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Replicated Entities, abbreviated RepEnt, are the disposable clone soldiers that players remotely operate in Fragmentary Order. A RepEnt is the body that walks into a contested zone, carries the gear, takes the damage, and either extracts or is lost. The player is not the clone. The player is the controller behind the clone, a Core Era citizen working a shift from a secure bunker somewhere in human-held space.

Quick Reference

The Player's Frame

The player's seat in the fiction is not the front line. It is a chair in a bunker. From that chair, a Core Era citizen logs into a RepEnt and projects their presence into a hostile environment, somewhere out across the Solar System, that they would never survive in person. The clone moves where the controller tells it to move. The clone fires the weapon the controller picks. The controller's body stays safe; the clone's body is the one that bleeds.

This frame matters because every choice the player makes carries a different weight than it would in a first person shooter where the avatar is the player's sole life. A RepEnt controller can take risks that a real soldier could not. They can push a contested objective harder, accept worse odds, and walk away from a failed deployment to log into another body. The bunker is the constant; the clone in the field is the variable.

The fiction casts this work as freelance contract labour. Core Era citizens accept deployments the way other workers accept shifts, with credits and reputation on the line each time they boot a RepEnt. See the Setting: The Year 2251 article 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 to be patched out, 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, not the controller's biology.

That design choice shapes the whole risk and reward loop. Controllers weigh a deployment against the price of replacement. 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 who want to take that gear off the controller's hands. Disposability is what lets the contract economy function: 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 or monsters. Every RepEnt on the map represents a real controller in a real bunker making real decisions. Encounters are accordingly unpredictable, because there is no behaviour script to read; there is only another person on the other end, weighing the same risks as the player and reaching their own conclusions.

The studio has not committed to a fixed match format, team size, or per-zone player count in public material, so any specific numbers around lobbies and squads should be treated as unannounced. What is on record is the broad shape: human against human, clone against clone, with the bunker and the controller behind every body in the field. For the wider gameplay loop and the role of contracts, scavenging, and extraction, see the Gameplay Overview article. For the size and variety of the 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. CORIE is the in-fiction system that prices warfare, technology, and labour according to the risks involved. A RepEnt 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, this means progression is 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.

The setup also explains why the studio frames the project as a combat simulator built on a corporate economy rather than a straightforward shooter. The clone in the field and the citizen in the bunker are two halves of a single contract; CORIE is the layer that turns those contracts into a persistent world.

Unconfirmed Details

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

• Origin of the clones. Whether RepEnt bodies are produced from a controller's own genetic material, from 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, classes, or chassis variants. 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, the controller's account, or both is unclear, as are any rules around what a RepEnt can carry into and out of a zone beyond the general loadout framing.

• Customisation, gender options, and visual personalisation. Whether controllers choose appearance, gender, or body type for their RepEnts, and how persistent those choices are across redeployments, 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.

Anything beyond the points marked verified in this article (the controller framing, the bunker setup, the disposable clone format, the PvP nature of combat, and the CORIE link) is currently speculation and will be revised once the alpha programme provides hard data.