Dr. Johan Ross is an Englander [1] neuroscientist employed by Carthage Industries. He served as the A.I. Psychologist on PATHOS-II, stationed at Tau. In SOMA, he was the sole worker at the covert Site Alpha as the overseer and operator of the WAU.

Johan Ross is the anti-villainous tritagonist in the Frictional Games video game SOMA. Originally an A.I. psychologist on the underwater research facility Pathos-II, he has since been killed and resurrected via structure gel by The Warden Unit (WAU); however, unlike many …

Due to Ross being quarantined inside the glass cell, the WAU could not contact him directly to keep him alive. Instead, it resorted to bombarding his body with electromagnetism in an attempt to manipulate the structure gel already within him.

May 19, 2019 · So Ross' role prior to the Impact Event was the primary "AI-Psychologist" at PATHOS-II, serving as one of Carthage's main agents alongside Sarang and Dahl, while also serving as the main link between the WAU and the crew.

Jan 1, 2023 · SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, creators of the groundbreaking Amnesia and Penumbra series. Johan Ross - Real Protagonist? I know Ross was sort of portrayed as a villain who was stalking Simon; however, I’m convinced that Ross was the only sane researcher at Pathos II. He figured out the WAU early on.

Sep 24, 2015 · In Tau Station, there are two locked rooms, but only one (infirmary) is required to open in order to advance in the game. However, I got curious to see what's in Ross' room, so I decided to open that one first.

Dr. Ross beckons Simon to kill the WAU and end its torturous threat to humanity. At this moment, Simon can choose to fulfill Dr. Ross's plan and insert his hand in the WAU’s heart, killing it, which results in Simon having his hand amputated and being thrown to a corner of the chamber.

Sep 23, 2015 · The Structure Gel on Ross was a non-contaminated version of structure gel before the WAU accidentally put the wrong code into it (thus driving machines crazy). It completely covered him and advanced so much that he had full control over his being.

It's keeping climate and life support going, but it has been simplifying the pattern -- redefining its protocol. The WAU has started to grow physically. It's not just the core chamber, all around PATHOS-II, Structure Gel is bursting through the pipes and bleeding through walls.

While searching for the essential components at Site Omicron, Simon receives mental messages from a WAU-converted (but still sane) artificial intelligence specialist, Johan Ross, who begs him to destroy the WAU. After completing Simon's new body, Catherine copies his consciousness into it.