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I'm pretty sure that radium weapons are a nod to the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books. http://barsoom.wikia.com/wiki/Radium

Like a lot of AdMech Skitarii stuff, they are a reference to science fiction from around WWI to the 1930s.


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Especially stuff involving Mars.

It's been ages (decades) since I read those books. I wonder if there are other references that I'm not catching.

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It's been ages (decades) since I read those books. I wonder if there are other references that I'm not catching.

A lot of the AdMech units look like something out of War of the Worlds or something out of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Or Flash Gordon. Or other things Mars-related...