Trivia
All throughout the book series' are scattered random references and minor details.
References to Outside Material
In The Road to War, specifically in the short story Retrospectus, the Saratoga's ventral power vault is located behind "panel nine-and-three-quarters", sublte, but a reference to the Harry Potter franchise.
Cindy's lance is nicknamed Private Pyle, a reference to the movie Full metal jacket.
The Lancer's Creed is a thinly-veiled version of The Rifleman's Creed. My apologies to all those who might find this offensive.
In Author of the Gust when Hunter Jusenkyou meets Ryo Sansen in a cave, he comments that he is "lost, and not ready to try Hare Krishna yet". This is actually a reference to the Great Muppet Movie, in which everytime one character mentions being lost, someone else asks them if they've tried Hare Krishna. The same scene is repeated from Hunter's perspective in The ByWay to Freedom.
Its no coincidence that every time the cardinal elements are mentioned, they always appear in the order: earth, fire, wind, and water. Even when one is missing, they are always arranged in that configuration. This is a subtle nod to none other than Captain Planet. You can pretty much imagine the intro-sequence to that show every time you read those four words and you've got a good idea of what's going on inside my head.
- The card game even allows you to summon a special unit called Kernel Earth.
Numbers
This refers to actual figures in stories or articles, not the #-#-# you see scattered at seemingly random. Any time numbers appear in the series(or even here on the wiki) you can assume one of three things:
- The numbers are based on some multiple of three and eight(3, 8, 5, 11, 13, 15, 24, etc, etc)
- The numbers are the result of extensive research and practical mathematics and are, at least as best as can be expected, accurate. OR have some actual meaning within the story-world(E.G. the Saratoga's Registry Number).
- The numbers are someone's birthday, phone number, bra size, some historical event, or any number of referential things.
Numbers are, in the Course Books, never random.
