I thought I mentioned this in the annotations for Cantata, but it doesn't appear so. Maybe I'm remembering it coming up in the discussion. Anyway, the Earthforce Navy's Project WARLOCK is a reference to a couple of coincidentally similar things: the canonical Earthforce's attempt to hybridize Shadow technology into its warship development in Bablyon 5, and also the "let's build an autonomous battle robot based on a partially destroyed Neuroi core, how hard can it be?" thing from the original Strike Witches series.

>It seems we've just been introduced to
>the UFverse equivalent to the Abyssal Fleet.

Well... I mean, there is an Abyssal version of Fubuki in the original, but she doesn't look anything like that.

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