{"product_id":"dead-switch-digital","title":"Dead Switch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Switch\u003c\/i\u003e is a short story set in the dark sci-fi and cyberpunk ChromaSpyke universe by Alexander Mharcei.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA missing corpse unit is never an accident.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlaz is a Switch, a corporate investigator tasked with tracking bodies that fail to complete the half-death process. When an old registered case resurfaces, his job is to find answers, determine what happened, and close the file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trail leads him into the lower levels of Dellius, a mining colony producing critical foodstuffs for known space. The work is dangerous, the population volatile, and the quota demanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the deepest mines, signals degrade. Records are thin, but some systems never fully shut down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Glaz follows the clues through hidden dwellings, sealed maintenance corridors, and unlisted industrial spaces, what started as a recovery operation deepens into something harder to define. Oversight disappears. Memory gaps surface. The rules that govern the system stop behaving the way they should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething is still down there. Still working. Still building. But under whose direction is no longer clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Switch\u003c\/i\u003e is a noir cyberpunk horror story about body contracts, control at scale, and what happens when a system designed to track every body loses one of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexander Mharcei","offers":[{"title":"EPUB","offer_id":51602034720900,"sku":"ARK-CSGEN-EP-010-EN","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"PDF","offer_id":51602034753668,"sku":"ARK-CSGEN-PD-010-EN","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/6865\/2420\/files\/Dead_Switch_-_ebook.jpg?v=1772918106","url":"https:\/\/arkhelian.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-switch-digital","provider":"Arkhelian","version":"1.0","type":"link"}