![]() The rear-end of Klaxxon's train is engraved with the phrase "Last Train to Traincentral", which was inspired from a similar slogan by the KLF.Superstar, in full, stands for "Jesus Christ Superstar", which is a reference to a rock opera and musical of the same name. Heavy Mental, once destroyed, changes into Heavy Metal.The Kaiser Franz 650 is most probably named after the Doppelkaiser Francis/Franz who, as Francis II, was the last Holy Roman Emperor and, as Francis I, was the first Kaiser of the Austrian Empire.The name "FeX" is also a reference to the U.S.Microsoft called it a "Windows Start-Up Disk". This is a shout out to legacy versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, where a recovery disk, usually in the form of a 3.5-inch floppy, could be used to start up the entire operating system. The FeX labs contain a "Universe Boot-Up Disk" by Microsoft.The music playing during this scene also seems to take cues from the main theme of the same film. Falcor from The Neverending Story can be seen flying in the space debris after the cannon destroys the universe.The Chemical Brothers is a reference to a British band of the same name. In the first mission, you are assigned to take out several colonies belonging to the Chemical Brothers.The Black Friday missile is a reference to the 1929 Wall Street Crash.The name of the Belzebub Mortar is taken from the demon Beelzebub.In Japanese, "banzai" means "ten thousand years". A member of the RiG forums once inferred that the Banzai Titanium Rammer could last for ten thousand years due to its name.The Atarix is a shout out to the old Atari consoles.The cheat code "arnold_for_president" is a reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger.In the aftermath of forcing the supercomputer to transfer data containing the location of the quantum cannon to your ship, you are confronted by several Space Invaders-esque ships. ![]() The name of the supercomputer itself is a reference to Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the Atomic Bomb", as well as the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. ![]() The Abacus-I Artificial Asteroid, where the Oppenheimer XP Supercomputer Core is located, contains numerous references to The Matrix.The number 666 can be found across many levels in the game (Interspace 666, Erebus-666, 13 666, etc.), and they are all references to the number of the beast. ![]()
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