When the drone runner is running on the treadmill, the videos playing on her screen are clips from the first Drone Runner film.
The character name "Griz Morado" was inspired by a paint color.
When the Drone Runner encounters ten drones in the bar, Brian the Artificial Intelligence comments that the best she ever did in the simulator was eight drones. In DRONE RUNNER (2022), the last simulation ends when the Drone Runner fails to shoot nine drones.
The music soundtrack plays for the entire 17 minutes and 45 seconds of the film.
Although the name of the planet "at the edge of the galaxy" where all of the action takes place is never mentioned in the film, Alta's garbled broadcast at 2:06 clearly shows that it is coming from the "Ooteon Science Compound." While that isn't conclusive proof, Vincent Scuro confirms that "Ooteon" is the name of the planet.