MechaZone 223 Cheat Sheet

MechaZone 223 was full of all sorts of references to various anime, manga and conventional sources. Some of them were easy enough to spot to be called homages, but others were slightly more cryptical.

I've compiled most of the early ones to the list below. The rest will follow, when I have some time to add them and when they are cleared for public display.

Asian Combine

Combine from Ogre

Cabs Zrgn

Rot13-encoded (I think)

Calif Rodexe

spell backwards

Carter's Deep

John Carter, from Burroughs' Barsoom (Mars) books

Colonel Kilgore

Apocalypse Now

dan Kugar

anime series Dancougar

Doctor Rico

the main character in Heinlein's Starship Troopers is is called Rico

Dram

old unit of weight, still used with e.g. shotgun shells

EarthMate

Landmate from Appleseed

Eniram

spell backwards

Eric Paddleditch

direct translation of Erkki Melaoja (HelPol)

Esu Ylno

spell backwards

Flow

spell backwards

Fuhro

from latin

GUGES

from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed

High Martians

Space: 1889 RPG

imp-riahl

imperial

Ko Tatsuno

Tatsunoko is a japanese animation studio

Lum-thruster

Lum from Urusei Yatsura

Mantsuria-Riga

Fnord

Martin Emmex

Mx i.e. Maxxon, aka yours truly

MechaZone 223

combination of MegaZone 23 and Area 88

MiahM

Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Heinlein's book

Norton Swell

twisted from Orson Welles

Nupetiet Vernitzs

Zentraedi command ship class in Macross

Orjuuttaja

from the Ryydman -parody (pretty obscure for non-Finns I guess)

Paneuropean Alliance

Paneuropeans from Ogre

Professor Emm

prof. Meta from my HelPol games

Pugna

from latin

Rednamalas

spell backwards

Rod Wlar

anagram of Warlord, i.e. Sotaherra (HelPol)

Vindex

from latin

Wing of Honneamise

An animated movie of the same name