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# In Terminator are the crew real or a fantasy?

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asked Mar 25 in Playing by dw (9 points)
recategorized Mar 27 by Alex
The protagonist of Terminator barely mentions the crew. We never see or hear a specific description of any particular person. Is it possible that the protagonist is alone and only imagines crewmates?
Terminator on ifdb:
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2sp5rtcgm7b53m6
If you are the author of the work, identify yourself to readers. Sorry, I'm unable to reply to your comment dannii. I'm not sure that plot-explanation is a good tag.

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commented Mar 25 by Dannii (329 points)
Hmm, I'm really not sure about this kind of question. Without Word of God (ie from the author) the answers to this question will only be speculation.
On tags: game is too generic so I'll remove that. Terminator probably won't get reused but there's no harm in it. I'll add a plot-explanation tag (borrowed from the SciFi stack exchange site.)
commented Mar 26 by bg (692 points)
Dannii, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but if plot-explanation type QAs get spoilery (not saying this one is), or if people ask for hints, would it make sense to mark questions/answers as spoilery somehow? Or will "plot explanation" cover that as well?
commented Mar 26 by Dannii (329 points)
@bg It would be good to have a spoiler tag to hide them. I'll look into that soon.

## 1 Answer

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answered Mar 26 by mattweiner (121 points)
I'm the author of Terminator. The in-game explanation for why the protagonist of Terminator barely mentions the rest of the crew (besides the captain) is that her job in this mission is to control the robots, and this is so absorbing and so time-consuming that she's entirely focused on it and can't pay any attention to the rest of the crew.
The real-world answer is that I didn't have time to implement the rest of the crew or really anything else about the spaceship you're in. Also I thought that they're pretty much irrelevant to the gameplay so I shouldn't direct the player's attention toward them.

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