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Real Life Stars

Greek underworld	The Elysium system	Named after a location where heroes and virtuous people lived the afterlife
Chinese mythology	The Tianlong system	Named after dragons
	The Shenlong system
	The Tao Tie system	Named after beasts
	The Qilin system
	The Kunlun system	Named after mountains
	The Peng Lai system
Chinese history	The Liu Bai system	Liu Bai was a warlord of the Han Dynasty
The Epic of Gilgamesh	The Enkidu system	Enkidu is a character of the aforementioned source
Judaism	The Tzadkiel system	Named after archangels
	The Metatron system
Ars Goetia	The Flauros system	Named after demons

2001: A Space Odyssey	Intro screen	The icon for New Game shows an upper half of Earth in front of the Sun, not unlike the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien	The LV 426 system	Named after a location in the film
The Man In The High Castle	Loot	During a livestream, George said that Curators loot is inspired by the trade of antiques and forgeries as described in The Man In The High Castle
Doctor Who	level 8 unknown device named device(s) labeled “Dalek1”
Star Wars	Bootleg Star Wars 3DV
Book of the New Sun	The Severian's Star system	Named after the protagonist of the book
	Ministry of Records	On the Crash Reports section of the Ministry of Records, unidentified users are given the name “simulacrum”

Star Control 2

Shofixti

If the player enters nothing in the Name field of the Ship Selection screen, the name defaults to Shofixti.

XKCD	level 8 unknown device named device labeled “XKCD”
NetHack	unknown mnemonic cube named mnemonic cube labeled “nethack/VR 5.0”