[SPOILERS] SOMA unsolved mysteries thread

[Abion47]

- how does the pilot seat at Omicron work if it is unplugged? (the cable is just laying disconnected on the floor)

It has one cable not plugged in, but there are still a bunch that are, so I guess the ones that were unplugged weren't necessary for what Simon and Catherine were doing.

- Why does Catherine need to do the Ark upload and launch with a single switch, almost launching too soon? She says "to make sure it gets launched at all", but she must have known she will only create a copy and be left behind herself, still able to launch after the upload is complete.. so the whole "come on come on thought you'd have better bandwidth in the future!!" was kinda unnecessary.

She knew, but she didn't want to risk Simon losing it again by uploading his copy. She still needed him to move the ARK into the payload and start the launch sequence, so if she had transfered him onto the satelite too soon, she risks blowing the whole ruse and incurring his wrath, a consequence of which might be that the ARK doesn't get launched.

For Robot Girl going from the battery place to the infirmary, the first UH monster also travels through Upsilon in 'impossible' ways. Entering the permasealed room and leaving it again, only to reappear in the thermal room later.

The first monster does not travel in impossible ways. If you enter the sealed room quick enough, you can see its light disappearing into a vent in the side of the room.

As for the Robot Girl, she is much the same way. The only way this is even a point of confusion is if the battery was the last thing you got and went straight from there to the dive room. From that perspective, there are several vents in the power room that the Robot Girl could've used to get elsewhere around the station, including the medbay. Otherwise, if you take a detour, then she could've just simply walked there behind you.

Hox Simon came to be is to me the most compelling mystery. The helper bot next to the seat is one of those submarines like the really slow one that attacks you in the ocean, but I suppose technically it works outside of water too though not clear how mobile it would be. Its location right next to the seat is definitely way too convenient to be a coincidence.

It "works" in that it will probably turn on, but that is it. It cannot move around as its only form of translocation are the propulsion jets it uses to move in the water. These jets would be completely ineffective on land, and it has no other way of moving itself, let alone a human being.