[SPOILERS] SOMA unsolved mysteries thread

[Omnitool]

Very good points indeed, i'm thinking of some answers for them...so far I've come up with this:

1. Imogen Reed ends up at Upsilon as the sole survivor from the expedition to board the Curie, after she gets there from Omicron in order to cut off the power, in an effort to shut down WAU, as seen in the last part of the Transmissions series. She succeeds in cutting off the main power, turning the station to backup (battery) power. After a short time the WAU "shrieked" (sent a powerful burst of EMP) causing the blackboxes of everybody still alive and not trapped yet in Aker's mind coral to overload and explode, decapitating them. Reed's death is shown in the first death screen (before transitioning to Simon-3 / the pressure suit). Sarah Lindwall somehow managed to disable or remove her blackbox implant, and the EMP burst apparently had no effect on those already dead or caught and kept alive by the WAU.
After Reed's death, the WAU apparently used a small helper robot (found disabled in the room where Simon wakes up) to drag Reed's body to the Pilot Seat and removed its own cortex chip assembly and battery pack amd stuck it to Reed's body with its last powers.
Then the WAU pulled Simon's legacy scan from the station's database and using a great amount of backup power it uploaded the scan in the cyborg made from Reed's body and the robot's parts. When Simon wakes up in the room, he has to divert some power using the switch, in order to restore basic functions like lighting and doors.
Maybe the WAU made Simon in order for him to reactivate the Upsilon geothermal plant, because if he hadn't done that, the backup power would have failed in 13 days (as shown on the Omnitool setup console) and so the WAU would shut down, killing all the humans it was keeping alive along with it.

2. Before Simon restores power to the Upsilon geothermal plant, Catherine was probably in a dormant state, and regained counciousness once the plant is powered. She was probably shut down once Reed turned the power off.

3. This one is hard to answer, although K8 has a welding torch he uses to cut doors (so presumably it is a rescue robot) it is possible he is equipped with other tools, such as a hook or retractable robotic arm that he uses to catch Simon. Although it is hard to say if K8 could support Simon's weight...
An interesting thing about K8 is that everybody sais that if the player stuns it and takes its tool chip you basically kill it...well this is not entirely true! K8's personality is stored on the tool chip, just like Catherine is stored on the Cortex Chip. You actually take K8's AI with you in your Omnitool as you take Catherine, and if Simon found a working helper bot with no chip he could take the chip from the Omnitool and put it in the robot...and so K8 would be reborn!

4. Ross was directly involved in developing the WAU along with Sarang. He was the AI psychologyst that programmed the WAU's "logic gates" in order to make it a almost sentient super-advanced AI. He is like a father for the WAU, because by programming it he "brought it to life" and made it sentient. Probably the WAU is aware of this, and for this reason it tries to bring him back to life and to preserve him at al cost, probably this is why it is using so much power attempting to reanimate him, as well as making him such a powerful and intelligent creature.

5. Ross has several extraordinary abilities, some of which he displays while trapped in a glass cage:

- High intelligence. (This is unusual for WAU-infected creatures.)
- Telepathy. (Communicating with Raleigh Herber, possibly through dreams: "Can you blame me for trying to figure this out? I've been having the dreams too, you know.")
- Teleportation/invisibility. (Possibly by stunning Simon with EMP, like the Fleshers do.)
- Manipulation of electronics. (Giving Simon the code to cancel Omicron's lockdown, and sending him messages on computer screens.)
- Resistance to abyssal pressures.

How can he do all of these things?

And it seems Ross is also capable of some sort of levitation, as seen when Simon takes the elevator to the Abyss, and Ross stops the elevator at the middle of the descent and climbs aboard it.