BattleTech: The Taurian Concordat - A Short History of a Plucky Periphery State
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2023
- Today we take a dive into the sourcebooks to learn a little more about one of the more influential Periphery states. They're plucky, they're feisty, they're the Taurian Concordat.
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I think Tex of the Black Pants Legion described the Taurians best: "an entire nation that time and again, throughout history, shouted with one unified voice 'hippity hoppity get off my property'". when you look at their neighbors, that's the REASONABLE way of being.
A fair appraisal.
"For we have trained since our founding days to stack bodies like f*cking cordwood, so if you insist on f*cking around, you will most certainly find out..."
A nation that measures "go away" by the megaton
A nation that added shotguns to their Marauders for the purpose of keeping scary Capellans off their lawn.
Love the Taurians!!
As a loyal citizen of the Magistracy, I see the Concordat as that friendly prepper neighbour. You're pretty sure he's got a like a fully stocked bunker under his house but he's a good bloke at heart and he's also helped you out around the house before despite that falling out you had about the hedge that one time.
Now if you could just stop him from thinking the HOA is out to get him...
Magistracy video next week. Keep an eye out. ~Wednesday
I don't know, that "1 in 5 Taurians died in the war" factiod says maybe the HOA may actually after them.
@@mathewfitzpatrick5645 Well, let's see how the Magistracy fares in the Unification War...
@@mathewfitzpatrick5645 yes, the Federated Suns acquired several Taurian Systems (and the entire Pleiades) in the wake of the Reunifications wars (a war STARTED by the Hegemony and not house Davion) - and set up one of the defining characteristics of Taurian psychology the notion that the Federation's highest driving international policy was invading to try and take the rest of the Concordat. House Davion's ongoing conflict with the Capellans was never anything other than an massive feint to try and dupe the Concordat into thinking that all those military forces in the Capellan March weren't actually targeted at the Concordat. House Davion's life-and-death struggle against the ever-attacking Kuritans was ever only a minor border skirmish blown up by the Davion controlled press to try and deceive the Concordat into thinking the Davions were looking elsewhere than at the Concordat. And the Clans were just an urban legend cooked up by MIIO, again to trick the Concordat into lowering its guard. When the Word of Blake dropped a DAMN ASTEROID on the Taurian capital, everyone knew beyond any shadow of any doubt that MIIO did it, not the Blakists. (because the Wobbies burning as much of the Federation as they could opened the door to the Concordat retaking all the worlds the Davions had stolen back in the reunification wars - so they're obviously _good guys_ who would never do a false flag attack - or something as evil as drop an asteroid on a city.)
Because EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE _knows_ that House Davion's highest priority is attacking the Taurians, as soon as they can dupe the Taurians into dropping their guard.
The paranoia became so extreme that something like half the Concordat broke away when the Concordat government threw in with the "we nuke Taurians in job lots" Capellans in their "Trinity Alliance".
I always wondered if ComStar played up that paranoia because the last thing Blake's followers wanted was the Taurians and Federation realizing that, ideologically, the two nations were about a closely aligned as any could be - and if they could get past their paranoia the two as friends would have become a devastating team.
@@liljenborg2517 You sound salty that it took 20 years of WAR to get the Periphery States to join your little party, but only what? A week of action for a single Periphery State to topple that little party.
I like the scrappy Taurians. Glad catalyst is actually doing something with the periphery
It's a rich ground for stories. I hope the Periphery gets some attention in the future.
As a proud Taurian Far-Looker, your video is appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I imagine you'd pick up a book called "The Taurian Concordat - A Short History" and it's been hollowed out to hold a derringer.
Accurate.
Or a shotgun
My favorite BattleTech question "What is your favorite Periphery State, and why is it The Taurian Concordat?"
Yeehaw...
So weird seeing a Concordat painted Starslayer, looks cool none the less.
I must say as a newer fan it does help to get more eyes on the Concordat besides "LOL FUNNY SPACE TEXAS, SEE HOW TEXAN THEY ARE!!"
Thank you for doing this video on the Periphery nations (and periphery in general) so that others may as well get a better grasp at the area.
It's been fun to research the "lesser" periphery states. More to come next week!
There is always far more detail to a nation in BT than the memes ever suggest. Finding out what that is is the fun part.
@@KillerOrca Absolutely.
Idk where the texan stereotype came from besides “hippity hoppity get off my property” im not even sure what ethnicity the taurians generally are
@@clydecraft5642 Mixed, as all of humanity in BT is. Its less about ethnicity and more about kingdom ethos, really.
I hope the writers are nice to The concordat. I feel like they’ll be used to make house Davion rise at there expense.
I lowkey believe that some writers project their dislike of real Texas towards "space Texas". That and without heel face turns like the Shraplen administration, they would be the objective good guy faction compared to the Davions. And we can't have that!
Davion deserved the kick in the teeth.
@@MechanicalFrogthey're getting several lately tbh
@@lorefox201 good, they deserve it, the commonwealth deserves it too to a lesser extent
Great to see my beloved concordat get some attention. Better still it’s nice to hear someone recognize that we’re not a bunch of savages either. We have no qualms about using brutal tactics in war, even nukes, but we also don’t go picking fights either. I believe the Terrans had an ancient phrase that went something like “don’t start none, won’t be none”. All are welcome to see our great nation but do not test our resolve by picking a fight. Good work. Keep it up.
I always wish to give credit where it is due. In the case of the Taurians, they always make a point of making sure anyone who comes after them feels the consequences.
Taurian Concordat seems really nice for a Periphery State.
Personally i like that Far-looker approach, if there are uninhabitated worlds, USE THEM!
Not much sense trying to take what´s already someone else´s.
Agreed. I want to know what's out there in the stars. Let the Inner Sphere goobers fight over the scraps on Terra.
It's been centuries since humanity last pushed hard into the black. Even if there's a bunch of airless rock worlds, you can build domes, set up way stations, mega mines, and keep pushing out. Who knows what's past the next few jumps?
It wasnt until people set out to settle those stars that they realized the message was "hippity hoppity get off my property."
Well put.
The giant x on the FedSuns is a nice touch 😂
And here I was thinking it was too subtle...
I Love the Concordat. They have resource rich world's as for the Jealous Confederation, Canopus and the Fed Suns (The Faux Good Ole Boy's). They should be fine...! And what a Navy...!
We need more naval combat BT lore...
@@MechanicalFrog The warship game flopped, so now they keep trying to write them out of the setting as whole. It's no coincidence that the clans with significant warship yards and fleets either demilitarised them like Sea Fox or lost them to writer-fiat like the Bears with their civil war.
I don't buy the excuse some fans make that warships will make mechs and ground forces irrelevant. The Age of War up to the 2nd Succession Wars say otherwise.
I'd say it speaks more of a lack of imagination that they can't make real combat work when other games like 40k manage it.
@@MechanicalFrog AGREED I am a NAVY Man myself and their Space Navy Forces dogged the SLDF in some major epic contests even those they ultimately lost. If only their Aero Space pilots were as good as Outworlds Alliance they would have had it in the Bag.
Damn Ian Cameron and his misguided Imperial Dream's.
@@vana.johnson8845 Awesome. Thank you for your service.
Before this video I sort of saw the Taurians as "The Guys That Stuck It To The Davions", thanks mainly to prof Tex. But this kinda made the TC my favorite periphery state, surprisingly noble. Can't wait for the other end of the spectrum with the Marians
I'm currently knee deep in the Marian stuff. Oh boy... it's going to be a fun one.
In the defense of the Marian’s, Rome is not a bad basis to build a civilization, as long as your views are indeed tempered by wisdom. The ancient United States was a example of this.
Thanks for doing the Taurian Concordat and I'm excited to see the rest of the periphery. I do want to learn more about the Protectorate as it has the connection to the Concordat. Fair review and overview without going into the Space Texas jokes or some of the coincidental correlations between some of the northern European countries. I still feel the Concordat was just built upon the pioneer archetypes and allowed development without excessive corruption and greed to still retain those principles. It does sound like one of the better places to live in the BT universe.
If you're going to be a Joe or Jane Smith in the Battletech universe, you could do far worse than being a Taurian.
@@MechanicalFrog I submit that the Taurians are what Kerensky's Exodus *should have* resulted in.
@@oneproudbrowncoat Fair
@@MechanicalFrog Ironic, too, since Kerensky fought the Reunification War. Could he have gotten the idea for his exodus from his earlier exposure to the Periphery, perhaps?
@@oneproudbrowncoat It's possible. Fighting in the Unification War would have burnt out even the most patriotic of SLDF soldier.
Thanks for this video, which had a lot of basic information in it, the sure cure for education via meme. Speaking of memes, I do accept the idea of the Concordat being Space Texas, but not for the memetic reasons. Texas spent the first nine years of its non-Mexican existence as an independent republic, that had to solve its problems by itself. (Some of those problems were an existential war against the Commanche tribes and a continuing Mexican hostility regardless of the government du jour.) That attitude survived into statehood both in pride and in a willingness to tell the others that things are done differently in Texas! It was a state founded on cattle ranching and cotton farming, but forestry and the petrochemical industries were accepted with open arms, and it's the home of NASA and Space X. Texas has swung between strong state governments and hands-off state governments, advocating a loose hand on business, but supported by a WASP Southern Baptist heritage whose adherents have strong feelings on the moral responsibility and conduct of citizens, and a militant attitude towards supporting said responsibility. (With their own desire towards societal rule, such as forbidding dancing and demon rum.) It's the home of outlaw gunfighters and feuding cattle barons, and the Texas Rangers who suppressed both troubles with a ruthless disregard for "due process". Yes, the Taurian Concordat could be Space Texas.
The independent streak of the Periphery states does ring a bit of that Texan spirit.
I think it was Tex who summed up the cows the best as "the reigning champs of FAFO for 300 years"
Don't pick a fight if you don't want one.
I always liked the Taurian Concordat. They are what the great houses could be if they just chilled out a bit and weren't always so hell-bent on being top dog.
I appreciate their, "Leave us alone or you will regret it," philosophy.
I love Taurian defense forces, I'm addicted to their mentality of trading hard fire.
Love hard battle lines!
F around, Find out...
LOVE THE TC! They really need to do more with it.
*laughing in plutonium*
For as much as people like to think of the TC as "Space Texas" I think "Space Switzerland" is more appropriate. Love the Concordat and the 1st Taurian Lancers being a full on Combined Arms formation
The Space Texas thing is definitely over-stated.
Yeah I agree, I would say it’s more like space Finland than space Texas.
Clan Hoppy Frog Ascends! Nice video!
Thanks a ton! *ribbit*
As a Taurian player, wanna say thank you for making this lore video. You have a great voice and nicely written text. Just what I've looked for. Greetings from Ukrainian community, and lots of luck with your channel! +
Thank you very much for the positive feedback. Take care, stay safe, and happy gaming.
As a Taurian privateer operating on the Fed border, myself and my old T-Bolt appreciate your fair handed appraisal.
God bless the Concordat, God bless the Protector, God bless the Marabous, and EFF House Davion!
House Davion has done yee'd their last haw...
Well this is quickly becoming my favorite faction.
Canopian-capellan empire is probably the weirdest thing to happen in the ilclan.
Yeah I don't like that.
@@MechanicalFrog the Liao are galaxy renowned horndogs, the Centrellas are dominatrixes that rule space Vegas, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
As a player loyal to the concordat, I much appreciate the video
Glad you do!
I got introduced to Battletech via Hairbrained game. At firat I thought, that Taurians are poorly-written, comically evil guys. Then I started reading the lore and learned, that no, that's just how they fight.
They fight like the drunk short girl at the bar who isn't afraid to grab a butter knife and go all in.
Your upbeat attitude towards my beloved people warms this young Taurian citizens heart. We may not be the quickest to warm up to strangers, but we can be loyal to a fault to our friends. Just remember our motto before you start anything: "F*** Around and Find Out." Fun vid, have to go back to the hanger to help put a new Large Laser in my MAD-3R, had to give Mathias my PPC's for his WHM-6R, and Large Lasers are cheap.
Gotta give credit where it is due. I like to root for the little guy.
Honestly, I prefer a pair of ER LL rather than PPCs
Seems the NECers need to hook up with the Farseers. That could be fun.
That would be neat, though they're very far from each other.
@@MechanicalFrog Eventually
Oh and btw if you dig on Sarna they have all the past issues of BattleTechnology
Old taurian proverb: "Hippity hoppity, get off my property"
Great lore video, I have subscribed to your channel!
Thanks a lot. I'll keep working hard to earn it.
I'm not a Taurian fan really , but even I'd argue the planets taken from the perfidious Davions during the Jihad including the Pleiades Cluster where originally Taurian planets .
Awesome as always! Wonderful information on a great faction!
Glad you enjoyed! Take care, friend.
Thank you very much for all the work you put into this, I am so glad to see someone diving into Periphery Lore.
More to come!
All four of us Taurian fans thank you!!!!! Taurians are best!!!!!
10 out of 10 Taurians support the Taurians.
there are dozens of us dozens!
Great content, man. Love to hear the info videos as well as the fiction.
Thank you. More to come!
My favourite periphery state :-) always loved the taurians and their you leave us alone and we won't bash your brains out attitude :-) great overview of a plucky underdog that punches way above its weight :-)
So true!
Love the Bulls, will say any time the MoC and Bulls fought it was the Bulls who were the aggressors. It was Semyon Calderon who started the Taurian-Canopian War of 2813. They were the ones who used biochemical weapons on Tetski to deny its mech refit and repair facilities to the Magistracy, and the Red Chaussuers attacked New Abeline in 3012 before the 1st Cuirassiers drove them off world.
Eve the break up of the Trinity Alliance was Shraplen going crazy and seeing “Davion Spies!” everywhere in the New Colony Region and the harsh way the TDF tried to find any pushed the NCR into open revolt and caused the Fronc Reaches.
That said I do hope they and the Protectorate truly do reunite and the Bulls come back swinging.
I love it when subscribers roll in and add even more cool BT history to the mix. Right on!
@@MechanicalFrog over twenty years of awesome stompy robot lore, it’s not all good though. When you do your MoC video don’t forget that Men didn’t have even the right to vote until 2550. Twenty years after the Magistracy’s founding, or that to current year 3152 in setting any male Canopian Citizen can by law be forced to marry a Noblewoman if she so chooses. It’s never come up in any short story or novel but it’s been in every sourcebook. Do note it’s just male Canopians though. I would not want to see what the Magestrix would have done to any Noble who tried to force a foreigner into marriage and caused an international incident lol. Career ending that and maybe will cause the Crimson Council to strip said Noble of her titles. Remember in the Magistracy Nobility isn’t hereditary it has to be earned and confirmed by the Crimson Council. That earning must be a contribution to the Canopian People. Most just open a public work at their own expense like a library or hospital, or more likely their parents money so the technically not hereditary title stays in the family. Then there’s buying Commissions in the Military which seems modeled off the old British Empire one. Which did work until the 1800s and the massive paradigm shifts in the way militaries the world over operated that century. Another fun thing to remember is this factoid, Canopians are just Anduriens who left and made their own State with Blackjack, Hookers, and Healthcare. It’s why we always get drawn into Andurien messes like the Marik Civil War of the 28th Century, the Andurien Crisis of 3030, and the current mess where Ilsa Centrella’s husband, the Duke of Andurien, is invading the Cappellan Confederation, her brother’s realm. Anduriens versus Cappies round fifteen! Let’s see how it goes this time folks.
@@yecnay25 In the interests of keeping videos at between 15 and 25 minutes, not everything makes it. It's not a deliberate thing so much as including what I needed to to create a functional and coherent narrative. I appreciate it when people comment with additional info. There's a lot out there.
@@MechanicalFrog I get it, can’t have everything or you’d be putting out hours long videos that took months to make. Still I enjoy your content greatly.
Thanks!
When I have the cash, I'm going to commission some art for a Periphery Speak'n'Spell. The Taurian goes mooooooo. The Canopian goes meeeeoow.
The Rim World compliance officer goes *if you are innocent, you'll have nothing to hide.*
Does the Periphery pirate go "arr?"
The Marian goes "Ave Caesar!"
The next great house in the making
Quite possibly... though that may not be a club they want to join.
Great stuff👍 Learned a lot about them and saw beyond the memes. Sounds like a really good place. Definitely must give them a lance in the future.
They're my next general IS lance project.
The Taurians are my favorite faction. In my current table top game I'm playing, my character is a Taurian in the inner sphere who leads a merc company.
A solid pick. If I wasn't a Jade Falcon, I'd be Taurian.
@MechanicalFrog I like the Falcons too. I would say, Taurians, SLDF, Jade Falcons tied with Ghost Bear, and House Marik. In that order.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
An excellent review of my second favorite faction in Battletech. The Taurians have had excellent writing over the years, creating an interesting counterpoint to the Great Houses. And anyone who battles the Star Leauge, Davion, and everyone else is a great place for campaigns, fan fiction, etc. I'll be interested to see if you do a piece on the Calderon Protectorate, as much of the TC's recent history is tied up with the back and forth of relations with their lost brothers and sisters.
As for unit selection in the TDF, the Taurians' ilClan MUL is the second largest in the Periphery following the Magistracy of Canopus. I don't count the Scorpion Empire in that since a lot of those entries are simply Omnimech configurations. The Taurians build many of the Unseen as the core of the Battlemech forces, with some excellent homegrown designs and Capellan, Davion, Marik,Canopian, Froncian, Brotherhood and Filtvelt units filling out their list. I find it a great irony and poetic justice that the Taurians use two of the Terran Hegemony's Royal units, the Thunderbolt-5rb and the Warhammer 7A, as heavy line units in their military.
Excellent info. Thank you for sharing and for watching.
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
thanks!
You're welcome. Hope you enjoyed it!
Very cool stuff about the state religion and philosophy.
The more I hear of the Concordant the more I realize I make the right choice Backing the Bull.
If I wasn't a Jade Falcon, I'd be a Taurian.
Thinking about working up a space air sea and ground based RPG , loosely based on old explorers corp , but more focused on resource locating and habitable worlds and moons.
3 jump ships. One scout class destroyer modified to carry 2 corvettes and 4 assault shuttles. Corvettes are the guns. And shuttles carry the X teams for initial landings, or marines for pirate base assaults. Has double jump capacitors.
I moving indutrial class factory jump ship with 2 leopard and 2 union class drop ships. 1 leopard is a carrier with full assault wing of aerospace.
Last Jump ship is a Modified Liner. With 2 farm hubs, 1 living hub (luxury level, cause folks gonna be gone a long long time), 1 science hub isolated from main ship acessed vis shuttle only for safety.
Players would be volunteers recruited from destroyed worlds, merc companies or serving a work parole vs prison on a mining moon.
So a variety of backgrounds.
Chasing rumors of treasures and eden planets, finding and clearing pirate nests, rescuing who and what they can. Etc.
Putting players on an X team until they earn trust, respect, and better privileges and maybe even a mech.
Salvage runs in conditions no sane man would consider, in order to get parts, weapons and supplies. Even more importantly intel, blackboxes and hints of what's out there in the dark.
Explorer X teams are expendable on whole, but they don't see it that way.
Crosstrained in all aspects, beyond initial player skillsets.
Offer players many opportunities for RP as well as battles from POV they may never have contemplated before.
Finding out that your target has a Pirate Wasp and Commando only would be laughable until you realize that they have mechs and you don't.
And support isn't coming until base sensors, warning systems and AA defenses are neutralized. 😮
Just 1 company of X troops. What they carry. And their brain power.
Vs
A nest of pirates with 2 mechs.
Sure more than half are out on a raid, but will your fleet fight them or flee if they come back before you clear the base?
😊
Which rulesets to use and when? Will players be murder hobos or clever infiltrators?
What about slaves? Children? Techs?
If you want to up pressure add in aggressive megafauna. Which is both and added danger to all on planet as well as an extra layer of defense.
They are never far from base, as the pirates dump trash and organics in places where scavengers come to feed, which brings in larger predators.
But trash chutes are a possible entry point...probably just sensors and flamers internally...maybe.
Or they can try to locate base's escape routes...if the disposal chutes aren't dual usage...
It would be fun. Lots of stories out in the Periphery waiting to be told.
I decided tae create my own faction for Battletech, and i decided on a Pirate faction, based on an Independent world that is near the Taurian’s. I wrote them up as having good relations with the Concordat, and the world they live on, Seed, is a nice and chill anarchist one. The Pirate only belong tae one single town.
Huh. Did you give it a name?
@MechanicalFrog
Aye, Jack's Raiders. I've actually written a history for them which dated back tae the current day and age. They hae ties tae the Taurian Concordat mostly due tae mutal hatred of the Federated Suns.
Your videos are extremely informative but the delivery reminds me of high school and college history courses. I can't decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Though I admit it would be a pretty neat gimmick if you adopted the persona of a inner sphere history teacher.
" Okay class before we begin it's time for our morning pledge of allegiance to the Commonwealth"
Well, I was a history teacher for a very long time... 😆
Ah good old Taurians Texans in space who aren't actually anything like Texans ..... why do people think their Texans 😅
People see animals with horns and make a snap judgment?
Names as well.
Let the call ring out, from the Davian border to the deeps of black space;
"Hippity hoppity, GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY".
Good fences make good neighbors...
@@MechanicalFrog Shining Oppenheimer's Flashlight at invaders does tend to keep random vagrants off your back yard.
@@Finwolven It does tend to make the point.
Then back that phrase up with nukes
@@blindoutlaw That tends to wrap up a conversation.
Who was it who described the Taurian Concordat as "a combo Switzerland/Finland run by a version of Alex Jones whose crazy conspiracy theories are usually mostly true"?
I have no idea.
The issue is that if you consider Federated Suns, Capellan Confederation, ComStar and Inner Sphere in general as your enemies, well, you're always 100% correct, but it's not really efficient as a foreign policy.
Really enjoyed the video. Also really enjoy the "mantra" you include at the end of your videos.
Can anyone tell me the name of the mech used in the thumbnail? Thanks
Thanks!
That mech is a 3rd Taurian Lancer Starslayer.
Thanks again!
thanks for do this video The Taurian Concordat is my favorite state in the setting hippity hoppity get off my property !!!
It was fun to cover. Thanks for watching!
enjoyed the video!
if I were in the setting, id probably be a far-looker. ive always been fascinated with exploration. and the farther away from terra, the safer from madness we will be. Inheritors i can see what theyre saying as well, not gonna lie
Good reasoning.
I hear that the Taurians hate us
I don't understand it at all
They act like we're some big oppressor
To tell you the truth, I'm apalled
We've hardly done anything to them
Why bother when they're so damn small?
So love me, love me, love me
I'm a Davion
Any chance of the NIPs association?
Maybe...
ah the taurians almost as bad if not worse of a punching bag for the devs as the lyrans are post 3049. Also I figure attacking the suns is a objectively terrible idea since the suns have a lot lot better aerospace assets than the TDF. Can't really attack planets if the assault dropships and pocket warships and ASFs butcher you on the way in and then go call dibs on your jumpships....or well that's what would happen if aerospace mattered more than a handful of times in recent years of BT lore
There would also have to be something in the interior that the Taurians want, which isn't automatically the case.
2nd time asking for when we'll talk about targeting computers.
It's kind of a tricky one as I'm really not a big fan of how the C3 works in tabletop. I think it's one of those things that is begging for a rules simplification.
@@MechanicalFrog C3 and targeting computers are two different things, right?
@@kinggeo8545 C3 is the IS targeting computer. The Clans just have "targeting computer"
@@MechanicalFrog I'm confused. The IS targeting computer was made by the fedsuns in 3063.
@@kinggeo8545 The C3 was invented by the Combine in 3050. Eventually, the FedSuns came up with an IS version of the clan system in 3062-3
Texas in spaaaaace!
Howdy...
Starslayer pretty.
Agreed.
Although the Taurian propensity for paranoia regarding their neighbors is somewhat... alarming, can you really blame them? Their existence and history is a good reminder that despite the self-righteous veneer, House Davion is not really a "good-guy" faction. They're just not as... blatantly obvious about their negatives as the other Great Houses. Much can also be justifiably claimed by Taurian fans regarding their history that the Star League had a propensity for dark depths that mirrored its potential for the greatest heights.
The paranoia is entirely justified.
Whats the mech in the thumbnail?
Starslayer - 50 ton IS mech.
@@MechanicalFrog thank you
Aussie here - "Brisbane" is pronounced more like "Brisben" (pronounced very similarly to "Lisbon") ^^
Thanks. If I didn't mispronounce at least one thing per video, it wouldn't be a day that ends in Y.
Never been a fan of later lore. It just never really made sense for me. I feel like if any state would stay intact territorially in that time period it would be the state that spent the entirety of the succession wars and the clan invasion strengthening internally. The fact that despite countless years of star league rule the taurian desire for freedom never wavered makes me question how they would break apart so easily! It feels like the writers just do not know what to do with the concordact, so they just arbitrarily split them up to prevent them from becoming relevant, because if they remained unified as other states shattered they would actually be able to DO THINGS.
Oh you know how it goes. If there's no external threat, the dingbats want to start an internal fight. Most revolutions occur when economic conditions are improving rather than degrading.
@@MechanicalFrog there were plenty of external threats at the time, though. Besides that, I'm not sure I agree. Economic conditions improving tend to calm down revolutionary sentiments, since of course it's harder to convince the general public of the need for violent regime change when it doesn't look like a better alternative to the status quo.
I know it seems nonsensical but as economic conditions improve, people start to see the opportunities they're missing out on due to their current plight. When you're dirt poor without a shred of hope, you're not leading a rebellion. When you suddenly have free time and a little coin in your pocket, things start getting feisty. @@Tom_Cruise_Missile
@@MechanicalFrog What you're describing is what happens when people with an extremely poor standard of living, such as that of a subsistence farmer under feudalism, such as the serfs in Russia when that nation began to industrialize, are raised to a still miserable but slightly better standard of living. I don't agree that the concordact was under those conditions, however.
Aaaarrrrgghhhh my Australian ears at the pronunciation of Brisbane ......... It's more like Brisb-ane although I wouldn't expect an non Australian to land the ane part like we would .
If you wanted to really score Aussie points you should have called it Brisb-vegas 😂
Life is full of little challenges.
@@MechanicalFrog Australian place names being one of them .