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Replicated Entities, abbreviated RepEnt, are the disposable clone soldiers players remotely operate in Fragmentary Order. The player is not the clone. The player is a Core Era citizen logged in from a secure bunker, projecting their presence into a hostile zone through a body that is built to be expended.

Quick Reference

The Player's Frame

The player's seat in the fiction is a chair in a bunker. From there, a Core Era citizen logs into a RepEnt and walks it into a contested zone they would never survive in person. The clone moves where the controller tells it to move and fires the weapon the controller picks. The controller's body stays safe; the clone's body is the one that takes the damage.

The studio frames this work as freelance contract labour. Citizens accept deployments the way other workers accept shifts, with credits and reputation on the line each time they boot a RepEnt. See Setting: The Year 2251 for the broader context of how Core Era citizenship and remote work fit together.

Disposable by Design

RepEnts are designed to be expendable. Loss is not a soft fail state, it is part of the system. A clone that does not extract is gone, with whatever gear it was carrying, and the controller continues from the bunker without lasting bodily harm. The ledger that takes the hit is the credit ledger.

That choice shapes the risk and reward loop. Bringing better gear into a contested zone raises the prize on offer if the RepEnt extracts and raises the bill if it does not. The same calculation runs in reverse for opponents: every clone in the field is something a rival can take, and every clone the player loses is something a rival has gained.

PvP Combat Model

Combat in Fragmentary Order is between human-controlled clones, not between players and computer-driven aliens. Every RepEnt on the map represents a real controller in a real bunker making real decisions, so encounters are unpredictable; there is no behaviour script to read.

The studio has not committed to a fixed match format, team size, or per-zone player count, so any specific numbers around lobbies and squads should be treated as unannounced. For the wider gameplay loop, see Gameplay Overview. For the size and variety of zones a RepEnt can be deployed into, see Maps and Scale.

Why It Matters in CORIE

RepEnt deployments are how a player participates in the larger risk economy run by the CORIE Framework. A clone sent into a contested zone is a unit of risk in motion. The contract that sent it there has a value because the zone has a value, and both numbers are set by what other operators are willing to do in the same space.

From the controller's seat, progression is therefore not just about kills and loot. It is about understanding how CORIE rates the work, which factions are paying for what kind of pressure, and how the credit flow shifts when one corporate bloc pulls back and another moves in. The RepEnt is the tool; CORIE is the market the tool operates inside.

Unconfirmed Details

Significant aspects of how RepEnts work have not been formally disclosed and should not be stated as fact:

• Origin of the clones. Whether RepEnt bodies are produced from a controller's own genetic material, donor stock, or by some other process is not on record.

• Consciousness and memory transfer. The technical fiction for how a controller's input reaches the clone, and what (if anything) the clone retains between deployments, has not been explained.

• Named RepEnt models or classes. No specific clone tiers, archetypes, or class names have been announced; community shorthand should not be repeated as canon.

• RepEnt-specific equipment systems. Whether gear, implants, or augments are tied to the clone or to the controller's account is unclear.

• Customisation, gender options, and visual personalisation. Whether controllers choose appearance, gender, or body type for their RepEnts has not been confirmed.

• Penalty model on loss. The exact cost in credits, reputation, or stored gear when a RepEnt fails to extract has not been published.