Specifically, I’m wondering is N-7000 in the Omicron beast tribe supposed to be a reference to Legion in Mass Effect? He greatly admired, and learned to live as more of an individual from, Commander Shepard; whose military designation was N7 and whose armor plating designating such was fused on to Legion’s body.

If it’s not Legion, is he a reference to something else I don’t know about? And are there other interesting nods to outside source material in the beast tribes that ya’ll can think of? Cafe at the edge of the universe being a giant Douglas Adams reference notwithstanding.