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* BrickJoke: You find a prybar in the vents near the beginning. A crew log later complains that a worker dropped it from another vent higher up.

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* BrickJoke: You find a prybar in the vents near the beginning. A crew log worker later complains that a worker dropped of having lost it from another vent higher up.in one of the crew logs.
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!!Prominence !!''Prominence'' contains examples of:
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The ship's crew logs are dated in August of the year 5508.

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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: TheFuture: The ship's crew logs are dated in August of the year 5508.

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Prominence is an indie point-and-click ScienceFiction adventure game, developed in 2015 by Digital Media Workshop.

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Prominence [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prominence.png]]
''Prominence''
is an indie point-and-click PointAndClick ScienceFiction adventure game, AdventureGame, developed in 2015 by Digital Media Workshop.
Workshop and released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on November 7th, 2015.






* YouWakeUpInARoom: The game starts with you [[AbandonedHospitalAwakening waking up in the ship's Medical bay]], after a power outage and several other problems.

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* YouWakeUpInARoom: The game starts with you [[AbandonedHospitalAwakening waking up in the ship's Medical bay]], after a power outage and several other problems.problems.
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* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: ANNIE initially talks in this fashion when power is restored. She gets better as you repair her and the Laeril.



* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: ANNIE initially talks in this fashion when power is restored. She gets better as you repair her and the Laeril.
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** The ship's AI, Advanced Neural Network Information Entity.

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** The ship's AI, [[Main/AICronym AI]], Advanced Neural Network Information Entity.
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* TheFuture: The ship's crew logs are dated in August of the year 5508.

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* TheFuture: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The ship's crew logs are dated in August of the year 5508.
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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Critical parts of the ship were damaged by explosives. [[spoiler: You were hacked into stealing those explosives so whoever did it could sabotage the mission.]]

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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Critical parts of the ship were damaged by explosives. [[spoiler: You were hacked into stealing planting and setting off those explosives explosives, so whoever did it could sabotage the mission.]]
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** The HAC chip, or Holographic Autonomous Control

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** The Your HAC chip, or Holographic Autonomous ControlAutonomic Chip. Doubles as PunnyName, since you mostly use it to "hack" items around the ship.



* InsideAComputerSystem: A variant. Since the main terminal in the Archives is busted, you have to use your wireless HAC interface to view it instead,

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* InsideAComputerSystem: A variant. Since the main terminal in the Archives is busted, you have to use your a wireless HAC interface port to view it instead, shown through a 3D holographic interface on your HUD that looks like this trope.
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** The HAC chip, or Holographic Autonomous Control
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* ApocalypticLog: You find emails and voice messages on terminals all over the ship before and after everything went wrong, and later, ANNIE gives you the ability to download audio buffers from the ship's CCTV cameras.

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* ApocalypticLog: You find emails and voice messages on terminals all over the ship before and after everything went wrong, and later, ANNIE gives you the ability to download audio buffers from the ship's CCTV cameras. Played straighter with Chief Alavaji's logs after the evacuation, which he left for potential rescuers to find.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: The game starts with you waking up in the ship's Medical bay, after a power outage and several other problems.

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* YouWakeUpInARoom: The game starts with you [[AbandonedHospitalAwakening waking up in the ship's Medical bay, bay]], after a power outage and several other problems.
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* InterfaceScrew: When you enter the core, even with a hazard suit on, the leaking radiation makes your vision show static and an error message. ANNIE decides to tell you where to go until you reach the core's control panel and engage its protection field.
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* WhamShot: When you first enter Hydroponics, a cutscene plays, establishing that [[spoiler: you're in space and the ''Laeril'' is very close to the sun and still moving towards it.]]

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* InsideAComputerSystem: A variant. Since the main terminal in the Archives is busted, you have to use your wireless HAC interface to view it instead,
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Halfway through the game, ANNIE starts noticing that your actions in the game shouldn't be possible. [[spoiler: She then later decides that the solar prominence affected your circuitry in odd ways, creating your sentience. Lampshaded in an archive entry on the subject, which says that your HAC chip's model is sensitive to high energy waves.]]



* InsideAComputerSystem: A variant. Since the main terminal in the Archives is busted, you have to use your wireless HAC interface to view it instead,
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Halfway through the game, ANNIE starts noticing that your actions in the game shouldn't be possible. [[spoiler: She then later decides that the solar prominence affected your circuitry in odd ways, creating your sentience. Lampshaded in an archive entry on the subject, which says that your HAC chip's model is sensitive to high energy waves.]]
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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' ]] while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]] ]]

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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' ]] while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]] ]]
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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]] ]]

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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' ]] while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]] ]]
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* DistressCall:

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* DistressCall: At one point the ship is able to pick up one from New Letarr, revealing that the crew who evacuated there don't have enough supplies to last for very long. It also contains an EasterEgg in Morse Code.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Navigator Carine ren Talove calls out one of the Engineers over the gambling pool and reminds them that she'll tell the Captain about it...then quickly asks to be added to the pool.


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* TheEngineer: Rienne Teleda, whom Chief Alavaji personally appointed as Lead Design Engineer for her people skills. Some of the other engineers don't think too highly of her, though.
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* PardonMyKlingon: A Letarri expletive heard in some of the logs is "kreff".


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* SideBet: Some of the crew make a gambling pool over what day and time the prominence will hit, since no one could know for sure. It's never established if anyone won.
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* TheCaptain: Mission Commander Reyes ren Keterek, whom ordered the evacuation when everything went wrong.


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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Chief Danir Alavaji received a lethal dose of radiation when an explosion damaged the ship's power core. He stays behind to try and fix the ship while everyone else evacuated. [[spoiler: He failed, as his corpse in the core chamber indicates.]]
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** One of the crewmembers made a simple computer system called BelOS: Basic Enginering Low-Level Operating System.

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** One of the crewmembers made a simple computer system called BelOS: [=BelOS=]: Basic Enginering Engineering Low-Level Operating System.



* MasterConsole: Sometimes you have to connect a BeLOS laptop to various systems and manipulate them using a command prompt like this.

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* MasterConsole: In-universe. Sometimes you have to connect a BeLOS special [=BeLOS=] laptop to various systems and manipulate them using a command prompt like this.to progress.

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* BenevolentAI: ANNIE, the ship's computer, who helps you through the game via a wireless link to your systems.

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* AirVentPassageway: How you get out of Medical. Slightly more difficult than most examples due to the grate being flush with the wall and requiring [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle a laser]] to remove.
* BenevolentAI: ANNIE, the ship's computer, who helps guides you through the game via a wireless link ship while trying to your systems.determine what happened to it on the side.
* BrickJoke: You find a prybar in the vents near the beginning. A crew log later complains that a worker dropped it from another vent higher up.



* FunWithAcronyms: Advanced Neural Network Information Entity.

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* FunWithAcronyms: FunWithAcronyms:
** The ship's AI,
Advanced Neural Network Information Entity.Entity.
** One of the crewmembers made a simple computer system called BelOS: Basic Enginering Low-Level Operating System.
* TheFuture: The ship's crew logs are dated in August of the year 5508.



* MasterConsole: Sometimes you have to connect a BeLOS laptop to various systems and manipulate them using a command prompt like this.



* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: One of the crew log entries mentions a broken medical robot. Later, ANNIE notices some of your HUD is disabled, which she reactivates.]]

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* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: ANNIE initially talks in this fashion when power is restored. She gets better as you repair her and the Laeril.
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: One of the crew log entries mentions a broken medical robot. robot with a malfunctioning audio-video recording system. Later, ANNIE notices some starts activating parts of your HUD is disabled, HUD, one of which she reactivates.records all the messages you found on the ship's terminals.]]


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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Shortly after her activation, ANNIE talks to you through a remote uplink instead of over the ship's PA. This also lets her see what you see, allowing her to help you more directly throughout the game.
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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]]

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** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]] ]]

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* BlownOutTheAirlock:
** You have to do this to clear a pile of debris in one room, by disabling the ArtificialGravity in it and remotely detonating a bomb to blow the debris out into space.
** [[spoiler: It's also revealed later on that one of the explosions did this to the ship's Research room, requiring you to go outside the ship and enter through the breach left behind.]]


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* ThrownOutTheAirlock:
** You have to do this to clear a pile of debris in one room, by disabling the ArtificialGravity in it and remotely detonating a bomb to blow the debris out into space.
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The game is set thousands of years in the future, where humanity has colonized other planets to the point that they've created entirely new cultures. One of these, the Letarri, have set out to colonize a new planet after escaping from the dictatorial Rynans. The spaceship ''Laeril'' was one of the escaping ships designed to create this new colony, New Letarr, but something had gone wrong in the process.

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The game is set thousands of years in the future, where humanity has colonized other planets to the point that they've created entirely new cultures. One of these, the Letarri, have set out to colonize a new planet after escaping from the dictatorial Rynans. The spaceship ColonyShip ''Laeril'' was one of the escaping ships designed to create this new colony, New Letarr, but something had gone wrong in the process.


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* BlownOutTheAirlock:
** You have to do this to clear a pile of debris in one room, by disabling the ArtificialGravity in it and remotely detonating a bomb to blow the debris out into space.
** [[spoiler: It's also revealed later on that one of the explosions did this to the ship's Research room, requiring you to go outside the ship and enter through the breach left behind.]]
* DivertingPower: When ANNIE is brought to almost full operation, you're able to use a console that routes power to certain parts of the ship, and there's only so much available due to the ship's damaged core.


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* MultipleEndings: When using the Power Allocation Console. Chief Alavaji had set up a profile for repairing the ''Laeril'', while ANNIE asks you to build a supply shuttle for the colony instead. She also accepts the fact that all final decisions will be up to you.
** Repairing the ship results in [[spoiler: you [[HeroicSacrifice pulling your HAC chip out]] and plugging it into the ship's computer, causing you to permanently shut down as the ''Laeril'' turns around and heads for New Letarr.]]
** Building the shuttle leads to [[spoiler: [[AbandonShip abandoning the ''Laeril'' while you fly said shuttle to New Letarr.]]
* NightVisionGoggles: When you enter the pitch-black, unpowered Data Archives after ANNIE is activated, she turns on this function in your HUD, allowing you to see it. The screen also goes white with an error message on-screen if you enter a lit area with night vision still active.


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* PressXToDie: Your HAC chip's flavor texts says that it shouldn't be removed as it contains your memory and programming. [[spoiler: You have to do it in the Repair Ship ending.]]
* RecordedSplicedConversation: Used to get into the bridge, done by collecting every piece of camera audio around the ship, and then arranging the right parts in an audio editor to form the proper sentence.

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* ApocalypticLog: You find emails and voice messages on terminals all over the ship before and after everything went wrong, and later, ANNIE gives you the ability to download audio buffers from the ship's CCTV cameras.



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* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: The ''Laeril's'' upper decks are built in smooth white designs, in contrast to the blocky, industrial look of its lower decks. Archive files explain that the ship was half-finished before the Letarri redesigned it for the colony mission.
* FunWithAcronyms: Advanced Neural Network Information Entity.
* GhostShip: The ''Laeril'' was evacuated before you woke up, with only you and ANNIE remaining behind.[[spoiler: Though you can find Chief Alavaji's corpse if you look hard enough.]]
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: Subverted. While the ship's data archives has tons of background information, most of the data is corrupted or unreadable, requiring you to manually find and load keywords before viewing them.


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* MegaCorp: Taeron Technologies, designer of much of the ship's hardware. Most of their information in the archives is basically a product catalog.
* InsideAComputerSystem: A variant. Since the main terminal in the Archives is busted, you have to use your wireless HAC interface to view it instead,
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Halfway through the game, ANNIE starts noticing that your actions in the game shouldn't be possible. [[spoiler: She then later decides that the solar prominence affected your circuitry in odd ways, creating your sentience. Lampshaded in an archive entry on the subject, which says that your HAC chip's model is sensitive to high energy waves.]]
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: One of the crew log entries mentions a broken medical robot. Later, ANNIE notices some of your HUD is disabled, which she reactivates.]]
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Critical parts of the ship were damaged by explosives. [[spoiler: You were hacked into stealing those explosives so whoever did it could sabotage the mission.]]
* YouMonster: [[spoiler: ANNIE remotely shuts you down upon realizing that you were the cause of the ship's explosions. [[ItGetsBetter She then reboots you some time later]] after reviewing the crew logs to discover that it wasn't your fault, and decides that the both of you should work together to complete the mission.]]
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Prominence is an indie point-and-click ScienceFiction adventure game, developed in 2015 by Digital Media Workshop.

The game is set thousands of years in the future, where humanity has colonized other planets to the point that they've created entirely new cultures. One of these, the Letarri, have set out to colonize a new planet after escaping from the dictatorial Rynans. The spaceship ''Laeril'' was one of the escaping ships designed to create this new colony, New Letarr, but something had gone wrong in the process.

!!Prominence contains examples of:

* BenevolentAI: ANNIE, the ship's computer, who helps you through the game via a wireless link to your systems.
* FunWithAcronyms:
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: New Letarr's sun had created a solar prominence of unfathomable capacity, which short-circuited the ''Laeril's'' systems and caused it to sink towards the sun.]]
* YouWakeUpInARoom: The game starts with you waking up in the ship's Medical bay, after a power outage and several other problems.

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