Don't worry, this isn't a critical rant! I've been playing this game for a while now (and loving it), but every so often I'll see a name and something with nag at me. As I'm sure most of you know, Star Wars has a history of easter egg type names, like Cin Drallig for Nic Gillard's cameo jedi, or Senator Greblips (Spielberg backwards) for the "ET" alien. The other day I noticed that Korej Lim is an anagram of Joker ILM, so I decided to pull up a wiki page and see if I could spot any more easter eggs. That turned out to be a deep rabbit hole!

It seems like almost every other name in the game is some kind of joke, or reference. People sometimes talk about the obvious ones like Cere ("seer", the wise sage who looks ahead), greasy Greez, Bode (who bides his time), but I haven't seen the general idea of the many jokes discussed anywhere, so I wanted to post this here.

At this point, I've probably got about as far as I can get by myself, so I want to throw this out into the world and see what we can come up with! I'd love to know if anyone has any inside information, interviews, experience, etc that can confirm the things that need inside information, like "Garage Dan". But otherwise your thoughts on what names could be references to would be great. Hopefully this can be an interesting discussion!

Here's the list of my ideas so far. I've spoiler tagged this because discussing deeper meanings of character names can go that way.

In Jokes for Devs

Dagan Gera: "Garage Dan" - I like to think that during development for the game there was someone called Dan, who worked from home, in his garage.                                                         

Selfin Jook: "Self In Joke" - a reference to all the in jokes the team have made for themselves with these names.                                                            

Fenn Finau: "Fine for now" - maybe a placeholder that stuck                                                               

Anoth Estra: "Another Extra" - also almost an anagram of "North East" but that could be a coincidence, especially as they're found in the Southlands                                                             

Massi Fenau: "Messy for now" - perhaps chosen once Fenn Finau had stuck                                                           

Vaslyn Martz: "Vaseline Marks" - Maybe an effect they were working on ended up looking like vaseline marks on the camera? Or perhaps a reference to something in the office.                                                                      

San Dressen: "Sans Dressing" - perhaps the way someone in the office orders their salad?                                                          

In Jokes for Players

Korej Lim: "Joker ILM" - it's a perfect anagram and I'm sure I've seen a black and white jester/joker head at the end of a Star Wars credits, but I can't find it anywhere.                                                         

Gatt Medo: "DOTT Game" DOTT is Day of the Tentacle, an old Lucasarts game.                                                                       

Urghost: "Your Ghost" - spawns just after you kill Dagan, who does a bunch of ghostly stuff                                                         

Caij Vanda: "Cage Vendor" - she sends you after bounty hunters who want to capture you - she's selling cages.                                                             

Beetu Deetu: "B2-D2" - RD-D2 but a B2 Battle Droid                                                                   

Corde the Half: A bit of a stretch, but possibly a reference to Cordé (Padmé’s decoy in Attack of the Clones). Half, just like she is half of a duo when impersonating the Queen.                                                                     

Simple Word Play/Soundalikes

Meyen Corr: "My anchor"                                                              

Kili Oso: "Kill you so"                                                        

Kip Ostar: "K-Pop Star"                                                                    

D-L1T: "Delight"                                                                   

PR-85T: "Pretty Fighty"                                                                     

Drya Thornne: "Dry Thorn"                                                           

Hunches

Mash: not sure, but feels like a reference to something                                                            

Mads Gresh: Perhaps a reference to Mads Mikkelsen (Galen Urso)? It feels like there must be something in the pairing of Mads Gresh and San Dressen, but I can't see it.                                                                   

E3-VE3: "Evie"? Feels like something here, but I'm not sure                                                                    

I want to give some encouragement to those who have a test around the corner (and I also thought this could be a funny topic of conversation… 🫣).

For context, I passed my test a couple days ago and genuinely would’ve bet my last £500 when I pulled back into the test centre that I had failed (I passed first try!). I’d also never passed a mock test with my instructor before.

During my test, I:

• touched the examiner’s leg instead of the gear stick.
• gave way to someone on the left at a roundabout.
• touched the curb slightly during a manoeuvre but played it off as a pothole.

I genuinely believe I’m a decent driver, however nerves can get the better of you!! Hopefully this can give some motivation (and maybe some giggles) to the silent lurkers of this subreddit like myself circa last week and the weeks prior.

Good luck!