Background
Originally an "assistant deputy backup courier" for the Ostral-B Heretics against His Divine Shadow, an evil galactic overlord, Stanley H. Tweedle (played by Brian Downey) is given a responsibility that he really does not merit: smuggling the DNA of His Shadow's ultimate weapon to Heretic forces. Instead, a flashback sequence reveals Stanley cowardly allows himself to be captured by Sub-Nebulae mercenaries and sold to the Divine Order, providing them with the codes to the defense system protecting the Reformed Planets; as such, he is branded Arch-Traitor. His compatriots are slaughtered, and Stanley is captured. The smuggled DNA is extracted from him and used to grow The Lexx, a living, sentient spacecraft able to destroy entire planets with a single devastating shot. His Shadow intends to use the Lexx to annihilate any planet in the universe where even a whisper of rebellion surfaces.
Luckily for Stanley, he is deemed so harmless and unimportant that he soon fades into the bureaucracy of The Cluster, His Shadow's central planet, eventually becoming a low-ranked security guard for the same government he had once fought against. As of the beginning of the series, he has been demoted to the lowest rank of Security Guard, Class 4 (claiming to have previously been a Class 2), with an internal identity of Number 476329-43 Department 511 Level 4.
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