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* Combined with [[Inverted]] [[Chekhov's News]] in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]''. The combat portion of the [[Justified Tutorial]] consists of you fighting off a group of target drones that went haywire while you were evaluating a novice flight instructor. A news item later in the game reveals that the instructor went on to save the lives of her students when the same thing happened again.

* In the science fiction survival game ''[[Subnautica]]'', you are the sole survivor of the crash landing of a starship owned by a company called Alterra. One of the many announcements made by your computer assistant very early in the game is that you will have to reimburse Alterra for all the materiel you salvage and the tools and equipment you use in the process of getting off the ocean planet on which you are stranded. Some thirty or so hours of play later, after you've built a starship and successfully rescued yourself, and after the ending credits finish rolling, the same computer voice welcomes you back to Alterra and blandly informs you that you are required to pay your tab of a trillion or so credits before they'll let you land. [[Hard Cut]] to black.

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