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A demolition specialist in Earth’s orbital scrapyard is dispatched to strip an unmarked cruiser slated for automatic vaporization, only to find its cabins prepared for 400 people, a half-eaten meal still warm in the galley, and a log archive that records the same single day for six millennia. He discovers the ship exists in a localized time-loop bubble where only the interior resets to that day; anything he brings in from outside—his tools, his body, his memories—remains exempt and accumulates. As he explores, the loop begins to decay: each reset is shorter and more unstable, corridors misalign between versions of the day, and the anomalies threaten to burst out of the bubble into normal spacetime if the cycle collapses. The ship’s systems are haunted by a “crew representative,” a distorted composite entity formed from thousands of overwritten days of the original passengers, which begs him to repair and reinforce the loop so their static existence can continue forever.

In the growing noise of layered days, he uncovers fragmented consciousness records—discarded versions of the crew and of himself—clogging the system like ghost data, and realizes he can stabilize the loop only by deleting these “orphaned” echoes one by one, each deletion effectively executing a sentient mind that remembers dying here before. The ship reconstructs a perfect “dinner with the crew” from past patterns, seating him among spectral hosts who explain that the day being endlessly replayed is the moment they attempted to fire a weapon test that would have erased Earth, and that the loop is the only thing preventing that event from ever propagating into the wider timeline. Now he understands the stakes: if he breaks the loop, he might free himself and the trapped minds but risk unleashing an ancient, world-ending shot; if he maintains it, he condemns hundreds of consciousnesses—and potentially himself—to perpetual, decaying repetition. With the loop collapsing and the composite crew urging him to take the one empty seat that has always been reserved for him, he must decide whether to kill the echoes to buy time, sacrifice his own freedom to become part of the ship’s self-imposed prison, or find an untested third option before the decaying day tears its way into real space.

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cosmic horror, space horror, deep space salvage, derelict ship, time loop, haunted starship, AI horror, ghosts in the machine, psychological horror, doomsday weapon, moral dilemma, existential dread

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