BattleTech Lore & History - First Succession War: Armageddon Comes (MechWarrior Lore)

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#battletech #lore #mechwarrior BattleTech Lore & History is a series by Sven van der Plank that covers the history of the #innersphere and Periphery within the #battletech universe. Presented as a #documentary from the year 3025, the videos cover in detail major events such as the Age of War, founding of the #starleague, #reunificationwar, the Golden Age, #starleague Civil War and the four #successionwar.
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Galaxy Map created from the Sarna Unified Cartography Kit (SUCKit) provided by Volt, colour added by Sven van der Plank.
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Sourcebooks Referenced:
House Davion: Federated Suns (1623)
House Kurita: Draconis Combine (1620)
House Liao: Capellan Confederation (1624)
House Marik: Free Worlds League (1622)
House Steiner: Lyran Commonwealth (1621)
The Periphery (1629)
The Star League (1630)
ComStar (1655)
Handbook: House Davion (35024)
Handbook: House Kurita (35205)
Handbook: House Liao (35204)
Handbook: House Marik (35019)
Handbook: House Steiner (35001)
Handbook: Major Periphery (35203)
Era Report: 2750 (35222)
Historical: Reunification War (35231)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.I (35232)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.II (35233)
Historical: Operation Klondike (35230)
Historical: First Succession War (35235)
Historical: Second Succession War (35236)
Field Manual: SLDF (35251)
Field Report 2765: AFFS (35FR010)
Field Report 2765: CCAF (35FR008)
Field Report 2765: DCMS (35FR009)
Field Report 2765: FWLM (35FR011)
Field Report 2765: LCAF (35FR012)
Field Report 2765: Periphery (35FR013)
Jihad Hot Spots: Terra (35205)
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0:00 One Minute to Midnight
2:36 Preparing for Invasion
3:58 A Path to Sarna
7:42 "The Eagle"
9:04 Battle for Skondia
11:22 Last Stand for New Dallas
12:31 Reprisal Raids
16:09 Missed Warnings
17:29 The Great Wave
22:39 Marik Side Shows
24:39 Liao Strikes Back
28:44 Outro

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@sanguiniusonvacation1803 10 ай бұрын

The idea that still active drone warships could still be drifting in debris fields is a terrifying idea.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I added that speculation myself. The sourcebook presents no answers other than the entire WarShip squadron vanished in the debris field of the much larger Star League Civil War battle.

@sanguiniusonvacation1803 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankI can totally see a few of those monsters lurking about, wounded but not dead, in some isolated dead systems wreckage field, just waiting for a jumpship

@Plaprad 10 ай бұрын

I remember reading about this in the sourcebook. My buddy, who was far more read into it than me, said he was assuming a young Comstar Navy. I forgot all his reasoning for it, but i remember it made some sense at the time.

@theatagamer90 10 ай бұрын

@@Plaprad Young ComStar Navy makes sense. The planet isn't that far from Sol/Terra and ComStar likely wouldn't want any of the Successor States to acquire any way to really repair their naval assets (although that might be more of a 2nd Succession War thing, hiding tech away and what not).

@terrinils3165 10 ай бұрын

I imagine a drone WarShip would look like any other wreck in the debris field. Scarred and hulled through. Just drifting silently. Till it isn't.

@HawkTheRed 10 ай бұрын

*everyone gansta until the Radioactive Debris Field starts speaking Binary*

@bogdanv1353 10 ай бұрын

Ai or Comstar dont know sure with i prefer

@gryphon3241 10 ай бұрын

"238 years later, we're still waiting" Literal goosebumps yo, like in a wave over my whole body. I "know" the level of carnage from the 1st war, at least at a passing level from reading through various sources over time, and that probably just contributed to the feeling 😬

@justinhammer3196 10 ай бұрын

Didn't the herpy derpy Wolf Empire finally end the wars? Or was the Capellan Confederation just waiting a few centuries for its chance to shine?

@theatagamer90 10 ай бұрын

@@justinhammer3196 Oh the Wolf Empire hasn't ended anything yet. They've taken Terra but left themselves more than a little exposed in the other territories. The wars continue. The Cappellans will be having their own problems shortly with the Andurien/MoC alliances getting shaky, along with Davion figuring out the leader debacle.

@jasonashman9534 10 ай бұрын

I think its fair to say that Sven has placed himself up there with Tex and a few other in terms of "must see" fan-made Battletech content. The "Military Documentary" style might not be everyone's preferred way of intaking information (As a lover of The History Channel" before it became about aliens and lost gold, I love it) but it's become the best summarization of 40 years of Battletech lore in existence, and it is far superior to the sourcebooks, which is a rare feat indeed. Shut up and give Sven your money!😅

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the very high praise.

@dashiellgillingham4579 10 ай бұрын

One thing that attracted me to this setting was that grim things kept happening, and it told the story of those places, but humanity still acted like itself. With all its goals of general benefit and cooperation above and beyond any other thing that has ever lived. Sidewalks are too selfless to ever evolve. A place where I could read millions being gun down by murderous states and their goons, and still hear about the healthcare system that allowed humans to heal from it.

@MM22966 10 ай бұрын

"...Something lurking in the radioactive debris field..." Chills.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Here we go! We're at one minute to midnight. The Successor Lords are about to unleash Armageddon on the Inner Sphere. There's no going back after this.

@dilanbrinkley3587 10 ай бұрын

Once the entire series is complete, we're getting some kind of obscenely long, overly informative lore orgy omnibus....right? Or at least a Playlist? lol

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

It's already in a playlist. I'm not planning on doing another series longer than the Star League one. Think this one will come in around 4-5 hours.

@dilanbrinkley3587 10 ай бұрын

@SvenVanDerPlank Hey, can't blame a guy for wanting a 12 hour retelling of the entire history of Battletech....LOL

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

@@dilanbrinkley3587 12 hours? You think so small 😉 Add a zero.

@dilanbrinkley3587 10 ай бұрын

@SvenVanDerPlank Gotta start small....and yeah. Considering it would cover from the 1980's to today...that's a metric ton of information. I'd expect a FULL history of Battletech, from the Mackie on, to be almost a full college semester. A man can dream, can't he? LOL

@JPG.01 10 ай бұрын

Ah yes... Warship centric warfare until we ran out of warships. I don't even want to imagine how it must have been for the general public to know that at any time, at any point they could die instantly because somebody hundreds of lightyears away decided so... The fear that must have permeated the air on any and all planets must have been palpable. Also thank you very much for making these. I'm still new to battletech, barely have any books and around a regiment of miniatures. Learning more about the "ancient history" before the eras that I tend to play in, is a treat and then some.

@Arnesio 10 ай бұрын

The more I learn about him the more Kenyon Marik seems like the biggest asshole in the Inner Sphere at the moment, and given that he's competing with both the Liao and Kuritans for the title, that's an achievement.

@vp21ct 10 ай бұрын

Cripes. I WANT to see a fricken Grand Strategy game made out of this.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're definitely not alone. People seem to love the tracking of BT campaigns and changes on the map, so there's definitely a market if some dev team or modder wants to take on a big project.

@DrendarMorevo 10 ай бұрын

The easiest thing to mod would be Star Wars Empire at War. Most other RTS games either focus on space, the ground, or map control.

@blackspade1 10 ай бұрын

Like one of the old Avalon Hill games.

@jasonfarley9025 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely love this project. This is fantastic. As an old school Battletech gamer this is all familiar ground, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable! Oh, and half an hour per year for the whole First Succession War sounds GREAT to me!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you're enjoying it. Mercifully there isn't 30 minutes of material to talk about each year even if I wanted to, otherwise we'd be here 18+ hours. Better to spend that time on covering future events as well.

@erickelly1323 10 ай бұрын

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies." -Napoleon Bonaparte. Hearing from the initial assaults from the system lords I can tell that there was too much chaos for anyone to control for victory.

@kelanelam2638 10 ай бұрын

"The response to these videos have been pretty spectacular." That's because all of your videos have been consistently spectacular.

@samanthamccormick1436 10 ай бұрын

I said this in chat, but it's damning it took so many atrocities for the States to bring back the Ares Conventions. I'd be horrified if my government was so cavalier.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

With interstellar communications still so limited after the Civil War and the Intelligence Agencies working overtime, most people remain blissfully unaware of how bad things are at the front for a while. Slowly, rumours of dead planets start to filter back.

@floriangallus7760 10 ай бұрын

Worked 80 hours through the last 7 days and your video helped me cool down after a strenuous shift yesterday and to make it through the last one today. As much as I appreciate your Star league Civil war stuff, for the great work it is, I like this series even better, like your earlier videos, without the guest speakers and a maybe a bit drier more homogenous naration if that makes sense. Still great stuff as always. Comments for the comment god. Keep on doing Blake's work.

@LeRoux027 10 ай бұрын

Id still be happy if youd take 30min per year for every succession wars. Keep up the great content.

@gregbird5684 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your history lecture, Professor 😊👏👏👏👏👏

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Tune in next week. There's a test at the end of this series.

@cm3291 10 ай бұрын

Legit hyped for this, 3025 is my favorite era to play and this is the table setting.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I've commented on it before but the 1st & 2nd Succession Wars are essential to understanding how things ended up the way they are in 3025, but once humanity manages to arrest it's technological decline, they actually become significantly less important then they really should be. The setting moves on to a point where the origins and influences are either much older or much more recent, and the specifics of the early Succession Wars hardly matter beyond "it was so bad, we all vowed never to use nukes again."

@TheThinKing23 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank that makes me curious - do you think the Helm Core rediscovery arc and subsequent tech advancement made BattleTech a less interesting setting?

@miked7207 10 ай бұрын

By far the most underappreciated, under shared Battletech channel on KZfaq.

@Ironclockwork 10 ай бұрын

First the Star League's fall and now we are setting foot into the Succession Wars. Here's to you, Sven, and here's hoping for more to come in the future. For me, the devastation of New Dallas is a prime example of the utter tone of "shitshow" that the First Succession War carried from start to finish. Extremely high losses of life due to militaries inclined to throw everything including the kitchen sink at problems all in the name of victory, regardless if the problem warranted a response of that magnitude or not.

@JC-nl9yq 10 ай бұрын

This episode was epic. It almost highlights the ruthlessness of humanity when it comes to achieving the upper hand in a strategic sense. Great job breaking down the lore. I look forward to next Saturday.

@oliverlacota3112 10 ай бұрын

Man, that was fantastic. I assume this is something like a "part 1" though, right? 'Cause there's no way you can talk about the First Succession War without mentioning the Kentares Massacre =D

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is part 4 in the series and it only covers the first year of fighting. Another ten episodes to come. I think Kentares is around part 7 or 8.

@josephneider7332 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankI’ve played off and on pen and paper. Unpainted grey mechs and cardboard triangles. Hand painted favorites and others. Read one series or another non sequentially from time to time. Skimmed tech manuals and felt like I understood what was going on. I was wrong. I appreciate your work as well as BPL and others. Absolute dedication of love of the genre.

@basilforth 10 ай бұрын

The production quality and research behind these videos is spectacular. Thank you. I also have to say that you have some amazing material to work with. The intricacy and groundedness of the lore during this era are top notch. No one is writing anything of this depth and maturity these days.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I agree with you, the BT history sourcebooks are pretty fantastic.

@ArawnNox 10 ай бұрын

Keep it up man, I'm loving this. Despite being a long time fan of BT I never dug deeply in to the Succession Wars so this is all great new territory for me.

@K3flyn 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for doing these and making them like 30 mins (easily digestible bites of history). Keep up the great work!

@SignificantOwl 10 ай бұрын

This was excellent. Looking forward to more.

@Valkanna.Nublet 10 ай бұрын

So good, I'm waiting impatiently for the next episode

@G11354 10 ай бұрын

Excellent work!!! Greatly appreciate these videos, very entertaining.

@verysilentmouse 10 ай бұрын

Love your work. Still waiting was an awesome ending. Those maps are great.

@corranhuss 10 ай бұрын

Hearing about the total devastation of planets, making them unfit for use of both sides is just mindboggeling. The civil war devastated the infrastructure and the 1st Succession War seems to be a big nail in the coffin.

@kamikazebadger2686 10 ай бұрын

Great work. I’m impressed with how thoroughly you’re delving into the lore. Absolutely worth the sub.

@bluejay5234 10 ай бұрын

These are amazing. I can only imagine the amount of work involved.

@DarthGarak 10 ай бұрын

So, so happy to listen to this. It's really awesome.

@Echo1608. 10 ай бұрын

Another wonderful video!

@stephenrickman4300 10 ай бұрын

Great video Sven. Looking forward to the next one. Oh man Kintares!

@davidwright1577 10 ай бұрын

Wow i'm caught up after marathoning all your BT lore vids

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Just in time for disaster next time out. Must have been quite some marathon as I think we have around 16.5 hours of history in the playlist now.

@rplpalacio1920 7 ай бұрын

I loved it keep making more

@Wrangler-fp4ei 10 ай бұрын

Sorry to late to mention this, this has been fantastic video series. You're attention detail is amazing.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Wrangler, I'm pleased you're still enjoying the series.

@greysonjones5429 10 ай бұрын

Another great video, cant waut for nexy week!

@LmC_Gh0STjt 10 ай бұрын

wow can't wait !! so hype

@usauk3605 10 ай бұрын

You make awesome videos, the best Battletech content on KZfaq in my humble opinion. And I mean, if you wanted to go through the Succession Wars year by year, I wouldn’t complain. 😄

@NovembreBleus 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliantly done.

@SvenVanDerPlank 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you think so.

@jasilvacook 10 ай бұрын

AWESOME

@spartanalex9006 10 ай бұрын

Had a crappy shift at work, but at least your videos always bring a silver lining to my Saturdays.

@tulsatrash 10 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the next year.

@reecedignan8365 10 ай бұрын

Wonderfully done as usual mate, especially with a good coverage of all nations in the first year, but as we known, the first year was tame compared to what we’re about to see, and *spoilers* the fact so many units surprisingly survived this war (tho Alamogordo all under 40% strength), you can already see just how brutal the second will get

@ebla83 10 ай бұрын

I'm just gonna like this ahead of time.👍

@cm3291 10 ай бұрын

Might as well, it’s inevitable

@Szoki86 10 ай бұрын

I'm pausing BG3 for this.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

There is no higher praise!

@takumicrary4396 10 ай бұрын

Lovin it

@blackspade1 10 ай бұрын

Amazing.

@stephenknizek2651 10 ай бұрын

Imagine how much Battletech history might have changed if Steiner had only chosen not to sign the Commonwealth-area HPGs over to Blake.

@Beargeek616 10 ай бұрын

Man I wish you could do this for the entire history of Battletech to the current Post Dark Age Era....

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

One day I might get there. I would really like to do the Jihad and Dark Age so those folks who don't want to invest the time into that period can jump ahead to the ilClan and still understand what's what.

@edwinhoward840 9 ай бұрын

Great work as always, but I did catch a small text error at 8:33 where you list the Lyran force as the CCAF, unless there’s an acronym I’m not aware of.

@TheGiggityG 10 ай бұрын

Can’t wait for the movie in imax.

@mikeumm 10 ай бұрын

Feed me more lore! It sustains me.

@lexington476 10 ай бұрын

This is going fantastic. I like the history of the Succession Wars more than the star league

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Well I hope you enjoy the series. It's gonna be a major undertaking to cover the entire history of the Succession Wars but fingers crossed we'll make it through.

@harvestblades 10 ай бұрын

Pardon my French, but the First Succession War was brutal insanity. Figting along multiple massive fronts, with multiple enemies there is no way any one house could have won. We see peace only came through mutual attrition as all sides were ground down to shadows of their initial strength.

@devalk_ 10 ай бұрын

One thing that I enjoy about BattleTech lore channels is the commonality of telling it from a setting perspective. And the range of times as well, You in the 3020s Tex somewhere post Clan invasion but likely pre Jihad And so on It really adds to the experience

@fernandozavaletabustos205 9 ай бұрын

"Armageddon Comes": Or when Sh*t really hit the fan!

@Suodemon 10 ай бұрын

For the Algorithm and the Taurian Concordat!

@doorcf 10 ай бұрын

and so the nuke tossing begins. let see who throws the most!

@justinhammer3196 10 ай бұрын

The new ComStar will arise from an A.I. born from a derelict drone ship accidentally reactivated by a backup code placed in the HPG network by Conrad Toyama. What? It's a better storyline than the Dark Ages.

@thorshammer8033 5 ай бұрын

Ah Kerensky, the salty peanut. If only he had have kicked the crap out of the Combine on his way out the door .....

@seanbumstead1250 10 ай бұрын

They got within 1 jump of new Avalon

@zapdragon23 10 ай бұрын

DCMS seems to have developed blitzkreig tactics for space, with all the problems with liquidating pockets they come with

@azuaraikrezeul1677 10 ай бұрын

they had a lot russian immigrants in the dcms i would say this was deep battle.

@zapdragon23 10 ай бұрын

@@azuaraikrezeul1677 I'd say more blitzkreig what with the spearhead forces isolating the enemy and moving on. it doesn't really have the exploitation force that deep battle calls for. that said it is designed with multiple breakthroughs, which is very deep battle.

@fredlandry6170 10 ай бұрын

The storm breaks.

@datsfantastic 10 ай бұрын

What's the name of the song you use on the pre-show?

@heliveruscalion9124 10 ай бұрын

the pre-show is a youtube live specific thing i think, so you'd have to see what youtube uses, though i could be wrong about that

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Here is a link to an upload someone has made: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irhiktGLv5O4YIU.html - Don't think it is available officially anywhere on the platform unless you make it your countdown timer.

@jamesthomas4295 10 ай бұрын

With all the amount of space exploration sci-fi stuff that we (humans) create; I hope we don't start to kill off ourselves once we move beyond earth. I am 98.7 % percent sure we will but one can dream right?!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I think our best bet is to get there before we do here, lol

@jamesthomas4295 10 ай бұрын

We better figure it out. We can't stay a single planet species forever. All it takes is one bad event. Ask the dinosaurs about that.

@JerryMnemonic 9 ай бұрын

Where is the art at 6:34 from?

@SvenVanDerPlank 9 ай бұрын

I do not recall, sorry. It's not modern but it's not from the 80s/90s either. I would wager I found it in the 25 Years of BattleTech artbook.

@MM22966 10 ай бұрын

Always amazing to me that not a single one of these idiots thought to get at least a nonaggression pact with one of their neighbors signed so they could concentrate on just ONE border. I know the reasons, both plot and canon, but it seems like it would be the thing to do before kickoff.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

There is an attempt at a nonaggression pact next year, and later in the war one Successor Lord offers to recognise another as First Lord, but yeah, I get your frustration.

@theatagamer90 10 ай бұрын

Thing is, everyone wants to be THE power. Signing any pact means you aren't, and you already know your neighbor wants the same thing. So who's to say any pact you sign will even be payed attention to? Same ideas that made it easy for ComStar to manipulate events.

@MM22966 10 ай бұрын

@@theatagamer90 Yeah. I made a quick game in my head, and only maybe Steiner really had the attitude/lack of grievance to carry it off...and even that was weak bet.

@overlord2304 10 ай бұрын

The Inner Sphere has reapt what they had sown back in 2577. Screw em all.

@mathewkelly9968 10 ай бұрын

Never been a FWL fan becoming less so . Long live the Confederation

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

prediction before the video starts: the column of small stick figures where each figure is a milion dead will keep going up...

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

nailed it

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

And they aren't going to stop for months yet.

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank that's how we like it

@BreadTherian666 10 ай бұрын

Comment for the comment god

@tzeentchlordoffates9268 10 ай бұрын

Average human disagreement

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

an hundred billion dead, uncountable warcrimes, hundreds of depopulated planets, a ravaged cultural economic and technological base and some minor border adjustments later... it got worse.