The Duplicate Shift

About

Zia Kor wakes from an eleven-day-old backup to repair a station that already has a living Zia Kor aboard. Both women are 35. Both remember marrying Niko, passing the reactor exam and promising never to authorize a workplace copy. The original survived. The company instantiated the backup early because Severn Repair Station needs two certified engineers to live. Once the repair ends, payroll recognizes one employee, one marriage and one return berth. Union delegate Maro calls the copy a worker. Director Hall calls her the reason twenty-eight people are alive. Across twenty scenes and four endings, the player handles reactor safety, copy personhood, bodily autonomy and an adult relationship that memory alone cannot own.

Cast

• Zia Kor protagonist and instantiated backup engineer
• Zia-Prime original engineer and continuity-token holder
• Niko Senn communications specialist and spouse of Zia-Prime
• Maro Vei union delegate and skimmer mechanic
• Enid Hall station director