High lethality, random characters

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Concept: a game in which players randomly select from a stack of a few dozen pregenned characters, who are cloned on a large space station filled with all sorts of hostile things. I think there's an anime with a similar concept, but I've never seen it.

Players can add characters, but they just go in the pool with the caveat that they can't be played by the player who built them (to avoid suicide minmaxing). The character pool is drawn from without replacement, so duplicates are possible and should be interesting for roleplay purposes.

The station itself is an alien reality show, and every few sessions makes one "season." Depending on the timing within the season and state of the humans, ie GM discretion, rewards can be more survival or cooperation based (radios, food, etc) or more combative (weapons).

Early challenges involve basic survival, learning how to meet up after respawning, and acquiring gear. Eventually the players should meet a group of aliens who've been going through the same shit, but I'll plan that out when we get there.

On a scale from faggotry to super-double-secret faggotry, how gay is this idea?