The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[MegaScience]

Maybe. But it just screams spacy for me. The machine was found somewhere in a salvage mission, so unless humans are living underwater and that salvage team recovered it from a defunct station there wouldn't be anywhere to find the machine. Really seems like a ''they found the machine in some derelict space station/settlement/ship and brought it aboard'' sort of thing.

Salvage doesn't have to mean from similar places. They are told of an odd person, go to salvage from his property, discover things. The place shown seems to be a containment and storage facility - not solely a barracks for recovery teams, so it'd make sense. Easier, safer, and less noticeable transportation of possibly dangerous items than shipping them around or to open space.