Battletech/Mechwarrior Lore- : Exodus to Elementals - A Primer on the Clans [Part 2]
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2020
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Exodus to Elementals covers the SLDF from the Exodus to their return to the inner sphere. It is a primer in history, on the foundation of the Clans, and how they eventually decided to return on less than generous terms.
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Kumakin - Tex Talks Battletech Theme
Epidemic Sound - There Must Be a Way Out Of Here
Epidemic Sound - Particle Emission
Epidemic Sound - Behind Bars
Epidemic Sound - Whismsical and Playful 1
Epidemic Sound - Last March of Heroes
Epidemic Sound - Triumph Hill
Epidemic Sound - They Dream by Day
Epidemic Sound - Choirs of War
Epidemic Sound - Hunting for Freedom
Kumakin - Tex Talks Battletech More Big
Epidemic Sound - Down by The Alleyway
Kumakin - Azimuth
Epidemic Sound - Aspire to Inspire
Epidemic Sound - Battle of the Nile
Epidemic Sound - Where the Light is
Epidemic Sound - I Think I Was There
Epidemic Sound - Running out of Time
Kumakin - Home
Epidemic Sound - Defeat Accepted
Epidemic Sound - Paladins
DC BRUINS - Contemplation
Epidemic Sound - Handel Sarabande
Epidemic Sound - Travel to Centaurus
Epidemic Sound - Enrich
Epidemic Sound - Stratosphere Voyage
Epidemic Sound - And the Skies Shall Unfold
Epidemic Sound - Afternoon Swing 1
Epidemic Sound - NightStalker
Epidemic Sound - Water Runs Deep
Epidemic Sound - Daddy Pay Cash
Goat - Periphery Dixie
Goat - Fireteam Whiskey
Goat - Kerensky Blues
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![Battletech/Mechwarrior Lore Tex Talks Battletech : - A Primer on the Clans [Part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CDR_Zpb05uk/mqdefault.jpg)
Wolf's Dragoons: "Hello we are a Normal, Regular Mercenary Company. We're here to fight for your Political House things in exchange for the, uh... C-bills? Anyway look how normal and under-equipped we are and our bad, bad mechs."
Inner Sphere: "How did you get Hoplites?! What the fuck is an Annihilator???"
regiment size if i remember correctly. But look at those dropships jumpships and they stashed parts of their fleet somewhere good.
Inner Sphere: [confused screaming]
"How do you do, fellow Inner Spheroids?"
Let's rap, fellow mercenaries!
@@whizwart1 we got a death star we got a death star^^ but really they got warships hidden away ;D
Kerensky: We must destroy the Wolverines for their unclanlike behavior! They should follow my vision more, like my personal favorite clan Wolf!
Clan Wolf: immediately emulates the Wolverines as much as possible the second after Kerensky dies
Yeah, I love that part!
Mods asleep, posting reforms.
@@cavalierqoon more like: Mods dead, he was an asshole
Just further proof Wolverine would have nothing to do with Word of Blake.
Oh the Irony
My favourite example of "teaching the clans how war works" is in Mech 4: Mercenaries where you can ignore their Batchall and announce your stealthy presence by *levelling their warrior barracks with a gauss rifle*
Are talking about mechwarrior 5 mercenaries or MechWarrior 4 vengeance?
@@zscout1288 , he's talking about MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries.
@@rycross003 ok, thanks for clearing that up 😀
But if you do the Trial, you get a Bondsman who's a REALLY good mechwarrior.
@@jamesmorin9966 The AI in that game means that at a certain point, all pilots are about the same.
" Sometimes, you get Fochtd ", the previous 4 hours were just a lead in for just that one punchline 😎
Surely....surely not!
@@theblackpantslegion fuck comstar
@@helldiverintelligencehighcom “What’s the password?”
“Jerome Blake is my hero.”
“...You may enter.”
Frikking spoilers
@@helldiverintelligencehighcom Comstar is *Okay-ish?* I say this as compared to Word of Blake, because they are Way, Way worse.
The Clans: "We'll just send some spies back to the inner sphere to see how lame they are at fighting now."
Meanwhile in the inner sphere: "THIS PHONE COMPANY NEEDS MORE MISSILE BATTERIES"
I just laughed hard for a full minute reading this!
"Purchased with the bills you pay, fucko"
Google in the future.....😅
"Sir, we've found someone spying on us!"
"So?"
"T-they aren't using our phone company to report their results back."
"FAWKING WHAT?"
ComStar's forces on Tukayyid counted as part of their Customer Service department.
"Thank you for calling ComStar Customer Care. My name is Bill, and this call will cost you 5 C-Bills per second because it's not like you can call anyone else. How may I help you?"
"CRAZY PEOPLE ARE ATTACKING LIKE A THOUSAND OF OUR PLANETS WITH REALLY POWERFUL MECHS AND STUFF!"
"Oh, dear. Well, I'll help as best I can. To begin--have these 'crazy people' caused damage to any HPG structures or other ComStar property?"
"Well...no. Besides taking over things and blasting people, they haven't really touched the equipment. They keep using it to yell at us about honor and issue 'batchalls' to everybody. Do you know what a 'batchall' is?"
"Hmm...unfortunately, I don't. And if the attackers aren't affecting ComStar infrastructure, I'm afraid that my options to assist you are limited--"
"No, wait! There's something else--they _aren't paying to send any of the messages!"_
"Ooooh. NOW we're getting somewhere. This sort of thing needs to go through my supervisor, though, so I'm going to transfer you. His name is Anastasius, and he'll be happy to help you, mostly because talking to supervisors is 10 C-Bills per second instead of five. Please hold!"
I'm glad that Tex's hatred of the clans is only matched by his hatred of Capellans
Never trust a Capellan.
Indeed. It shows he is a man of both wisdom and discernment!
...Fairly sure the hatred of Capelleans runs deeper, honestly. The Clans get a few nice words now and then among the insults.
Previously, I thought it is the Kuritans that he reviles the most guys...
Fucking Capellans
Jade Falcon Warrior: You think I'm scary?
*points at an innocent looking banker*
Jade Falcon Warrior: You haven't tangled with him.
They are quite dangerous.
@@theblackpantslegion collateralized debt swaps...traded at 2,200 fps. Via Mauser battle rifle.
@@theblackpantslegion Comstar is scary, but Comstar does not have an Elemental Repo squad. Remember folks, not honoring your debts is......Un-clanlike.
@@papajack222 They may be nicely dressed but they’re still Elementals
Nothing says "effing terrifying" like 5 Warhawks with 4 Clan ERPPCs and retrofitted jump jets landing at your door, flanked by several Points of Elementals and a Star of Summoners, all because you are late on your water bill...
Okay, so Tex's description of Clan Diamond Shark changing their name from Sea Fox had me rolling, but then I looked it up on Sarna and _guys it gets so much better_
So, Diamond Sharks are actually a genetically-engineered species. They were created by Clan Snow Raven after they got into a slap-fight with Clan Sea Fox. The Snow Ravens engineered Diamond Sharks SPECIFICALLY to hunt and kill Sea Foxes. They basically went "Fuck you and your dumb water doggos, we're gonna make the BIGGEST, most COOLEST fish EVER, and it's gonna fucking MURDER your foxes!"
And it fuckin' *did.*
In addition to actively hunting Sea Foxes, the Diamond Sharks also outperformed them in their ecological niche as open-water predators. That meant less food, shrinking territory, and a subsequent rapid drop in population. Within _months_ after the Diamond Sharks were released into the waters of Strana Mechty, the native Sea Foxes were driven to near extinction. And then, in the Chaddest move that millennium, the Sea Fox Khan threw his hands in the air and said "Fuck it, I guess we're Clan That Thing, now."
I'm sure there's a lesson here about flexibility and adaptation or whatever, but I'm too busy laughing to give a damn.
Would even have been more hilarious if Clan Diamond Shark absorbed Clan Snow Raven down the road.
@@michaelmichaelagnew8503 Why would the Sharks bother? That's one less customer they can sell stuff to.
As a Snow Raven, my favourite part of the whole story is the part where the Raven Khan threw a bitch-fit in the Council chamber when the Fox/Sharks announced their decision, blurted out that he was responsible, and wound up dead at the hands of his own saKhan. On paper their trial happened because he'd gone off and done all this on his own, most Ravens reckon its because he broke the Eleventh Commandment, and was stupid enough to announce his involvement.
And since that day, the Sharks have remembered, and screwed the Ravens at the bargaining table ever since. And the Ravens shut up and acknowledge that they throughly earned this screwing because of their Khan's stupidity.
@@EmperorPylades
"Watch this. HEY SHARKIE, BEND OVER!"
"Who da-... Oh goddamnit it's one of you. Just.. make it quick. Come along."
"...holy crap, he was actually serious?"
The meat heads in the clan did that, when they died off the smart people yeeted those dumb sharks back into hell and changed their name back. The fact another clan made those things and screwed with their eco system out of petty spite should be considered dishonorable both by the dumb clans but also just in general.
As a Diamond Shark, I approve of this message.
Prof Tex having an elemental ex-wife is now canon.
He is also a man of good taste.
Clan Ghost Bear: we got them big sexy football ladies!
Tex like them big elemental tiddies
@@2awsommee4U Good to know I wasn't the only one who found himself admiring that beefy babe in the middle whenever that clanner lineup was onscreen...my peril is my choice and I choose snu snu.
@@therealbahamut God speed you magnificent bastard.
@@therealbahamut I always thought that the tiny woman in what I think was a naval uniform next to the elemental lady, was the elemental's girlfriend and that the smaller woman was the top in their relationship
So a sociopath with messianic thought processes meets an ignoble end by way of unfriendly fire during a slap fight. Glorious.
A slap fight mandated by his own design. That makes it all the more poetic.
It was implied somewhere that the Widowmaker's Mech was hacked
Dame Fortune likes those little jokes.
Stephen Amaris: "I will kill millions as I change humanity forever".
Nicolas Kerensky: "Hold my beer".
“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
-Nicholas Kerensky
"peace would be maintained through superior firepower" [Brotherhood of Nod symbol flashes on screen]
Couldn't resist.
@@theblackpantslegion well played, Kane. Well played.
@@theblackpantslegion It's not a complaint. Was a nice little easter egg.
@@theblackpantslegion Nor should you have, sir. Nor should you have.
Peace through superior firepower was basically the SLDF's motto. I guess the Clans didn't want to change that when it was already a proven concept
Playing Clan ghost bear in football had to be only slightly less scary than playing the 85 Bears
Heh heh. Clan Ghost Bear.
Apparently, the clanners considered fouling their opponents to be a black mark against their honor. Unlike Da Bears.
@@themocaw Daaaaaa Ghost Bears.
Refrigerator Perry was an Elemental
We from up nort' der, ehy! Srsly :D Wisconsin with Yooper-roots ;)
The Wolverine story in short:
Jade Falcon: "Gimme your lunch money!"
Wolverine: "Get rekt." (Beats the crap out of JF.)
JF to Nicholas: "DADDY! SHE BEAT ME UP FOR WANTING TO SPLIT LUNCH!"
You're not wrong
I smell a plot of clan wolverine versus clan wolf in the current timeline of BattleTech and I can smell capellas using this as a way to stab them both in the back.
They will be proper rekt then they coming back as clan honey badger
@@mikecampos1193Cappellans don't be the fucking worst challenge (impossible)
Alexander Kerensky; The man who never won, but never forgot.
Nicholas Kerensky: The man who never failed, but forgot everything.
Such wisdom.
2:03:30 As a fellow citizen of the Lyran Commonwealth, I shall translate for you what our friends from the Scout Lance are saying:
Friedrich 1: *hopeful gasp* "Hello? Hello! Is professor Tex there? O-our commander is very upset upon discovering that there won't be an Oktoberfest -Oh god. He threatens to scout out the city until he gets his bratwurst." *nervous sigh*
Commander: "That was not an Oktoberfest!"
Friedrich 1: *getting increasingly anxious* "I must go!"
Vielen dank!
Now if only someone could translate the moonspeak.
Tex really should have left some brats and beer for them it’d be cheaper then what’s going to happen.
@@robertivey7644 Yup. Cut corners now, get extra expenses later.
How does a Lyran city not have enough bratwaurst for a small mercenary company?
Brain: online
Eyes: functional
Coffee/whiskey: nominal
That just makes me think of "My legs are okay."
@@adamofblastworks1517 And here I was actually hearing the Goliaths from Starcraft just a bit...
GM doesn’t respond to “batchalls.”
Excellent content.
I can't help but wonder if this is real, *Is* GM actually responding to this man or demanding he stop talking about something??
@@rhorybader4054 More like someone at GM watches the videos, finds them hilarious, and sends him joke legal documents for fun.
@@rhorybader4054 Considering Battletech has been around since the 80s and GM has been apart of the lore for decades, I'd assume at least a few people spread across GM's various departments are aware of and possibly fans of Battletech, so if a letter was actually written to them they may have had someone who knew wtf this random letter was talking about respond. Or alternatively, like another person pointed out, a fan in GM reached out and contacted Tex with the letter for a joke. Or the always possible, they just fabricated it.
Also I refuse to believe in almost 40 years that they haven't been spammed by joke letters referencing Battletech.
@@ssjjshawn _Where's my f*cking fusion power, GM?!_ -type jokes.
@@ElectromagNick “dear gm I used some of your mechs in my latest raid against a capellan orphanage/hot dog factor and I was incredibly let down by their performance”
2 years since this came out and I'm still waiting for Tex to do a lecture on "How to Claim Your Very Own Bondsman"
According to the if I am wrong enough someone will correct me. you snusnu the prisoners...
1) Have fight
2) Win fight
3) Supply handcuffs
4) Lots and lots and loooooooots of Stockholm syndrome
I piloted my first Mech as a wee little lad, no older than 7. I didn't know what a 'Clanner' was. But I knew things went BOOM if you shot them a bunch, and that I'd go BOOM if I stopped circle-strafing.
Those Timberwolves on your splash screen make my inner child smile.
You must be at home where you're happiest
Same but i was 10 years old :,) i thought clanners were the good guys cus i noticed their mechs were "better"
@@bernieperales9348 I was a bondsman at 9 and got lucky in my Wasp and shot a Clanner out of a Cougar. Got my foot shot out from under me and (luckily) got picked up by a blood name from Clan Wolf. Thank the stars she was a Warden! Thank the stars that we seceded and joined IS in 3057. You'll probably still hate us but we will do our best to protect you all.
You did better than me. I thought, when I first heard about them at age 6, they were called the Clams. I misheard the Battletech cartoon intro when my father was channel surfing.
That's how I was too, my first Mechwarrior was Mechwarrior on the SNES then we (my dad and I) ended up skipping 2 and getting 3 and then 4 when that came out. I had no idea what clanners were other than they were enemies.
What's funny is that I sorta learned more about clanners by watching the Battletech cartoon on a whim one day many years ago on youtube lol.
Watching that cartoon inspired me to read further into the lore and seek out some of the books. It was interesting to learn the lore behind the games I enjoyed a lot.
Smell that, boys? Smells like...HPG bills.
May 20th, 3052, Remember Tukayyid
"Pay your bills, f***o!"
@@flow5tate346 - Space AT&T
@Crashie-J Underrated comment! Pure gold!
Oh right. How fitting XD
Peace of Blake be with you, good sir.
You disdain peace... well then we will refer you to our reclamation department. Please pick a number between 1 and 12, then a further number between 1 and 6 so that we may better know which reclamation unit to dispatch.
After watching this a few times, I have to say one thing: In a vacuum, the society of the Clans is stable. Their "honor" prevents them from repeating the mistakes that the Inner Sphere did, ie, nuking habitable worlds into useless rubble and regressing themselves to the stone age. I think that may have been Nicholas' main goal: To create a society where total war was culturally impossible, not simply unthinkable. An admirable goal, albeit a shortshighted one.
Then again, there's a strong possibility that what he expected the Clans to eventually encounter in the Inner Sphere was a repeat of what he had encountered when he returned to the Pentagon worlds: Planets where the residents were so weary of war and strife that they'd throw themselves at the feet of the Clans as liberators, and where society and civilization were basically gone, lost in constant, endless, total warfare. He expected the Great Houses to be unable to stop destroying each other until an outside influence came in and set things right. He expected humanity to learn nothing, and keep fighting each other forever. He never imagined that eventually, there would be no more major wars simply because everyone had used up the resources needed to wage such a war, and that a hidden entity like Comstar might exist that might guide the Great Houses into a sort of balance, and manipulate things to stay in that balance. Without those two factors, there's a possibility that, indeed, the Clans might have encountered worlds that were not only war-weary and ruined, but possibly even no longer capable of space travel.
In the end, he'd forged the Clans to fight the war that he envisioned would happen, rather than the war that actually happened. There's an old saying that, paraphrased, goes, "We always perfect fighting the last war just in time for the next one." Unfortunately, the side that fights the next war the same way the last one was fought tends to lose, as with how the French expected the Nazis to fight them in trenches, and were caught completely flat-footed by the Nazi Blitzkrieg, which not only completely bypassed the French defensive line, but got the Germans into Paris before any kind of viable defense could be mobilized. You can never fight a war the same way you fought the last one, as people are constantly coming up with new means to kill each other, and new ways to keep the other side from killing you. The side that comes up with the new way to fight a war, and utilizes it properly, tends to be the one that wins. Nicholas had created a society that could easily win the War for the Pentagon Worlds, when he should have created a society that would win the Clan Invasion.
Interesting take. It's entirely possible, and it makes his long term plans more understandable.
Well, Alexander's Timeframe was going to be more like 1000 years
You're quite correct in your assumption. From what I remember from the the Wars of Reaving handbook, one of the key factors that led up to the clan civil war was the fact that the invader clans had access to the resources of their occupation zones, and saw their wealth and power skyrocket. Those clans that failed to participate in operation Revival were effectively locked out of any real hope of ever being able to compete on the same level. In addition, the invader clans had begun to adopt tactics akin to the Inner Sphere to defend their holdings, hence the "taint" that the Steel Vipers began to cry about after they were ejected from their occupation zone by the Jade Falcons.
Clan society was indeed stable, so long as it remained isolated. Once it committed to invasion however, it really had set itself up for its own destruction, especially with the declaration of the clan taking Terra first becoming the ilclan. All these factors shattered the balance of power among the clans, and envy and resentment from the home clans was a predictable inevitability.
I can agree with this for the most part. Basically the Kerensky's never anticpated that ComStar would be the force that would wind up fighting against them. Without the remnants of the SLDF to fight the remnants of the SLDF, the Clan invasion would have worked just fine.
@@taccovert4 He also forgot about the Eridanni Light Horses. Ask the Snoke Jaguars how that went. ;)
Ah yes, elementals, genetically modified Snu Snu, one of the good things given to us by the clans. After all, I don't just want to pilot an Assault mech, I want a wife built like one too.
Edit: the Warden mentality is the most interesting clan belief to me.
An assault wife if you will.
@@igorsdonjon2271 is that how professor Tex won his trial of possession he fought that star colonel who was 8 ft tall in honorable combat.
There is more glory in riding a woman built like an Assualt Mech than there is riding an Assualt Mech!
"I pilot an Atlas."
"Oh really, what's it's Specs?"
"Oh she's a nice woman..."
Honest question, what are the personalities of Elementals like? Are they locked into this mindset?
"Jim Jones thinking he was Alexander the Great, " has me laughing to my self for two minutes, that was perfect,
Thank you sir
@@theblackpantslegion Also: as a phd scholar of public policy, I've been neck-deep in American political thought. I can't tell you how much I appreciate and feel validated in my life choices that another human being gets the Washington/Cincinatus link.
Is this the Guild Jeep that the name Mouth might ring a bell?
@@solisto it is
@@cavalierqoon well, that's why they named Cincinnati. The order of Cincinnatus was all of Washington's aides. They even called him the American Cincinnatus
Ooh man, he got a Clanner to say "Don't" 1000 points!
I just now noticed this, and I've watched this like, a dozen times or so.
yeah i always feel like its something irl peeps are so used to saying, that its night impossible to not use a contraction by accident or forget about that detail unless you decide to comb the script a few times for that one specific purpose
@LabRat Knatz This _is_ a Smoke Jaguar we are talking about; it could be closer to hearing the man crack after his last nerve gets touched...not that he is unique, mind, just that the possibility is...distinct.
Man, you guys *absolutely nailed* the recorded exchange between Kerensky and McEvedy. I just read that transcript a few nights ago and was nearly *cheering* when I realized I was about to hear it acted out.
Thank you kindly, that's the very talented BB Wolfe and Goat from the legion
1:48:35 Personal note to you Tex. That line about great men not being born, but being made over a life time of failures really helps me in those dark times. Especially now. Whenever I fail. Whenever I feel like I’m just a screw up I listen to that speech and it drives me forward. I know it’s kinda hammy and all but I really want to thank you for that. You and everyone at the Black pants Legion. From the bottom of my heart I say thank you. Been through a lot this year (everybody has) but that has really helped.
Thank you kindly for saying so sir, I appreciate the kindness.
Mr. Tex, this was the best Tukayyid day present ever.
Was this dropped on that day? That's awesome!
This was awesome! It was weird hearing the Wolverine dialogue...since I was there when that shit went down. Perfect episode and summation.
Thank you Professor Blaine.
Hey Tex.
I dunno if you'll ever read this--the video is 3 years old, after all--but in the off chance you do, I wanted to thank you and all the good beeple and BPL.
I recently went through some... difficult times. And something that helped me keep my feet on the ground and actually feel good about something in an uncertain time were the Battletech lore videos. I never did finish Exodus to Elementals until tonight, and I'm glad I saved it until now. Everything always hits different the first time, and being reminded that greatness is not a function purely of success, but of learning from failure and refusing to give in gave me a smile and some strength when I really needed it.
Stay groovy, man. And may all the splinters on the great banister of life point in the right direction for you.
1:41:26 "But that's the ultimate tragedy here. By re-writing history, lessons are forgotten. By restricting freedom of thought, of choice, of expression, positive outcomes are diminished." Tex, you can make some profound-sounding quotes when you have a mind to.
On occasion I can talk goob
Really, really, REALLY looking forward to Tex taking on the *TRUE* story of Clan Wolverine.
It gets better. Blaine Pardoe (Battletech author) near him. I expect all sorts of mayhem to happen.
So. First, I get the idea that Hazen never exactly un-snapped after DeChavilier's death. Also, it's infinitely hilarious that even in the 31st century, the utter goat rodeo that was Jim Jones little commie foundry is remembered.
The work, and love for the setting you guys have really shows. Thank you all for your hard work.
I think it killed what remained of her soul.
@@theblackpantslegion Her soul is now only bagpipe music and death in equal parts
Girl went from 0 to Sigismund and never slowed down.
@@supersaiyandiclonius3056 and her 0 was pretty fricking high already
In character: eh the great houses are natural enemies. Like Davion and Taurians, or Steiner and Taurians, or Karitans and Taurians, or Capellens and Taurians, or Taurians and other Taurians. Damn Taurians. They ruined the Concordet.
Marik classmate: You Taurians sure are a contentious people
In character: (Draws .50 Desert Eagle). YOUVE JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE!
Capellan Classmate: *(Sneaking up to put knife into any back that happens to be facing them)*
weldonwin Taurian Student (one eighty no scopes Capellan student with snub nose .44 and cocks hammer).
In Character: Did I forget to mention I’m originally from Laconis?
* turns and winks to capellon classmate
“Yong yuan khan zhe ni de bei”
Davion classmate (Levels his Magshot Gauss Rifle) Now we will have none of that....
Robert Ivey 😂
Robert Ivey *Taurian Classmate lets out sharpe whistle
* three other Taurians, a Pleades Hussar and Bannickburn Commando stand up and draw Zeus rifles and federated auto rifles pointed at Davion student from positions surrounding the room
*Another pops out from the HVAC hanging upside down in overalls holding a pair of pistols, wearing overalls with the name Tom stenciled on the left breast pocket.
*Taurian student still keeps his attention on Capellen student
“Quite a predicament we find ourselves in.......”
*Tom drops his Squallet and then proceeds to drop from HVAC vent with a thud and yelp.
*everyone laughs then everyone turns to Tex suddenly realizing we’re all aboard a Station belonging to a ComStar allied mercenary and goes pale.
Next Tyrant Trying to Takeover Humanity: Now that I have crushed the Great Houses and humbled the Clans. I just have sweep up these last wretches..... Where did this fleet come from!?
War cry over the coms: WOLVERINES!!!!
Nice Red Dawn reference! (?)
My arm went up when I read that.
WOLVERINES!
Oh so that’s where they went
Too bad canon lore hints they became a part of the Word of Blake... well ComStar at first...
@@ShadrachVS1 Not true. It’s just one of the various “uncertain fates” that were written about them. There’s little evidence to them being the Blood as tested by Clan Ghost Bear
Today, today, the 20th of May
We remember Anastasius Focht
He cheated, he lied,
He played on their pride,
And by him, the Clanners got rocked
HE did not cheat, neither lied, he just played with the enemies incabability to properly do intelligence work, and that bite them in their posterior
It’s more like he showed them real war rather then play war. You know where you need more then a couple hours of ammunition and everybody goes out for a beer after the fake battle.
Not at Tukkayid particularly l, but before then ComStar was ambivalent over if they should fight the Clans, support them, or somehow use them to leverage a new Star League actually run by ComStar.
Really, the Clans were already going to lose - Luthien was the real last battle of the Invasion.
Clan Wolverine's story didn't end there indeed (SPOILER ALERT): escaping Ghost Bear patrols who didn't "raise the alarm", leading to the creation of a famous passage in the Ghost Bear Remembrance, the legend of the group known as the Minnesota Tribe...much content to cover hehe.
Also While possible not cannon, At least one Clan wolverine ship Crashed into the Inner sphere carrying a Prototype Assault Mech, The Bullshark. The Salvagers then engaged in a 3 way duel between the Black Widow and the Bounty Hunter, playing them against each other in order to survive.
We learn the full story of the Wolverines and the Minnesota Tribe much later... Like 300 years later.
Even more reason why Ghost Bear is the best clan.
Well, second best behind Wolverine.
@@tanith117 Natasha Kerensky and the Bounty Hunter later both went on record complaining about "Marauder Headshot Cheese" and "LRM Boating".
"So you're about to get into a battle with the Clans, and while you're out there dodging bullets and their horrible battle tactics"
So good I had to rewatch 7 times to make sure the quote was correct
I really hope you do the story of Comstar and the various houses like you've done the clans. Hearing you heap backhanded praise on Cappelans for a few hours would be hilarious, but all these references to Comstar as both a glorious fighting force and stupid evil oppressive organization has left me very interested to hear you tell their history.
well comstar, like all battletech... is neither good nor evil.... but a human mix of both in equal measure... at one point comstar was, for lack of a better word, a good organization... at another it was a cabal of utter evil... still another it was simply a 'neutral' party working to keep the stagnant 'peace' of minimal war as a constant...
So far, from what I've learned about Comstar, the only real change needed to make me go from hating them to respecting them would be saying that they "forcibly recruit" scientists rather than murdering them and steal lostech rather than destroy it. Just like I despise the AdMech for their dedication to stagnation, I cannot ever stand a faction deliberately destroying knowledge and preventing scientific progress even amongst themselves. If they just had their own science division and kept such advancements in house with possible slow public advancements of carefully selected developments they allow, I'd be fully okay with them as a morally grey but still likeable faction. As is, they're just about my least favorite kind of evil; similar to the Cappelans, really.
@@notsae66 They do steal tech rather than destroy it, and really only go "TECH HERESY!" if it might make warfare worse. (this is obviously a broad swathe of things.)
They have at least the specs for everything they've ever stolen.
Remember their religious mandate is to bring back the technological golden age once the great houses exhaust themselves and thus the technology will be in trustworthy hands(ie not the great houses, ie theirs), they just began to despair that the war would be forever and so went militant and started...accelerating the process.
Remember guys.
Nikky K got rid of family structure
And then got married...
And claimed leadership by right of his Noble Lineage
Ah, but that is the privilige of narcissistic psychopath despots... to them, rules and laws are something to inflict on others to retain control, not to restrict their own impulsive egos...
Nick Kerensky was a paper tiger. BPL hit the nail on the head when Tex was talking about why they lost the Clan Invasion: for all of their efforts, genetic engineering, honor codes, theorycrafting for battles and technological advantages... the Clanners' only "real war" was Operation Klondike. They'd fought each other plenty, in sanctioned honorable combat and ritualistic infighting to settle disputes, but they had no clue what they were up against when they went after the Houses and Space AT&T.
"Rules are for other people." - Nikky K., probably
@@Ozymandias2x "Look guys, remember to practice safe trigger discipli----" - Nikky K, RIP In Peace
"Peace would be maintained through superior firepower." -Tex, A Primer on the Clans
"Peace through power!" -Kane, Brotherhood of Nod
I saw that Nod emblem, so I take it you looking forward to the C&C Remasters then? :D
Hugely so
@@theblackpantslegion Same here, I am very much looking forward to it. I even decided to spring for the Anniversary Edition.
@@Rufrky In one of the game playthroughs Tex mentioned meeting the gent who played Kane. He's apparently a really nice guy in real life.
Can’t believe I saw that too. This was an awesome egg. Thanks Tex. 😊
@@theblackpantslegion As someone with a literal tattoo of the brotherhood of NOD on my left should i can only hope EA keeps their dick out of it (never forget C&C 4....)
I'd love to see an Tex Talks Battletech on the FedCom Civil War.
I don't know anything about battletech setting, except that Clans lost, and House Davion won. Meaning that i would watch the hell out of what you are proposing.
i agree... the FedCom civil war was one of the most dissapointing incidents to happen... Davion and Steiner had the potential to rebuild star league... and than... they didnt.
Professor Tex would be AMAZING to cover that particular chunk of history... especially since the BPL already gave us the Amaris coup
@@brayachdragonbane7529 gman he'd be soooooo salty.
The FedCom Cilvil War (Subtitle: Or, 'That time Auntie Katrina went off her meds')
Tex: “He assumed the Mantle of Responsibility his father wore”
Me: *Vietnam-style 343 Halo flashbacks*
They had the right idea. Then they ruined it
Yes
I'm literally painting an Atlas, when I see the notification for this. Bloody excellent.
What scale?
@@WhiskeyTango84 Classic. I.W.M.'s AS7-D.
@@FrancisUrquhartEsq Love the classic Atlas minis. They're ugly as hell, just as the Atlas is supposed to be.
I presume you're still painting it as those things are huge!
Paint it up to look like the Stig, then go find that Top Gear crossover story.
"Tex made Mike a mountain of corndogs and tendies while he edited the BlackJack episode."
Meat_Mountain_IRL
And they all whistle in tune too. LOL
Where's the burgers?
@@dubuyajay9964 The birds ruined them... Birds always ruin Meat Mountain
As a long time Liao player, may I just say sir, "It is so nice to be understood."
Thank you for your hard work
Thank you too!
Who here is going through all this lore after the Exile from 40k? Loving the material, my first online game was Mech Commander and I'm regretting not getting into Battletech properly. Thankyou for this material.
You are most welcome sir, enjoy your stay.
Pre-liking. Because you'd be a filthy clanner not to.
P.S. someone needs to set up a whisky donation fund for Tex. This man is a treasure. Will happily send a few bottles of his fave.
If we all send him a couple of bottles, I think we'll actually lose the crew due to the long and - potentially - hilarious binge. Also, where they are going to store all of them?
Wait hold on guys I thought in Texs last couple of rimworld videos I thought I heard him say he was trying to sober up and not get alcohol although he does think it's great that he does get these offers because as We Know whiskey is a hell of a drink.
ok... all clanners downvote!
@@Paerigos
All the clanners should be up-voting because this is about them. Might not be the most flattering opinion but it is about the clans.........
That's going to take... A lot of money. I think both of Tec's fav whiskeys are in the $700-$2000 range lol
The fact that GM seems to have FAXED you guys on their letterhead is just pure amazeballs to me.
You guys are doing the lords work, keep it up.
I would have liked to read the whole thing: probably would have made me laugh harder!
@@claytonhess5512 I think the redaction just makes it funnier. I lose it every time I see "litigation" and the rest of the line blacked out
Fun fact, the highest scoring game in US football history is Georgia Tech vs Cumberland in 1916 with a score of 222 - 0. Clan Ghost Bear was being kind.
I'm seeing a lot of parallels with the disastrous, "Great Leap Forward."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Per the intermission, I'd just like to say...
Tex, Mike and the rest of the TTBT team,
You've all done good. Quite good.
10/10
They are magnificent mad bastards are they not? (said as a compliment)
Wolf, your icon made me laugh IRL. Well-played.
And in rememberance of that most glorious day, my knowledge of dirty Clanners shall be INCREASED!
...and Discount Dan will sell me stuff.
While most likely also setting it on fire...
@@GhostBear3067 But the fire will be free. Why? Because Discount Dan cares, that's why.
.
He will throw in a couple of empty fire extinguishers for only 100 C-Bills more, if you respond with the promo code "My s%!t is on fire!".
The question is will Dan have any more of that sweet Canopian porn? My stash seems to have been bombed flat by these white painted aerospace fighters...
Hey my discount hunchback had 12 keys of coke under the hot seat!!!! Thanks discount dan!!! I didn't mind the fire in my neurohelmet or spontaneous ejections after we figured out the issue
Those fucking clanner bees however... them I had issue with!
I know it's a small thing and Tex already has a lot covered and a lot to cover, but I wish Blood Spirit's reaction to McEvedy calling out Nicholas also made it into the talk. From what I've read, Colleen Schmitt hedged towards siding with McEvedy as Schmitt took the esprit de corps of the clans seriously and the embodiment of her clan. But she was shut down hard and threatened with the same fate the Wolverines would face. It was the last straw for Schmitt as well who took an isolationist stance from the other clans who clearly lost their way by eagerly cannibalizing each other. Or so I read.
There are a lot of great stories and characters, but I always felt the daughter of the Black Watch and her clan deserved a better fate. I hope Tex does cover it eventually, between all the succession wars, invasions, and General Motors investigations.
If you haven't read it yet, I would suggest the novel "Betrayal of Ideals." It pretty much tells the full story of the Wolverine annihilation and the events that lead up to it.
I feel like McEvedy and Kerensky were both brilliant but deeply flawed human beings. Listening to the transcript it seems like both were just looking for an excuse, any excuse, to pick a fight. McEvedy's mistake was to alienate all the clans rather than making it clear that her dispute was with the Ill-Khan himself, not the clans as a whole or even Clan Wolf specifically. If she had done that, rather than simply withdrawing like they were all beneath her, the others would have been more supportive of her, or at least less eager to jump in with Kerensky against her clan.
@@spectre111 One of those unfortunate circumstances where the egos of everyone involved gets in the way. Kerensky seems to be at fault more than McEvedy. To be fair, she was placed into a very difficult position.
@spectre111 late comment yes, but by that point many clans had already began to dislike the wolverines and I'm doubting much would have changed
Unfortunately, the Jade Falcons learned the lessons of the invasion too well. The result: Malvina Hazen and her Mongol Doctrine.
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Go Clan Wolverine! Can you imagine what the clans would have been if they had gone with Khan Sarah McEvedy's vision. They would have become the true inheritors of Star League.
That's why Nicholas Kerensky opposed her.
Stephen Amaris was his role model
It seems that bite in ass later.
Even as a lonely free born inner merrc, Clan Wolverine is fast becoming my favorite clan.
Let us hope that Tex will grant us more knowledge of this clan in the future!
@@Kirkmaximus I can really only hope they come back with a fucking bang at some point.
@@jamesricker3997 That is truer than you'll get any clanner to ever admit LOL
Clan Wolverine seems like the coolest dudes in the whole setting, that I've seen so far.
Dear Tex, The Editor, et al,
Some cronies and myself just finished watching this. We are all tickled quite pink you seem to agree on Nicholas Kerensky's lifetime fist fighting record. Thank you all for your hard work. Good job indeed.
Thank you much
Sarah McEvedy has always been my favorite character in the lore. I look forward to her own video. She's an unsung legend. Raise a glass in her honor.
I know this is an old post and off topic, but I like how this series handles having men and women in the lore without fetishizing anyone or being psychotically annoying about inclusivity.
@@IntrusiveThot420 I agree. She wasn't a sex symbol or brow-beaten because she was a woman. She's a badass, and that's all we need.
Oh YEAH. My thanks to the team that worked on this TEX, appreciate all the hard, time consuming and amazingly relentless work. Now take a damn break.
Omg 40 hours to go! This can’t go by quick enough
I'd like to second this word for word.
Thank you to Tex and everyone else who made this possible, and now *please* take a break.
You've earned it.
Vulture82 damn right. These are full blown documentary style works of art. I want them to do one with a bunch Ken Burns effects and a deadpan delivery.
Yeah Tex. Take a fucking nap. You earned it.
I promise I won't demand another for at least 3 hours after I start watching this.
It's so great to see people with passion work on things they love. Plus they're so damn funny.
Apparently that football match for the fate of Sheliak _wasn't_ some Blood-Bowl-esque massacre. It was one of the cleanest matches Sheliak has ever seen.
I guess cheating would be dishonourable also i guess they wouldn't need to
@@purplefood1I mean. That and I'd wager the Elementals pulled their hits. If just for the sake of not turning members of the opposing team to human flavored toothpaste with every tackle.
@@McDonaldWilliamTSurely the Ghost Bears would have bid away their star players. You know, for honour's sake.
@@McDonaldWilliamTThat's certainly one possibility...
I prefer the idea that the clan just plays touch football, and the opponents only discovered the problem when it turned out that their idea of a "touch" resembles something seen on WWE... XD
@@MrSaywutnow In the short story they did. By the second half they had bid down to "complete amateur Clan personnel volunteering to play".
Clanner: "We wage war this way so that the winner may have something to win and the looser may still live. It is in every way better than the Inner Sphere, who inflict carnage upon each other until there is nothing left to gain, and then continue even long after that."
I've never looked forward to a RUclips more than this one. Operation Klondike, Clan Wolverine shenanigans, Golden Century, Kindraa Smythe-Jewell's destruction, Dragoon Compromise of 3000, and more, preparing for Operation Revival... I hope to hear about it all!
As someone who carries the last name Dobrev by birth, so did I. But I fear Battletech will never explain how Bulgarians ended up serving in Minnesota or which Royal Battlemech division got folded into the 331st..
"You see a new Tex Talks Battletech. It's about to premiere. What do you do?" ~ Gary Gygax
Weep for RUclips
Roll for pants!
Go rewatch civvie11 episodes until it's done because how my internet works with the premire function
Instructions unclear, failed PSR, fell over and damaged Right Torso.
Ironically my love of clan wolf came from being a kid playing the card game and getting a clan wolf deck with alot of timberwolf battlemech cards
Clan Wolverine: "What if we build a functional society that has its act together?"
Big Nicky's Perfect Society: "WHAT IF OUR SOCIETY EXPLICITLY BUILT TO AVOID FURTHER BRUTAL CIVIL WARS HAS A BRUTAL CIVIL WAR ABOUT IT"
The 1 Dislike comes from Vlad Ward when he lost to Phalen Kell.
@@remickunderwood515 it looks like Vlad Ward has removed his dislike lol
@@remickunderwood515 That's when we drag em out behind the dumpster at Golden Corral and gang up on em, as is the Inner Sphere way
What's really funny is RUclips doesn't care what the rating is as long as people rate it. They helped just as much as if they gave a thumbs up.
Yeah Vlad can f off, Phalen was 3 time the mech warrior then Vlad. WIE for LIFE!!!!!
Vlad sucked so badly at being a mech warrior he almost lost to an original Wolfhound.
my AC/5 just became an ER PPC, if you catch my drift
I do. This is disturbing
@@theblackpantslegion Yeah...it kinda is isn't it?
@@theblackpantslegion But, still funny.
I’d be more concerned if it became a rac/5
@@robertivey7644 That's extremely disturbing
Clanners: "Contractions are dishonorable!"
Inner Sphere: "Batchall, Chalcass..."
Clanners: "Portmanteau are perfectly acceptable!"
" _Great men are not born but a product of a life spent numerous of mistakes and overcoming tragedy._ "
It reminds me of the song by Daisuke Inoue - Meguriai from Mobile Suit Gundam, of which Andrew WK made a direct translation English version, both goes,
" _Believe to be grown up is to be able to survive so many sorrows_ ".
That's all I have to add. Other that I too, love Star Trek TOS, DS9, and ENT.
5-20? A clan history? LOL. Remember Tukayyid!
precisely
Remember the Van Zant Fart Room. Thats why I drop.
Happy Tukayyid Day, Freebirth trash. Savor the joys of victory. Though regardless of which side you cheered for, as long as Tex is telling the story, we all win. Thank you Tex, and editor(s), for your continued work. You're a godsend to the community.
Well, I'd rather be freeborn than an incestuous sib-kin! But hey... we all wear black pants, right?
Clanners just mad you got curb stomped by space AT&T.
@@TheCrackedFirebird Sphere-heads are pretty cocky for having to have their collective asses saved by space AT&T...
@@frocat5163 my arse was not saved by them my own family fought on the very field of battle and help win the day and we have served in every war since the wars of old terra and will stand by our people no matter the odds
@@maxrander0101 So your family is a bunch of telephone company CSRs. Got it.
You can't leave me hanging on Clan Wolverine, the true inheritors of the SLDF!! Still love you Ghost Bear.
Clan Wolf eventually went the same route that Clan wolverine did with their philosophies. Clan Wolf was probably the one of the few if only clans that were successful ripping through the innersphere with ease and they also crushed comstar during the Battle of Tukayyid with ease but lost a khan in the process. A lesser Khan so it was not much of a loss. Wolf was smart they actually studied their enemy and didn't give into the hubris the other clans did. In doing that they were actually prepared for The Battle of Tukayyid unlike all the others. Unfortunately all the other clans got their buts kicked so bad it was sad. Clan wolf success couldn't make up for the other clans failures so the clans lost the battle. If clan wolf's Khan was the il'khan then the fight would have gone much differently but their strategies to beat the innersphere were ignored by the other clans (clan wolf had intel and knew what Comstar was planning). Clan wolfs head Khan became the new Il'khan after the battle but by then the battle was lost and the Clans had no choice but to stop the invasion for 15 years witch was the death nail in their invasion for good.
Good thing though a lot later down the road Clan Wolf creates a new Star League but only after it splits in half then reforms later down the road. So in the end the Clans did win but not the way they were expecting, and most of the clans at that point either left for good or were utterly destroyed except for a few with Clan Wolf being one of them.
@@michaelmichaelagnew8503 yeah I can see clan wolverine and clan Jade falcon and the capellans being a threat to the current status quo in BattleTech.
@@mikecampos1193 sad to see Steiner go the way of the mental deficiency though
To use a saying from a recent movie, while Aleksandr Kerensky was a father to Nicholas Kerensky Amaris is his daddy. I remembered reading from one of the comments from the part one of this lesson saying that Amaris is the Silent Father of the Clans, he is probably more of an influence in Nicholas's actions and mentality than his blood father.
He used a breadth of actions that he grew up in during Amaris's rein with the clans. While he was using the lessons from Maoist rule, his foundation is pretty much set from the get go by Amaris's rule. The use of secret police, total adherence to their rule, no questions except if they asked the questions, and bat shit insanity. He just used his father's, Aleksander, name and legacy as a puppet to distract from his actual rule. In a way, Amaris's ghost had possessed the remnants of the Star League and fully crushed it through the Kerensky's line. A truly poetic and comedic tragedy.
I read that comment as well, pretty profound.
Thank you Tex and all hands involved for all your hard work, attention to detail and passion for the Battletech universe! Things like this makes life happy!! Woooooooo!!!
I loaded up Mechwarrior online for the first time in a good while after watching this. And yes, I fragged a ton of vat babies in their shiny clan toys in my Fang.
Honestly clans are weaker than the IS in that game. PGI doesn't like the clans and it shows. Shoot the clans have been nerfed constantly to the point that they don't look like the clans they were in the books and the IS have been given so many boosts for each mech that you would think the IS are really the clanners, and the clanners are really the IS. Shoot I remember the First Battle of Tukayyid in the game where the IS were heavily buffed where they just were better mechs period than the clanners but still lost because the best and biggest Merc company called ComStar were paid to fight on the clanners side. I remember that cause I was part of that Merc company. We had the best players in the game and we had a ton of groups fighting constantly 24 hours. No one could beat us, though after a year or two Comstar became a shadow of its former self and that was probably for the better of the game. I'm sure that frustrated PGI and made them nerf even the clan mechs harder than before though they couldn't figure out that the clans only won because of our Merc company.
@@michaelmichaelagnew8503 as someone casual to the game that didnt follow on updates, id say yeah clans don't feel better than IS, whis is kind of a good thing with the nature of the game (have to reach for balance). Some weapons feel sorely missing, and they trade damage application way too much for the sake of damage potential (autocannons not shooting a single shell being the biggest exemple, when thats what autocannons are all about)
Overall though I think the "IS is better" position is found manly on the big chunk of the community that swears only by ballistics (and by that, I mean autocannons), as i do prefer clan lasers by a BIG margin, and clan mechs tend to be very mobile for the punch they are able to pack; overall barring a few mechs (typically if i wanna use big autocannons or want to try out the RACs/heavy gauss), I run clan mechs almost exclusively; clan modules are easier to fit and higher damaging to make up for worse application in most cases.
Now on the other hand.. man omnimechs suck. Hope you enjoy not being able to pick your engine, and surrender all quirks the moment you decide to use the system to swap a part. The mechs all about higher customization, punishing you for customizing them the way they are intended..
Another good job Tex. Also, I'm having a difficult time imagining what a "judicious use of fire axes" looks like.
Choppy.
Wow. As a newcomer to Battletech lore, the Clan Invasion seemed like the most interesting part of the whole thing. This mini series of videos was absolutely amazing. Fantastic storytelling and editing! Thanks so much, what a pleasure to watch!
I break out into laughter every time you show that pic of Comstar grooving out.
Released on the memorial of the battle of tukyiid (murdered the name(will except challenges for my pants))
Only a filthy clanner would dare challenge you and they can't spell either so...
@@KenS1267 fair point
I challenge you in the name of Clan Wolf to a Trial of Possession for your pants! I shall field one star and one point command. What say you? ^.^ ;P
Goddammit
@@Feiora I accept bring your best cause comstar baby
GM mistakenly reverse engineered the elemental human waste processor into the jump jet valve. Engineer hospitalized when contracting pink-eye after working on “weird smell when jumping” write-up.
Superficial reading of the Clans, I think I appreciated Nova Cat, Hells Horses, and Diamond Shark/Sea Fox the most. Nova Cat for being, seemingly, the most spiritual of the Clans, which is at least interesting. Hells Horse and Diamond Shark/Sea Fox for seemingly straining against Clan culture as much as was allowed, which also makes them interesting.
I think Wolf was straining too.. for all the murdering of Wolverine they did and would still do, they sure picked up on a lot of their ideas respecting freeborns and actually listening to what castes other than the warrior caste have to say and all that
Join Diamond Shark. We have money and some morals. Can't beat that.
@@RenegadeVile wolf in exile had the balls to walk away and die in the Inner Sphere as warriors should
@@Darqshadow This relates to my comment how?
@Renegade Vile you're stating diamond shark had morals. So does Wolf
One downvote from an honorless, and pantsless, Clanner.
The other downvotes come from his bondsmen.
Algorithm.
Well Tex did say he'd challenge them to a rite of possession for their pants. We knew how that'd turn out didn't we?
@@WastelandSeven Apparently pants make a shit trophy, anyone have any idea what I should do with this shit?
@@leandersearle5094 make a flag, lots of flags and raise them high
Always knew about Battletech, always thought it looked neat from a distance, but I only really got into this IP a year ago, jumping late on BT and MWO. At first it was a scary and confusing lore universe to me... now it's just a scary one. I owe that to you BPL. Can't thank you enough.
This all certainly has me look at clans differently. Though, my same opinions on the IS remains the same. It is too bad Alexander could not have his dream fulfilled and properly.
Tex, yes to all the “again let me know” videos we want you to do, if it’s a video, and you’re making it then yes.
As one who found Battletech only recently through the latest game (not playing it, but passing interest in it), this is extremely well put together. For a world that only *needed* stompy mech hit other stompy mech, explosion ensues, this world has more plot and dynamic characters than any other series/set/genre/universe/world I have read. If you are taking comments for future focuses of lectures, I am interested in the following:
1. Clan Wolverine. What you said about them makes them sound the most interesting, and more likely palatable to most people today, for a clan
2. SL Comnet to Comstar transition. It probably is interesting where one goes from a cut telegraph system, to a cult like following in 100-200 years with an uncontested absolute monopoly on all communication
3. Clan Wolf. Why the change of heart, they became more like wolverine than the others
4. What happened to the leader of the black watch? Jade Falcon seems to be very much the opposite of what she stood for.
@Mangoland I know she became the leader, and she snapped at that point, but her snap in the previous episode was stated more of a temporary anger snap rampage, rather than a full on permanant psychological change
I think we're all interested in Clan Wolverine now.
Comstar transitioning into a religious cult is entirely due to Blake's successor (and probable killer) Conrad Toyama, turning it into a cult and setting up ROM to make sure Comstar would never be challenged and keeping the inner sphere ignorant.
Clan Wolf were above all pragmatists. What Clan Wolverine did worked. They probably agreed with Khan Sarah McEvedy, but politically decided to side with the other clans rather than challenge Kerensky and wind up fighting a loosing battle against the rest of clan society.
As for what happened Elizabeth Hazen nobody is really sure. Could have been she lost it. She went through the destruction of her unit (the Royal Black Watch) years of savage guerilla fighting, had to leave one of her friends General Aaron DeChavilier to die fighting a rear guard action against the (damned!) Capellans. Things like all that does things to even the toughest warrior. She probably had severe PTSD and a lot of other things going through all that hell does to the human psyche.
By the way I'd point you to www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page which has all you could ever want to know on any subject in Battletech. Its a very in depth setting.
From there, if you're so inclined, you could start getting into the novels. I got into the setting via The Grey Death Legion's saga, starting with Decision at Thunder Rift. I also like By Blood Betrayed.
@@WastelandSeven Thank you for this, I will look into this more
to answer some of you questions
2. Comstar's mystification is usually credited to the second primus and Blake's successor Toyama, but was actually an invention of Blake himself who foresaw a new dark age and wanted to comstar to protect and safeguard as much as possible so he added some religious fervor to ensure people would take his goal to heart
3. Clan Wolf at its heart are hypocrites who will do anything to stay on top. Honestly I want to think it was due to founder Jerome Winston getting sick and tired of Nicky's bullshit and saw him devolving into something worse then Amaris. so he took matters into his own hands helping the Wolverines escape by leading the Clans on a wild goose chase for sakhan Frank Hollis. Then he arranged for Nicholas' death during the Absorption for Clan Widowmaker to justify purging one of the more dangerous clans and stop nicky's madness and leave himself to try and control the mess
A piece on clan wolverine geels like such a great topic to expand upon but do what feels fun BPL guys. I love all your work!
I will expound upon it in time
I want to see more of the Smoked Jaguar Khan, I wanna see him trying to balance his Clan upbringing with some of the sense Tex talks.
Not only did the Clans give Tyra Miraborg lines in the Remembrance, Clan Smoke Jaguar, Leo Showers' Clan, renamed one of their Aerospace-Fighter Carrier Dropship Classes, the 'Charybdis-Class', to the 'Miraborg-Class'.
Indeed, and a fun side history that is
Also, Miraborg is a Ghost Bear Bloodname in the ilclan era, founded by one of Tyra's relatives.
ah classic Tex "Clan Elementals: Expensive dates to boot *Snu Snu at your own peril gentlemen" EDIT: Tex Married an Elemental?! Explains so much.
I was thinking the same, is the clanner guy that pesters Tex his former Brother in Law?
Like why in the picture he commissioned he has a robotic arm LOL
Aww, how romantic. I don't think Clanners marry often...if two of them like each other, they just make out, and then it's on to the next person.
I wonder where she wanted to go for the honeymoon. Probably a war zone.
@@CharlesUrbanand that's how Tex wrote the Clannasutra
@@Solon_The_Lich That's painful just thinking about it.
A point to note: While designing load outs for your 'mechs instead of putting on another point of armor on your battlemech you can instead replace it with 3.188776 US gallons of whiskey, or if you are a whole ton down you can fit a whole 255.102041 US gallons of whiskey. Why put on more armor if you can instead have your Mechwarriors die drunk and happy.
I use whiskey as flamer fuel and it’s worked out pretty well so far...
Logistical issue of getting all those inner sphere troops in front of the clan troops is a understated issue. Basing this on the strain the wedding war took on Davison’s jumpshipnfleet.
That's actually a fair point!
Still waiting patiently for a full-length movie on the adventures of the Steiner Scout Squad.
Even though our Great Houses haven't had the...best of relations recently with the split and all...I salute a Courageous Lyran!
And also awed by your sheer stones of having married and bedded a female Elemental! You are my Hero!
Man, this is going to be the longest 39 hours. I'll have to rewatch Tukkayid and exodus to elementals part one just to get in the right mindset.
Already did that . . . and still have 24 hours left to go!!
@@liljenborg2517 boiiiii only 3 hours and 7 minutes left. Get with the program. Hope you can see the premiere!
Last week I rewatched all of the episodes. And then I saw the notification of this episode... It's perfect!
That Elemental in this video might become a bit disillusioned, realizing where the clans made very stupid mistakes, where they should have used more elite forces, done much more to solve logistical issues. Most importantly, they should have taught their warriors that some of the most disgusting tactics that the clans would consider to be war crimes are considered fair in the inner sphere. He might realize that genetically engineering entire castes for a purpose only on the battlefield is a beyond the pale crime because what will those lives do with themselves afterwards, when they grow too old to fight, and because there are questions about what why the clans still have trueborns that fail to become elementals or fighter pilots. The clans need to learn that it is not dishonorable to shoot a foe in the back, and it is hubris to believe that you cannot be shot in the back.
Still, he would also argue you also admitted that their rules could also have some merits too. That if the Inner Sphere had decided to resolved some of the battles of the succession wars in ways that you dismissed as slap fights, then there would not have been any Lost Tech. Rules of war don't have to be the exact same as with the clans, but the reason the Jihad of the Word of Blake was so horrible was because an insane cult thought that they were justified to commit ALL of the War Crimes.
Perhaps Mr. Elemental, while carrying civilians to an escape pod to safety, now realizes that the real tragedy is both sides in that war didn't really learn the most important things. The Inner Sphere went back to tearing through orphanages with assault mechs looking for beer; the Clans still think that making rules for war made them masters of the art of war.
When rules, reason, and restraint have all been removed, war becomes... unspeakable.
But to assume an enemy will respect your rules of engagement is, put bluntly, stupid or naive.
The Clans and Great* Houses tragically forget there is a another way. Wars and battles can be necessary, bot this version of the Milky Way is far too prone to spill blood before considering another option.
You do not necessarily need "more forces" to win against the Inner Sphere as the Clans ... all you need is the right battle strategy. An enemy that is small and fast can outwit a far bigger army ... as has been demonstrated by "terrorists/freedom fighters" using pickup trucks and small arms to win against tanks and far superior numbers. Libya (a long time ago), Afghanistan (during the Soviet occupation) and ISIS / Boko Haram / Taliban ... all you need is the correct TACTIC and since clanners have faster mechs and better stealth it stands to reason that they could be very efficient in such a kind of warfare.
I mean genetically engineering humans to do things better would stop them from retiring or living normal lives as well.
Late to the party, but respect for citing Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus as an analogue for Kerensky. The man who, unlike Gaius and Gaius Junior, unlike Sulla and Marian took up arms in defense of the state in civil conflict (against plebians but nobody's perfect) and then let go of that power. Also fitting in that Livy's depicition is shrouded in the framing of the then current Roman empire and friends with Augustus and Claudius. It seems like a throwaway line and perhaps it was for you, but there's great aptitude in tying the legacy of Kerensky to a man who was lauded as an impossibly brilliant hero and founder of this new, better people on the cusp of bringing their light to the world at the point of a sword of ancestors who lauded him while stepping over the very things he was lauded for.