[SPOILERS] SOMA unsolved mysteries thread

[Abion47]

It's been more than a year since I played Soma. But I can't recall the background of Simon. Did you actually find out what he did on Pathos-II? Was he a worker there or is it just a coincidence that his consciousness was loaded into that robot at the beginning?

Simon was a Canadian from Toronto who worked at a comic shop a hundred years prior to the events at Pathos-II (which is how the game starts). His involvement with David Munshi led to his brain getting scanned using a primitive version of the same technology that Pathos-II uses for their Pilot Seats, and as such his scan was on file (though it was a legacy scan, a flat scan template that was only ever used for research and education purposes in the field of AI).

So yes, it was almost definitely a coincidence that it was Simon that ended up in the "robot".