The Psychotronics Prisoner

The Psychotronics Prisoner is a side quest in Prey (2017).

Overview
I've come across an experiment with a volunteer trapped in a chamber designed to render Mimics into exotic material. This man will most certainly die in the process but the material produced would be extremely useful. If I let him go, however, he says he 'll let me into the armory.

Objectives

 * Start extraction process or release the volunteer

Walkthrough
This optional mission can first be obtained upon entering the Material Extraction room in Psychotronics.

Inside Material Extraction you'll find your first live person - a "Volunteer". He's scheduled for an experiment that will probably end badly for him, but he'll plead with you to let him out. He saw a scientist enter the armory and knows the code, and will exchange it for his freedom.

A console located in front of the chamber, in the direct center of the room, gives you the choice to open the door and free him, activate the process and kill him, or read his volunteer record beforehand. Reading the record is optional, and is only to help the player decide what choice they wish to make. An Exotic Material Extraction Manual is found on the table with the console, which details the correct order of steps of the Material Extraction Process.

If You Free The Prisoner

If you choose to open the door and free Aaron Ingram he will give you the code to the Armory. It’s a static code so it’s always the same every play through. The code is 8714. When you free him, he is thankful and decent so his original appeals regarding his crimes appear to be true.

If You Kill The Prisoner

If you decide to go through with the material extraction process a Mimic will kill Aaron, and split into 4 Mimics afterwards. This is a great opportunity to scan the Mimics and it can get you right to the level 2 power. However, January calls and expresses his disappointment with your choice and of course, Aaron dies. You also get 13 Exotic materials.

Your choices during this mission are one of the many things that influence the ending in Prey (2017).