History Trivia / SOMA

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Despite its Escher-esque design for a 22nd-century ship, the ''CURIE'' is actually based on a real-life [[https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/flip-ship/ FLIP ship]], shown on a few posters in the ship's bridge.

* ImageSource: For ExistentialHorror and AbandonedLaboratory.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hidden files within the game contain data on its earlier build, ''Vertical Slice''. Among other things, it would have featured a different version of Catherine, a global war rather than a comet impact and a much different storyline.

* ImageSource: For ExistentialHorror.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Despite its Escher-esque design for a 22nd-century ship, the ''MS CURIE'' is actually based on a real-life [[https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/flip-ship/ FLIP ship]], shown on a few posters in the ship's bridge.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Despite its Escher-esque design for a 22nd-century ship, the ''MS CURIE'' is based on a real-life [[https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/flip-ship/ FLIP ship]] design, shown on a few posters in the ship's bridge.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hidden files within the game contain data on its earlier build, ''Vertical Shift''. Among other things, it would have featured a different version of Catherine, a global war rather than a comet impact and a much different storyline.

*** In case all that makes your eyes pop, the password is "[[spoiler:19PzQ8arc11rkdv]]".

* GeniusBonus: All of the PATHOS-II sites are designated with Greek letters. "Wau" (in modern Hebrew, vav) was the original name of the ancient Greek letter for the /w/ sound, which is conventionally known as digamma[[note]]The usual form resembles the Latin letter F, which looks like two upper-case gammas stacked on top of each other.[[/note]]. Attic Greek had dropped /w/ by the time it became the lingua franca of the Hellenophone world, which meant that digamma had long since passed out of use (except as part of the Greek numeral system) by the time the Romans arrived.

** Sarang's ideology is essentially a twisted interpretation of the already dubious concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality quantum immortality]].

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Like in ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'', there's a password-protected zip file in the game's directory, and finding the code ''[[NintendoHard takes some serious difficulty.]]

** Sarang's cult's ideology is essentially a twisted interpretation of the already dubious concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality quantum immortality]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Franchise/TheGamers Cass and Leo]] apparently had alter-egos as expert scientists, and were important enough to get themselves cryogenically frozen to be able to work on an underwater research facility in the 22nd century.

* HeyIt'sThatGuy!: [[Franchise/TheGamers Cass and Leo]] apparently had alter-egos as expert scientists, and were important enough to get themselves cryogenically frozen to be able to work on an underwater research facility in the 22nd century.

* GeniusBonus: All of the PATHOS-II sites are designated with Greek letters. "Wau" (in modern Hebrew, vav) was the original name of the ancient Greek letter for the /w/ sound, which is conventionally known as digamma[[note]]The usual form resembles the Latin letter F, which looks like two upper-case gammas stacked on top of each other.[[/note]]. Attic Greek had dropped /w/ by the time it became the lingua franca of the Hellenophone world, which meant that digamma had long since passed out of use (except as part of the Greek numeral system) by the time the Romans arrived.