+Ark1002 Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 What easter eggs have you noticed in Skyward? I noticed the "Ahlstorm loop", which is obviously referring to Peter Ahlstorm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overlord Jebus Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Rig McAffrey is a nod to Anne McAffrey who wrote the Dragonriders of Pern series to which this seems to have a few homages to (The caverns analogous to the Keeps, the waves of Krell from the sky are like the Thread, the characters been descendants of ships that landed on the planet, even the cytonic teleportation and the "nowhere" seem to be homages to the teleportation in the Pern books). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, Overlord Jebus said: Rig McAffrey is a nod to Anne McAffrey who wrote the Dragonriders of Pern series to which this seems to have a few homages to (The caverns analogous to the Keeps, the waves of Krell from the sky are like the Thread, the characters been descendants of ships that landed on the planet, even the cytonic teleportation and the "nowhere" seem to be homages to the teleportation in the Pern books). Ahh I didn't catch those. I'm too stuck on the similarities to Hyperion and freecasting Being able to understand and hear the Krell communications was like learning the language of the living. And of course, seeing/hearing the call of the stars was like hearing the music of the spheres. And cytonic teleportation is so much like freecasting. And someone caught this on reading Hyperion today Quote Our worst dreams have come alive. Something wicked shuns the light. Shades of Morbius and the Krell. Keep the fires high, Mother, Grendel comes tonight. Both Krell and Grendel (the Beowulf story) mentioned in that line! Edited November 13, 2018 by RShara 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platypus Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 M-Bot plays Dvorak's New World Symphony for Spensa. Neil Armstrong had a recording of the New World Symphony along on the Apollo 11 mission. Also, if I'm remembering correctly, John Williams used it as part of his temp track for the original Star Wars, so that's a second spaceflight/starfighter connection. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platypus Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 There's a reference to "Stewart destructors", I assume that's a reference to Isaac Stewart. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipexe Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 @Platypus Good catch! M-bot makes a reference to Schrödinger’s cat saying, Quote “Hello?” M-Bot said. “Spensa? Are you dead?” “Maybe” ”Oooh. Like the cat!” 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PandACT Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) Further down on the shchrödinger's cat joke, M-Bot says, "the probability has collapsed in our favor" when he confirms Spensa is alive. I wasn't convinced until then, but I screamed at that moment. :3 Edited November 25, 2018 by PandACT 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashertliden Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 When talking about Spensa's brain activity, the scientist Rikolfr says that "The Writellum section of her brain went crazy with activity when she was around the Krell" Spoiler This is possibly a reference to Jason Write from Defending Elysium. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ark1002 Posted November 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Yay! Lot's of easter eggs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ILuvHats Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Jorgen’s first choice for a callsign, Jager, could be a reference to the webcomic Girl Genius. It does mean “hunter” in German, which Jorgen alludes to, so there’s an in-world reason Jorgen chose it. But Brandon has mentioned Girl Genius in Writing Excuses and called it his favorite comic (back in 2010 or something) so this can’t be a coincidence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 Jorgen's father is called Algernon, maybe that name's based on the scifi short story Flowers for Algernon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletSabre Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) On 25/11/2018 at 11:30 PM, Ookla the Indefatigable said: When talking about Spensa's brain activity, the scientist Rikolfr says that "The Writellum section of her brain went crazy with activity when she was around the Krell" Hide contents This is possibly a reference to Jason Write from Defending Elysium. Most likely, the second I read the words Spoiler "Cytonic Hyperdrive" I instantly thought of him and that story, and was waiting for a reference to Spoiler The Phone Company or the Varvax. Edited November 28, 2018 by ScarletSabre 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADIMORTIS Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 M-bot was called Murderbot by Spensa. So maybe referencing the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. But I'm not sure... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norlick27 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 M-Bot makes Shakespeare (Hamlet) references in the scene where they're shooting rubble as target practice. Quote "Good night, sweet prince," M-Bot whispered as the junk crashed to the ground. "Or princess. Or, most likely, genderless piece of inanimate space junk." Quote "Alas, poor space junk," M-Bot said. "I would have pretended to know you, if I were capable of lying." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 From Defending Elysium, the head of the Phone Company, Jason Write could have a real world analogue. Listening to the science news summary by Jim Campanella at the end of Starship Sofa Episode #561 he mentioned a paper published by Dr. Jason Wright, associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State university, where he and his students examined how much of the Cosmic transmissions have actually been combed through in the SETI project. The previous estimate, using the analogy of all of the possible encoded Alien transmissions as the volume of water in the oceans, was that SETI was like randomly dipping a glass of water into the ocean and looking for life in that glass of water. The updated n-Dimensional cosmic haystack estimate (oulined in the new paper) is that it's more like dipping a large hot tub into the ocean at random and looking for life in that size of random sample. Was curious if any of you have heard about this from any Sanderson source, like is this an homage to a colleague/friend of Brandon or Peter who they consult with to get the details right on how the complex physics of a given solar system in the Skyward Universe (our universe really) or the Cosmere would work? One final bit that's pretty interesting, Dr. Wright has wrote on his blog last december about a Rendevous with Rama type situation where an instellar asteroid, Oumuamua, that was passing through our solar system and had dimensions that were 10 times longer than it was wide, could have potentially be a tumbling derelict alien spacecraft, he largely panned this idea, but it's still fun to read about. Is Oumuamua an Alien SpacecraftOumuamua Updates And more Skyward related, he has written on his blog about Tabby's Star, that has very peculiar stellar dimming observation data that suggests that something mighty peculiar (possibly a Dyson's sphere) is oribiting around the star. Here's possibly the most interesting blog post about this, concerning the possibility that the data might be revealing Alien Megastructures (this is an analysis of similar stellar dimming, and some interesting discussion of different arrangements of extra-planetary energy harvesting structures). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanist Lupus Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 There was a brief mention of a call sign "Broken Wind", which was the name of one of the ships in Schlock Mercenary. "Morningtide" is the name of a Magic: the Gathering set, and knowing Brandon, that's not a coincidence. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ark1002 Posted December 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2018 18 hours ago, Arcanist Lupus said: There was a brief mention of a call sign "Broken Wind", which was the name of one of the ships in Schlock Mercenary. "Morningtide" is the name of a Magic: the Gathering set, and knowing Brandon, that's not a coincidence. Oh, good catch! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 On 26/11/2018 at 10:30 AM, Ashertliden said: When talking about Spensa's brain activity, the scientist Rikolfr says that "The Writellum section of her brain went crazy with activity when she was around the Krell" Hide contents This is possibly a reference to Jason Write from Defending Elysium. I didn’t notice that. That’s a really cool connection. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One_Armed Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 26.11.2018 at 1:30 AM, Ashertliden said: When talking about Spensa's brain activity, the scientist Rikolfr says that "The Writellum section of her brain went crazy with activity when she was around the Krell" Reveal hidden contents This is possibly a reference to Jason Write from Defending Elysium. The place in the brain that is in charge on cytonic abilities? That's clearly what branderson ment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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