The skeleton found in the crashed shuttle has long incisors and wears a spacesuit similar to Jaxxon, the much derided alien 'green rabbit' character who appeared in early Star Wars Marvel Comics in the seventies.
The 'Jedi fortune cookie' message that opens the show reads "When all seems hopeless, a true hero gives hope."
The opening titles before all episodes in this four-part arc (Secret Weapons (2012), A Sunny Day in the Void (2012), Missing in Action (2013), and Point of No Return (2013)) are blue rather than the traditional yellow.