[SPOILERS] SOMA unsolved mysteries thread

[Bigbob]

To the topic creator: if you want me to stop bumping your topic please let me know and I'll create my own topic for my ramblings.

In Simon's apartment is a statue of Ombra Della Sera. This is likely a reference to the Etruscans, who have their own history with Carthage. It appears the history is much earlier than the Punic Wars. The 2nd link has some info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombra_della_sera

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization

Update on volterra https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient...p/1-15700/

Volterra's status thereafter is unclear beyond that it contributed, as did many other Etruscan cities, to the campaigns of Scipio Africanus against Carthage during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE). According to the Roman writer Livy, it gave grain and timber for shipbuilding.

Edit: Here's the deal. As I find new stuff I'll edit this post until someone else posts so that I'm not incessantly bumping the topic.

In Simon's apartment is a book on Rome.

His toothpaste is made by a multinational company called ENI. ENI is headquartered in Rome and has expanded their oil operations into northern Africa. The city of Carthage was in Africa.

Edit again:
Based on Dahl’s audio logs I think it's pretty obvious she didn't know what the WAU really was despite working for Carthage. Ross I wasn't so sure until I found a book in his room called The Evil Genius by Renee Descartes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon

"René Descartes hypothesized the existence of an evil demon, a personification who is "as clever and deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading me." The evil demon presents a complete illusion of an external world, including other minds, to Descartes' senses, where there is no such external world in existence."

Edit: If you leave Catherine in the escape pod of the Curie, leave and go back before pulling the plugs on the reactor, she theorizes that the Jinjashi(sp?) are dead people brought back to life. That's probably common belief though?

Another edit:
During the simulations when you are trying to get the security code from Brandon Wan for the Dunbat, one of the locations is Versailles. This is a reference to the Treaty of Versailles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginian_peace

"At the end of the Third Punic War, the Romans laid siege to Carthage. When they took the city, they killed most of the inhabitants, sold the rest into slavery, and destroyed the entire city. There is no ancient evidence for modern accounts that the Romans sowed the ground with salt.[1]

By extension, a Carthaginian peace can refer to any brutal peace treaty demanding total subjugation of the defeated side.

Modern use of the term is often extended to any peace settlement in which the peace terms are overly harsh and designed to accentuate and perpetuate the inferiority of the loser. Thus, after World War I, many (the economist John Maynard Keynes among them[2]) described the Treaty of Versailles as a "Carthaginian Peace." "