References in Star Command

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One of the upgrades for the Shield Booster room is called the Spine Reticulate:



The description for it also references city production:



This is a reference to the Simcity games, which involves city production and has a running gag involving "Reticulating Splines"


Another reference is that in 2 points of the story, one of the possible things you can say is "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum".





This is a reference to the same phrase said by Duke Nukem.