Episode 10 - Tokens and Orphans

## Content Warnings

* Comedic violence
* Emotional abuse
* Alcoholism
* Accidental death
* Manslaughter
* Childhood trauma

Line manager Hartro Piltz reviews the questionable performance of planet designer Trexel Geistman and bio facsimile David 7.

Line manager recommendation: Better containment. Reciprocal violence. Amends required to marmalade orphans. Accidental achievement does not count as achievement .

## Synopsis

Yet another review is about to begin for Trexel and David, and David, certain he will be recycled, attempts to file a complaint with IMOGEN, only to be told that the complaints box for Trexel is full.

Trexel arrives singing and ecstatic. He explains that he's just gone to see his favourite band, and upon Hartro's arrival, she mentions she has killed. For that, Trexel promises he'll never be late again.

Hartro briefly discusses her recent visit to an annual Stellar Firma event where she socialized with the Design Team (from which Trexel is banned), and the review begins.

### Planet 512900-🝘

This planet was requested by Megatron\_46, an enemy of Stellar Firma. Given that Trexel had built them a "prank planet" this was an incredibly bad idea, and Megatron\_46 ended up initiating a full blown attack on what they thought was Stellar Firma Station.

Coincidentally, they actually attacked a planet Trexel had built years previously for yet another Megatron, designed to look just like Stellar Firma. While the crisis was averted by sheer dumb luck, it was still not favourably looked on by Hartro. She teases him by telling him she will give him drink coupons, but never gives them to him.

### Planet 512901-🜃

She starts this one off by telling Trexel that her and the other Design teams have been calling him sock boy since he made this planet. She convinces him to wear a large sock on his head like a hat, saying that "If i don't see it on your head, and we pass in the design corridor, there will be punishment."

She tells Trexel that the planet they designed was a disgusting eyesore, and while it technically was what the client asked for, what they decided on was really lazy and they should've come up with something more appealing. Trexel tries to blame David for this, to which David sarcastically agrees.

Seeing this sass (uncharacteristic of a Clone), Hartro tells Trexel to put David in his place. Trexel predictably insults David in strange and not particularly effective ways. He then starts breaking down in tears, having some sort of flashback to his childhood, and screaming "I love you, you idiot! Don't look at me!" at David. This may be a reference to how his parents forced him to treat his childhood best friend Percy, and how that conflicted with his own feelings for him.

### Planet 512902-⭄

Hartro calls this one a "Complete disaster", and tells David to hit Trexel, which he does. On this planet, They had created a dream eating monster that was fully able to get off the planet, and did. After escaping it was recaptured and rehabilitated to be the star of a holovid show where it kills Stellar Firma Employee-Citizens and prisoners, but not before running amok.

### Planet 512903-Ợ

The problems with this planet came from the fact that the attractions on it were generally lava-based, and the lava levitation technology that Trexel imagined didn't work in any meaningful way. The planet melted and became a ball of magma very quickly, except for the area wherein many children had been placed, and then orphaned, as their parents were exploring the rest of the planet. Hartro implies that Trexel will be sent there during the next weekend to be killed by these angry children if he doesn't sing and dance to entertain them.

### Verdict

Hartro, specifically to mess with David, says that she won't be revealing whether or not their Review passed, instead only going "hm!" when asked, and leaving.

After Hartro leaves, Trexel decides to find somewhere to hide where Hartro can't find him to make him sing and dance for the children he orphaned.