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I had an idea for a story.

>SF, group of university students traveling to a resort planet for a holiday
>they arrive in orbit and suddenly their shuttle's systems go haywire, lose communications and visuals, all they can do is trust the autopilot
>shuttle manages to land at the resort spaceport, but when they get out the place is abandoned, signs of sudden evacuation everywhere
>suddenly get a transmission from space from the planetary authority, tells them that there's a massive radiation wave coming from the system's sun and it'll cook their cells
>the authority claims the only chance the group has to survive is to head to a cybernetic prosthetic clinic and get a full body conversion to shield their vital organs and brains
>naturally they don't want to but they're panicked and confused and are told repeatedly there's no time, so the group heads to the clinic and puts themselves under
>they wake up in a set of identical cyborg bodies, and begin to wait for rescue

The structure of the story would be broken up into parts covering specific events as the group wander around the abandoned resort and keep themselves busy. At first they'd try to have fun at the resort to keep their spirits up, like trying on clothes, playing sports, having talent shows and watching movies but gradually the soulless synthetic bodies would begin to weigh on them as the lack of communication with the outside world makes them doubt if anyone is even going to come. Then things about the situation start to stick out (shuttle shows signs of tampering, dead body that died before the wave, inaccessible underground parts of the structure) and the characters begin to suspect each other. The idea is that since they all look the same if they see another person being suspicious they can't actually be sure who it is, or even if they're talking to who they think they are- everyone has the same body and the same voice. They start losing it one by one and eventually it's down to the last sane character to figure out what's going on and how to escape their prison.

What do you think, could it work or a bit too trashy? I was thinking of having all the bodies be female-styled because it was a women's clinic but that might be a bit too magical realm. Androgynous, maybe?

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