Kenobi's lead gunship is the "Crumb Bomber."

As the gunships land in the jungle clearing outside Nabat, they frighten off several gutkurr creatures that are feeding on a dead can-cell. This is a re-use of the can-cell model previously seen on Teth and Rodia.

One of the display screens in the Separatist command center resembles the targeting grid found aboard the Millennium Falcon in A New Hope.

This is, production-wise, the first episode to feature the tactical droids. These droids were developed in order to showcase a more capable villain, but without creating a unique organic commander that would then need to be eliminated (like Loathsom, Lok Durd or Mar Tuuk). The modulated vocal pattern of the droid was partly inspired by the voice of Lucifer in the original Battlestar Galactica series.

At one point, the display screen at the Separatist command center reads, in Aurebesh letters, "Comic Relief".