BattleTech Lore & History - First Succession War: The Grind (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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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 Exhaustion and Desperation
2:34 An Unexpected Offer
4:51 Second Counteroffensive Begins
6:41 Second Counteroffensive Concludes
8:39 Stealths Finest Hour
11:16 Davion Counteroffensive Resumed
13:22 A New Foe
14:30 Death of Brownsville
17:03 Bolan Thumb Reclaimed
17:48 Battle for Chesterton
21:14 Assassination Plot
23:23 Targets of Opportunity
26:38 The Hidden Threat
28:24 Outro

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@Ironclockwork 7 ай бұрын

There's something ironic in regards to hearing about a piece of Capellan territory being attacked by a group named "Smithson's Chinese Bandits".

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I don't go into the history of the Merc units but Smithson's Bandits are distinctly anti-Capellan. Their name is a deliberate insult.

@vincegalila7211 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankoh so they're bandits that attack Chinese not bandits that are Chinese.

@jamesperkins191 7 ай бұрын

I think they're sucessors of some sort (or present themseves as such) to the real-life (and very British) "Chinese" Gordon who fought in the Taiping Rebellion and then got killed in the Mahdist Uprising in Sudan

@ebla83 7 ай бұрын

Well, I was going to chair an important summit on world peace, but that's just gonna have to wait now.😉

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

"What have I done?"

@ebla83 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank 🤗🤗🤗

@Reichtangle 7 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree, this is way more important than world peace.

@roguedexx938 7 ай бұрын

Peace is overrated let slip the dogs of BT WAR

@afitz34 7 ай бұрын

Peace sells, but who's buying?

@Tzilandi 7 ай бұрын

I'm going to miss the Bolan Thumb. It was always there to make things more interesting when you were looking at the map. Maybe the Combine can come up with a replacement in 300 years...

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I like to think of the Lyran Commonwealth in its entirety as House Davion's malignant growth in later years.

@georgestauber2636 7 ай бұрын

You definitely get the feeling they really hate Steiner in the lore. It gets really old.

@GrimRX 7 ай бұрын

@@georgestauber2636 "You definitely get the feeling they really hate Steiner in the lore. It gets really old." *Capellan Confederation enters the chat.*

@georgestauber2636 7 ай бұрын

Capellans don't count. Because Capellans@@GrimRX

@GrimRX 7 ай бұрын

@@georgestauber2636 Sounds like something Lyran Scum would say.

@Szoki86 7 ай бұрын

I am learning so much! Mostly to hate the Great Houses, but learning still.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

There's a lot of good reasons to hate them.

@AwankO 5 ай бұрын

They are a reflection of the Terran alliance and the chaos that was brought from Earth to space. Love that about Battletech those little details.

@gregdomenico1891 7 ай бұрын

Welcome back Sven. And oh boy, COMSTAR ROM has entered the chat. In the far future, there is only war.

@SulliMike23 7 ай бұрын

We're coming to the last years of the First Succession War. I look forward to the interwar years, especially the talk about the Minnesota Tribe.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how I'm going to cover them. I want to stick to the idea that these videos are set in 3025, so obviously I can't speculate on Clan Wolverine because that's beyond what anyone in the Inner Sphere would know. Will probably just suggest they are SLDF remnants/scouts and leave it at that.

@warauder4253 7 ай бұрын

I'd suggest presenting them exactly as they were in the original book: a side note unexplained mystery. Let folks who aren't in the know guess as players did for years, that was always a fun topic at the table.@@SvenVanDerPlank

@SulliMike23 7 ай бұрын

What he said.@@warauder4253 But may I also add that it was because of the Minnesota Tribe's attack on the Draconis Combine that led to Minoru Kurita to mobilize his forces to launch the Second Succession War.

@Zattack19 7 ай бұрын

I know it was in a previous episode but RIP Finmark Republic. You were the last hope for the former Rimworld periphery active for a considerable time after this in any national form. Sven in the future any ideas on going over Retrotech and where its most common/availability?

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I wasn't familiar with the term Retrotech. Primitive Technology isn't something that has come up in any of the sources I've read or eras I'm familiar with. I know if relates to the very earliest designs which I briefly touched on back in the Age of War but the TROs for those designs are Jihad era. I don't want to jump around too much on my end so unlikely to make a video on it at the moment. Technological regression is definitely an element of the 2ndSW so it's a discussion that'll likely come up at some point then.

@Zattack19 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Fair enough! I consider it a interesting subject as its always a second line development in the more regressed areas of the Sphere, almost a re-emergence of what once was but not committing to the high octane developement of Helm Memory technology, clantech or stuff going on into the Jihad. Makes for a interesting mix of old and new when considering both exist and likely fight against or with one another on the edges of the great houses

@R17inator 7 ай бұрын

00:58 haha early Timber Wolf cameo (I know the focus is supposed to be on the ammo and guns but I could not help but notice that it is the cropped version of a Clan image)

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I've used quite a few bits of art with the Clan 'Mechs (or insignia) carefully cropped out. I never cared about 3025 'Mechs appearing before their introduction when I was working on the earlier vids and amazingly, not one person has corrected me on it. But I feel like having a Mad Cat front and centre during a 1stSW vid would probably raise a few eyebrows.

@R17inator 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I think there is nothing wrong with that, I just find it amusing when I can recognize the original full image.

@robdead4550 7 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure to see your work Sir. Stay strong and allow yourself moments to pause and regroup, your only adversary is exhaustion.

@Seeric85 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your amazing work and take the time that you need to deliver the best quality that you can.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoy watching. Thank you very much for the donation, it's very kind of you.

@walshmeister88803 7 ай бұрын

I would love a mod or some Stellaris type game based on BattleTech to be made. I would love to play it like with the mods for HBS BattleTech, to where we could really feel what it was like during the Succession Wars. Its a shame nothing like it exists because I love maps and stuff. Aside from that, I love your stuff and keep up the good work and can't wait for future videos.

@TheKeyser94 7 ай бұрын

Paradox stopped working with third parties after they made Battletech, even if the game was very successful, for some reason, now I becoming really tired of Stellaris, is not like the original game, that I loved, the updates really destroyed the flow the game, space travel was fast and you really needed tactics to defeat your enemies, now is a slog of colonising planets and very slow ship movement.

@walshmeister88803 7 ай бұрын

@@TheKeyser94 Oh I understand how slow Stellaris has become, I've been there since the game came out. Its just that if I think about it, the games I played previously in those early days went by way to quickly. Stellaris is a game that I like getting lost in and can play for hours during a single game and not get tired of it until I see the clock and its like 4AM. I get your grievances on how much they changed the game but realistically speaking, Stellaris cannot stay the same or play the same way like it did back in 2016. It had to evolve in someway, and with a lot of these changes, they pretty much came from both fans of the game and Paradox themselves. We start asking for more and they sometimes do a good job at delivering....sometimes, but hey we always like a decent Paradox Game because they have a tendency to not disappoint us 100% of the time, witch is good for them and us. back to Battletech yea its a shame Paradox didn't exploit a potential cash cow because BattleTech isn't one of their main line games so on a business stand point it makes sense. However I really do hope a mod or a game of some kind where we have active participation in Space and Ground combat. Could be a cool Mech Commander 3 game for all we know, but I want a complex strategy game that allows me to fight in space and then grind for a few objectives on the ground to capitulate a world. Basically a mix of Wargame Red Dragon with any real time Space strategy game like Stellaris or Empire at War for that matter.

@jamesperkins191 7 ай бұрын

Maybe a mod for Birth Of The Federation or its licence-free remake Birth Of The Empires

@jamesperkins191 7 ай бұрын

Or an RTS Fading Suns game

@harvestblades 7 ай бұрын

Another amazing historical series! Than you Sven!

@JuergenGDB 6 ай бұрын

This is such a great series, have learned so much, even more so than when I played back in the early 90's I can't wait for more, hearing the History this way and in order is making much more sense for me. Well done, this has to be the most complete information ever and anyone doing BattleTech MechWarrior's should recruit you for content etc. Cheers!

@floriangallus7760 7 ай бұрын

Thanks again! This was entertaining as always. Will you do an overview of all the planets destroyed by use of WMDs, being cut of from vital supplies and similar and the total number of civilians killed by each? I'm still trying to grasp the scale of the whole conflict.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Yes in the final episode. We don't have exact dates for most of them so it would have been inaccurate to have only a handful change appearance on the maps during the course of the series, because then x4 that number would have suddenly changed in 2821.

@jmullner76 7 ай бұрын

To be fair to Paul Davion, I am sure he had someone whispering “never trust a Capellan.”

@usauk3605 7 ай бұрын

Not to worry, the wait was well worth it, as always. This series is so much fun, thank you for making it. Can’t wait for the next part, and I also hope that the FedSuns keep kicking Kurita where it hurts.

@greysonjones5429 7 ай бұрын

Another amazing video! Cant wait for the next one. Take any breaks you need!

@lexington476 7 ай бұрын

For the algorithm, for the Chancellor!

@ebla83 7 ай бұрын

Excellent work Sven! Thank you!

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

You're welcome, ebla.

@ebla83 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank cheers mate.

@brandonneal3813 7 ай бұрын

Keep up the great work sir!!

@wazup85 7 ай бұрын

great episode glad your back

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad to be back as well.

@azou5th 7 ай бұрын

Another amazing video thank you

@lukechaplin3263 7 ай бұрын

Love these.

@Nerd_Rage255 7 ай бұрын

Great work.

@sebastiang.5032 7 ай бұрын

Superb video!

@nikkiramey2148 7 ай бұрын

I really have enjoyed your work.

@Sierra026 7 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder what could have happened if Paul Davion accepted Ilsa's offer, and then go on to at least pause the fighting. Maybe Junjiro would do something stupid, like go for an assassination attempt. Either way, Paul basically Damned the whole Inner Sphere to continued destruction and stagnation. As the TVTropers would say: Nice Job Breaking It, "Hero".

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I mean Paul did pretty well for himself even without accepting a Liao ceasefire. I think his grandfather would have jumped at the offer if it had come earlier in the war but by this point Davion was on a roll.

@seanmac1793 7 ай бұрын

I mean, I doubt that house Liao would have put any real backing behind. I mean, they only moved for thier self interest during the Star League Civil War, they wouldn't have thrown real support behind Paul's much more dubious claim. It was a shrewd offer but there was nothing for Paul to gain by accepting it

@sepion85 7 ай бұрын

@@seanmac1793 I beg to differ. Yes, Paul would have given up the last of the Chesterton Worlds for the backing to an empty Title. However, he could have more or less secured his borders for years and concentrated his forces against the DC. Furthermore you can't forget that while Paul might have seen the Title as First Lord as an empty one, he didn't rescind his claim to it. You could argue that the claim to the Title of First Lord was just a convenient excuse to sate his blood lust and murder millions of people on both sides. In the end the civilians are worth nothing to the successor lords.

@ssjjshawn 7 ай бұрын

@@sepion85Execpt the Chesterton Worlds are also highly industrial with a large population. They aren't just random worlds to be given over without a thought, they are strategically highly important to the Federated Suns. You can say its bloodlust, or its an honest liberation of Terrorty during an Offense war vs the Cappellans. Both can be true even. Either way the Chesterton Worlds have been apart of the FedSuns since before the Cappellan Confederation existed. Its their worlds, for 400 years. You don't just give those up, those are YOUR worlds, YOUR people. Bloodlust or not, thats how it works. You don't just lay over for an invasion. And at this point, yes the Star League was completely dead and gone. Focusing vs the Draconian advance more wouldn't be possible as Davion - Liao Ceasefires are a joke to both sides, even into 3152, so no units wouldn't be moving across the sphere enmass.

@afitz34 7 ай бұрын

Great episode!

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Glad you thought so.

@wiaf8937 7 ай бұрын

Another one! *giddy* :3 Dank u well Sven

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Wiaf

@CRYGraves 7 ай бұрын

Fun fact, Poulsbo is the name of a town in the area that is said to become Unity City. In The Warrior Trilogy it's said that Bangor base is on that planet... Which is the name of the US Navy base that's right outside of the town.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I think Unity City is further south on the peninsula because they head north to Gorst to stop the RWA forces during the coup. Bangor Base might be where the 4th Amaris Dragoons are stationed though. It's where I put them during my video on the topic.

@CRYGraves 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankThat's what I get for listening to your video while working, I miss all the cool maps and stuff. I guess I always just assumed Bangor would be the location of either Fort Cameron or The Citadel, although that's mostly just because I hate the idea that they'd be located down where the army/AF is at JBLM in Tacoma.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Nah, the Tacoma base becomes Fort McKenna. They evacuate High Command there on the way to Mount Baker before it too gets overrun. The Citadel and Fort Cameron are one and the same, the former is built inside the latter, and I'm pretty sure they're not based on an existing facility unless I missed something. They use tunnels under Puget Sound to reach McKenna so I put it arbitrarily on the southern end of the peninsula.

@jamesperkins191 7 ай бұрын

I think one of the locations was chosen because it was the real-life FASA headquarters?

@MitchellWillingham 7 ай бұрын

Well done good sir!

@Archangelm127 7 ай бұрын

Can we eventually get a video on the history of the Free State of Van Zandt? 🤣

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I think there's only one person who can do that topic justice and it isn't me.

@Archangelm127 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank What I was thinking was to ask the BPL guys what they've come up with, and then ask the community for 'facts.' Mix the 'canon' with the best community input and read it completely straight. That would be a killer April 1st video. Just a thought.

@jasilvacook 7 ай бұрын

love it. i want more

@darkalman 7 ай бұрын

The rise of the Phone Companies crazy intelligence network

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Why wouldn't your ISP need a black ops group?

@darkalman 7 ай бұрын

i.imgur.com/mSeFrXs.png

@thomascraiker6449 7 ай бұрын

My body is ready!

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Gonna inject this BT lore straight into the bloodstream.

@lorefox201 7 ай бұрын

THE GRIND

@Deridus 7 ай бұрын

Always love me my BattleTech lore.

@yopiumtrader222 2 ай бұрын

The real issue with Ilsa Liao's offer is not that being First Lord was meaningless, it's that it meant everything for Paul Davion. His authority kf Duke of New Avalon rested completely on his status of First Lord. If that needed Liao recognition, then Paul's absolute political power was legally questionable. If Ilsa had offered this privately, Paul might have accepted and a Liao-Davion alliance might have actually occurred, especially since (iirc) theu were both unmarried at this point.

@UniversalChallenge4454 7 ай бұрын

i cannot wait for the second war

@marsar1775 7 ай бұрын

this is not the grind i meant when i said "stay on the grind" inner sphere! and you wonder why the periphery wants nothing to do with you

@MDFification1 7 ай бұрын

On that Carrion Lord Grindset, a Successor Male

@KillerOrca 7 ай бұрын

Where's the art at 1:20 from? That shit hits WAY harder than it should.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

It's the cover of one of the Rogue Academy books if I recall correctly. Art by Marco Mazzoni.

@UniversalChallenge4454 7 ай бұрын

that intro every time

@mrkuilko 2 ай бұрын

One question I have is what happens to all the dead worlds? Like at this point it seems like a hundred or so worlds are just gone forever. Is there ever any attempt to re-colonise?

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

New colonies are established going forwards, and while a handful of dead worlds are resettled, many more disappear. Humanity never again gets back to Star League highs of ~3000 inhabited systems. It's worth mentioning that several systems marked as black on these maps were prematurely taken off star charts by ComStar, and are actually still home to many thousands, sometimes even millions.

@natahx2787 7 ай бұрын

sven van the plank

@NewsOfTheInnerSphere 6 ай бұрын

13:54 - "Things escalated... when Maskirovka agents posing as a terrorist group..." Wait, you mean that the Maskirovka WASN'T a terrorist group to begin with?! 😜🤪

@lexington476 7 ай бұрын

Is this series all the succession wars or only the first.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

Presently this is only the First Succession War. Three episodes to go and then I'll be reupload a 5 hour compilation of the series. But then I'm going to go straight into the 2ndSW in the new year.

@RenegadeVile 7 ай бұрын

Only the first for now, but I'm sure Sven will make videos on the second, third and fourth as well. I also said that he would tackle what happened with Kerensky and the birth of the Clans, but only AFTER the Clan Invasion era gets covered first.

@EskoMorko_ 3 ай бұрын

Any idea which DCMS units attacked Caldrea and Dove?

@SvenVanDerPlank 3 ай бұрын

There is no information given in the sourcebook.

@EskoMorko_ 3 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankI really liked that part and it would have been cool to recreate the scene on the tabletop. I gotta improvise something 😊

@EskoMorko_ 3 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank By the way, thanks for all this top quality content. Learning the lore in depth has boosted my painting career and my overall hobby motivation a lot.

@SvenVanDerPlank 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Glad you're enjoying them.

@aazz9676 6 ай бұрын

Wonder how much is original FASA and not later ham fisted retcon.

@SvenVanDerPlank 6 ай бұрын

How much of this video?

@BigRed40TECH 7 ай бұрын

Truly, Blake was wise, and saw the future of mankind. Comstar was the only way to save mankind. If only the rest of the Inner Sphere had accepted Blake's truth sooner, and hadn't been forced into acts of barbarity for so long. We await his avenging disciples to this day, to free us all from the misery and tyranny of the Succesor Lords, and of the abominations from beyond. Praise Blake.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

May his blessed light shine upon us all. Wait a minute, where's that light coming from? OH MY GOD! AH-

@BigRed40TECH 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank His light of his wisdom warms all true believers. And doubters and fakes, will burn in the light of his WRATH!

@oriffel 7 ай бұрын

mothballed :( bye bye warships for a while.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

It wasn't until I started working on Ep.12 that I realised it's been ages since we mentioned WarShips. They're already virtually extinct.

@jamesperkins191 7 ай бұрын

They pretty much only existed to commit atrocities

@JC-nl9yq 7 ай бұрын

Nice work. I gotta ask, I can’t put a finger on your accent…. Are you Irish?

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I'm British. Lived in Scotland my whole life.

@JC-nl9yq 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank that makes total sense lol. I sensed a Scottish tinge in your voice. I’m from Texas, I lived in the southeastern US for half my life but this is my home. I love the southern hospitality and the freedom to conceal/open carry without a license.

@ZontarDow 7 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of the BattleTech 2018 campaign backstory, it comes off as though it was originally set on the opposite side of the Inner Sphere with a last minute change of putting it where it is and the Combine swapped with the Taurians and Rasalhauge swapped with Canopus with no regard for the fact that neither faction's actions made sense. I genuinely believe that last minute swap hypothesis because there's no level of understanding of those factions where that makes any sense.

@SvenVanDerPlank 7 ай бұрын

I've not played the game so can't really comment but literally in the next episode in this series the two are going to go to war with each other over the territories within the Aurigan Reach. They did learn that was an extremely stupid thing to do but another 200 years have passed since then, plenty of time to forget those lessons.

@ZontarDow 7 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank it's less that they did and more the reason behind it. My hypothesis stems from the fact it makes sense as motivation for the Combine and Rasalhauge coupled with the location making their absence logical due to the Clans steamrolling them being a good exploration as to why. Plus that region is pretty empty to begin with.