Because the game checks for PROLOGUE.rpf immediately upon startup (to load the intro sequences), any issue with this file results in an immediate crash. Here are the most common scenarios:

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The technician, a kid named Park with acne and a God complex, hesitated. "Ma'am, this isn't a video file. It's a runtime package. We'd have to recompile it inside the original engine—the Fracture engine. The one he designed."

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It was a confession.