BattleTech Lore & History - First Succession War: A Complete 35 Year History (MechWarrior Lore)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- #battletech #lore #mechwarrior BattleTech Lore & History is a series by Sven van der Plank that covers the history of the #innersphere and Periphery within the #battletech universe. Presented as a #documentary from the year 3025, the videos cover in detail major events such as the Age of War, founding of the #starleague, #reunificationwar, the Golden Age, #starleague Civil War and the four #successionwar.
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Galaxy Map created from the Sarna Unified Cartography Kit (SUCKit) provided by Volt, colour added by Sven van der Plank.
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Sourcebooks Referenced:
House Davion: Federated Suns (1623)
House Kurita: Draconis Combine (1620)
House Liao: Capellan Confederation (1624)
House Marik: Free Worlds League (1622)
House Steiner: Lyran Commonwealth (1621)
The Periphery (1629)
The Star League (1630)
ComStar (1655)
Handbook: House Davion (35024)
Handbook: House Kurita (35205)
Handbook: House Liao (35204)
Handbook: House Marik (35019)
Handbook: House Steiner (35001)
Handbook: Major Periphery (35203)
Era Report: 2750 (35222)
Historical: Reunification War (35231)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.I (35232)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.II (35233)
Historical: Operation Klondike (35230)
Historical: First Succession War (35235)
Historical: Second Succession War (35236)
Field Manual: SLDF (35251)
Field Report 2765: AFFS (35FR010)
Field Report 2765: CCAF (35FR008)
Field Report 2765: DCMS (35FR009)
Field Report 2765: FWLM (35FR011)
Field Report 2765: LCAF (35FR012)
Field Report 2765: Periphery (35FR013)
Jihad Hot Spots: Terra (35205)
Further references from Sarna.net - Thank you to the Sarna.net discord for additional support: / discord
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0:00 I: Phoney War
24:51 II: Political Overview
46:15 III: Military Overview
1:18:45 IV: Armageddon Comes
1:47:36 V: Apocalypse
2:17:32 VI: Sins of the Fathers
2:45:26 VII: Eternal Dishonour
3:12:00 VIII: New Blood
3:33:09 IX: Politics at Play
3:52:56 X: The Grind
4:21:45 XI: Peripheral Vision
4:36:23 XII: End of the Road
4:59:32 XIII: Peace For Our Time - Ігри
Great video! It cracks me up that a lot of the succession wars is just "and then one of the houses committed indescribable war crimes"
This whole project is phenomenal. It's so easy to get lost and numb in the statistics of the Succession Wars, yet this series managed to convey the true horror of the actions of individuals who themselves either could not, or did not wish to. You and Tex are the Zenith and Nadir of Battletech lore.
Thank you very much. I'm glad I was able to cover the conflict without it becoming too impersonal.
I know in BattleTech "zenith and nadir" has special significance because of the jumppoints but wouldn't that normally mean the best and worst, lol?
@@SvenVanDerPlankthink of it more like, two entrances to a library, knowing that going through issel a whole world of knowledge just waiting for you
Im not being insulting saying this, but this is adorable 😂 and I wholeheartedly agree
@@SvenVanDerPlank It only occured to me months later that it could be taken that way. I was honestly going for the library analogy destructorinator was alluding to. That you and Tex act as literal and metephorical jump points to the planet that is Battletech for new and returning fans alike. Keep up the amazing work. Loving the 2nd Succession War series thus far
Zenith is appropriate, since Tex just offers published specs/history, heavily interspersed with opinion; content which is only entertaining to those with low standards and don't already own the material.
I clicked because it’s a 5hr video. What kind of nuts has a guy got just dropping this whole thing all at once. Much respect
Well I hope you found it interesting. 5 hours is a LONG time to ask someone to sit and watch a UA-cam video, I know.
@@SvenVanDerPlankso far so good! I’ll let you know in 3.78 months when I finish watching it
@@jonnyares1you watch the civil war one yet? It's like watching a ken burns documentary
@@ryanlott1108 I've watched/ listened to it more than a few times and it's really great. I've even used it as a sleep aid. @SvenVanDerPlank makes good content and I'm glad he's doing it the way he wants to
@@SvenVanDerPlankI come back to these over and over again. Never catch all of it in one sitting, but these videos are so damned good.
"The Succession wars, had begun"
*EPIC DROP*
The scale of this is horrifying. Well done communicating it in an understandable way.
The beginning always get to me. As if the Amaris Civil War wasn't tragic enough, it was just an appetiser for the main course.
Again, thank you for the amazing amount of work you put on this masterpiece Sven.
And despite the fact that, as any content creator, you will turn you head back later on this project and see all it's flaws and mistakes, know that what you have done will stay for a very long time across the fandom as a shining example for any loremaster of BattleTech. Heck, it may go up and beyond in the test of time for the actual franchise.
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. I did try to show at the beginning that even though people talk a lot more about the Star League Civil War, it is barely comparable regarding the loss of life.
The way you focus on the human element is so great, and adds to the heartbreak and horror of watching worlds die.
Thank you. Because my lore series is such a high level overview I do worry that it devolves into nothing but statistics and loses that connection with the people. Glad you found that wasn't the case.
@@SvenVanDerPlank my gut wrenches more listening to your descriptions of the massacres and casual use of wmds and the deaths caused by infrastructural collapse than it ever has from reading or listening to 40k novels. A big part of Battletech is the pointless inhumanity and pettiness of the wars and you capture that perfectly.
Listening to the death toll of the civilian populations during the course of this first horrific war makes me legitimately want to cry. You've done an amazing job with this one Sven.
Thank you, I love hearing that my videos make people cry, lol. Genuinely though, it's a very high complement to hear I got an emotional reaction out of someone.
Battletech on tabletop: Spreadsheets and Spreahsheets and oh! More spreadsheets! 😊
Battletech in lore: We stopped counting dead because we killed the accountants in during our multi planet nuclear holocaust. All for a broken throne and a useless crown...
You'd win my 👍 just for the most chilling chapter transitions alone, but holy crap, it's obvious how much work you put into this.
I was really pleased with how those scrolling lines of the casualties came out. Like I didn't do anything complicated there but the effect looked really good. I'll have to come up with something new for the 2ndSW.
@@SvenVanDerPlank The use of The Decision Is Made really, accented it.
2:14:14 Has to be the most harrowing and gut-wrenching event besides the Amaris Civil War. The absolute terror at seeing what you thought would be your saviors begin bombarding your homeworld. 4 and a quarter billion people just murdered through atomic anhillation.
That intro, damn
My partner and I have fallen asleep to many of your videos and I have finally converted her into a battletech fan
Thank you so much for the comprehensive videos they explain so much i could never do it justice to explain to her
Best video covering the first sucssesion war that exists today. 👍
A masterwork. This is incredible. There is a criminal lack of Battletech content out there, so this is very much appreciated 😁
You're welcome, and thank you. I'm very happy with how it came together in the end.
I'm just a Taurian. I couldn't give less of a fuck about the Inner Sphere.
As a fellow Taurian, I have to say that it's nice to see those self-righteous asshole Davions not win at everything all the time.
I come from the Spin/Coreward Periphery. I 'ate Kurita. 'Ate Clanners. Really 'ate Capellans. Don't much mind Leaguers, FedRats, or Steiner civilians. Question is, who do I 'ate more? ComStar, Wobbies, Pirates, or Canopus? Like me my Taurians and Outworlders, but y'all are just a bit too far away to be useful to me...
What do you call it when a Taurian mechwarrior gets knocked down? Ground beef. ❤🐮
Yeah, yeah, you Taurians always say that, but when anyone named “Davion” sneezes, you’re all “The Fed-rats are going to invade!” The Liaos invade some of your worlds and you’re all, “the Fed-rats have conned the Cappies into softening us up so the Fed-rats can invade!” House Kurita massacres the entire population of Kentares and Taurians are all, “It’s just a MIIO plot to get us to lower our guard in preparation for the Fed-rats to invade!” The Clans show up and you Taurians are all, “It’s just a plot by the Fed-rats to make us think they’re too focused on these imaginary Clans so we won’t think the Fed Rats are about to invade!” The Blakists (who YOU invited into the Concordat because they had nuked New Avalon and let you take over a bunch of Fed Suns worlds) drop an asteroid on your capital and your all, “the Fed-rats are coming! The Fed-rats are coming!”
You guys are OBSESSED with what ever is going on in the Inner Sphere, especially in the Federated Suns. No wonder the Calderons broke away to form their Protectorate.
@@liljenborg2517 I don't give a flying fuck about the politics of it all. The Star League was always a corrupt and tyrannical leviathan that died the way it deserved.
The thing that you freaks are fighting over is long dead. Davion knew this. I give credit where it's due.
But let me remind you that it was the Inner Sphere that committed the worst atrocities in the pointless Reunification War. Our paranoia is justified as it was the Cappellans that turned around and gassed us right after the Ares Convention was signed while The Free Worlds League( who is the only great house that has my respect) followed those conventions when fighting Canopus. Even though they were suspended by the fucking 1st Lord.
Time and time again has the Inner Sphere stuck it's nose where it doesn't belong. So yeah, we look at the Inner Sphere with paranoia.
Apart from this conversation, how is your day going?
Of all the channels I've subscribed to in '23, this is by far my favorite. Gotta get that battletech lore.
Thank you, I'm happy you've enjoyed my ridiculously deep dive into the setting.
Kerensky: *Leaves*
House Lords: "It's free real estate."
I trough that Kerensky leaving would lead to some resemblance of peace in the exiles, but his son was even more radical than the Nobles Houses of the Inner Sphere creating a rigid cast system that inevitable lead to war between them, in the end, Kerensky exile was in vain because the Clans are as divided as the warring factions of the Inner Sphere.
@@TheKeyser94 can you imagine if the clans were united?
Kerensky leaving only accelerated the House Lords's plans, as well as removed the sole deterrent to their ambitions; repeatedly, it is mentioned that while "together, the House armies marginally outnumbered the SLDF remnants," the SLDF were combat veterans honed to a knife-edge, AND fighting to defend their homes which they just spent time and blood to liberate. Kerensky also removed a significant threat to Hegemony invasion when he removed the fleet.
Kerensky was a mentally deficient man who the SLDF never should have put in command in the first place.
@@CaptainSeato Interesting way to look at it. Kerensky was in many way short sighted.
@@CaptainSeatothe old saying is that the path to hell is paved with good intentions 😢
Well, that's damn good start to my holiday weekend.
Thank you so much for this Sven, this series (and the others in the Battletech IP Universe) has been so well done it's hard to imagine a time without your works being available. I can't wait for your future works and I'm unimaginably pleased with how everything has turned out.
Once again thank you for your efforts and hard work putting these together and giving such a caliber of respect to Battletech that hasn't been seen often. I put your videos up with the pantheon of Sarna and others with respect and effort for this IP.
Thirty. Years. I have been playing, reading, or otherwise enjoying Battletech for 30 years. You are the very first person I have EVER SEEN fly Capellan colors. Taurians, Canopus, Circinus, even the Outworlds... but never a Liao. Until now.
I do not know how to feel about this. If I were a Clanner, I'd issue a Batchall.
Thank you for the high praise Zenoflame. I appreciate your support as ever.
@@Deridus I've got a strange soft spot for them but I wouldn't be as brave as this guy. I can kind of see the appeal of being the psychotic underdog in a setting where, ultimately, wherever your allegience lies they're responsible for horrific warcrimes and cruelty
@@Maerdy Sorry about my prior reply. I'm usually a lot better about keeping real life away from my hobbies.
Outstanding video series
The level of detail and research that goes in to them is astounding!
The Kentares massacre has always been terrible to read about, but hearing you explain the specifics really solidified just how horrific it would be for all involved. Truly the stuff of nightmares.
Suddenly the Clans don't sound so bad considering the Nightmare that the Succession Wars were.
Problem with the Clans is that they more or less put all in Cast´s ...which is, when you are not a Warrior, enslavement. Also all People over 45 don´t get any Medicamets or treatments anymore...so they will be left to Die. So I don´t want to know how many died because of that on the conquerred Worlds...
You may wanna reread the Clan Novels
Being nuked isn't so bad as being a Clanner Civilian
@@ssjjshawn Not only the Clan Novels. You simply find information about how "lovely" Clanner are to Civilian in Technical Readout. In the Artikel to the Woodsman-Omnimech are interresting informations about how the Smoke Jaguars handle shortages of Food...
Others try to find a way to get more Food...the Smoke Jaguars simply let their Civilians die or actively kill them and take the Food for Warriors only...friendly Folks
@@ssjjshawnsometimes you get both depending on the clan, also getting nuked is a small price to pay for victory Concordat ftw
Considering what the Clans do to each other or the Pentagon Civil war I'd rather stick with the Houses thank you very much. Or pray to the big toaster that can also send messages across the entire universe
The Inner Sphere decided to play Nuclear by Mike Oilfield on repeat for a few years.
Wow, just wow.
Yeah great job.
This is a great Christmas present. Thanks man. I'll rewatch this one of these days as a whole maybe while finally sitting down again to paint some Mechs. Maybe I'll finally finish Hanse Davion's Battlemaster.
I have been waiting for this video ever since the series started. Thank you so very much for all your hard work.
Wut the hell 😂If this does not cover all I dont know anymore🎉 Luv your vids mate❤
This content is pure gold. This kind of effort by an individual to tell a story is the very best of yt.
Thank you. It was a lot of effort but I'm very happy with the results and the reception.
Thank you for doing these as they're helping me get a better grasp of the psyche of each faction and their leadership which will help me with running campaigns.
fun fact, reading the words "battletech lore" and "first succession war" acutally taught me that mechwarrior and battletech are the same universe
so theres that
it also explains why i am constantly getting battletech results whenever i look something up for mw5
so is mech assault (kind of)
We all know Tex is the premier when it comes to most Battletech videos so take it as the greatest praise when I say this is the perfect followup to his Amaris Civil War videos. You capture the tone and horror perfectly alongside the political machinations.
I know eh? Sven has really come into his own, and it just keeps getting better. He's now up there with Tex in my books, albeit in a very different category of BT content.
Thank you guys, it's high praise to put me even close to the BPL with how good their videos are.
@@SvenVanDerPlank You've got a really good style with this video that's all your own. I especially liked the chapter transitions. Some of those really put a chill down your spine when you realize what they represent.
THANKS SVEN looked forward to every single release since the beginning now i get them all in one shot, and not from somebody else editing your vids together but from yourself. truly quality work
Hey great video, my lore sense is tingling. Can’t wait for your next project.
Urge to cook and paint minis… RISING!
We asked and you delivered
Silly house lords.... Sven 4 first lord!
This was amazing! Thank you for all of this work.
Absolutely awesome job. Like tex you teach a storied history without just reading off a wiki.
Bravo sir.
Thank you sir! Have a wonderful holiday!
An absolute master work!
Amazing work!!
So much work must have gone into collating all this information. Loving all of the artwork. A venerable project indeed.
Have been putting your videos on while at work, really helps the day go by. Thank you.
You're welcome, happy to provide you with a distraction from work.
Hats off again to you. Amazing videos. Thank you
This is a great video for Battletech fans. I'd love to see this level of detail for all the wars pre-clan invasion. Thanks so much for a great 5+ hours.
We'll get to them in 2024. One day I'd like to have covered the entire timeline.
@@SvenVanDerPlank This reply makes me very excited. I know it's a crazy amount of work, and the current series seems to be from the perspective of the beginning of the franchise in 3025, but I'd love to see the beginning of the clans done in such detail. Or the fedcom war and the jihad. Tall order considering we are still getting chapters of the second succession war, but this is like a college level course on battletech history. Can't wait to see where we're at next year
Kudos to you, I can't imagine the sort of effort involved in collating something like this.
Amazing work!
Amazingly put together and easy to follow. All they were left at the end, for all the blood spilt, was ashes and dust.
Yay. Always can use more BT Lore.
Wish i had more than one "Like" to give you. Great job! Love the fact you put them all in one video! Keep up the awesome work 👍
Thank you. I appreciate the support.
Superbly done in a matinee format. Thank you for your hard work.
You're welcome.
Truly phenomenal, my absolute favorite lore series for Battletech.
Thank you, I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed it.
It is like an audiobook. Kudos.
I cant imagine the work required to compile this. Good work
5 Hours of Mech Lore - awww yissss!
A monumental work.
Amazing work, thank you!
You're welcome. Thank you very much for the donation, I really appreciate that.
This was a fun listen and watch. Getting the the whole thing at once is powerful. I had to remind myself this was sci-fi. Well done!
Cheers. It's unfortunate I can't upload it all at once from the start because I'm sure there are many details that are forgotten or go unnoticed when there's months between the first and last chapter. Sadly it's just too big an undertaking to complete without chopping it up.
5 hours one sitting, woof, that was cool. Good work and thank you!
So you're the madman (one of them, anyway) I see in my analytics watching these right the way through. I'm pleased to have kept your interest for that long but don't forget to take breaks.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Its good background while I am slamming my head against roadway design :P
Great lecture, Professor! Looking forward to picking up with the 2SW series.
Thank you very much for the support, Andrew. I'm glad you found the video interesting. Already finished 5/13 chapters in the 2ndSW. Hope you find that equally enjoyable.
Another fantastic video, it's amazing to hear about all these battles and lost worlds. The Inner Sphere is truly insane, or at least the House Lord's.
Can't wait for the next entry into this series!
Cheers. I do agree with you, when you see how little they gained and how high a price was paid, the only conclusion you can reach is that they're all totally mad. Hope to debut the Second Succession War later this month.
@SvenVanDerPlank In several battles they simply went with nukes first and asked questions later. Like what worth is a planet if we throw all the nukes at it?
Mind boggling that they could be so blindly stupid to the point of ineptitude.
Tho what's even more interesting is how likely this could be. Give someone enough power and time and I'd worry this could be the outcome. I think this reason is why Battletech is more interesting than Warhammer 40k.
Don't get me wrong, I love 40k, played it religious back in 3rd and 4th Edition but everything in it is so fantastical as to be removed from even the slightest possibility of happening.
But Battletech is so much more likely, both in the far future and much sooner. Really fascinating stuff and makes these videos even more like history lectures.
So cool 😎 i read all the books and lores when i was a teenager but seeing all this with maps and arts is even better
Thanks it makes me want to get my massive collection out of storage and play battle tech again
Plotting it out on maps really helps visualise the campaigns more than just reading the names of systems on a page. It also helps demonstrate the futility of it all when you see how little was gained for so many lives spent.
Ahh, nothing like listening to this wonderful story while playing Mechwarrior 5.
Love your work helps newbies like me get more invested 😊
Thanks, glad to hear that it's proving helpful.
Great houses: *go to war*
ComStar: *secures SOL through military might.*
Great houses: "wait thats illegal..."
ComStar: "Do something about it...we dare you."
The only winning move is not to play.
I don't know if that worked for the Outworlds Alliance.
@@SvenVanDerPlank That's why I prefer the Taurian motto of "Hippity hoppity, get off my property."
It might take a while before I have a good 5 hours to sink into this, but I'm looking forward to it when I do.
Well I hope you enjoy it when you find the time.
Sees a five hour video, gonna get so much shit done, and I did. Great work thank you.
Glad I could help you to be productive.
Everyone knows that Amaris died protecting the Camerons, but Kerensky murdered them after capturing Terra. He blamed Amaris, but Blake then found out and blackmailed Kerensky into leaving the Inner Sphere.
It makes perfect sense.
Well. I guess the truth was out there after all. It all makes sense now!
Coming in for a thumbs up and some algorithmic assist.
Thank you squizzlor for your continued support.
This. Is. Amazing
Thank you, glad you think so.
This series is my background sound any time I play something Battletech/Mechwarrior related
Yes excellent more supercuts while I game
Can someone give us a final count on how many times the Kenyon Marik picture appears? #MyCaptainGeneral #RealFirstLord
not enought
Too many times. #MarikRuinsEverything #Steiner4Life
Some people don't know how to party.
I can't explain why, but all the little things like this for the setting just fascinates me to no end.
The attention to detail gives it all a great, lived in kind of feel. So thank you for that.
Also, I love that little mystery about what happened to those Lyran warships. Something big and ominous hiding out in that irradiated junk field? Or early ComStar shenanigans?
Left vague on purpose... A good mystery fuels all sorts of wonderful discourse!
Again, my thanks for the hard work.
It's a little mystery left unexplained by the sourcebook but having just recently finished the Star League Civil War I couldn't help but make the connection to the earlier space battle and what might have been left behind in the debris.
@SvenVanDerPlank
Mysteries are fun.
Pirates?
ComStar? (I'm not sure of the timing, but it would line up with their potential goals of evening playing fields, so they may be a more controlling power)
A rogue AI in said junkyard?
A spaaaaaace monster?
Probably an AI.
@@CapnArrich It could be one or more of the drone ships from the civil war, but I think it would be funnier if it was the phone company
@@SvenVanDerPlank my guess is a Casper.
Jerome Blake lived through all this shit and decided "nah man, MORE SUCCESSION WARS!"
He had so much fun the first time around he couldn't pass on the opportunity to start another one.
You've given us the Christmas gift of TRAGEDY. 🤣😭
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Big Floppa would approve of the warmaking methods employed by the successor states.
When your war reaches Last Great Time War levels of horror you know you effed up.
The word "Magistracy" is fast becoming my nemesis.
Most under rated franchise
Kind of crazy that something so expansive and long-running remains so little known.
I'd love a playlist of all the supercuts
There is one? It should be on my channel's homepage, but if not check the playlists page.
xmas drop. you mad man. kudos
Whelp, now I know what I'm doing this weekend.
And I know what you are doing Monday afternoon, too!!!
Time to load up on popcorn and get comfy… I’m ready…
I still do not understand how nobody has won by now … they had over 200 years.
The only way to win is not to play.
I love these long videos they help me get through my long overnight shifts. What’s the title of the song at the end?
"Order from Chaos" from the MW5 Dragon's Gambit DLC.
Wow. As an actual historian I have to say that you are an actual historian.
Well thank you.
So I personally feel wars is overall more advanced then trek, trek hold the edge in so key technologies like transporters, replicators,holographic tech, shield tech, sensors and targeting, and some medical. Wars holds the edge in construction,engineering, bureaucracy, power generation ,planetary defense ,engines. Look at wars you see planet wide city’s , mile spires as a matter commonplace, space ships that are miles long, Death Star , bureaucracy that spreads across the galaxy, amazing galaxy wide commutations networks, hyperdrives that ship can move across the galaxy, I feel star wars “sublight”drives are at least as fast as tos warp drive( keep in mind the kessel run 12 parsecs that they have made cannon, was like just a few minutes. In Star Trek it takes over an hour to go one parsec, let alone 12)there are a few more examples of general advancement of star wars , in a fight however Star Trek will win almost ever engagement due to more powerful weapons, better ranges, more accurate weapons, more powerful shields.
Thanks Richtor
Dropping nukes on people I guess is one thing but Kentares and the personal nature of the massacre is something else.
Is this a collection of the other videos on the succession war or are they extra? Is this all ofnit in one video
This is all the individual chapters combined, plus a few minor additions and corrections.
@@SvenVanDerPlank nice, thanks man. I'm really enjoying the content 💯🤌🏾
Hold up. There is a planet called "Park Place"? What are we playing. Battletech or Monopoly?
The answer is "Yes".
All these incredible works of history that have been made, actually makes me understand why the Clans thought the Inner Sphere were barbaric animals. No wonder there are no aliens in Battletech lol, they all think humans are crazy maniacs. "Quarantine the whole galaxy, let the crazies destroy each others!"
I hope we get more of these history movies for the more recent periods of Battletech.
Thank you, I'm really pleased you've enjoyed them. It is my intention to carry this history series all the way through to the modern era, but that's a multi-year project. My hope is to finish out the Succession Wars this year.
@@SvenVanDerPlank That is super cool, that to help me learn more. Do you know if there is enough data to eventually have a series on Kerensky and his fleet as they moved out of the Inner Sphere and headed into uncharted space and how the forming and we came to meet the clans? I read recently about some intriguing stuff about the clans in Bred for War mentioning infighting between clans and even 2 clans getting obliterated due to their crimes.
Yes, definitely. I'm planning to go back and tell their story after the Clan Invasion gets underway or if you can check out the sourcebook Operation KLONDIKE. There's also a trio of novels that cover the founding of the Clans.
What an apocalypse.
i love you
Man the first succession war sucked. It always seemed to be you either were killed by defenders nuking your planet to deny it to the enemy. Or attackers nuking you because your defense was too stiff. A wonder anything remains, really good job conveying that.
Any chance of a high-pass filter on the sound?
Do you have a recommendation? Currently my audio file is reducing frequencies below 100Hz down to 60Hz where it's completely cut off. What aspect of the audio is bothering you?
Man, it's weird hearing Halo Music for Battletech, but it works for chapter II
So I originally used a different song when I uploaded the individual chapters but it got copyright claimed. I tried to pick a less obvious Halo track with a similar vibe to the other piece of music.
@@SvenVanDerPlank no worries. Still a great pic truthfully
Have you tried out an old RTS game called "Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus" ???
Seems like a good alternative to Command & Conquer
(It's on GOG)
Not sure if it's actual source material or the narrator, but 100M people dying the in the Reunification War and the Star League Civil War is less than the number of people who died because of conflict in the 20th century.
The numbers have been criticised quite a few times over the years. The consensus is that the Star League underreported the number of casualties to make themselves look better. Taurian estimates on New Vandenberg alone put the dead at 50-100 million, but they also have an incentive to make the Star League look worse. Later conflicts have the numbers of dead in the billions.
It's worth pointing out that a lot of these planets are on the fringes of colonised space. A world only needs a population of 10,000 (or some other importance) to make it onto the charts so casualties could be high percentage wise but insignificant compared to the destruction of a single town elsewhere.
Lastly, I don't think the 20th century is a good comparison to make as technology has shifted militaries away from masses of infantry that we saw in the two world wars.
In light of the utterly horrific mass murder of civilians, I wonder what made the fighting people go on fighting . The Leading people may have been unhuman slaughtereres...but how is it ordinary people continued to do their bidding for decades ? And why did civilian populations on not touched by the desaster (yet) worlds not rebel . In short, I am struggling to understand why the people of the 5 States did not stop 5 "Leaders" leading humanity down the path of ruin .