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A team of [[Animate Inanimate Object|anthropomorphic writing utensils]] is assembled to embark on diplomatic recon missions. Their goal: to prevent [[The Empire|widespread imperialism]] in their star system. Only problem is, they find themselves accidental heroes destined to battle an [[Omnicidal Maniac|even bigger scheme]] by [[Ancient Conspiracy|an ancient evil]] which threatens the [[Hell|eternal damnation]] of their entire universe. [[Resigned to the Call|But it's not like they had any good alternatives]].

[[All There in the Manual|Supplemental materials]] for the series can be read [http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Stationery_Voyagers here]. A video slideshow of artwork can be viewed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY9ug4a_Zw here], and a fight scene between two Mosquatlons can be viewed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aje-AXcecT4 here]. A [[Character Sheet]] is already [[Stationery Voyagers/Characters|in the works]].

 

 

* '''Artificial Reincarnation''': Making someone a literal [[Ghost in the Machine]]. Could involve [[Unwilling Roboticisation]]. The key to this, however, is that there will always be a [[Soul Jar]] that lets the spirit engage in serial animation of mechanical bodies. If the first body fails/is failing, then the "S-chip" can simply be placed into a new body [[Brain Uploading|as if swapping ROM between two circuit boards]].

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Played around with. Mitchell and Eliot's car pretty much ''is'' a Pinto. But when their cabin is attacked by arsonist-assassins, it's one of the few things that ''doesn't'' [[Made of Explodium|catch fire]]!

* [[Everyone Is Related]]: Heavily subverted. Other than a few marriages resulting later on, almost nobody is blood-related ([[Bizarre Alien Biology|or for that matter, Ink-related]]) to anyone else (important)! Yet, while blood relations are severely lacking among major cast members, everyone is "connected" in more abstract ways.

** Pextel is also the one-time boyfriend of Pinkella Goldsen, who is related to the owners of a Bubblegum Factory that is being taken over by the Voyagers' sworn enemy Astrabolo; who lives on the same planet as future Voyager Neone. And Neone's family ([[Muggles|while none of them are relevant for more than a few episodes]] is pretty screwed up. Things are made worse when Liquidon, who killed Astrabolo's brother, joins the Voyagers' team.

** While it's inevitable that Mitchell Lomken and Co. will meet up with the Voyagers, it takes 2-1/2 seasons or so for this to happen.

* [[Haunted Technology]]: [[Do Androids Dream?|Librions]] are quite literally robots with [[Our Souls Are Different|souls]] [[Ghost in the Machine|inside them]]. They interact with a cybernetic brain interface that, due to being artificial, disrupts their [[wikipedia:Pre-established harmony|cosmic orientation]]. Due to the way that interface works, they constantly blur the lines between a literal [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] and a [[Virtual Ghost]]. Their [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|quasi-immortality]] inside their robotic selves [[AI Is a Crapshoot|tends to be very prone]] to developing [[Heroic BSOD|mental]] [[Ax Crazy|illness]].

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: See the [[Stationery Voyagers/Characters|Character Sheet]] for examples.

* [[Invisible Anatomy]] / [[Psychic Powers]] / [[Mind Over Matter]]: Phantomitics and Phantomars (invisible arms.) [[Conversational Troping|Discussed]].

* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Minshus is the only being who can authorize large-scale muellexic tampering with the space-time continuum, he helps blow up an entire planet, he had a bodyguard for a short while that was made of [[Supernatural Martial Arts]], and when he came to raise an army of resurrected souls to lift other resurrects out of their graves and collect everyone around the world for [[The End of the World as We Know It|Judgment Day]], the news reported it as him starting a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].

** Mordred remains the [[Bastard Bastard]], but is learning sorcery to [[Take Over the World]]. To fulfill his contract to the Dark Wanderer, he must completely undermine Arthur's kingdom with controversy.

** Just as a [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Mikloche Warrior]] was sent to Mantith to keep a Drismabon away from baby Minshus, another one is sent to defeat Mordred's power. He succeeds at defeating Mordred's contract and robbing him of his dark powers forever; but ultimately fails to save Gwen's reputation.

** Rather than romancing the queen, Lancelot just wanted to ask her a question. Then, Mordred attacks them and uses telekinesis to rip their clothes off while they're pinned to a wall. The Mikloche warrior fails to stop him from tossing the queen's clothes out a window, completing the frameup, but [[Defied Trope|does stop him]] from [[Aliens Made Them Do It|detonating a canister of Eros gas]]. Mordred is forced to settle for making Lancelot and Guinevere's story a [[Cassandra Truth]], as [[Big Damn Heroes|the ninja Whiteout he battles]], who [[Chandler's Law|bursts from the ceiling]] and [[All Japanese Swords Are Katanas|tries to slice him]] [[God Mode Sue|keeps getting in his way]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Really, what'd you expect?

* [[Plausible Deniability]]: Averted without explanation for most of the worlds of Inktacto. [[Hand Wave|Then again]], Inktacto ''is'' [[All There in the Manual|part of the Grapharino Galaxy]], and Grapharino's Physicalia is an [[Alternate Universe|allegorical universe]] not unlike [[Lord of the Rings|Middle-earth's]] (or even [[Narnia]]. Only difference, really, is more [[Science Fiction]]-oriented plot elements and way fewer [[High Fantasy]] ones. So [[Alternate History]] helps cover some tracks.

** Subverted in-universe on Neothode, as the population is so used to being bullied by [[Religion of Evil|Astrabolo's cult]] that they are [[Dying Like Animals|too far beyond]] the [[Despair Event Horizon]] [[Apathetic Citizens|to care about]] whether the weirdness in their environment [[The Masquerade|is covered up or not]].

* [[Power Nullifier]]: [[Our Angels Are Different|Levio the Nullifier]], who functions as both this and [[Anti-Magic]]. Wizards are reduced from casting spells with impunity to any number of side effects: casting spells with [[Call It Karma|karmic backfire]], [[Cast From Hit Points|casting from hit points]], or the humiliation of a specific spell simply not working.

** If it were not [[Because Destiny Says So|necessary for Mechanical Pencils to exist to fulfill certain prophesies]], then Levio would be allowed to block the process of [[Unwilling Roboticisation|Artificial Reincarnation]] as well.

** Perhaps the most egregious example is Cybomec, subverted in that it was only ''a'' Cybomec {{spoiler|the one possessed by Richard Ribando}} that joins, not ''the'' Clandish "Cybomec" Consto that nearly killed everyone. {{spoiler|[[It Was His Sled|He becomes Preamble]] instead.}}

** [[Butt Monkey|Erasaxo]], while technically number six, was part of the original team. His reclusive nature and small size tend to make him [[My Friends and Zoidberg|an afterthought]] to others though. Made worse in that he's ordered by the Xylien Society not to leave the ship very often.

* [[Soul Jar]]: "S-chips" (soul-containing, microchip-moduled cartridges) are a type of [[Soul Jar]]. Drisalian status of an S-chip's ghost prior to death determines whether or not [[Psychic Powers|phantomitics]] are possible, which determines which type of Librion body is appropriate. (Androidal Librion bodies for humans, Mechanical Pencil Librions for Stationeries.)

** Note: Most Whiteouts are acceptable in a Mechie body. [[Up to Eleven|Hyper]]-[[Supernatural Martial Arts|Mikloched]] ones, however, are better off merely sent into the stratosphere [[Superpower Meltdown|to explode]].