History Podcast / StellarFirma

->''Knife detected! Security alerted.''

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Save for a few instances [[{{EarlyInstallmemtWeirdness}} early in the series]], 'Board' is used instead of 'God'. Hail the Board!

--> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and [[{{HeelRealization}} now you say it back to me]], [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say, “What have you done, you ''massive idiot?!''”

* CrypticConversation: Spoofed in Episode 26 with an exchange between [[spoiler: two mysterious figures that starts out extremely ominous... only for one to become legitimately confused by the vagueness of the conversation, leading to them storming off.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: David in episode 23, [[spoiler: after he's been informed in no uncertain terms that he will be recycled.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: After 24 episodes of abuse from Trexel, David ''finally'' gets some revenge by [[spoiler: beating Trexel senseless with a [[{{NonstandardWeapon}} fish.]]]]

* TheDreaded: Cardinal Fang[[note]]Cardinal Fang![[note]].

* FanDisservice: Shirtless Trexel (Thankfully an audio-only example, but we get to hear David and Hartro's [[{{BrainBleach}} reactions]]). This is actually employed InUniverse as a technique by Stellar Firma [[{{RefugeInAudacity}} to get unruly teenagers to leave parties early.]]

** In a similar vein, [[spoiler: denying he tampered with the consultation room's pipes]], in a courtroom with an all-powerful lie detector as the judge.

* OnlySaneMan: David. Most of his blunders come from not knowing much about the world [[ReallyWasBornYesterday on account of being two weeks old]], and having those gaps in knowledge informed by [[{{Unreliable narrator}} Trexel]]. [[spoiler: Once he starts tampering with the briefs, the planets start coming out actually decent.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: Trexel, a LargeHam PrimaDonnaDirector who comes into work [[{TheAlcoholic}} violently drunk]] and David-7, a NaiveNewcomer clone who has to act as the OnlySaneMan.

* OnlySaneMan: David. Most of his blunders come from not knowing much about the world [[Really WasBornYesterday on account of being two weeks old]], and having those gaps in knowledge informed by [[{{Unreliable narrator}} Trexel]]. [[spoiler: Once he starts tampering with the briefs, the planets start coming out actually decent.]]

* OnlySaneMan: David. Most of his blunders come from not knowing much about the world [[B
Really WasBornYesterday}} on account of being two weeks old]], and having those gaps in knowledge informed by [[{{Unreliable narrator}} Trexel]]. [[spoiler: Once he starts tampering with the briefs, the planets start coming out actually decent.]]

* Dreadful Musician: Trexel, which doesn't stop him from singing.

* FanDisservice: Shirtless Trexel (Thankfully an audio-only example, but we get to hear
David and Hartro's [[{{BrainBleach}} reactions]]). This is actually employed InUniverse as a technique by Stellar Firma [[{{RefugeInAudacity}} to get unruly teenagers to leave parties early.]]

* CrypticConversation: Spoofed in Episode 26 with an exchange between [[spoilers: two mysterious figures that starts out extremely ominous... only for one to become legitimately confused by the vagueness of the conversation, leading to them storming off.]]

** I.M.O.G.E.N.

* The Dreaded: Cardinal Fang[[note: Cardinal Fang!]].

* TheDogBitesBack: After 24 episodes of abuse from Trexel, David ''finally'' gets some revenge by [[spoiler: beating Trexel senseless with a fish.]]

* RunningGag: "Warning! [x] detected." Doubles as MadLibsCatchphrase.

** Cardinal Fang!

Stellar Firma is a improvised comedy science fiction podcast performed by Tim Meredith and Ben Meredith. It is set 900 years after the Earth's death with the rise of [[{{MegaCorp}}Stellar Firma Ltd.]], an ambiguously moral conglomerate that builds planets.

** [[{{MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext}} Thousands of heating devices disguised ss accountants wouldn't be able to warm a planet's core temperature enough to create consistently flowing creeks.]]

* FanDisservice: Trexel shirtless. (Thankfully an audio-only example, but we get to hear [[{{BrainBleach}} David and Hartro's reactions]]). Employed InUniverse as a technique by Stellar Firma to get unruly teenagers to leave parties early.

* OnlySaneMan: David. Most of his blunders come from not knowing much about the world [[BornYesterday}} on account of being two weeks old]], and having those gaps in knowledge informed by [[{{Unreliable narrator}} Trexel]]. [[spoiler: Once he starts tampering with the briefs, the planets start coming out actually decent.]]

* NoodleImplications: Most things about Trexel, like [[{{BestialityIsDepraved}} whatever he does with that fish]] or his explanations on why he's late every day.

* OnlySaneMan: David. Most of his blunders come from not knowing much about the world [[{{LiterallyBornYesterday}} on account of being two weeks old]], and having those gaps in knowledge informed by [[{{Unreliable narrator}} Trexel]]. [[{{spoiler: Once he starts tampering with the briefs, the planets start coming out actually decent.]]

* TooDumbToFool: David is justifiably angry at the end of a design session. [[{{ObliviousToHisOwnDescription}} Trexel asks him who's made him upset, claiming he'll give them a stern talking-to.]] [[{StealthInsult}} David hands Trexel a mirror]], but instead of realizing the dig, Trexel ''doesn't recognize his own reflection'' and ends up punching it, getting glass all over his hand, [[{{ComicallyMissingThePoint}} and running into the hallway to pursue "Mirror Trexel"]].

* BottleEpisode: On account of being told from David's perspective, every episode takes place in one room. [[spoiler: Episode 26 subverts this, with David and Trexel exiting the room for the first time to [[{{Courtroom Episode}} go to trial]].]]

* ButtMonkey: David-7, almost to the point of being the ChewToy. Trexel also gets a fair share (though mostly due to his own incompetence).

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hartro Piltz. She might be FauxAffablyEvil, but she ends up being just as ineffective as Trexel, and a ''lot'' more sadistic.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Occasionally Trexel's actions extend past mere annoyance and end up affecting interplanetary relations.

* RealityEnsues: Surprisingly for a series that runs so hard on ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, the consequences of Trexel and David's haphazard methods of planet construction are given a thorough {{Deconstruction}} during their first review session. For instance, the superheated trough planet ends up cooking the incubating hatchlings alive; clients start using life and death guns to try bringing back dead pets and relatives, forcing the company to do damage control.

--> '''IMOGEN (after Trexel performs an impromptu jingle):''' Tune free of sedition. ''({{beat}})'' And tune.

--> '''IMOGEN:''' [''[[{{DissonantSerenity}} cheerful chime]]''] Clones are things!

* CrapsackWorld: Despite the generally comedic tone, the series is pretty firmly set in a {{Dystopia}}. All of humanity have become permanent employees of an extremely amoral MegaCorp, FantasticRacism against clones is abundant and lower-ranking employees regularly get axed out of convenience or neglect, and the whole thing is controlled by an [[{{TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness}} Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] that executes dissenters for questioning the status quo.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much any time Trexel does ''anything'' something in his vicinity gets hurt. Usually it's [[{{ButtMonkey}} David-7]] but occasionally there's consequences on a galaxy-wide scale, such as the group of armored polar bears teaming up with an empire of murderous robots after [[{{TooDumbToLive}} Trexel puts heating devices on their planet.]]

* RealityEnsues: Surprisingly for a series that runs so hard on ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, the consequences of Trexel and David's haphazard methods of planet construction are given a thorough {{Deconstruction}} during their first review session. The superheated trough planet ends up cooking the incubating hatchlings alive; clients start using life and death guns to try bringing back dead pets and relatives, forcing Stellar Firma to do damage control.
---> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and [[{{HeelRealization}} now you say it back to me]], [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say, “What have you done, you ''massive idiot?!''”

** Sticking heating devices disguised as accountants on a planet populated by polar bears. The accountants get eaten and discovered anyway, because they're ''[[{{BearsAreBadNews}} polar bears.]]''

** Hartro Piltz, Trexel's Line Manager, who casually mentions

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hartro Piltz. She's just a BadBoss as Trexel, though she has a thicker veneer of FauxAffablyEvil.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much any time Trexel does ''anything'' something in his vicinity gets hurt. Usually it's [[{{ButtMonkey}} David-7]] but occasionally there's consequences on a galaxy-wide scale, such as the group of armored polar bears teaming up with an empire of murderous robots after [[{{TooDumbToLive}}Trexel puts heating devices on their planet.]]

** Trexel's fish and [[{{BestialityIsDepraved}}his unsavory relationship with it.]]

---> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and [[{{HeelRealization}}now you say it back to me]], [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}}giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say, “What have you done, you ''massive idiot?!''”

---> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and now you say it back to me, [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}}giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say, “What have you done, you 'massive idiot?!'”

---> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and now you say it back to me, [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}}giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say “What have you idiot?! What have you— what have you done, you 'massive idiot!'”

--> '''Trexel:''' Yes, no, that is ringing a couple of bells, and— and now you say it back to me, [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}}giving a potentially murderous lead singer access to… quite a lot of explosives and many, many well trained knife dogs…]] some people could look at that and say “What have you idiot?! What have you— what have you done, you 'massive idiot!'”

** Sticking heating devices disguised as accountants on a planet populated by polar bears. The accountants get eaten and discovered anyway, because they're [[{{BearsAreBadNews}} ''polar bears.'']]

** Sticking heating devices disguised as accountants on a planet populated by polar bears. The accountants get eaten and discovered anyway, because they're [[{{BearsAreBadNews}} 'polar bears.']]

** [[{{ItMakesSenseInContect}} Sticking heating devices disguised as accountants on a planet populated by polar bears.]] The accountants get eaten and discovered anyway, because they're [[{{BearsAreBadNews}} Polar bears.]]

** Hartro Piltz, Trexel's Line Manager.

* RealityEnsues: Surprisingly for a series that runs so hard on ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, the consequences of Trexel and David's haphazard methods of planet construction are given a thorough {{Deconstruction}} during their first review session. The superheated trough planet ends up cooking the incubating hatchlings alive; clients start using life and death guns to try bringing back dead pets and relatives, forcing Stellar Firma to do damage control; and providing a famously murderous musician with a planet with [[{{TooDumbToLive}}two rooms full of explosives and packs of dogs with knives strapped to them]] has resulted in the deaths of many other artists.

* RealityEnsues: Surprisingly for a series that runs so hard on ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, the consequences of Trexel and David's haphazard methods of planet construction is given a thorough Deconstruction during their first review session.

** Trexel's fish and the many, many implied unsavory things he does with it.

--> '''IMOGEN:''' [[[{{DissonantSerenity}} cheerful chime]]] Clones are things!