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 and had a pet turtle until she moved to Washington DC after finishing college, and applied for the astronaut program a couple of times until she was accepted. In her time in the USSA, she participated in a long-term suspended animation experiment: the Deep Sleep program. She and some 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.

She somehow 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 residents. 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 residents to help her with locating her crew, even asking if they would be willing to let her stay at their C.A.M.P. until she knows the fates of her crewmates.

Upon arriving at the player character's C.A.M.P., she will ask the player to install the USSA console at the C.A.M.P., and to retrieve a scanner upgrade found at the ATLAS Observatory, 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 long time in deep sleep that she experimented.

After that, Daguerre picked up an erratic signal moving towards her position. The Resident is sent to investigate the signal, that turns out to be an 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 route and walked away.

Upon returning of the mission, Sofia engages in a conversation with Emerson Hale, a mechanical engineer in the Deep Sleep mission, that found her signal and came to check if she was alive. After that, Hale visites the Resident C.A.M.P. to provide her of some Emergence Kits to relieve her headaches.

Some time later, Sofia finally pickes up the transmission of her former crewmates, and although that 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 were indeed dead, as the wreckage was not much more than a twisted ball of junk, as the crewmates were not in the main capsule like her. With nothing more to recover, the Resident brings the crewmate's dog tags back to her. When 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 that continued making the same pattern, but also noticed that the robots signature were a partial match for some other signals in the area, and insisted to the Resident to investigate them. Hale continued 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 one of the robot's signature was tagged with a code indicated as a 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 finding and listening the holotape, Sofia recalls that her and her crewmates had to listen to some similar holotapes while they were using the Deep Sleeper Pods, designed by a man named Dr. Bernard, before they were sent to space. This happened every two months for two years. Because of all this nonsense, she asks the player to try to dig up anything about the pods to see if they had any kind of relation with the holotape.

After travelling to the AMS corporate headquarters and retrieving the Patent design of the pods, Sofia notices two details that makes her suspicious of the intention of the project: information about sensory data transfers and the fact that Emerson Hale was the supervisor. To try to find out about what the sensory data transfers were refering to, she looks for her old medical data from the USSA and sent the player to retrieve a copy.

After reading the medical records and demanding answers to Hale, he first states that he didn'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, worried that the serum could be the cause of her headaches, asks the Resident to grab the government contract from 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, now feeling betrayed because of her being the subject of experimentation, traced some more signals, one coming from a Robobrain that the player character had to destroy, and another one coming from another holotape. After sending the player to retrieve it, she found out that an Artificial Intelligence named A.T.H.E.N.A. was created to connect to her brain while she was on the pod. Although that 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 located the signal of the Arachne holotape, a kill switch for the A.I. After recovering it, Sofia, Hale and the Resident headed to Sugar Grove, where they found out the AI was located.

After finding A.T.H.E.N.A., the A.I. explained that the Serum stablished a connection between her and Sofia's brain, where 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 everybody.

A.T.H.E.N.A. then explained that she wanted the experiment to end, as she considered itself a mere passenger or observer, that didn't design the experiment nor wished to continue it and found it unethical. Because of that, she pinged the robots, holotapes and Sofia's terminal so she could find her and load Arachne, to end the experiment and her 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 affter 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 player can choose to deploy Arachne and kill A.T.H.E.N.A., freeing Sofia from her headaches, or if a skillcheck of 15+ luck is passed, the A.I. can be loaded into a near Assaultron.

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

Командир Дагер