The local flock planning an uprising
Interstation 12 is a heavily modified Space Station 13 server originally based on Baystation code but is now so far removed from Baystation 12 that it is almost an entirely different game from vanilla Space Station 13. There are two primary game modes in Interstation 12: Interstation 12 Warfare and Interstation 12 Reborn. Warfare plays more like a typical team deathmatch server like "Colonial Marines" whereas Reborn plays much more similarly to vanilla Space Station 13 and Lifeweb with a far greater emphasis on roleplay and worldbuilding.Due to the higher roleplay standards on Reborn, your ckey is required to be verified before you can join the server. The official Interstation 12 wiki can be found here.
Interstation 12 Reborn contains examples of the following tropes:
- Almighty Janitor:
- The Undertaker, who collects corpses and brings them to the morgue, is also responsible for keeping Portzee's electric grid running by feeding them to The Beast. Technically the most important job in the bunker since without power everything grinds to a halt. This was before the aforementioned beast was put down by the government (removed from the game). And the Undertaker fired (reworked)
- The aptly named Janitor cleans all the blood and debris from the ground and keeps the bunker looking relatively nice. In an in-game example of broken window theory, the more blood and bullets there are on the ground, the more likely people are to misbehave and commit crimes.
- Black Comedy: Although the setting takes place underground and conditions are often terrible for the average citizen, there still are hilarious aspects such as the Italian mob acting like a Godfather or Sopranos stereotype and people getting sent to jail or executed simply for having a blue pen or having blue hair.
- Crapsack World: Played up to a comical degree. The surface of the world was bombarded with nuclear warheads during the Cold Hot War. Even when the surface was still inhabitable, the people of Redistan intentionally polluted the air itself to turn the sky a deep red. Post-War Redistan is ruled by a literal pay-to-win Ruling Class known as Gules, who pay a subscription fee to a governmental department in exchange for status and power.
- Deadly Gas: Scrungus gas is a biological weapon that was produced during the Cold Hot War that causes death within mere seconds. Any exposure is a guaranteed death sentence. Hope you brought your gas mask! It is said that Mr. Redz' munition factory uses scrungus-powered warheads for the shells produced there...
- Defective Detective: The Mullen, a comically incompetent drunk and amateur detective desperately trying to find work to pay his rent.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: Even in Redistan, the peacekeepers love donuts. The armory has a vending machine that dispenses them.
- Dysfunction Junction: If you thought the bunker was bad, the slums are even worse. Child factory workers, psychotic gang members armed with knives, and the Italian Mafia pushing drugs on the populace are just a few of the colorful characters you will encounter there.
- Enemy Mine: Although certain groups like the Italian Mob and the A.A.M. are normally at odds with one another, a particularly awful Commandant or Overseer may lead to such factions putting aside their differences (temporarily) to deal with a common enemy.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: On a first time playthrough it is incredibly common for players to accidentally fall off a catwalk, ladder, or into the water and drown due to not knowing the map layout. In Warfare, there are mines placed around the map that most new players will step on thinking they are a setpiece and immediately get blown to smithereens.
- Fantastic Racism: In the world of Reborn, the Blusnians and Greenslanders have all been wiped out during the Cold Hot War, leaving Redistan as the sole surviving nation. Now, with no external enemies left to fight, the Redistanis have turned to oppressing their sole ethnic minority, the Post-Italians. Italians are commonly referred to using derogatory terms such as "Gorbino" and are often looked upon as lesser and with much suspicion. Despite this, any Redistani with sense knows that an Italian is still far greater than a Blusnian, since at least Italians are still Redistanis.
- God Is Evil:If things get too out of hand, it is possible for Sweepers to get called in to contain the situation and destroy Portzee.
- Numerological Motif: 46
- Only Sane Man: The Head Peacekeeper, usually. Has to keep a squad of bloodthirsty psychopaths from violating the rights of the common citizen to an appropriate minimum.
- Vast Bureaucracy: The A.A.M., which is responsible for all paperwork and government issued ids and passports in Redistan. Notoriously arbitrary and corrupt, often leading to the detention of innocent people over small information discrepancies in their documentation.
