Easter Eggs

Not beyond a reference or two, Æther Corp proudly presents an easter egg hunt!

Hidden within the Training Manual are 34 references to find, some more difficult & obscure than others.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (books, etc)
1. Front Cover "Solo journalling (for up to 4 players)" is a (slightly tenuous) callback to H2G2's "Trilogy in Five Parts"
2. Page 9 "Bureaucratic" was a particular feature of the Vogon race
3. Page 10 In "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" Fenchurch floats a couple of mm off the floor.
4. Page 10 "Salmon" was an obscure reference to "Salmon of Doubt", a post-humously released collection of unpublished material by Douglas Adams.
5. Page 14 Vogon's were also keen on terrible poetry
6. Page 20 42!
7. Page 22 42!
8. Page 25 Arthur never could get the hang of Thursdays.
9. Page 28 Vogon poetry again
Star Trek (TV series / films)
1. Page 1 "Second star to the right and straight on till morning" were the directions Kirk gave Sulu when ordered to return to Earth to be decommissioned.
2. Page 9 Qapla' (styled as "K'Plagh" in the citation on the opening quote) is Kligon for 'Success'. It's also appears to mean 'good luck', 'have a nice day', and 'kill Kirk' among many other things depending on how the script writers were feeling.
3. Page 9 Checkov says "guess who's coming to dinner" when Klingons are invited to the Enterprise in Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country.
4. Page 9 Holodeck malfunctions were a big thing on The Next Generation
5. Page 9 As were mystery illnesses, usually triggered by Lieutenant Barclay.
Red Dwarf (TV series)
1. Page 18 Repainting the hull (from the opening credits).
2. Page 18 Blue alert
3. Page 18 Changing the light bulb
4. Page 18 Red alert
Alien (film)
1. Page 18 Hypersleep
2. Page 18 Derelict spaceships (bit tenuous this one but t'was the source).
Bob Lazar / Element 115 (conspiracy)
1. Page 6 E115 is the fuel that Bob Lazar claimed he was working with on Area 51 to power UFOs. The element was later synthesised in a lab and name Moscovium.
2. Page 25 E115 (again)
2001: A Space Odessy (film)
1. Page 13 Monolith!
A Scanner Darkly (book/film)
1. Page 17 Do Scanners... quote citation
Bertrand Russell's teapot (analogy)
1. Page 13 "an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others." from
Dark Star (film)
1. Page 10 In this John Carpenter's film the crew are terrorised by an alien that looks suspiciously like a cross between a tomato and a beach ball.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (book)
1. Page 17 "Do Scanners..." quote citation
Dune (film)
1. Page 10 Controlling worms
Grand unified theory of everything (theory)
1. Page 7 The number 137 (in the quote citation) is a number that's been thought to be linked to a grand theory of everything by physicists since the early 1900s.
Peter Pan (book)
1. Page 1 Kirk was quoting Peter Pan's directions to Neverland in Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country.
Planck constant (physical constant)
1. Page 1 The revision number of the Training Manual quoted also happens to be Planck's constant.
Sherlock (TV series)
1. Page 10 In the show when Sherlock thinks a bunch of glowing words, letters, and numbers appear in the air.
Soul Music (book)
1. Page 10 In Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music' Death describes the colour of infinity to be a duck egg blue.
The First Men in the Moon (book)
1. Page 13 In H. G. Well's early science fiction novel two men end up on the moon after one of them builds a spaceship in his shed. It's covered in grey fungus.
The Pleiades / M45 (star constellation)
1. Page 5 The green dice are arranged to match my favourite star constellation, the seven sisters.