You know the idea of a news and communication agency becoming a cult bent on dominating humanity sounded like such a far flung concept I laughed at it. This day and age however, I now understand it might not just be possible, but ALREADY HAPPENING!
It's a damn respected hard sci-fi universe for a reason. What's most sinister to me is the _manipulation_ of history and _fabrication_ of a pseudo religious culture at ComStar. Easily believable given people do it on their own without any centralized effort these days--thats what would be the most horrifying thing they couldn't imagine: Blake didn't NEED to be conspiratorially set-up to be a prophet, if they just presented him as close to the truth as he was.. do a lot of charitable work in his name.. maybe fund what could easily be paramilitary organizations..? This was all based on the perceptions of the 80s-90s as well, as it wasn't that far fetched seeing where stuff was going if you looked a bit bigger at the picture. Vids like this, as well History essays of considerable length, make me appreciate and try to look at the flat circle in as clear an image as possible.
Another BattleTech Lore & History project finished... and in record time! I'm REALLY pleased with the way this series came together, but on the production side and the finished project. I think this is surely my best work to date. Thank you once again to everyone who has supported me in making these videos, whether its by leaving comments and likes, sharing the videos, interacting during the live premieres or supporting me through Patreon or Superchats. It means a tremendous amount to me.
You are honestly hitting a pace of output where lore nerds struggle to keep up... You have made an audience joking about 40 minute long videos being too short, struggle, to keep up. Be proud, that is pretty special! Now that I might have your attention; Any chance of a compilation of bloopers? At this point, surely there must be a lot of funny word salad to share :)
The Second Succession War was the war that set up the proper setting for the table top game and it was the consequences of this war that made every conflict afterward trace itself back to the second succession war.
At least until the Clan Invasion disrupted the Succession Wars and the status quo of the Inner Sphere. Then, Comstar’s schism changed things up even further. Still, Pandora’s Box was opened with the First Succession War. No successor state would ever accept another government’s rule after that, and what the Clans never seemed to realize was that the only reason why the Star League (barely) worked was because they were just the militant wing of the Terran Hegemony which acted as a buffer state, and that’s why I think the ilClan is doomed to fail... besides the fact that Wolf already made tons of enemies over the years anyway. On the other hand, the Republic of the Sphere had the exact opposite problem of being a “neutral” state but without a “Star League” to keep everyone else in check.
@@Logan912 well, it depends on what you mean by 'doomed'... the scant flash-forwards we have suggest that the Third League / ilClan era will last at least until the 3260s
@@jamesperkins191not sure if Sven is one of those people who either does or doesn't accept the ilClan Era as "canon" pick whichever you think is further slander
Can't remember who first suggested the idea of reuploading each series in a compilation video but it was one of the best ideas I've heard. I think there are some details I include that really don't make much sense (or just go unnoticed) because they don't seem relevant when I first bring them up but they come back to play a part later. Watching the whole thing over a couple days, and not a couple months, provides a better understanding of events.
at this point I’m expecting you not just to get all the way to the Ilclan era but also just straight up write the next era of Battletech lore before they even wrote it themselves
I mean we are still in the backstory of Battletech, not even to the time where the game tends to take place until the very end of the Third Succession War with the Galtor Campaign (The most detailed Campaign Battleforce ever released). The other times were Battles may take up a full Episode, like the Operation Klondike, The Battle of Luthien, Tukkayid, Operations Bulldog and Serpent etc. By the time we get to the Ilklan era theres a bunch of other Battles to consider, not least of which are the two Battles of New Avalon, the Third Battle for Terra, and the entire Jyhad era, which will be a clusterfuck of episodes to begin with. Basically the real meat of Battletech hasnt been reached yet. We have time
Sven, with the compilation and release of this video, from your first Age of War timeline to the end of this one, it's literally 24 hours worth of Battletech history. That's NUTS. Fantastic work as always! You're tied with Tex/BlackPantsLegion as my favorite Battletech Content Creator. Love the videos!
Thank you very much, I'm pleased to hear that. I realised at some point I was passing 24 hours but couldn't tell exactly when until I cut the outros and condensed the project timeline at the end. Never imagined I'd do anything as ridiculous as this when I made that first 10 minute intro video a few years back. I wonder if we'll ever reach 48 hours...
Even if you condensed down the Third and Fourth wars, the War of 3039, the Andurien Revolt and the rest of the pre-Clan age you are still gonna get a TON of content out of the Clan Invasion alone. It will be easy to get to 48 hours, especially if you include the Jihad and the Dumpsterfire Age.
These extensive lore drops make work go by faster, and you do an excellent job of making it as compelling as the stories they derive from. Another great compilation!
I love this channel and all the awesome videos you've made. Battletech has always been my favorite universe and tabletop game, but listening to these video compilations (the first three of which I've listened to for at least a dozen times and the later two I've listened to at leas a half dozen times) have given me a renewed love of the setting. As a clan fanatic, I can't wait for when you get to the clan invasion. Keep up the excellent work.
Im Not even that far into this compilation, already I love that the Commonwealth has a ship named yo mama, clearly someone on the ship naming committee is a man of culture, and he probably gave his life for this, unless the Commonwealth are just taking the piss all the time, in which case he was probably promoted
Honestly, It was probably named by some head foreman of a shipyard who just finished naming 20 ships in a row and the last one he just said fkit "Yo Mama" and smashed a bottle on its rear thrusters cause he couldn't be bothered to go all the way to the front.
I just pick up MechWarrior 5 recently & your video show up just when I need to dive in more into the lore. From the age of war up to this one, there's a lot for me to catch up. Good work, really appreciate it mate 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this huge project. I've always struggled to absorb all the complex details of the Succession Wars, but the way you present them helps immesly and makes the lore come alive.
All these Incredible details All these Beautiful Images Hundreds and Thousands of People pooled Their Effort to put this Story together It’s just so Beautiful
I like to do math from the Industrial Tycoon Handbook... I love making new factories and producing lost tech to help rebuild the old colonies. I wish I could start my own faction that's the exact opposite of com star, sharing technology for reasonable prices and brining back the "golden age" instead of intentionally driving humanity to the darkages.
I love that you can find a one-of-a-kind wolverine in the Valentina system in MechWarrior 5 mercenaries. That to me just means that they really do appreciate the lore and background of this game and this series.
aww you removed the wrap up pieces, well its still great, great job Sven. Maybe we will be lucky to get in opinion piece from you in the future, your thoughts on major events and personalities from the Succession Wars to this point.
I've always cut those out of the compilations in the past. A lot of it is just talking about production issues and what's up next, which is kind of pointless to repeat now it's finished.
As I delve more into the succession wars era its interesting to see the wars and how they shaped future conflicts and doctrines. The first was a no holds example of total war wrought to its full extent all sides continueing on the auspice that total victory was at hand over and over again to exhaustions. The second sees the technical supremacy of comstar and the seeding of the word of blakes future hold in FWL territory with the destruction of all but the very last vestiges of SLDF equipment in the house militaries including warships. The end result left all powers exhausted, bloodied, and at the start of a near 250 year technological backslide. I know the 3rd is the longest and is more of a cold war with flashpoint conflicts and i look forward to the coverage of it.
Maybe some awesome dreamteam of hidden Rim Worlders and the Wolverines will be what finally kick the Wolves out... except I'm pretty sure the Wolverines become the Word Of Blake...
Its 23:38 on my clock,I really should be sleeping now but I think I have something better to do now. But in all seriousness,thanks for this great piece of work,hope that your channel will get more popular over time! Oh,and I wanted to ask: part of which series will be released next time? 3rdSW or Periphery mini-series?
I only did that for the Star League Civil War. People have their own projects they're working on and I didn't want to constantly pester everyone to contribute. Plus it added a bunch of complications to production.
Damn. If you think of it, war really wasn't all that bad up until here. Because war made progress. Age of War was least the worst era in terms of bad despite it's name. Many sides were involved within their realms internal struggles, but war still managed to continue it's purpose of pushing people to seek progress. Reunification war ,despite how very unjust it was for Periphery realms, birthed the Star League. It brought progress, although in some twisted way of plundering the Periphery fortunes to Hegemony's favor. They brought the galaxy closer nonetheless, thanks to vast HPG project. Amaris is where it's all started to go the wrong way - it could be much more, a liberation movement to make way past the rotten Star League, but in the end he just betrayed everyone, and the war purpose was to satisfy greed for power of one individual. I believe if SLDF continued to do war, or Amaris stayed in power, died and another individual came, Inner Sphere would be in a much better situation than the 1st Succession War. Which was a total world war scenario, but I believe it would be just a single occurrence and succession lords could form some balance of power through coalitions and negotiating. It could be, if not for a fucking telephone company. ComStar really ruined everything, by breaking the sole positive piece of war - the engine of progress. This really makes them the biggest villain within the universe.
I was looking to see if you'd added the Dainmar Liao photo to the compilation, when I noticed this: 4:00:00 Mattisskogen... that's a "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" reference. Astrid Lindgren survived this far into the future? Who names a planet "Mattis' Forest"?
I never did add that ridiculous picture of Dainmar because when I went to grab his image from the sourcebook, I realised just how low-res it was which put me off.
One thing I dont get is basically several peace agreements had more or less disrupted everything. Davion and Steiner could both focus on the Draconis Combine and Free Worlds on the Capellans. At least in Steiner and Davions' case, there seems to be little benefit of letting the DC out of that without some concessions, but they apparently couldn't even get a peace agreement?
Everybody needed a break, but they all planned to start fighting again. And that's exactly what happened. 2.5 years to catch their breath, then straight back to it.
With BLP gone, they probably aren't. The Claves arent canon, and some newer splats, sourcebooks and tech readouts hint that the Wolverines intergated into the FedSuns and maybe the Dracs. They also took back their last names.
@@ssjjshawn Can't imagine them joining the Dracs, not after raiding the prisons. ISF would have found 'em out PDQ. FedSuns makes more sense, but I can't recall a timeframe where the could have joined either. I prefer to think they are camping outside of Järnfolk space, just enjoying some Freedom.
@@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into. Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels
@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into. Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels
aye yo Dawg, i can only watch the full 1st and 2nd Succession War comps like maybe 10 times in a row without new content, when's the next of the 3rd coming out mang?
When I'm done with MW5. Gonna finish uploading my playthrough, then there are two other vids I want to make on it, after which I'll get back to finishing the Third Succession War.
@@SvenVanDerPlank whelp! gonna have to re-listen to the first 3 again, then watch the Reunification War followed by The Star League Civil war then. Great lore set boss, I find it hard to play strategy games without something engaging and fun on in the back ground
Out of curiosity. Any units, mercenary or house, have impressed you over this entire project just for being stubborn bastards who wont die? Even after getting savaged
Good question but one I don't really have an answer for. Maybe I should do some statistical analysis and see which units have been involved with the capture/defence of the most planets.
Gotta give it to you) you obviously speak fluently more than one language. Unlike myself. But, I promise you, if you conversationally say "cotter" in English it doesn't convey the word "cadre".
I got an 10 hours shift Saturday morning to assure the 3rd to 1st shift QC/QA transition. This should get me through it, factoring in pauses to actually do work. EDIT - Blake did nothing wrong. He turned Space AT&T into true Scientology
@@SvenVanDerPlank some of the Renegade HPG interviews with some of the Key authors, Tex and Co. Unless I am wrong, which is understandable, the constant ridicule of the Jihad as unfortunate writing. I'm just happy that some of the weaker writing is not going away, but is slowly getting phased out of the world setting. Granted, I am running on 3 days of no sleep. So I'm fully ready to be debunked and I will try to adjust.
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You know the idea of a news and communication agency becoming a cult bent on dominating humanity sounded like such a far flung concept I laughed at it.
This day and age however, I now understand it might not just be possible, but ALREADY HAPPENING!
It's a damn respected hard sci-fi universe for a reason. What's most sinister to me is the _manipulation_ of history and _fabrication_ of a pseudo religious culture at ComStar. Easily believable given people do it on their own without any centralized effort these days--thats what would be the most horrifying thing they couldn't imagine: Blake didn't NEED to be conspiratorially set-up to be a prophet, if they just presented him as close to the truth as he was.. do a lot of charitable work in his name.. maybe fund what could easily be paramilitary organizations..?
This was all based on the perceptions of the 80s-90s as well, as it wasn't that far fetched seeing where stuff was going if you looked a bit bigger at the picture. Vids like this, as well History essays of considerable length, make me appreciate and try to look at the flat circle in as clear an image as possible.
Another BattleTech Lore & History project finished... and in record time! I'm REALLY pleased with the way this series came together, but on the production side and the finished project. I think this is surely my best work to date.
Thank you once again to everyone who has supported me in making these videos, whether its by leaving comments and likes, sharing the videos, interacting during the live premieres or supporting me through Patreon or Superchats. It means a tremendous amount to me.
You are honestly hitting a pace of output where lore nerds struggle to keep up...
You have made an audience joking about 40 minute long videos being too short, struggle, to keep up.
Be proud, that is pretty special!
Now that I might have your attention;
Any chance of a compilation of bloopers? At this point, surely there must be a lot of funny word salad to share :)
@@ElenraiI'm hanging out for a 'The Decision Is Made'-Supercut
The last sentence of each chapter and then dung-dung... Dung DUNG!
Thank you for making these videos! I am learning a lot!
Great work
The Second Succession War was the war that set up the proper setting for the table top game and it was the consequences of this war that made every conflict afterward trace itself back to the second succession war.
At least until the Clan Invasion disrupted the Succession Wars and the status quo of the Inner Sphere. Then, Comstar’s schism changed things up even further.
Still, Pandora’s Box was opened with the First Succession War. No successor state would ever accept another government’s rule after that, and what the Clans never seemed to realize was that the only reason why the Star League (barely) worked was because they were just the militant wing of the Terran Hegemony which acted as a buffer state, and that’s why I think the ilClan is doomed to fail... besides the fact that Wolf already made tons of enemies over the years anyway. On the other hand, the Republic of the Sphere had the exact opposite problem of being a “neutral” state but without a “Star League” to keep everyone else in check.
@@Logan912 well, it depends on what you mean by 'doomed'... the scant flash-forwards we have suggest that the Third League / ilClan era will last at least until the 3260s
@@jamesperkins191not sure if Sven is one of those people who either does or doesn't accept the ilClan Era as "canon"
pick whichever you think is further slander
Almost five hours of 2nd Succession War goodness. These videos are very high quality. Is it any wonder, now, that cable TV is a ghost town?
Thank you. I'm very pleased you're still enjoying them.
Every time one of these big compilation episodes is released, I like to go through and rewatch all of them in order
Can't remember who first suggested the idea of reuploading each series in a compilation video but it was one of the best ideas I've heard.
I think there are some details I include that really don't make much sense (or just go unnoticed) because they don't seem relevant when I first bring them up but they come back to play a part later. Watching the whole thing over a couple days, and not a couple months, provides a better understanding of events.
@SvenVanDerPlank it really does help, things slowly get clearer and clearer and it's awesome.
Thank you for making videos
at this point I’m expecting you not just to get all the way to the Ilclan era but also just straight up write the next era of Battletech lore before they even wrote it themselves
It's still a long way off so we'll see what happens. The goal for 2024 is to be completely finished with the Succession Wars era.
I mean we are still in the backstory of Battletech, not even to the time where the game tends to take place until the very end of the Third Succession War with the Galtor Campaign (The most detailed Campaign Battleforce ever released). The other times were Battles may take up a full Episode, like the Operation Klondike, The Battle of Luthien, Tukkayid, Operations Bulldog and Serpent etc.
By the time we get to the Ilklan era theres a bunch of other Battles to consider, not least of which are the two Battles of New Avalon, the Third Battle for Terra, and the entire Jyhad era, which will be a clusterfuck of episodes to begin with.
Basically the real meat of Battletech hasnt been reached yet. We have time
Yeah maybe you can call them and offer to write some books
@@SvenVanDerPlankyour videos are the greatest BT videos to ever grace this platform. Thank you for creating these
I have some characters I'd like to add if he does start writing the future lore XD
Sven, with the compilation and release of this video, from your first Age of War timeline to the end of this one, it's literally 24 hours worth of Battletech history. That's NUTS.
Fantastic work as always! You're tied with Tex/BlackPantsLegion as my favorite Battletech Content Creator. Love the videos!
Thank you very much, I'm pleased to hear that.
I realised at some point I was passing 24 hours but couldn't tell exactly when until I cut the outros and condensed the project timeline at the end. Never imagined I'd do anything as ridiculous as this when I made that first 10 minute intro video a few years back.
I wonder if we'll ever reach 48 hours...
Even if you condensed down the Third and Fourth wars, the War of 3039, the Andurien Revolt and the rest of the pre-Clan age you are still gonna get a TON of content out of the Clan Invasion alone.
It will be easy to get to 48 hours, especially if you include the Jihad and the Dumpsterfire Age.
I really hope so.@@SvenVanDerPlank
@@AAX11111I'm sorry... dumpsterfire age??
I love how everyone continues to use the "Mike the editor" image for Jerome Blake.
I get a chuckle every time.
Who?
And of course the Blessed Blake would like to remind us all...
Pay your effing bills. 😂😂
You forgot the 'fucko!'
God i love space AT&T
Marik: NOOOOO I DONT WANNA!!!
"How do I avoid dishonor while retreating without permission? Oh, I know! I'll commit blatant perfidy :D"
Motochika... why am I even surprised
These extensive lore drops make work go by faster, and you do an excellent job of making it as compelling as the stories they derive from. Another great compilation!
Cheers, glad you're enjoying the storytelling.
You listen at work! Me too!!
I love this channel and all the awesome videos you've made. Battletech has always been my favorite universe and tabletop game, but listening to these video compilations (the first three of which I've listened to for at least a dozen times and the later two I've listened to at leas a half dozen times) have given me a renewed love of the setting. As a clan fanatic, I can't wait for when you get to the clan invasion. Keep up the excellent work.
Glorious! Glory to you and Glory to the Free Worlds League and House Marik!
Thank you. Glory to the Marik eagle!
Querry: Why the FWL? Is it because they're (technically) the most sane until the 3050's?
Seeing Battletech and the Gaming Ambience channel together is a dream come true. Amazing content!
Im Not even that far into this compilation, already I love that the Commonwealth has a ship named yo mama, clearly someone on the ship naming committee is a man of culture, and he probably gave his life for this, unless the Commonwealth are just taking the piss all the time, in which case he was probably promoted
Honestly, It was probably named by some head foreman of a shipyard who just finished naming 20 ships in a row and the last one he just said fkit "Yo Mama" and smashed a bottle on its rear thrusters cause he couldn't be bothered to go all the way to the front.
You have no idea how helpful this was. Couldn't sleep cuz I was worrying about work today
Well I'm happy to provide you with a needed distraction.
LCS Yo Mama still makes me chuckle
I could see a Culture Ship with such a name.
I hope it's something big like an Overlord. If it's just something "small" like a leopard it's a missed opportunity.
@@KMCA779 I mean, shes a jump ship. she can carry multiple overlords XD
All these Beautiful Humanistic short Stories
So many Incredible works
Greatest presentation on the subject ever
You are Your own bar
God Bless You Man
I just pick up MechWarrior 5 recently & your video show up just when I need to dive in more into the lore.
From the age of war up to this one, there's a lot for me to catch up.
Good work, really appreciate it mate 👍🏻
This stuff is insanely good mate. Insanely good. The BPL demands your admission to the team, surely. At the very least as a consulting assistant.
Next comes 5 toddlers slapping eachother for 150 years.
Ha, that's a pretty accurate summary.
Five hours of bliss!
Thank you so much for this huge project. I've always struggled to absorb all the complex details of the Succession Wars, but the way you present them helps immesly and makes the lore come alive.
All these Incredible details
All these Beautiful Images
Hundreds and Thousands of People pooled Their Effort to put this Story together
It’s just so Beautiful
Well, looks like I found my bedtime story for the next couple weeks
Sleep well...
The sheer amount of effort and love that goes into these projects is astounding!
yeah baby were getting caught up i love this massive lore videos just put one on in the background and paint away
Hope it helps you tackle that painting to-do list and provides some entertainment while you're at it.
@SvenVanDerPlank always and gives inspiration as well
I like to do math from the Industrial Tycoon Handbook... I love making new factories and producing lost tech to help rebuild the old colonies. I wish I could start my own faction that's the exact opposite of com star, sharing technology for reasonable prices and brining back the "golden age" instead of intentionally driving humanity to the darkages.
LCD Yo' Mama, had to go back and make shure I hear that rigth. Someone is having fun while naming Spaceships. 😅
I love that you can find a one-of-a-kind wolverine in the Valentina system in MechWarrior 5 mercenaries. That to me just means that they really do appreciate the lore and background of this game and this series.
Fan freaking tastic. I love these large compilations.
aww you removed the wrap up pieces, well its still great, great job Sven. Maybe we will be lucky to get in opinion piece from you in the future, your thoughts on major events and personalities from the Succession Wars to this point.
I've always cut those out of the compilations in the past. A lot of it is just talking about production issues and what's up next, which is kind of pointless to repeat now it's finished.
Aye nice, now to see if the Cladius Steiner quote got added. Its one of the Best quotes in all of Battletech
Another awesome Battletech lore compilation! Keep up the great job.
As I delve more into the succession wars era its interesting to see the wars and how they shaped future conflicts and doctrines. The first was a no holds example of total war wrought to its full extent all sides continueing on the auspice that total victory was at hand over and over again to exhaustions. The second sees the technical supremacy of comstar and the seeding of the word of blakes future hold in FWL territory with the destruction of all but the very last vestiges of SLDF equipment in the house militaries including warships. The end result left all powers exhausted, bloodied, and at the start of a near 250 year technological backslide. I know the 3rd is the longest and is more of a cold war with flashpoint conflicts and i look forward to the coverage of it.
Yes yes. Aff. I am ready for this. Thank you.
Aff? (Shudders in dread) Oh.... no....
Yessss! I've been waiting for this. My mind is ready. My body is ready.
Well I hope it proves to be worth the wait. Thank you very much for the kind donation, Collin.
WOOHOO! I love these long ones!
A heartfelt thank you for this effort.
You're welcome.
Your work is amazing as always!
My GOAT back it, love to see it
Comstar: MUAHAHAHAHA! All according to plan!
Congrats in making this project done Sven ! 👍
Cheers BK!
Glory to Sven and Glory to the DCMS
Fantastic all at once
Great fun!!
A very well done perspective
Fuuuuuuuck they need to bring back Minnesota tribe. I need it
Maybe some awesome dreamteam of hidden Rim Worlders and the Wolverines will be what finally kick the Wolves out... except I'm pretty sure the Wolverines become the Word Of Blake...
can't wait for the third and fourth succession war videos
Its 23:38 on my clock,I really should be sleeping now but I think I have something better to do now. But in all seriousness,thanks for this great piece of work,hope that your channel will get more popular over time! Oh,and I wanted to ask: part of which series will be released next time? 3rdSW or Periphery mini-series?
I'm going to be slowly releasing the periphery series while I finish the scripts for the 3rdSW.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Got it,good luck with your future projects.
Thank you so much
Finally!!! Love your vidsss!!!
Fantastic work
Thank you
Pretty incredible work
Love comstar shennnigans
Ahhhhhh, audio/visual sourcebooks are so nice....
What if the Patriarch of Constantinople was also the CEO of Comcast?
How come there aren’t any guest appearances like what we saw during the Star League Civil War compilation?
I only did that for the Star League Civil War. People have their own projects they're working on and I didn't want to constantly pester everyone to contribute. Plus it added a bunch of complications to production.
@@SvenVanDerPlank ah I see.
Wolverines! The only reasonable clanners, love em.
I hate ComStar and I hate Jerome Blake.
Great stuff
Damn. If you think of it, war really wasn't all that bad up until here.
Because war made progress.
Age of War was least the worst era in terms of bad despite it's name. Many sides were involved within their realms internal struggles, but war still managed to continue it's purpose of pushing people to seek progress.
Reunification war ,despite how very unjust it was for Periphery realms, birthed the Star League. It brought progress, although in some twisted way of plundering the Periphery fortunes to Hegemony's favor. They brought the galaxy closer nonetheless, thanks to vast HPG project.
Amaris is where it's all started to go the wrong way - it could be much more, a liberation movement to make way past the rotten Star League, but in the end he just betrayed everyone, and the war purpose was to satisfy greed for power of one individual. I believe if SLDF continued to do war, or Amaris stayed in power, died and another individual came, Inner Sphere would be in a much better situation than the 1st Succession War. Which was a total world war scenario, but I believe it would be just a single occurrence and succession lords could form some balance of power through coalitions and negotiating.
It could be, if not for a fucking telephone company.
ComStar really ruined everything, by breaking the sole positive piece of war - the engine of progress.
This really makes them the biggest villain within the universe.
Yeah... possibly an intersting alt-history could be that Amaris dies sometime during the Civil War and Patrick Scoffins takes over
4:48:07 And thus does the Inner Sphere once again pivot and twirl around Terra. Its as if the Star League never fell in some ways...
I was looking to see if you'd added the Dainmar Liao photo to the compilation, when I noticed this: 4:00:00 Mattisskogen... that's a "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" reference. Astrid Lindgren survived this far into the future? Who names a planet "Mattis' Forest"?
I never did add that ridiculous picture of Dainmar because when I went to grab his image from the sourcebook, I realised just how low-res it was which put me off.
Who names a planet a forest? Who names a planet Kooken's Pleasure Pit!?
@@SvenVanDerPlank Aaawww… disappointment, thy name is Tzilandi.
@@Deridus Who names a planet "Dirt"?
@@Elenrai (glares at Terra) No one. No one at all. Ever.
I read all the novels up to killing fields.
Really makes ya hate the Lyrans
One thing I dont get is basically several peace agreements had more or less disrupted everything. Davion and Steiner could both focus on the Draconis Combine and Free Worlds on the Capellans. At least in Steiner and Davions' case, there seems to be little benefit of letting the DC out of that without some concessions, but they apparently couldn't even get a peace agreement?
Everybody needed a break, but they all planned to start fighting again. And that's exactly what happened. 2.5 years to catch their breath, then straight back to it.
@SvenVanDerPlank thanks for the response, seems wild how quickly they go right back into the fire each time.
I will never look at my telephone company the same way again
Pay your bills fucko
Nothing to see, citizen. Now pay your phone bill.
The continuation of ComStar not doing anything wrong.
I did not know there were so many different ways to pronounce cadre
(Laughs in Spinward Deep Periphery) Minnesota is still out here... I mean, there.
With BLP gone, they probably aren't. The Claves arent canon, and some newer splats, sourcebooks and tech readouts hint that the Wolverines intergated into the FedSuns and maybe the Dracs. They also took back their last names.
@@ssjjshawn Can't imagine them joining the Dracs, not after raiding the prisons. ISF would have found 'em out PDQ. FedSuns makes more sense, but I can't recall a timeframe where the could have joined either. I prefer to think they are camping outside of Järnfolk space, just enjoying some Freedom.
@@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into.
Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels
@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into.
Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels
I'm almost positive that they were integrated into ComStar, and thence became the Word Of Blake...
Is this in the playlists?
Yes, it's in the playlist in the correct place.
SO COOL....😊
aye yo Dawg, i can only watch the full 1st and 2nd Succession War comps like maybe 10 times in a row without new content, when's the next of the 3rd coming out mang?
When I'm done with MW5. Gonna finish uploading my playthrough, then there are two other vids I want to make on it, after which I'll get back to finishing the Third Succession War.
@@SvenVanDerPlank whelp! gonna have to re-listen to the first 3 again, then watch the Reunification War followed by The Star League Civil war then.
Great lore set boss, I find it hard to play strategy games without something engaging and fun on in the back ground
The Battle of Irian is a the stuff i live for in BattleTech. Then again I play FWL mercs so i coule be biased
Out of curiosity. Any units, mercenary or house, have impressed you over this entire project just for being stubborn bastards who wont die? Even after getting savaged
Good question but one I don't really have an answer for. Maybe I should do some statistical analysis and see which units have been involved with the capture/defence of the most planets.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Would be a fun "Notable Units" episode you could put together. Most victoroes, most defeats, most reformings
Only (Inner Sphere) Merc unit I truly like the Iridani Light Horse.
Snord's Irregulars, though, will always hold a special place in my heart.
McKinnons Raiders of the 7th Crucis Lancers on Kentares in Succession Wars 1 comes to mind. Damned good snipers.
@@Zattack19Probably Wolf's Dragoons and the Eridani Light Horse
Kick ass channel brother. When Im able, Ill be investing kickbacks for your work. Unless you accept home brew hot sauce as payments
Love the WarShip art. Can you share a link/source at all?
I used quite a few different images. Was there a specific timestamp you can point to? If so I can maybe answer what sourcebook I got it from.
The ones around 15:04 if possible. Thanks.
They're both from the HBS BattleTech game artbook.
Do you have a discord channel by chance?
I do not. I have my own feed on Big Red's discord where I always post my upcoming vids if that's any good to you.
@@SvenVanDerPlank thank you Sir
Cadre... Cah-dray ...not cotter)
Not in English
@@SvenVanDerPlank definitely in English)
Gotta give it to you) you obviously speak fluently more than one language. Unlike myself.
But, I promise you, if you conversationally say "cotter" in English it doesn't convey the word "cadre".
@@joshsmith9572 how do you pronounce aluminum
@@TheGemmaster22 lmao)
Intentionally wrong. Same with nuclear
LCS Yo' Mama.
I got an 10 hours shift Saturday morning to assure the 3rd to 1st shift QC/QA transition. This should get me through it, factoring in pauses to actually do work.
EDIT - Blake did nothing wrong. He turned Space AT&T into true Scientology
Blake no...but his Successor did...Toyama especially
Glad to provide you a distraction from work. Hope it makes the day go quickly.
The Jihad is slowly getting retconned out of canonization.
What is this in response to?
@@SvenVanDerPlank some of the Renegade HPG interviews with some of the Key authors, Tex and Co. Unless I am wrong, which is understandable, the constant ridicule of the Jihad as unfortunate writing.
I'm just happy that some of the weaker writing is not going away, but is slowly getting phased out of the world setting.
Granted, I am running on 3 days of no sleep. So I'm fully ready to be debunked and I will try to adjust.
I mean, *something* has to be there to explain what happened to the Word of Blake at least.
@@cynicalcitizen8315you are 100,000 % wrong. Not only are they not getting rid of it, they're going back to the era to write more material in it.
Are you really called Sven? You sound like a Vlad to me
LCS Your Momma?
Yo mama so large she requires orbital recon.
This is just further evidence that the BattleTech universe would be better off without humanity.