Comstar, the space illuminati and guiding hand behind the inner sphere | Battletech Lore
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- Hello hello, today me and steve dive into comstar, the shadowy space illuminati and religious nutjobs ruling the inner sphere from the shadows. All their backstabbing, shady dealings, organizations and more on display as we cover everything from comstar's founding to the just before the schism and their downfall.
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I love how TH-cam felt the need to put in "context" about the illuminati. I'm a ComStar Precentor, I love ComStar, but we're all doomed if Silicon Valley is allowed to become Comstar. These people suck.
Right. Greedy corporations and a future of corporate feudalism might be a thing. But the concept of the Illuminati as an actual entity is silly.
Heh too late I'm afraid
10:23 I'd call it 'justice'. (and Kerensky agreed with me)
Stephan Amaris didn't accidentally get himself and his family executed, he earned it by winning the triple Gold medal in a veritable triathlon of evil. (sweeping the field in cruelty, nihilism, and tyranny)
He also destroyed everything nice.
Got to love how he talks about a fictional universe/table top game. and TH-cam tries to correct him.
youtube is run by morons who can't tell reality from fiction.
Because TH-cam is stupid and they are but can't tell that Comstar is not real.
Bots gunna bot. It's all done by an algorithm that doesn't understand context. Still funny and stupid though.
@@mikecampos1193 Or maybe TH-cam/Google realized Comstar is what they aspire to be..
@@Prich319 That, unfortunately is far, far to believable.
anti consumer, anti competitive, listenens in on your data and then sells it to the highest bidder. All the while slowing progress by not allowing technology to roll out. Comcast is fulfilling its mission far into the future i see.
Like the real world...
Also completely unrealistic just look at the history of communication
Sounds more like Google on Steroids.
Both. Both is good.
@@charlesballiet7074 Constar was first.. Google copied ComStar
Interesting note about the C-Bill; its the generalized currency BECAUSE ComStar controls all interplanetary communication. The C-Bill is backed by the HPG. One C-Bill is equal to a set amount of data that can be sent through the HPG (I forget exactly how much but its like, three, four pages worth of data). An unchanging, unmutable, physics-backed standard that can't ever change because the HPG system has a hard cap on its capabilities.
Which makes sense in a universe where precious metals and similarly valuable elements have become FAR less rare than before, and even stuff like Germanium (which was the basis of the Star Leauge dollar for a while, and before that the Hegemony Dollar) are found all over the place.
Plus, the C-Bills value stays the same no matter what, anywhere, any time. Doesnt matter which House your in or what you're doing; if you want to send information, its gonna be through an HPG. Thats required.
This is opposed to, say, House Bills (or H-Bills) which are the internal currency of whatever nation you're in, and their overall value fluctuates as most money does in relation to whatevers going on in the nation currently.
(Something tells me Liao bills werent worth all that much during the 4th Succession War for example).
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NOTE THE GUNDAM THEMED BLACK KNIGHT WITH THE V FIN
For the record….a C-Bill is worth a millisecond of communication service.
@@BlackIce3190 That's it, thank you! I knew it was a metric unit
So your telling me c-bill a cryptocurrency that doesn't suck
@@mr.nobody2191 Thought up well before the internet itself even existed, yes.
@@mr.nobody2191You prod at cryptologically backed currencies, but they aren't all that different from the idea posited by the OP.
Proof of Work currencies have their value backed by the electricity cost of maintaining the network. Because each "miner" expends work to perform math functions, you can expect the owner of that miner to demand a certain level of value from the hash they complete. While it's a bit messier than the HPG since computational technology is evolving and becoming more efficient, the premise remains that the value is backed by the cost of electricity. It's not crypto's fault that a bunch of old world bankers caught wind of a system that would invalidate their fractional reserve banking scam and derailed it through wild speculative trading schemes.
When Comstar first formed, im not surprised noone paid much notrice to them taking Terra. I mean if your neighbour broke down your fence and took a shit at your backdoor, you're not going to pumnch out the mailman when they brazenly rob the house across the street
Technically the Lyrans noticed, and were planning an invasion of Terra...but then, OUT OF NOWHERE, unmarked military forces arrived and annhilated their stockpiled supplies and the force garrisoned there.
Then left without ever saying a word.
No one claimed the attack and no one ever found out who it was.
As things were ramping up for what would become the First Succession War, EVERY faction wanted Terra and were making plans to take it. The whole point to the "succession" wars, was who would succeed to the position of First Lord - and any faction that actually held Terra would be able to claim "moral high ground" - or at least the "possession is nine tenths of the law" ground - in the contest. When forces showed up and cleaned out the five factions "security garrisons" in the system - and, at first, nobody knew who they were - and then Blake demanded everyone respect Terra's neutrality, he effectively took that move off the table. And everyone respected Blake's call for neutrality, first because he threatened interdiction - and your financial sector would be crippled without being able to stock trade on an interstellar level - but second, because if _he's_ holding Terra as a neutral system, then the Kuritans or the Liaos or anyone else wouldn't be able to hold it, either.
So, at first, he got away with it because, before things got utterly insane as the war ground on, the five House lords saw it as a practical thing - a neutral middle ground, and an important bit of ground that none of your rivals could ever claim. They also needed to maintain their communications links, and as advanced as the five houses were back in the day, the Terran Hegemony had kept the HPG as secret as they could, so they didn't want to make Blake angry.
He was able to keep getting away with it because before too long, all five of the Successor States were too dependent on ComStar (for news, for communications, for diplomacy, and for interstellar currency exchange) to think about crossing them.
In addition, Blake was a very respected figure at the time, utterly dedicated to his job even before the fall. Better the apolitical guy than your rivals, after all.
@@liljenborg2517 tbf the sentiment of space comcast may be evil but at least they aren't posing a direct threat to me getting what i want is a pretty reasonable sentiment
Comstar had one huge advantage: control of ther HPG's. Operation Silver Shield followed a total communication black out. And managing such vast star empires requires the quick flow of information. Just look at why the Terran Alliance failed and why the Reunification Wars were so slow: slow speed of information. Just think of our time: holding an empire together in the old times required trust into your subordinates doing the best for the realm and not their small slice of territory. And when you in your capital hundreds of miles away hear weeks after an invasion of the actual invasion you can think about the rest. That and Blake had already secured all states respect Comstar's neutrality and territory. And every time Comstar issued a communication interdiction it hurt (House Davion was so far the only realm to somehow mitigate said interdiction thanks to the Black Boxes)
Remember you filthy clanners.... you lost to a TELEPHONE COMPANY!
Glory to blessed Blake!
Peace of Blake be upon you brother!
Space AT&T: if you don't pay, they don't play.
Except Clans wolf and Jade Falcon take over Terra eventually anyways after those toaster fuckers lost their minds and decided to take out the HPG network and nuking the Innersphere and starting a war with EVERYBODY after the 2nd Star League fell apart. And now Comstar/Word of Blake are wiped out with Wolf controlling the center of the Innersphere a Clan Seafox and remnants of Nova Cat having to fix what Comstar broke
Back in the day I found ComStar hard to believe in ............ These days not so much .
I love that YT thought fit to add a context box to something completely unrelated to the context box.
It's often ComStar dressed as the Capellans...
ComStar's plot armor is so good that they're one of the few factions which is definitively dead now. Even the Smoked Jaguars have come back.
Wait 15 years, they will come back with the nostalgia wave.
Never count ComStar out. There may still be worlds out there where ComStar remnants still hold to the belief that one day, when the universe has warred itself back to the stone age, ComStar, or the Master reborn (or re-cloned - who knows how many clones of himself the whacko made), will step out of the shadows with tech so advanced it's more like magic to save humanity and all of humanity will willingly, enthusiastically bow before their be-robed saviors. And ComStar, as Blake prophesied, will take it's place at the head of all humanity and begin a Millennial Reign of peace and prosperity.
It's Clan Sea Fox now
@@canislupus3655 Thought that was Diamond Shark.
Comstar had plot armor?
I don't care if they're shady or not. Everyone's shady.
Comstar has cool toys. That's why I'm a fan.
Fair reason.
To be fair... all of ComStar's plot armor got nuked alongside the Word of Blake's Kerfuffle. As of the ilClan era, they don't exist anymore
New lore kinda dogshit tho same as Warhammer 40k. Everybody sticks to old lore because it was just better. It has aged badly as hell, no doubt about it. But it's still better.
Now Comstar's assets belong to Clan Sea Fox. Surely, nothing will come from this development
Nothing.
@@KidoitimakiI for one am quite excited to see Clan Sea Fox do nothing at all with the new assets
So, anyway, I was talking with some Taurian buddies of mine and they mentioned finding some old SLDF ship. Think they said it was called the Tri
I believe the preferred TH-cam friendly name for the Blakeist assault on the rest of humanity is the "Blakeist kerfuffle".
I like Blakist Brew-haha
Blakeist New Year?
A fellow member of Clan Hoppy Frog I see 🐸
@@greysonjones5429 indeed.
Complete with Dropships-of-peace I presume?
you are a-miss on your description of space travel. the jumpships make a near instant transit from point A to point B. the power bank recharge only takes 1 to 4 DAYS.
the real issue is the travel from Zenith or Nadir points of the solar system. the jumpships arrive at either of these locations. then the dropships separate from the jumpship and travel to the planet. this is the time factor. the dropship transit time is between 3 days to 3 weeks.
in practice, many jumpships also have a massive battery which allows multiple jumps. thus, a jumpship which normally travels up to 30 light years, can in fact, travel up to 60 and 90 light years - nearly instantaneously.
the recharge time of the battery is only a single day.
depending on the target planet, travel time from the jump point to the planet and the dropships engine burn, you can actually make planet-fall approx 48hrs after initial departure. spend the time to "dump" your cargo. then take off and return to the jumpship. another quick jump and be home...
entire round trip, approx 5 DAYS...
not months.
info sources:
aerotech 1609
battlespace 1680
dropships and jumpships 1619
TRO 3057 (8620)
aerotech 2 1718
aerotech 2 35011
i think it takes months for actual trips that go anywhere, to use American cities as a basis, since that is what I know, traveling from New York to Philidelphia, cities that are so close that thier metro areas almost run into each other. if that takes 5 days imagine any kind of legitimate travel, across the country.
@jeremiahplaysWOW yes and no. the jump itself is not what is taking time. upon arrival at the planetary system, the jumpship is at either the nadir point or the zenith point (north or south) of the sun. the distance from the sun is based upon the gravitational pull. the real travel time is going from the zenith or nadir to the planet itself.
a low gravitational pull star means the zenith or nadir will be closer to the planets, thus a shorter travel time (1 to 7 days). a stronger gravitational pull can cause the zenith or nadir to be further away, thus a travel to up to 28 days.
using your example, you fly from New York to LA and the 'jump' takes 10-20 seconds. the next step is to take a taxi to your hotel. that varies due to distance the hotel is from the airport.
Oh ComStar, never stop being the butt of BattleTech jokes.
Just remember the core rule of BattleTech.
Believe what you will, the rest is ComStar lies.
Oh ComStar, never stop being a meme.
When you make the Clans and Inner Sphere look at each other and go 'so, yeah, hall pass on this WMD thing? Yeah? We're good, just as long as hit the Blakists? Cool.'
Word of Blake, rather, close enough.
Got an Illuminati fact check in this video lol
This is not just WEF right now.
Hey, Plank was the best character in Ed, Edd, & Eddie! He carried that show! Had the best lines, and he was a hard guy to get for the show. He was too good for that show, but he did it.
And to the people who think that Comstar and Mechanicus are very oddly simmilar- it is not a case of plaguerism, but a case of taking inspirations from the same source (quite possibly).
And this source is "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller- bet ya didn't think this lore comes with a reading requirements, huh?
The same book also inspired Fallout and the tennets of Brotherhood of Steel (back before Bethesda'sin house writers shaited the bed and made the stains everyone elses problem)
And it is both ammusing and lovely how Steve's whole tactic is both being severely uninformed and not kowing himself what he will do next. He is a literary drunken fist master who would bumble his way to victory through any universe you would throw him into, the writters have no power over him as he doesn't even care to have powers over his own powers.
A neet fact to add to my pile.
Actually ComStar taking over Earth without the Great Houses fighting them over it kinda scans.
What we forget is that ComStar was kind of a small fish back then. It was a small fish that could do incredible damage against you if you went to smash them. And you have the other 4 Houses just waiting for a moment of weakness to pounce.
Nobody was willing to risk attacking them, when they all expected to win the Succession War and just absorb ComStar as the new head of a reborn Star League. Yes they were idiots.
Yea science insanity video
Yay Space AT&T.
A text adventure With Chat GPT had me Landed on Solaris IV and made me fight "Hellriser" a Pirate leader and then offered me a chance to Salvage his Banshee... I Configured My own Mech "Bullshark" with energy weapons and Chat GPT offered me choices base on that info and even heat levels of you are specifc enough.
Chat GPT has bare basic Info of Weapons and even Mech Variants!!! But is dumb in finer points of MechLabs and get s confused with multiple version of weapons.
pay your bills, bucko
If you think Comstar has ridiculous plot armor ... ask Clan Wolf about theirs .... xD
That has been brought up in the Clan Invasion 3 parter.
Clan Wolfs armour isn't on the same planet (heh) as Comstars. Clan Wolf consistently win because they're the best and aren't allowed to take an L. Comstar defeat the entire clan invasion with greenhorns because muh taktiks.
@@ImBarryScottCSS Tactics, Strategy, Logistics, and Crazy.
@@ImBarryScottCSS I can't tell if this post is for or against Clan Wolf's sheer stupid plot armor.
ah thank you youtube for giving me a link to the illuminati for context
They are like the navigators guild from Dune series
I wonder if Comstar also has various civilian Jumpships and Dropships, whose only (official) purpose is to provide purely civilian trade around the Inner Sphere. Passenger Dropships? Several are likely Comstar-owned. Freight Dropships? Also several are Comstar-owned. Jumpships going on a steady route? Comstar.
Of course those Dropships are also observing what is going on at the planet they left, and passing that along to the local HPG for usage elsewhere. Planet is starting to run low on a certain resource? Comstar Freight can deliver the necessary stuff for a price. Planet just had local mercenaries leave? By pure coincidence a pirate group pops in a few months later.
not quite...
the Guild navigators required the 'spice' in order to relocate thru space.
Comstar has the acolytes chant some nonsense before flipping the switch to 'on' or pressing the button 'send'.
@@bruced648
So adeptus mechanicus
ComStar: The reason why you have phone bills AND will pay them. If you don't pay your phone bill, you don't get to exist anymore. Nor does your entire lineage.
I love ComStar. They're so insanely broken/overpowered because they were the only ones willing to actually maintain the communications system, then used the remnants of the SLDF to protect it. Blake was a fucking menace, but unfortunately, he was fucking right. He had seen the writing on the wall about how the Great Houses had been behaving for centuries and went "Well, there's about to be a power vacuum and it's going to get so much worse." And took the only steps that were possible to limit it, in making the HPG network neutral and separate from everyone else. Then ComStar went and stole Earth, then it went badly from there.
Ya he made some fucking dumb things but was probably the only reason shot atlest worked.
When your toe gets stuck to a piece of furniture at 3 AM when you just wanted a glass of water, it's because comstar moved the goddamn chairs.
You see my friend… commstar, they protec toaster… but Goliath scorpions? They f#%^ toaster. While doing drugs.
Comstar: the biggest chance, yet the biggest disappointment. Now I’ll watch your vid
Cell phone Jesus, is the evolution of the televangelist?
I'm curious when you're going to do your vid on the WOB and their glorious cleansing....aka out war-criming the rest of humanity.
Clan player is mad that comstar gets more plot armour then the clans. Lol
Tl;Dr They miss a lot of info or get it wrong.
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C-Bills are backed by the HPG and the value doesn't fluctuate.
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Comstar was the only organization that could operate the HPGs en masse before the 1st succession war, and the great houses planned on replacing them knce they trained people.
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The deification of Jerome Blake was his own plan becaue he thought that the only way comstar's purpose could be achieved was through the ability to stand the test of tume found only in religions like Christianity. Toyama messed this up by maming the organization zealots, when Blake wanted moderates.
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The comgaurd was not an elite organization. It was driven to victory mostly by fanaticism and gokd tactics.
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Comstar lost. A lot. Especially in the lrad up to yhat clan invasion. They couldnt stop the lostech Renaissance, one if their primary objectives.
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Nobody knew what the heck comstar was doing most if the time. Most people thought they were just neutral observers. Even hosue lords like Hanse Davion, a political mastermind, thought they were harmless before they were forced to play their hand. My sources for these last two paragraphs: the Warrior Trilogy, Wolves on the Border, the Price of Glory.
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Clan wolf has significantly worse plot armor, and y'all simp for it.
End tldr.
You guys get so much wrong/omit so much cricial information here. Lets begin at the beginning: C-Bills and the HPG network. Ill start with C-Bills. The reason why everyone uses C-bills id because theyre backed by the HPG network, its a certain amount if transmission time and/or data. So its constant and fixed, inflation just doesnt exist because of the hard limits of the HPG network. This means that while House bills, or H-billd fluctuate, C-Bills are always worth about the same amount.
The HPG network is a very complex beast, and few outside of comstar knew how to use it prior to the first Succession war, nostly operators of the great houses' mobile hpg networks. The houses initially agreed to comstar neutrality becauee they planned to replace them eventually with their own people, and because Jerome Blake tricked each of them into thinking the other house lord's had already agreed to the deal, which woild keave them at a significant disadvantage if it had been true.After the devestation of the 1st succesion war, they didnt have enough time or tech to rebuild after that.
You completely missed that the Deification of Jerome Blake was Blake's own intentionally plan. His purpose for comstar was to preserve the knowledge humanity had, so that once humanity had finally ended it's petty squabbles or nuked itself enough, comstar could emerge and reforge a new star league, one without the great houses. He saw that his secular organization wouldnt last, so he instead made it religious, as the only things that really survive throughout the ages are religion, like the catholic church which had endured for thousands of years. He knew Comstar needed that same longevity, so, he created alternative versions if his journals and told Toyama that after his death, he had ro go about creating the religion. Sadly, Toyama screwed it up. Instead of getting the moderate religion that Blake had wanted, Toyama created a zealous organization bent on fulfilling the prophecy no matter what, even if that required getting their hands dirty.
That whole thing is key to Comstar, and you dint even mention it, and just skirt around the all the hardships and setbacks comstar faced. Comstar has lost, and badly. The Federated Commonwealth and the 4th Succession war and the war of 3039 are excellent examples of this, where despit their best efforts, the Fedcom defied the balance taht comstar had carefully crafted, forcing comstar to act far more openly than previously and making them lose their technological grip on things.
Also, you blew the Comgaurd's capabilities and effectiveness way out if the water. On tukayyid all they had going for them were numbers, good equipment, and fanatascism. They didnt have many elite troops, most of them were green or regulars. They beat the clans because of Focht and their fanatascism to blake's word.
Notice something? You say that comstar has the hand of the author behind it, and you dont even realize that by the time of the ckan invasion, one of their top priorities, the monitored decline of technology throughout the inner sphere, had failed. The Helm memory core ensbled the great houses to reclaim a lot of lostech, and comstar failed to contain that breach. By the time of the clan invasion, lostech has been reintroduced to line units. Comstar lost the tech battle.
Also, most people, even house lords, have no idea what Comstar is doing behind the scenes. This is really well illustrated in the Warrior Trilogy and Wolves on the Border, where we, the omniscient reader, can dee what they are doing, but the main characters, one of which is Hanse Davion, First Prince of the Fedsuns, has no clue what's going on with them or most of what theyre doing, even their most blatant actions are hard to understand for one if the greatest tacticians in the history of inner sphere politics.
Clan Wolf's plot armor, a faction you guys simp for, is so much worse. They get Nicky Kerensky to join them, they delay the clan invasion by 60 years, they almost win against EVERY OTHER CLAN in their trial of refusal against operation revival (ehat the clan's called the clan invasion), and the they, as a "punishment" are guven the highly coveted honor of invading the inner sphere. They, against all rhyme and reason defy clan culture and think about how wars are actually fought traditionally, with supply lines, something that runs counter to how the clans fight. They win in tulayyid when everyone else aside from the Bear's fail. They even benefit greatly from what little they list in Tukayyid, losing their SaKahn which let Phelan Kell, a nobody to the Clanners who had no buisness in leadership step into the role, whcih saves them during the wars of reaving. In the wars of reaving, when they finally get beaten by the Jade Falcons, they have a splinter group break off (which is fine) BUT THEN they come back as "The Jade Wolves" before becoming just the wolves again. WHICH MAKES NO FREAKING SENSE. Jts completely out of character for the falcons. They just win and win and win and win. Even in the Ilclan Era all they do is win. And you claim comstar, a factionwhich loses, had limitations, and has a rich and interesting history and motivation is a mary sue faction? Nah bro.
You missed the channel primer.
And you are inviting arguments so they can be a strawman.
@@gmradio2436 what? I'm sorry I just don't understand what you're saying. I've watched a few of this guy's videos, notably the clan invasion one and this one. I've also actually learned about Comstar more in depth than looking at the sarna page. I don't understand how any of my arguments are strawmen. If you would like to make counterarguments or show me how they are strawmen, that would be great. Have a great day!
Mostly when you started ranting abou Clan Wolf in the Illkhan era, them making claims about mary sues, and of course missing the primer. Short version. This is a memey onboarding channel. Deep lore is not a concern, just enough to have fun and get people interested. The strawman comes in when you set them with topics they have not even covered or events that happened in the lore in opposition to your arguments. Clan wolf "won" Tuukyed. That happened. If anything by calling out "the hand of the author" they help your arguments against clan wolf.@@greysonjones5429
@@greysonjones5429my library of battletech sourcebooks is nearly complete, consisting of the full line of game books and source materials.
simply said, SARNA has many holes and flaws.
I enjoy these videos, but they are presenting their own version of the Battletech universe and the factions within. about 30% of the info they present is completely wrong when matched against the original source material.
that said, FASA had stated that the published sourcebooks intentionally had discrepancies that did not match other sources. as these books were 'written' from a variety of perspectives.
I have my own timeline of events that allow large fleets of warships and vast armies to exist across the battletech universe.
make
the game your own, and enjoy!
Um, you do know they make this videos for comedy, right?
May the peace of Blake be with you
I thought Blake fostered the idea of a religon as a way to continue after his death.
"Pay your bills, fucko!" - Comstar
6:20 Wow, you guys are way _too_ hyperbolic. It takes a couple of weeks on the outside (if there isn't a jumpship charging at the star system's jump points) to travel the the nearest neighboring star system, depending on the system's economic or military importance. Not months. Transit times are largely taken up travelling to and from nadir or zenith jump points (less if you have a jump ship at a pirate point), which are a handful of days, and also scheduling (waiting for all dropships to arrive & dock with the about-to-transit jumpship.
wow, you and I both have a solid grasp of battletech space travel.
(read my post)
First rule of SpaceT&T is that you don't talk about SpaceT&T
Second rule of SpaceT&T is that you share your toys toys with SpaceT&T
Third rule of SpaceT&Tis that you ALWAYS pay your bill
ChatGPT dose know about BattleTech. I have been using it to homebrew Clans and Mercenary Companies.
So basically... evil (Clarke's) Foundation
Just keep them all away from Mars.
You want admech? That's how you get skitarii!
I wanted to say thank you for the battletech talkies. I don't see what everyone is mentioning about youtube giving context on the illuminati. Anyone care to point me to where that is? Peace
Comstar controlls com 'tech. Wonder where they got THAT idea from? *WYNK*
My middle name is Conrad. Am I mildly evil or fully evil or no evil?
This video proves that 40K and BT are in the same universe.
Nah. BT is FAR better. And not grimdark.
@@jfangmI like to think BT happens before 40k,during the Age of War when lots of Terras history is lost.
I wanna point out that this video just gets... So much wrong. The Mechanicus of 40k and Comstar are very different entities with extremely different goals. Comstar's end goal, which he conveniently left out, was to be the savior's of humanity. Once all technology failed, they were to emerge as the house lord's collapsed, creating a Star League where the great houses were a non-issue, and all could have access to the great technology of the Star League. They didn't worship technology, they worshipped the Star League and the tools which they used to forge that great empire. The Mechanicus on the other hand, are trasnhumanists. They want to "ascend" human form and become machines, worshipping technology because of their god, a machine god. They worship the tech, not its makers.
I'd say that you're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough
@@Enixon869Ha! Great Dr. Evil quote.
I thought FTL is instantaneous. It takes weeks or months to charge up to do that jump? 🤔
and dont forget the (unofficial) motto "redde creditori tuo fucko"
Ah, classic Tex.
Pay your bills, fucko
Praise be to blake
Praise be to Blake 😔
Based and com-pilled.
Love how TH-cam bots hear one word and try to steer your perception of the video even if the video has nearly nothing to do the word mentioned
Is this a reminder for me to pay my phone bill? 🤣🤣
Also....Steve!
I thought that the clown invasion upset the plans of the comstar coup?
Wanna tick off Space Comcast? Call the C-Bill "Commie-Bucks!"
I see COMSTAR I hit like and subscribe
1000th like!
Conrad Verner seems nice enough
Conrad Hilton.
The question is... WHY did comstar restart the war? I can't think of any reason. Not even profit. It's not like communication would cease.
in order to maintain sole ownership over technology, they needed the houses to continue beating each other into the stone age. it's difficult to be the 'savior' of humanity... if humanity doesn't require a savior.
Except that they have done nothing to save humanity since then. If they wanted to be humanity's savior, they could just release all of that technology later.
The Capellans own a Controlling stock in Comstar. Die mad.
Comcast seems appropriate. 😂
While a lot of your details and specifics are not completely accurate, the idea is still there at least.
Comstar, you have no choice.
space AT&T
Why does TH-cam need to provide context for a fictional universe?
Comstar is what Elon Musk dreams to be.
Comstar. Cause you have no choice
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C-Bill=Bitcoin
So this is the Jews in this universe?
I love comstar
Sorry had to be said but at th-cam.com/video/vKiFt02GBIs/w-d-xo.html you said that every other faction respected Comstar's neutrality, this isn't actually true. The Houses during this time had forces on Terra which was also home to Comstar, with the Houses originally planning to try and takeover Terra to not only have a better claim to the 'First Lord' position, but to also control the Prime Circuit (Think HPG station hub that is centre to everything). Comstar literally killed all the House forces on Terra and declared that they owned Terra (and the Sol system) and that any attack against them would mean that they'd shut down the HPG of the attacking nation (and not the others, if they didn't attack Terra). The only reason that the Houses accepted this was not only because the Succession Wars were just beginning, but also thanks to the fact important communications that were vital to their nations weren't under threat of the other house, For the time being, they would attempt to gain control of HPG station/Comstar itself for a time. Until ROM sorted them out and the Houses decided that it was too much to try.
Hey I'm not a Comstar apologist but if you look at the whole universe of the lore, from the Amaris Civil War all the way to the foundation of Comstar with Jerome Blake you can also look at Comstar as the father of the Inner Sphere while all the great houses are children who do not stop blowing themselves up with nuclear and chemical weapons. I was anti Comstar up until I followed the events of the Amaris Civil War and I absolutely understand why Blake wanted to have a monopoly over communication. It's because the great houses are too stupid to get along and always want to plunge themselves into border wars and all out war. In reality Comstar is a necessary neutrality to make sure the great houses do not nuke themselves into nuclear annihilation because they keep breaking their own Ares Convention oaths.
I find it most ironic that the Clans and Comstar were the main factions that clashed the hardest on Tukayyid since Kerensky and Blake were good buddies that respected each other before the great exodus. Even Blake gave Kerensky's great exodus fleet safe passage by disabling the HPG networks so that no one would interrupt the migration fleet. It was ironic Blake's and Kerensky's successors that always manage to screw everything up, much like anyone in our reality tends to as well.
The Tripitz Affair is a good example of ComStar's "guidance" regarding technology.
What we need in a MechWarrior release concentrating of Tukkayid
Comstar went full mechanicus. You NEVER go full mechanicus
Not even the mechanicus went full mechanicus, they tried and realized that it was too stupid.
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But ya Blake was good the man after (I would poss of his grade before excaping to clan space)
Remember folks:
"Believe what you want, the rest are Comstar lies."
The Mechanicus wishes it was as competent as ComStar
And not light the holy incense?
Comstar reclaimation squad is en route to your location for unpaid fees.
Please see page 212 section C subsection 3.f for the proper position to be in when Comstar field agents arrive.
Thank you for your understanding.
The C Bill , the MRB and their monopoly on interstellar communications are important but I'd argue it's ROM that's the true power behind ComStar .
And the C-Bill isn't the only currency like House Bills exist but if you want to communicate off planet or hire Mercs you'll need C Bills .
Oh nvm you finally got to them
Star League was the single worst thing to happen to the inner sphere.
They were the direct cause of the Unification Wars and their existence set up the Amaris Coupe to be so devastating. The existence of the Star League baited the Successor states into mistakenly thinking they could become the *new* star league, and thus resulted in the Succession Wars, and the two most absolutely insane factions of the setting, Comstar and the Clans are both direct offshoots of Star League organizations.
Wouldn't be first time centralizing government power ended in disaster...
It's the way they handled the Unification that's the problem.
It's like saying the formation of the US or the UN was a mistake.
Their form of government is based on succession and forced submission everyone makes one hell of an inferiority complex from the beaten guys.
That is a remarkably stupid take. The Star League brought about an unparalleled age of prosperity and technological advancement for the Inner Sphere. Everything you listed was a result of the collapse of the Star League, not its existence.
To be fair, they actually did introduce some semblance of order and civility and kept the great houses from crapping too much in the Inner Sphere and kept them on a leash. You can't even look away from a planet before it gets flung into a conflict or war or something every five minutes in the Age of War, with the houses throwing tantrums and always wanting a bigger slice of the pie, throwing and trying their whatever new toys they could get their hands on out there (like those in the Proliferation Cycle stories).
That said though, yeah, the aftermath and fallout of their rule was REALLY poorly handled. Same goes on how they handled the Periphery.
Edit: correction on the great houses, mixed it up with something lol
The real issue was humanity leaving Earth. Never leave Earth and there would have never been the formation of the Houses, no Star League, no Clans, or ComStar.
I hate the shit space AT&T gets away with and the more I learn about them I hate 'em more. Also terran affairs I think u called them makes no sense, just drop the pretense and rule the system directly (I don't think they're fooling anyone). I'll end this by remnding ppl to pay their phone bill
I think you misspelled Space AT&T
The Free Worlds League did try to make a move on Terra during the First Succession War; however their staging area on the planet Procyon was attacked by an unknown raiding force (who were most likely very neutral), destroying a good deal of the equipment, making an assault on Terra impossible. It is not known who conducted this raid.
I've always called them Space AT&T.
Remember pay your bills fucko Comstar you be warned and if your a Clanner you deserve it.
My favorite faction! Blake be praised!
21:30 Is that an Atlas holding an LRM Accordion?
It's a disposable 3xLRM 20 Launcher. Mechs with two hands can pick up objects up to 30% of their total weight, so a 100 ton mech can pick up and carry a single shot weapon (or a 30ton light mech for the lols). You basically never see people play them because the points cost of disposable launchers is obscene. But yes, it looks like a missile accordion.
It's not Tukkiyad, bud. It's Tukayyid. "Too-KAH-yid". ^^
Also, the ComGuard motto is an awesome put-down, woblins suck Clanner donkey dong, and y'all need to pay your *goddamn* bills. :D
Great content, gentlemen. Tex would be proud.
Indeed. Tex would be happy to see anotgers take on shit.
7:11 Oh not to even mention the fact they defacto control all FTL travel though regulation if nothing else.
Could the Inner Sphere beat Comstar in a 1v5?
The phone company would like a word ...
Where do i put the Crab? Not the King Crab, but the Just Crab? The one with two large lasers medium mech? It looks like it has some armor, some above average speed, but no jump jets, a lot of heat sinks, but still not enough to sink all the heat from all lasers burst at close combat, no missiles, no guns no faith, no past no future....
The Fed-Suns/Fed-Coms only briefly upstaged Com-Star because Hanse Davion blew about 400 years worth of dust off a prototype Star League FTL radio that was discarded for the HPG because it was too complicated
The biggest reason I don't get involved in tabletop Battletech is because I would re-paint my army in Comstar livery and other players would hate me on sight.
Blake was basiclly Steve Jobs on steroids befor4e Jobs
You joke about steve being imaginary, but i am a new sub and am currently binging the channel, and I am not sure he isn't lol
Its like a different version of bricky and dk. Do you guys have a shy too?
The religious part was not accidental
ComStar did nothing wrong.