The Battleborn website now offers a three-part motion comic offering a prequel for Battleborn, Gearbox Software's upcoming multiplayer shooter. Here's there introduction to this introduction to the game:

On May 3rd, the fight to save the last star in the universe begins. That’s right, it’s about that time. Before you gear up and pick from the 25 playable badasses at launch, let’s start by asking ourselves: “How the hell did we get into this mess in the first place?”

Glad you asked!

You see, these 25 playable heroes – from the five remaining factions in the universe – are all that stand between us and total annihilation. This uneasy alliance is at the verge of falling apart. That’s the good news. The bad news: You’ve got star-sucking cosmic horrors, called Varelsi, and the treacherous Jennerit scumbag, Rendain, -- both are on a mission to drag every last star system kicking and screaming into the void.

And what better way to tell the stories of what brought these Battleborn together than with an awesome animated comic run?