SOMA Skilaboeth [Minor Spoilers]

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I have no idea if this is some elaborate troll or not, but on reddit there's a thread which purports to show a website which is in some way tied into the game. Here's the thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soma/comments/3...aboethnet/

For those who can't be bothered reading it, here's a summary of the discussion so far:

• An in-game document shows an email sent from MJosic@skilaboeth.net.
  
• When you visit skilaboeth.net, all you'll find is an email input field, like a sign-up for something, with "Want more?" printed above it. The title of the website (in your browser tab, for instance) says "SOMA skilaboeth".
  
• The website's whois data shows that it was created/updated on the same day the game was released.
  
• A user on reddit emailed MJosic@skilaboeth.net and received a reply, asking if the user was "Chris", the person to whom the in-game email was addressed. Another user did the same, and received a slightly different reply. I tried it myself, but haven't received a reply yet, so it doesn't appear to be an auto-responder.
  
• On the skilaboeth website, if you type some random string at the end of the URL (like this) rather than getting a 404 Not Found error, you get a webpage with just "Chris?" in the middle of it.
  
• The source code of the webpage contains the word "soma" in a few places.
  
• There's a background image on the website containing numerous symbols, which are kinda hard to read in black. A user created a cleaned-up copy with a white background here. The picture apparently contains binary, so the current focus is on finding out what it means. reddit's "best guess" as to what the binary code actually is can be seen below:
  
  Spoiler below!
  

  Binary
  
  

  Code: (Select All)

  10101000 10010101 11011001 01011010 10101011 00001011 01101010 11101010 10010101 00101010 10001010 10101010 00010101 01101010 10001001 01101010 01001010 10101010 11101010 10100100 10010111 01010101 01010001 01010101 01111010 10100001 01011000 10010101 01010100 10001001 00101101 01001010 00101010 11010001 00101010 11101010 10111010 10101010 00010010 10101011 11010101 01000101 01010100 00101010 11101101 01010101 01111101 01000000 11001011 10101010 10111000 11010100 00111010 00101000 01001100 01010101 01010101 00010101 01111010 10100010 10000100 01000100 11110101 01101001 01111000 10111100 01010001 01110101 01001001 10100101 01000010 01001010 10101011 10101011 11010101 01000100

  
  Translation
  
  

  Code: (Select All)

  ¨•ÙZ« jê•*Šªj‰jJªê¤—UQUz¡X•T‰J*Ñ*꺪«ÕET*íU}@˪¸Ô:(LUUz¢„Dõix¼QuI¥BJ««ÕD

  
  

I'm 50/50 on whether or not this is the work of an opportunistic troll, or if it's something the devs really set up for us to find. If it's real, I'm not quite sure what the ultimate purpose is. Perhaps the binary code is related to the cryptic messages from the director of Depth the other day?