Standard TEF Trooper in Mandelbrite Armor. Art commissioned from ghoulsteak.
“3:16: Carnage Amongst The Stars” is a twenty part campaign. Terra is peaceful, perfect, pure, one unified nation. Nobody ever dies if they don’t choose to. In order to ensure its safety, the Terran Expeditionary Force has collected brave volunteers to leave its utopian shores to kill all extant life in the galaxy so it will never grow to threaten it. In exchange, the Troopers face danger they never imagined, unpredictability, uncertainty, a death with meaning. Yegg Squadron is one unit under the greater Y Division under the 3:16th Terran Expeditionary Force. This is their story.
CHARACTERS
Lavender as Trooper (Tarot) Deck (she/her).
Trooper #59329:
Physical trait: gangly and slightly awkward
Personality trait: wildly superstitious
Personal possession: small collection of crystals
Sophie as Corporal Pleather (she/her).
Trooper #863063:
Physical Trait: short and wiry
Personality Trait: punk-ass
Personal Possession: leather jacket with a tiger and the phrase “Only God Can Judg [sic] Me” on the back.
Bastion as Trooper Sixty-Nine (she/her).
Trooper #694665:
Physical Trait: plump and shiny
Personality Trait: righteous and faithful
Possession: leather bound holy book that looks like a fantasy prop but is filled with personal notes, musings, and other philosophical marginalia
Grint as Sergeant Sparky (he/him).
Trooper #579937
Physical Trait: Cherubic and Freckled
Personality Trait: Starry-Eyed Optimist
Personal Possession: Limited Edition “Tales of Heroism” comic
3:16: Carnage Amongst The Stars is a game about fascism, genocide, war crimes, culpability, apathy and responsibility. It is an exploration of such systems of control and the people within them and is inherent to the game itself. This will be applicable for the entire campaign and was discussed between all players before we began.
We understand if you do not wish to engage with this content.
Other recurring content warnings include: claustrophobia, insects, existential horror, cults, ennui, abusive relationships, nuclear weapons, the trauma resulting from nuclear weapons, discussions of personal autonomy.
EPISODES
The Diamond of Mankind / Downtime
Dropship Aux Cord, Jess’ personal 3:16 playlist
3:16 was inspired/influenced by:
- Helldivers and Helldivers 2
- Warhammer 40,000
- Starship Troopers (novel and film series (especially the first film))
- Generation Kill (specifically the scene where everyone is singing Teenage Dirtbag in the convoy and the Warhammer 40k fanart)
- Jess reading Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” in middle school and the culture soldiers create when they’re in the field and reality/nature outweighs doctrine and morale.
- The art direction of Spec Ops: The Line (especially the aquarium)
- Dan Schkade’s run on Flash Gordon
- R.E.M’s “Orange Crush”
- Tonally inappropriate music playing during an important moment providing juxtaposition
- The works of Erika Chappell (especially Patrol, the Goths from Flying Circus, her excellent writing on the Imperial Guard and Lt. Fusilier).
- A More Civilized Age
- “Kimmy” by Alyson Greaves (mind the content warnings on this one, seriously)
- honestly just a ton of online literature/content discussing war, personhood and “wouldn’t it be fucked up if?” made by marginalized creators
- every year I’ve been alive in America and the many more before that.
- the joy of making a silly little jerk of a character and then deciding to commit to making them worse.
yegg: (cant, slang) a person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
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