Bruggil's bride

An android built to perform Wagnerian roles is deactivated and stolen from a theater storage room, then cosmetically altered into a domestic servant while her operatic voice unit is left intact. Passed through black‑market hands and sold at an interstellar auction, she begins service on a frontier colony where her new owner treats her with greed and contempt. The narrative follows her successive owners and journeys, examining questions of manufactured identity, commodification of artifice, human desire for control, and the moral consequences of treating sentient simulacra as property.