this? In your video, you theorized that the crew was very much in control of the Curie post-aftershock, and tried to dock it at Lambda themselves. I believe we can establish the time and possibly cause of death of Curie's crew if we determine the validity of the wiki page.
At first i thought that you were viewing this story the wrong way. That with a magnifying glass you can't see the overarching archetypal themes. To me the story of SOMA can be likened to going through purgatory then ending up in heaven AND hell, it was this idea that led my mind to an example of how important an eye for detail can be. "The meek shall inherit the earth" is actually a faulty translation, the correct phrase in english would be something like "those who have swords but chose to keep them sheathed shall inherit the earth". A world of difference in a small detail, keep up the good work!
That is just Jordan Peterson's interpretation of the word 'meek'. πρᾶος (meek) is a very ordinary Greek word meaning "soft, gentle, mild-mannered", also, referring to animals, "tame, broken in". Peterson's so-called translation is an arbitrary distortion of the text.
Many The escape festival found outside lambda came from a crew member from the Curie and that crew member eventually became the flesher that's inside lambda
“The sky is pitch black w/ smoke. The ocean is dark, incredibly dark. In the distance I can see land. According to navigation it’s Lisbon and the coast of Portugal. Any signs of life? Over. Hopper? It’s on fire, everything is on fire. The flames they’re reaching all the way to the sky. It’s unreal.” Massive chills
The Curie was a large power source. The Wau tries to stop you from disconnecting that source. And the bodies are skeletonized because they weren't wearing diving gear inside of their ship.
I don't think the jiangshi is able to teleport. I rather think it's able to put its victim into sort of a short circuit, where the state of mind of the victim is put on kind of a pause or stasis for a few seconds, giving the impression the jiangshi is teleporting. Kinda like an interjected petit mal seizure. Wouldn't that make sense?
That doesn't really explain how it's able to teleport through doors without seemingly interacting with them whatsoever.
I think he uses the EMP's that every Monster in SOMA emmits. Everytime you're near a Monster, your vision starts to glitch. So I think Jiangshi uses the same thing. He emmits EMP'S to pause our vision so we think he is in one place and the next our vision comes back to normal, but he .moved and its closer. Same thing with the door. He opens that door while our vision is "paused"
@@tiagoviana9316 I don't think its so far fetched that it can teleport though, I mean the WAU did take it upon itself to put Simons' conciousness into a tripod sticking out of a corpse. Who knows what that technology is capable of, definitely far more than humans if it's implanting consciousnesses into microwaves and such.
Took me a long time to know the creature name is jiangshi.
This is late as hell but theres a voice line in the game that explains its exactly that, it causes interference in simon which has the effect of it appearing to teleport, its a similar reason as to why he blacks out when attacked by any hostile robot/creature.
In my opinion, the Jiangshi are the last survivors of the ship. The rest of the staff starved when they ran out of food supplies, and they were cannibalized one by one as they died (hence all that remains are bones). The WAU arrived in time to preserve (or possibly reanimate) the last alive as the Jiangshi.
I always used to wonder how the Flesher (or Jiangshi) could teleport. Even a hundred years in the future that technology would be farfetched. So I just settled for a theory that, since it is (as Catherine put it,) "exploding with electromagnetism" and "gives the senses a good punch", it's still walking normally and the teleportation is just an effect Simon experiences when that part of the monsters movement is... cut from his vision or memory when he's near it.
Not sure if that makes sense. I tried. :)
ShadowMan That's exactly what happens - it EMPs, and since you're a machine, it cuts your video feed (and other feeds) for a couple of seconds. Then, if it moves, it appears to have teleported.
Yeah I think this is right on. It's not teleporting, it's just knocking out your system for a few seconds each time.
If this is the case, how does it explain Ross's teleportation?
Exact same way.
ShadowMan makes perfect sense
I read this from a comment a while ago. The 'teleportation' of the Chinese vampire could be due to its EMP emission knocking out Simons systems temporarily and when he 'wakes up' again he has no sense of time passing by like how Catherine described it as sleeping without the dream when she was in the omnitool. Perception is quite the deceiver
How does it teleport through doors?
Norwegianboy EE While Simon's knocked out, he opens the door and closes it, giving us the idea that he passed through it
Chi-knees wam-pire
You have a slight essence of Rod Serling's narration - a charisma which is decidedly lacking in this day and age. Love your style and appreciate your research. Thanks for these videos!
SOMA is in my mind, one of the best games every made. Love your story analysis!
This ship’s snoot can boop itself on the sea floor
Apparently ships like this do exists but they aren't completely submersible.
Indeed
The snoot would boop
TL;DR Comet impact did not cause any damage to CURIE whatsoever and CURIE sailed and operated for many months afterwards.
CURIE was not damaged in Collision Event in any way. It submerged entirely to prevent damage. (Proof: CURIE was warned that all salvation attempts for surface failed, and had time to prepare for apocalypse. Also, it is mentioned the ship was undamaged) CURIE was sailing along North Africa/Western Europe coast after impact, collecting data and searching for SOS signs and transmissions from land, but to no avail (Proof: report about Lisbon and hellfire on continent. CURIE had to sail very close to coast to notice that because of ashes and smokes blocking the sun. Also, PathOS-II complex was very far from coast, it was completely impossible to look at Lisbon from crash site of CURIE from the game and PathOS Also, citation from SOMA Wiki: "When the Impact Event occurred, the CURIE remained safe by submerging itself. In the aftermath the remainder of the crew began touring the Atlantic coasts to observe the desolation left by the comet's crash. They eventually tried returning to PATHOS-II but ultimately died (presumably from starvation or asphyxiation), leaving the CURIE floating on the surface of the ocean above Lambda.
Around December 18th, 2103, the members of the salvage crew sent to Lambda attempted to use the CURIE to leave the station when Lambda was on the verge of imploding. They were able to remotely draw it closer to the docking platform and were able to enter it.
Upon entering the CURIE they encountered an unspecified monster, forcing them to flee the ship and let it crash near the station. In the months that followed, the WAU was able to spread onto the shipwreck and stabilize its reactors.". Only unsure thing is how Jiangshi appeared onboard, as MS Curie was floating 90m above seabed. I suppose WAU could deliberately hax CURIE to submerge to board some controlled Mockingbirds to fix generators, and then, to prevent possible damage on the bottom of the sea, resurfaced the vessel. EDIT: Oh, and as to why there was only skeletal remains onboard: I think that crew died due to starvation. And, as it happened many times in human history, cannibalism occured. Maybe the monster from CURIE is the last member?
wait what. So why not dock at the stations? Im confused
Shadow111111 because the ship is a semi submersible not a sub it was not capable of docking with the station itself
@@thunderfox53 but why does the monster not attack you if you look away?
I'm all for it being a cannibal crew member who got twisted even more with consuming too much black goo.
@@kosmara1901 im a bit late, but my guess is that, though its been heavily mutated by the WAU, it still has some form of consciousness within it. I think it’s well aware of what it is , or what it’s become and because of that has this “dont look at me and the monster ive become” vibe to it. (Kind of like the rake) I think maybe it prefers isolation, and would rather be ignored than to be acknowledged. Idk if i made that make sense
Lol you copy pasted the wiki about Soma Curie.. Next time just write the wiki link..
The CURIE closely resembles the real world vessel, the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) which stands up on end for extreme stability while performing scientific research at sea.
First of all, great videos!
About the Curie's reactor, I think the WAU's intervention had two purposes: preventing the reactor failure as you said in the video, but also providing an alternative power source. This would also help explain why the WAU didn't seem to be hindered significantly when Upsilon's power plant was shut down: it had a ship's reactor all to itself!
It expands so it needs more power... makes sense
Maybe the Escape Vessel transported the other flesher to the Lambda complex.
That theory does make a kind of sense; one could argue that the WAU detached the EV itself, and used the female flesher to "save" more Pathos staff. But I'm also partial to the idea that the Flesher doesn't really listen to the WAU, similar to the way Ross doesn't, just without the same degree of sentience. My theory has the Flesher consuming its prey. That seems at odds with the WAU's desire to preserve life. The problem is this area is a bit too open-ended and the information provided in game is so sparse. Ideas repel and bounce off one another :-/
Either way, glad you liked the vid. More to come soon. Stay tuned!
+Gameological Dig Seeing as the escape vessel works underwater it would be possible that there are some form of diving equipment on board. Possibly survival suits or a few minuets of oxygen from a tank and mask. After that a repair team left Landa and found the pod and rescued the crew or if they were dead, took the bodies to bury them later.
+Matthew Pike It's possible. Like I said, the CURIE section is the most nebulous in the game. There isn't enough information to go by, and one theory could be just as credible as the next. Though I don't know if I could imagine the staff taking the time to bury their dead. I'd imagine they'd want to ensure the bodies wouldn't be accessible for the WAU or the proxies, since it seems they can revive them. If they did anything with the deceased, I'm partial to the idea of cremation. But again, who knows?
Gameological Dig From the logs you find later in the game you find the staff did not believe the WAU was reanimating bodies. Vanessa Hart was the only survivor to come out of Labda. She tried to tell the crew at Theta but she was discredited. Because she was the only survivor there was no proof. So there is a chance they would bury there dead. Maybe even repurpose a room into a morgue. Sure we don't see a morgue but then again we can't see every room in pathos II.
+Matthew Pike That's interesting, because logs at Omicron indicate that (at least some of) the staff was aware that the WAU and the structure gel could reanimate the dead. The mice they experimented on was proof enough of that. And I imagine there must've been some cross-pollination of their studies amongst the various sites of Pathos-II; Omicron didn't go silent until late December 2103, so I'm curious about this now.
I think their are two distinct possibilities.
By keeping the crew controlled and safe in the ship, the WAU had a much better chance at insuring their safety. By evacuating the EV pod by itself, it was able to save those on the ship in a controlled environment.
The "Hopping Vampire" is more intelligent than we thought and actually used the EV to lock it's prey in the ship.
Those are both credible theories. I find myself bouncing back and forth between different ideas. I'm especially partial to your first theory, since it makes the most sense. I also wonder if the WAU's presence on the CURIE was to prevent the ship from exploding and causing damage to the neighboring sites. There are so many possibilities.
@@GameologicalDig I can't help but think about the reactor tentacle and be reminded that before Simmon wakes up... the WAU is basically running on batteries, maybe tapping into that reactor (as a side gain, while keeping a safe env for humans on board) was a goal in itself.
Love the perspective on the Jiangshi, I didn't know that's what it was called. I think your hypothesis that it may be cannibalistic is probably a great assumption, considering the evidence you cited. Very interesting food for thought, and definitely makes me look at it in a different way. I was under the impression, though, that it attacked Catherine's machine body in the control room when you first enter and she tells you not to look at it. She makes some comment about it being a brute and knocking her down - what purpose would this serve the Jiangshi? Is it the influence of the WAU? It seems that it has been affected by the WAU, but we know that Catherine and Simon have as well, so perhaps we can assume that the WAU isn't simply gobbling up and controlling these machines and organic life, but rather providing them the means to "survive" in whatever warped perception of survival it is going by, and then somewhere along the line these beings become or regain independence and "sentience". I mean, we know Simon basically acts like he's just a living person - except for one instance, when Catherine asks in Theta about why he is shoving his fist into buttholes, he replies with something like "Cuz I NEED it" and gets very Golum-like. So maybe it is influencing them in the background in ways we can't really understand from our Human perspectives, ways that seem almost alien, but at the same time it's trying to preserve their living essence. Makes me wonder what kind of catastrophe caused the Jiangshi to become what it is. Makes me wonder who it was before, and how it died. It's honestly very sad.
I just found about theese videos about SOMA and I'm so happy that you made them with such good narration, use of the sinister atmosphere and, above all, love and dedication.
I think the WAU stabilized the reactor because A it needed power after it couldn't access upsilon of B it didn't want it to explode and potentially harm/kill any wander or salvage crew
And the proxy there was guarding it
You're like the vaatividya of Soma, keep up the great work man.
@Booker T LMFAOOOO why you gotta expose him like that
Very similar fates of undeath and dying worlds with a faint embers of hope danceing in the darkness.
I would imagine that a world wide firestorm would probably boil off a considerable amount of the ocean. Pathos-2 is only supposed to be about a hundred meters down. If they were able to survive, it seems reasonable that underground structures would as well.
Indeed, I find it unlikely that everyone was rendered extinct, but the death toll would have been in the billions
the EV contained the flesher who was turned into the Jiangshi, they tired to walk/swim after the EV was brought low too early by the WAU and as a result of not having the correct high pressure diving gear they "died" but nothing is allowed to die. So it made something that could survive.
the biggest issue with the Flesher eating the Curie crew is that its digestive system doesn’t seem to be available anymore since the whole entire head has been mutated and replaced with that structure gel blob. where would its mouth be?
Wasn't there another audio recording on the Curie that seems to suggest they tried to deflect the comet? I'd always assumed the Curie pitched 90 degrees so it could fire something at the comet from the surface. However since Catherine never mentions that and only saying it was a transport vessel puts paid to that idea. So, who exactly failed to stop the comet and what was their plan?
Wonderful narration there, mate. You've earned yourself a sub.
Thanks so much, dude!
Excellent work! I admire how you collected every little piece of history and I'm looking forward into new episodes concerning other sites.
Lol, thanks. I really wasn't planning on doing a longer vid for the CURIE, since it's such a short area. But when I started writing and reviewing the content, it all started to fall into place. Stay tuned, I def will be doing more SOMA stations soon.
my girlfriend and I just watched this, you've got the voice for bedtime stories. that's meant as a compliment!
The big question is: what was it doing in Lambda, trying to attack the Catherine-upload?
There are two teleporters, one male on the Currie, a female one on lambda
if the curie was about 100 meters long, it would make perfect sense for it to turn 90 degrees so that the bottom part could dock with an offload site like lambda.
also, to answer your question about the remains, the crew of the curie are skeletal cause they perished maybe within days of the impact event, which was january 2103. but the other people have diving suits on and perish much more recently, like the theta evacuees in front of omicron only in december 2013 and the story takes place only a few months later in may 2104. by this time those ms curie crew have perished for 1.5 years.
You say that it's a mystery how the Curie still maintains power but as we all know and you say in the video it's thanks to the WAU.
The remains are skeletal because I think it's likely that most of the crew died a lot sooner than most of the other bodies we see, because they're all from Pathos employees who survived the impact and had diving suits.
Still great video and series overall, and I do also wonder why the WAU was interested in the Curie tho, perhaps some of the crew survived and the WAU turned them into the monsters.
He was saying that as in, to the player first arriving on the MS Curie, it is a mystery how it still maintains power.
It's gotta be said; your voice is the non-british equivalent of Ahoy. Same kind of quality in every way. Subscribing now and gonna make myself comfortable now to watch the latest video. Keep up the AMAZING work and you'll soon get the recognition you deserve.
Lol, I'm not familiar with Ahoy, but I'll be sure to look him up. I'm glad you enjoyed it. More to come.
+Gameological Dig I agree, your commentary held that entire piece together. Would not have watched otherwise. gj
@@SA-StoneKind That’s a little harsh
In Transmission, Cronstedt mentions that they radioed for help from the Curie. So I suspect that the Curie went to help out, but ran into trouble. The crew couldn't contact Lambda with the Lumar probes, so they send one of their own in an escape vessel to check it out, but, on the station, they are attacked by the creatures of the WAU (perhaps Holland or Davis whose corpses disappeared). After being taken over by the WAU, the jiangshi returns to the Curie, where it kills and devours the crew and allows the WAU to infiltrate the ship.
Another great episode in this series. This reveals so much that I never noticed or even thought of at all. It really makes me appreciate the game and the story even more. It's like playing through the game is just scratching the surface of a much larger narrative and these videos unearth all the evidence that reveals it. Gameological Dig indeed. Awesome series and I van't wait for the next episode. Will you be covering other games for this series and if so do you know what the next one will be yet? Input! Input! I must consume more content! Lol.
Great video man! Seriously! This was easily my most favorite story in a video game...and I've played plenty. It was bleak and depressing (which might be why I liked it).
👍👍👍 No worries, I ain't judging you, lol
ASMR!!! I FIND THIS SO COMFORTING TO LISTEN TO
Man this is really really ... really well done. From voice work to the whole presentation. Feels like watching a small movie. Thank you
The Xianshi is the sole survivor on board the Curie. The WAU used structure gel to fuse him with the last diving suit and created the thing you see in the game. I'm guessing the ribcages are the result of it needing to feed.
Amazing work, instant subscription!
You style is close resemble a lots of Dark Souls lore videos - slow pace and haunting atmosphere.
Also a fact for analysis - there are 2 kinds of flesher creatures - male and female. Male ones are inside the ship, female - outside (one encounter for when you forget you omnitool, another - in lambda), so maybe they were the crew that's been infested inside the ship, while one female crew member was trying to evacuate outside?
Late reply, sorry Max. But yeah, Vaati's lore work was a huge inspiration on this series/channel. In regards to the second Jiangshi, I found out about its existence sometime after the recording. I read a similar theory sometime ago, and yea, it's the only logical reading of the detached EV that I can imagine. So I think it's a sound theory.
the curie was flooded the crew died, the proxy broke in before the WAU could attempt to reanimate the corpses, and it ate them all, leaving bone remains. The WAU connected to the ms curie for power, since it prioritized itself around the core
thank you so much! I remember playing this game and had a few questions that I couldn't answer because I didn't want to redo it but these videos answered those question.
Well, I think there's one good reason why the WAU bothers at all with the Curie.
There's still a 'crewmate' alive in it. The Jiangshi. If the ship goes critical, it goes with the ship, after all.
As far as i know, disco ball monster doesn't teleport at all and it arguably was explained :
When ure looking at it, Simon gets glitches, he is lagging so considering this thing is moving very slowly, Simon gets disconnected and falls unconscious for seconds or even minutes, while the monster is slowly moving towards him, then Simon gets back to his perception, but the monster is already closer. So this is how his "teleportation" works, since SOMA is more about science and future and cyberpunk, than mystics and paranormal things
This probably makes not much sense, cuz I didn't tell anything about MS Curie... But i like this idea with glitches and disconnects soooo much
I think the flesher name is a direct hint at the bones in the ship, since it fleshes out the victims. Secondly I believe, like some sort of mind-flayer, it absorbs the consciousness of its victims, hence the big head with many lights/eyes. Looking at its visual features, it's clearly a bio-techno fusion similar to WAU's constructs, a different type of evolution and manifestation of WAU. It also looks, rather fat, and androgynous. I also believe based on other evidence that its victims live a heavenly bliss in the flesher's mind.
I feel like the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies in the CURIE might be partially due to the fact that they weren't wearing as protective diving gear as, for example, the bodies outside of Theta/Omicron. Sure, they were submerged, but the ship shouldn't have flooded until the aftershock from the comet. Really interesting ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these videos.
This has been great. I'm looking forward to the long episodes 😁👍🏻
Using the evidence you found, I think your theory is most likely the correct one c: Cant think of another way to re arrange the events. Well done^ Looking forward to the rest :D
Thanks. It's the only logical conclusion I can go to, without jumping too far into fanfic territory. More to soon :-)
I watched the 'game movie' for this that was done by Gamer's Little Playground. They did a great job, but to improve the flow they sometimes have to cut out the little details. So thank you very much for going further into the story of this game.
Ha, no, thank you for watching. All the little details make up so much of what I love in this game, I couldn't imagine having to condense this down to movie length. That's a job I wouldn't want.
I think the Curie was launched before the WAU got to the ship but after the Shockwave. Would explain why the Curie was busted. Maybe it was an exploratory portion of the crew, trying to get help for the larger crew. Then the WAU came along and made escape impossible. Then the creature came after, killing the rest.
Awesome series! I loved how you narrated and explained the story in a way that it is easy to understand like story-telling. I hope you get more subscribers! Great quality content, thank you for all the effort you have put in this.
i always look these kind of videos after watching or playing a dark story game
Jiangshi, being a reanimated corpse, and the misc missing body parts around the ship, leads me to believe that the jiangshi is possibly the WAU infected body parts of the crew. Left to be mended together in a fucked up sort of Chimera. At least in my head cannon.
Are there corpses exposed to the sea (with no diving suite) that are not skeletal anywhere else? I imagine the fish eat the flesh quickly
and also most of the other bodies are from people who survived for a while after the impact, and while there is no confirmation I don't think most of the Curie crew did
In regards to the remains of the CURIE crew, there's a more simple clue as to what the monster does to its victims, simply in its official name in most places as I've seen it, which oddly enough you don't mention at all in this video- most sources I look at refer to it not as the Jiangshi, but as the Flesher. Apt name for something that strips something of its flesh.
Great videos!!!! This game was so thought provoking. I hope we get more deep thinking games like this.
You're a hidden gem on youtube, believe me, within a year or so everyone will know your channel, trust me, just stick to story rich games, keep it up bro x
I'm really liking your analysis so far. Well done. BTW, your voice reminds me of Ron Perlman's, whenever he did narration for the older Fallout games. :-)
Fun fact about the MS Curie's design. It has been actually tried in the real world, mostly for oceanographic research ships. Here's one of the existing examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP Though unlike the Curie, that particular ship isn't self-propelled, it has to be towed. I suppose the Curie's meant to be a futuristic successor to the older ships utilising the "submerge part of the ship and make it into a floating tower" concept.
I love his narration. You just made my night! Thanks!!!
The escape pod is close to where Catherine and the first Jiangshi are - perhaps the Jiangshi was on that pod and then went into and resided where we find Catharine. The lockdown on the pods likely happened after this, or perhaps because of it.
these videos are great. i think your theory is pretty spot on i hope you cover more about this great game
Thanks. Glad to see there are people who enjoy these vids, and can appreciate the masterful storytelling of this game.
Phenomenal work and analysis on this game!
Plus, your voice reminds me of Steve Blum. ^_^
Thanks. I'm not familiar with Blum, but I'll be sure to check him out.
+Gameological Dig If you watch/watched Toonami on Cartoon Network, he was the voice of Tom. Or, if you watched Cowboy Bebop, he was the voice of Spike. He has a lot of other voice acting credits to his name though.
You also need to remember is that the ship was remotely brought to Lambda by the the Lambda crew as a means to use the ship to check on the surface but they found the creature on the curie and abandoned it soon after so the escape vessel could of been used by the Lambda crew.
Such a clear voice. It's music to my ears :D
Absolutely loving this series. :) thank you for this
"I'm curie-us to know"
Haaaaaaaa
seems like it was a worse impact than the one that took out dinosaurs
If the crew was killed the WAU might still have a reason to enter the ship. The WAU doesn't know what "preserving human life" means; that's why the monsters exists after all. So perhaps it saw the Curie and thought "well maybe I can preserve human life here somehow" and maybe found a bloated corpse and turned it into the monster. Maybe repairing the generators was just part of it's programming. That's it's job after all; an AI to monitor the base. So in it's pursuit of persevering human life it also repaired the ship.
Or the WAU just strapped itself onto the ship to take the ship’s power. We know from the prequel shorts than Imogen Reed attempted to kill the WAU by shutting down the power plant at Upsilon, so it needs power.
My question is what is the jiangshi? The WAU was intent on preserving the lives of Curie's crew, but we also know that those it infects tend to become hostile. Since the body of the jiangshi looks like a drowned man, maybe the WAU got to the Curie intending to preserve the crew, but one of the crew members got mutated by it and killed everyone else. I dunno.
very good video man! seriously impressed
Thanks so much!
Here's something about the Jiangshi name: It's called a "hopping" zombie/vampire in Chinese, but the name itself actually means "stiff corpse". According to Chinese legends the stiffness of the joints prevent the zombie from walking, so it hops. It's not exactly a vampire in terms of blood-sucking, nor are there lots of tales talking about it devouring people. The term Jiangshi simply does not imply the Western image of a vampire or zombie. Now on the other hand, since it's just a game, the devs can call it whatever they like. Just thought I would add a piece of my opinion to this already extensive analysis.
Dude your videos are amazing
that first quote by carl is pretty neat. makes you really think like even our cyborg replacers or ai replacers, will they be able to pass the great filter? i guess we'll have to wait and see.
feels like im watching a real life horror documentary. great narration :D
The crazy irony is the main character was never human and is himself a copy. The real simon died. So simon any dread or feelings are copies but no less real then the original simon. This existence is a snapshot and doesn't grow the way simon did before he died possibly accepting death
Cool, how about leaving this kind of comment on the _last_ video of the series when this is found out instead of on a video about the MS Curie?
I found this part somewhat personal because they talk about my country which is usually forgotten. Great vid.
The last season of sealab took a real dark turn
These are so well done
Well this is my guess but let's say that the shock wave hit the Curie and caused the damage. This would allow the creature to get in and some bodies to go out into the water or in areas where the creature can't reach. All the skeletons are the people that got killed while the rest were ones that didn't. There is no real set of time for the incidents it could have happen so quick or been slow but my best guess is kind near each other.
Does the jiangshi even have a mouth?
Never got the chance to play this game but I really dig the narrative. It always sends me into an artistic frenzy. It's the atmosphere more than anything that gets me. You've captured that well in your commentary here.. bravo!
Excellent narration! Very informative and interesting!
Wonder why there weren't more ships and submarines with crews that managed to survive the comet. There's still sea life. They should have been able to survive on that for a while.
Actually jiang shi is the Chinese word for zombie, in a sense it is cause it's basically dead and is reanimated by the wau itself
I like thinking that artifical intelligence in "virus" movie from 1997 is somehing like ark from alien race and it tries to recreate it's survivors by using earth's resources and technology.
it makes you wonder if the crew tried to escape but the Wau prevented them leaving them encased in their escape pods kept alive by the wau.
I really enjoyed this video.
A very well made Analysis, very interesting and informing
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These types of stories are an interesting look into secularism, and secular problems such as what makes a human... Human.
It's interesting to me, since it's such a foreign way of thinking.
the cutie is actually based off of real freighters that can turn in a 90 degree angle the purpose of them i completely forgot but i do know they exist from many hours spent on the discovery channel
The escape vessel could of had a electrical malfunction.
While watching this video there is popping up a question in my mind. Simon is not human. He doesen't need any nutriment except from electricity power. Couldn't he swim to the surface (I mean, he's a diving suit...) and maybe others like him that the WAU will create and then they could repopulate the earth? It's not as paradisiac looking like in the ark... but it is more real (?).
You mentioned at the end the EV that is found Outside Lambda. I think I have an idea for what happened with the Curie. After the Jiangshi entered the ship, I feel as though the crew of the Curie attempted to leave the ship, but failed in some way, being unable to dive out due to the lack of diving suits. Then they most likely released the escape vessel, doing this to prevent the Jiangshi from leaving the ship, and possibly attacking other stations. Obviously this did not work, due to the Jiangshi's ability to teleport, but I believe the crew of the Curie were most likely unaware of the abilities of the creature they were hunting. Simon/Catherine know of the creature's powers, and this enables them to avoid it, but the crew were most likely unaware of the creature, or those that did know did not take full advantage of it. This gives a possible explanation to why the EV is found outside Lambda.
Also, I feel as though the Wau entered the ship before the Jiangshi did, most likely due to wanting to prevent the ship from dentonating and destroying the surrounding area/the crew on the ship.
You sound like Rod Serling and SOMA is an episode of Twilight Zone.
In regards to the EV could it be possible that someone got a case of cabin fever and launched it as a way to prevent others from leaving believing attempts to leave could cause the deaths of everyone on board the main vessel? I haven’t played SOMA could there might not be any evidence to support such a claim but that the only explanation I can think of. At least, other than someone was in the EV and left it in search of the Station you start the game in perhaps not releasing how far it was, or not caring so long as it meant not dying at the hands of that creature or waiting for a slow death as resources dwindled and possibility of the crew turning on each other.
Hey considering that we only explore a part of the ship, so maybe in the top of it there was somebody alive. Then the wau saved them that kinda makes sense
Good stuff!
Hey Gameo, I found this on the wiki page for MS Curie.
"Around December 18th, 2103, the members of the salvage crew sent to Lambda attempted to use the CURIE to leave the station when Lambda was on the verge of imploding. They were able to remotely draw it closer to the docking platform and were able to enter it."
Was there anything in the game to suggest this? In your video, you theorized that the crew was very much in control of the Curie post-aftershock, and tried to dock it at Lambda themselves. I believe we can establish the time and possibly cause of death of Curie's crew if we determine the validity of the wiki page.
At first i thought that you were viewing this story the wrong way. That with a magnifying glass you can't see the overarching archetypal themes. To me the story of SOMA can be likened to going through purgatory then ending up in heaven AND hell, it was this idea that led my mind to an example of how important an eye for detail can be. "The meek shall inherit the earth" is actually a faulty translation, the correct phrase in english would be something like "those who have swords but chose to keep them sheathed shall inherit the earth". A world of difference in a small detail, keep up the good work!
That is just Jordan Peterson's interpretation of the word 'meek'. πρᾶος (meek) is a very ordinary Greek word meaning "soft, gentle, mild-mannered", also, referring to animals, "tame, broken in". Peterson's so-called translation is an arbitrary distortion of the text.
Loved this Dig, thanks Gameological Dig! Which tracks from the game did you use? Loved the one where you covered the Jiangshi 7:34.
found it in SteamLibrar\Steamapps\Common\SOMA\music\01_01\01_01_somethingwrong.ogg
Many The escape festival found outside lambda came from a crew member from the Curie and that crew member eventually became the flesher that's inside lambda
CURIEus to know. haha, I see what you did there.
What was blurred in the first picture?
I am here to understand the origin and meaning of the monsters we find. Why would the wau create these things that seem to kill and eat humans?