Sofia Daguerre

Commander Sofia Daguerre is a potential ally and former USSA astronaut found in Appalachia in 2103.

Background
A veteran of the USSA space program, Commander Sofia Daguerre lived in Chicago as a child until she moved to Washington DC after finishing college. She then applied for the astronaut program until she was accepted. In her time in the USSA, she participated in a long-term suspended animation experiment called the Deep Sleep program. She and her crewmates went into hibernation shortly after her ship achieved orbit in 2070. They were supposed to wake up in 2075, with a possible extension until 2080. The experiment unintentionally continued for too long until the ship crashed. Unaware of the Great War, Daguerre has crashed into Appalachia looking for help.

The Woman who Fell to Earth
Commander Daguerre managed to limp away from her crash site and find refuge in one of the Free States' old bunkers until being found by the Vault 76 resident. After being told of the fate of the U.S.A. at the hands of nuclear armageddon with the People's Republic of China during the Great War back in 2077, Sofia asks the resident(s) to help her with locating her crew, and asking if they would be willing to let her stay at their C.A.M.P. until she discovers their fate.

Upon arriving at the Resident's C.A.M.P., she will ask the Resident to install the USSA console at the C.A.M.P., and to retrieve a scanner upgrade found at the ATLAS Observatory. The purpose for this request is to later collect some protocols from a black air delivery crate, with the goal of using them to locate her crewmates. During this time, Sofia complains about having strong headaches and thinks that they could be a symptom of the extended deep sleep she experienced.

Daguerre then picks up an erratic signal moving towards her position. The Resident is sent to investigate the signal, that turns out to be a USSA assaultron that has been hunting down USSA astronauts. Daguerre continues to pick up signals from USSA robots coming closer to her location but notices that every time they get close, they alter their routes and walk away.

Sofia engages in a conversation with Emerson Hale, a mechanical engineer in the Deep Sleep mission, who found her signal and came to check if she was alive. Later, Hale visits the C.A.M.P. to provide her with some emergency kits to relieve her headaches.

Still later, Sofia finally picks up a transmission from her former crewmates. Although she was aware that the chances of her peers surviving were very low, she sends the Resident to find the rest of the wreckage. The Resident finds that her crewmates indeed are dead, as the wreckage is absolute and her crewmates were not in the main capsule as she was. With nothing more to recover, the Resident brings the crewmates' dog tags back to her. Upon talking about it with Hale, he tries to dodge the topic, alleging that finding Daguerre alive is enough and that the accident and death of the astronauts "were in the past."

Daguerre discovers more robot signals which continue making the same pattern; she also notices that the robots' signature is a partial match for some other signals in the area. She pleads with the Resident to investigate them. Hale continues to act suspiciously, stating that investigating was a waste of time and that Daguerre already got the answers she was looking for.

Sofia notices that the signature of one of the robots was tagged with a code indicated as high security holotape related to the Deep Sleep mission, and that every time one of the robots is destroyed, it pings the other robots and Daguerre's console. After the Resident finds and Sofia listens to the holotape, she recalls that she and her crewmates had to listen to similar holotapes while they were using the deep sleeper pods. A man named Dr. Bernard had designed the pods before they were sent to space. This happened every two months for two years. Because of all this convolution, she asks the Resident to try to dig up anything possible about the pods, to see if the pods have any kind of relationship to the holotape.

The Resident travels to the AMS corporate headquarters and retrieves the patent design of the pods. Sofia notices two details that make her suspicious of the intention of the project: (1) information about sensory data transfers, and (2) the fact that Emerson Hale was the supervisor. To try to find out about what the sensory data transfers were referring to, she looks for her old medical data from the USSA and sends the Resident to retrieve a copy.

Sofia reads the medical records and demands answers from Hale. He first states that he doesn't know the technical specifications of the project anymore, but later confesses that the USSA and Arktos Pharma made a deal to use a serum, called Serum K, in the Deep Sleep Project. Daguerre, thinking that the serum could be the cause of her headaches, asks the Resident to find the government contract in the Charleston Capitol Building, and after that, to retrieve a previous version of the serum called Serum Z from West Tek research center.

After finding out that the serum was real and used on her, Sofia feels betrayed. She traces more signals, one coming from a robobrain that the Resident had to destroy, and another one coming from another holotape. After sending the resident to retrieve it, she finds out that an Artificial Intelligence computer named A.T.H.E.N.A. was created for the purpose if connecting to her brain while she was on the pod. Although her crewmates knew of the mission and they were not supposed to be subjects, they were forced by the board members to get into the other pods.

Willing to find A.T.H.E.N.A. and cut the connection, Sofia locats the signal of the Arachne holotape, a kill switch for the A.I. This quest concludes The Woman Who Fell to Earth series of quests.

Mission Out-of-Control
After recovering he Arachne holotape, Sofia, Hale, and the Resident head to Sugar Grove, where, they have found out, the A.T.H.E.N.A. AI computer is located.

After finding A.T.H.E.N.A., the A.I. computer explains that the serum established a connection between A.T.H.E.N.A. and Sofia's brain, so that the A.I. could see everything that Sofia experienced. This revealed that the true objective of the experiment was to create a surveillance A.I. that could overlook from the point of view of anyone.

A.T.H.E.N.A. then explains that she wanted the experiment to end, as the AI considered itself a mere passenger or observer, didn't design the experiment nor wish to continue it, and found the experiment unethical. Because of that, A.T.H.E.N.A. pinged the robots, holotapes and Sofia's terminal so she could find Sofia and load Arachne, thus to end the experiment and A.T.H.E.N.A.'s life.

When Daguerre arrives, A.T.H.E.N.A. apologizes to her and states that she didn't wish to infiltrate her mind and that she does not know if her headaches would continue after Arachne is deployed, as the other subjects did not survive the process. After hearing that, Daguerre empathizes with her and realizes that they both are victims.

The Resident can choose to deploy Arachne and kill A.T.H.E.N.A. OR the A.I. can be loaded into a nearby Assaultron. At one point in the dialogue a skill check of 15+ Luck is required, but ultimately the player can choose to load the AI into the Assaultron. Hale is told to go away and never come back.

You travel back to your CAMP, and find that Sofia is now freed from most of her headaches, although she reports continuing anxiety.

Appearances
Sofia Daguerre appears only in the Fallout 76 add-on Wastelanders.

Командир Дагер