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{{Quote|The WAU is reaching out to every machine, every life form, to manipulate, to control. It's trying to help, save its creators from all this, just like the protocol demands. But really, what is good enough?<br/><br/>Where is the line drawn for what is Human and what is not? Would walking corpses do? Would a group of machines thinking they're Human be acceptable? We can't trust a machine to know, to understand what it means to be.|[[Johan Ross|Dr. Johan Ross]]|Johan Ross/Dialogue#Termination}}[[File:WAU.svg|right|150px]]
{{Quote|The WAU is reaching out to every machine, every life form, to manipulate, to control. It's trying to help, save its creators from all this, just like the protocol demands. But really, what is good enough?<br/><br/>Where is the line drawn for what is Human and what is not? Would walking corpses do? Would a group of machines thinking they're Human be acceptable? We can't trust a machine to know, to understand what it means to be.|[[Johan Ross|Dr. Johan Ross]]|Johan Ross/Dialogue#Termination}}[[File:WAU.svg|right|150px]]
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The '''WAU''' is the station-wide artificial
general
intelligence—or embedded computer system, as its called on its logo—of [[PATHOS-II]], constructed by [[Carthage Industries]] with the intent of overseeing all operations across all sites, with [[Johan Ross|Dr. Johan Ross]] being its overseer and operator.
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The '''WAU''' is the station-wide artificial intelligence—or embedded computer system, as its called on its logo—of [[PATHOS-II]], constructed by [[Carthage Industries]] with the intent of overseeing all operations across all sites, with [[Johan Ross|Dr. Johan Ross]] being its overseer and operator.
While the WAU could be seen as the overarching antagonist of ''[[SOMA]]'' and ''[[Transmissions]]'', it is only an antagonist in that it is responsible for all of the obstacles faced by those on PATHOS-II; the WAU itself does not have malicious intent, as it doesn't have the ability to ‘think’.
While the WAU could be seen as the overarching antagonist of ''[[SOMA]]'' and ''[[Transmissions]]'', it is only an antagonist in that it is responsible for all of the obstacles faced by those on PATHOS-II; the WAU itself does not have malicious intent, as it doesn't have the ability to ‘think’.