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Reanimated |
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Unknown, possibly French
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Vic Auclair was a French operations manager who served as the Chief Factor at Site Tau on PATHOS-II. In SOMA, he's referenced and appears at Tau.
Description
While not much, if anything, is known about Auclair, he can be found on the bed in the back of Cabin B at Tau, reanimated.[1] He has been transformed to be mostly machine, with many eyes covering his body and a generally insect look, and tentacles protruding from the blood-stained blanket that he's using to cover himself.
Biography
Inside Auclair's personal quarter (Cabin C), items can be found such as a Buddha statue and a poster from the release for The Stoics - Ariadne's Ocean, which seems to be a movie. Also found in Auclair's cabin is a book in German, opened up to a chapter titled “Die Zukunft Der Bemannten Raumfahrt” (The Future of Manned Space Travel), implying that Auclair can read German and may even be of French-German descent.
Working at PATHOS-II
Auclair is the Chief Factor of Tau, and as a result Phi as well due to its nature as an unmanned station designed solely for the operation of the Omega Space Gun, as well as its proximity to Tau.
On January 11, 2103, a day before the Impact Event, he officially shutdown the Omega Space Gun, writing "After ten years of impeccable operation the Omega Space Gun will shut down, but it took an apocalypse to be made redundant."
He ordered the evacuation of Tau to Site Omicron on September 13, 2103, with Alan Waldeck and Julia Dahl of Omicron descending into the Omega Sector to ensure the success of the evacuation. However, as the strong torrents calmed down, the group was ambushed by sea life corrupted by the WAU. Auclair was severely injured, with Dr. Johan Ross noting "Auclair is in the infirmary, but it doesn't look good," however Auclair managed to recover.
When the ARK crew arrived on December 25, 2103 to use the Omega Space Gun to launch the ARK, Auclair, among the five survivors, was caught off guard. When they learned of the team's objective, they all agreed to be scanned for the ARK.
Sometime after the ARK crew came back from Phi, Auclair died on the bed in the back of Cabin B. While the conditions of his death are unknown, possibly suicide to prevent death by starvation, at some point the WAU used a WAU Control Board built next to every bed in Tau to save Auclair from death, bursting structure gel from the Control Board and covering the body of Auclair laying on the bed. The structure gel turned most of his form into machine parts with many eyes, and bringing him back to life.
In SOMA
By the time Simon Jarrett finds Auclair, he is alive, likely capable of movement but stuck to the bed he died and was reanimated upon, likely in grief over his new state as he clutches and pulls the blanket around him. Simon cannot interact with him, and he will do nothing more than moan and cry.
Transcripts
Omega Space Gun
After ten years of impeccable operation the Omega Space Gun will shut down, but it took an apocalypse to be made redundant. - Vic Auclair
Behind the Scenes
Auclair's model was originally supposed to be used for one of the male ARK crew members, as evidenced by the model filename. However, all of the bodies of the male ARK crew members can be found and identified at Tau, with Ian Pedersen's body in Cabin C, and Nicolai Ivashkin and Jasper Hill's bodies in Cabin D.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Evidence that this is Auclair is the fact that the voice lines used are of a masculine voice, and he was one of the four male survivors at Tau after the evacuation attempt, the other three being Johan Ross, Steve Glasser, Neil Tsiolkovsky. Dr. Ross and Glasser later left Tau, and Tsiolkovsky died when part of the tunnel between Tau and Phi collapsed, meaning that it could only be Vic Auclair.
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