Sorry for taking so long to get to you!
Poly
Regarding "THEXWORLDXHASXCHANGEDZSEEKXTHEXSTARSZ" The X's and Z's are actually artifacts from the decoding process. It was encoded using an enigma cipher, and those letters were used instead of spaces in order to separate the words.

However, it is odd that both X and Z were used rather than just one or the other. That's definitely suspicious and we will investigate it further.

I should've elaborated about bradbury. Bradbury is effectively an in-game AI that was deactivated for some reason. It uses old magnetic tapes that are scattered throughout the game for storage. We're still missing some tapes, so we think this image has some sort of location hidden in it somehow.

But now that I think about it, bradbury is a huge machine, so I'm not sure how a businessman on the go could use it...

Maybe there's a portable version somewhere?

We've got no clue about the gods in the abyss thing either.

We've tried to convert the sound to an image via SSTV, but there may be other ways we don't know of.