Save the Future! New Gamemode and Terminator antagonist.

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First thing I thought of as an explanation for how the crew will know who the chosen ones are before the terminator arrives. If someone can come up with something better go for it.

Maybe, like the source material, there could be some survivor group in the future? But since they don't have all the cool technology like the guy that made the terminator, they can only send back messages, not physical objects.

The tyrant was mostly designed just to be a plot device that explains why there is a killer robot going after these specific people and why it is important that the crew protects them. The idea of the more bad shit getting sent to the past as chosen ones die/abandon is pretty good though and I might look into that more later.

Maybe that could the the motivation to keep the chosen one alive instead of just validing the terminator?

This was meant to be a way to make the station gradually become more dangerous to the chosen ones the longer the terminator is alive, encouraging crew to deal with the threat fast instead of hiding until the shuttle arrives.

The longer the terminator is alive, the more likely it is to kill the chosen one.

This was meant to encourage the crew to stick with the chosen ones instead of trying to hunt down the terminator themselves. Considering OMJ also disliked this part I would like to see more people give feedback regarding this one though.

It's possible that the crew will stick around the chosen one because that lets them meme the terminator, because that's where he'll be going.