BattleTech Lore & History - Periphery Sideshows: The March Worlds (MechWarrior Lore)

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Handbook: House Marik (35019)
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Handbook: Major Periphery (35203)
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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)
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0:00 Intendancy of New New Spain
1:54 Illyrian Palatinate
3:18 Lothian League
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10:22 Marian Hegemony

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@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Second instalment in the periphery mini-series. I'm hoping to record the third chapter on the Coreward Bandit Kingdoms tomorrow, and with luck have it release later this week.

@lexington476 Ай бұрын

...and on a Tuesday 🙂. The 'North End' Bandit Kingdoms are the best.

@BoisegangGaming Ай бұрын

Cowboy Pirate: "Howdy, Parrrtner"

@riptors9777 Ай бұрын

The battletech universe pre memory core rediscovery is such a depressing and bleak setting... literally everything turned to hell in a handbasket. And even those who set out to find their freedom and independance turn out to be nothing but petty tyrants and criminals.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

It really was humanity at its lowest point. Full on societal collapse in a lot of places. I know some folks wish the Helm Memory Core had never come along because it changed the trajectory of the story, but honestly, the only thing that could have come from the original setting is anarchy, and it wasn't all that far off in 3025.

@riptors9777 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I agree. I actually prefer the reintroduction of technology into the setting, cause there cant be an unlimited degradation of technology. Afterall this isnt the grimdark future of 40k XD (Also i find the mech selection of 3025 a tad... limiting) That being said the great thing about battletech as a setting is that you can play in all these different time periods and pick and choose your favourite period. Thats one more thing that sets Battletech apart from other systems/settings. Dont like clans? Well you can play 3025. Dont like 3025 and want some more toys on the field? How about the Commonwealth civil war? You want a mix? Play in the periphery where old meets new. Want to relive the last days of the starleague? Also possible. Want to commit warcrimes on a global scale? The succession wars got you covered XD

@chuckbuck5002 Ай бұрын

@@riptors9777I agree wholeheartedly. While I’m not happy with the trajectory of the Ilclan era. At least you can play any era. 40k can’t change because it will always have to be about a few heroes who are doing their best to stave of the unstoppable decline. One of the first things that pushed me away from the setting was that they brought back Guilliman. While it was cool to see a primarch coming back. Bringing back even more takes away from what made the Primarchs and emperor special. They added a sense of loss to the Imperiums history. That of an empire who had all of its heroes and leaders taken from it. All the great men of the past were gone. Humanity has to fight against the darkness alone.

@riptors9777 Ай бұрын

@@chuckbuck5002 Yes, it feels a bit like heating the leftovers from yesterday cause you have no idea what to cook for dinner today with 40k. Not to mention that the rule system has fundamental changes every couple of years with entire troop choices being erased and most basic game mechanics changing around. Theres like what? 10 editions of 40k out? All of them incompatible with each other. Meanwhile battletech had the same basic rules since the 80s and its narrative allways focuses on the nations instead of singular people. Yes Prince Davion is a super important person but just because hes leading an army doesnt mean that the Federated suns are sweeping the galaxy of its rivals. Even destroying a single clan took the entirety of the inner sphere to work together, wich made this feat all the more exceptional.

@lorefox201 Ай бұрын

the human condition

@SulliMike23 Ай бұрын

The Periphery realms are where some of the more interesting individuals live.

@robdead4550 4 күн бұрын

I love these little tales of how those not involved in the grind of the Great Houses lived. Were I in this time I wouldn't seek fame or glory on the battlefield, I'd want a place to call my own where I could sit with my family atop a wind-swept mountainside and look out to see the land I could farm or mine or fish and tame; and know that there were few others on that world, and none who would want to bother us.

@wraith7989 Ай бұрын

The MoC waited 15 years to launch an ambush. God, I love that nation!

@mkang8782 Ай бұрын

Ah, the Trinity Worlds, home of Camacho's Caballeros. It's definitely interesting to hear the origin stories of these periphery states.

@Deathman271 Ай бұрын

Bro you're a champ for delving this hard into the lore to provide us an understanding of what has happened. Thank you for uploading these vids, and keep up the good work. Can't wait for the 3rd Succession War when you get to it

@floriangallus7760 Ай бұрын

Very nice! I like those small periphery regions with more change and fluctuation than the big successor states. They seem more realistic and they give more perspective on the actual scale of the the setting. When reading the 'main storyline' books or otherwise dealing with the bigger affairs of the inner sphere though the numbers mentioned are high, they often still feel small. But having a realm like the Marian Hegemony, that already seems big and imposing from the perspective of someone living there or adjacent to it (I mean it's multiple Star Systems) with states like the Magistracy or the Taurians feeling like those old mighty empires already in comparison, it gives a much better understanding of how huge the successor states are or how incredibly powerful the star league was. I'm tempted to start a Mechwarrior:Destiny game with only charcaters from the March worlds, who then get to experience the Inner Sphere for the first time...as soon as I get another Pen&Paper group together that is...😅

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

I'm 100% with you. When you look at any of these microstates in detail and realise how imposing they are to nearby independents, and yet at the same time they're barely a minor nuisance to even the larger periphery nations, you realise just how monolithic the Successor States. I quite like the idea of introducing people to the world of BattleTech from the perspective of someone who lives in these backwaters, dealing with challenges limited to just their homeworld, and then them gradually learning just how far into the distance mankind goes.

@floriangallus7760 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankThat's also one thing that makes HBS BT's atmosphere so great in my opinion. Because it does exactly that. There was one mission in particular that sent shivers down my spine. Won't spoil anything. You'll know when you get there.

@Bluehairedgirl89 Ай бұрын

Once again, thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. It’s deeply appreciated and I’m so happy to see even these fairly short breakdowns of the Periphery states. It’s so cool seeing all the smaller states that you find out their with their own weird histories, backgrounds, and government types. I hope that in the future Battletech will expand the number of them and bring back some of the ones that are gone now.

@lexington476 Ай бұрын

same.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

You're welcome. There's definitely a lot of empty space around the Inner Sphere that is ripe for new cultures (and exploring historical ones transported into space). I would like to see a gradual encapsulation of the Inner Sphere by new minor periphery states.

@Bluehairedgirl89 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank same, I’m getting a bit tired of the whole focus always being on the great houses and the clans. I love the Battletech universe and I want to see it grow and expand but the writers seem more focused on making it contract with the war of reaving wiping out almost half of the homeworld clans and then having basically every periphery state in the north get wiped out by clans. I thought the Hanseatic League, the Nueva Castle, Umayyad Caliphate were such cool ideas but the writers couldn’t be bothered to think of anything cool to do with them so they got wiped out to make the clans seem even more scary. Sorry about that rant and dragging the conversation away from the topic.

@BK2207 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I do share that feeling as well. In my view, another Exodus period would be quite interesting to see - especially with the widespread conflicts during the fall of the Republic and IlClan era around the core Terran area of the Inner Sphere.

@jasonfarley9025 Ай бұрын

I absolutely love this new series of mini episodes Fantastic

@EricDKaufman Ай бұрын

We really need a primer of Van Zandt, and why it got scrubbed off the star charts by ComStar out of pure spite.

@EskoMorko_ Ай бұрын

Ooh this is cool. I'm currently focusing on Periphery states/microstates and just finished painting House McIntyre Guards and Taurians

@chrisgibson6061 Ай бұрын

I didn't expect this on a Tuesday, but ty very much

@wandilismus8726 Ай бұрын

The home of Carmacho's Caballeros,the Trinity Worlds!

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

1:20 Cowboy pirates! Space bandidos!!!

@dubuyajay9964 Ай бұрын

Cosmic Banditos. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLN5qbKV0MfLoXU.htmlsi=_q7k_4yQCuNr1rmk

@robin6469 Ай бұрын

Love the spotlight on these periphery nations! I know there may not be enough info for a full vidoe on it, but I'd love to see the Coreward Confederacy appear in a future installation!

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Maybe, but that's deep periphery. I'm thinking at this point I might do a mini-series on more distant colonies as a lead into the Clan Invasion after I've covered all the Succession Wars conflicts, so it may get included in one of the chapters around then.

@BK2207 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank That is a good idea - since Comstar Explorer Corps (with the assistance of House Kurita) did allow for the Deep Periphery to be more known on their search for the Clan Homeworlds. And the secular Comstar did share more of that knowledge to the public by then.

@robin6469 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank that would be really cool! I like the idea of slowly zooming out from the Inner Sphere until we get to the Clan Homeworlds and Operation Revival

@thecommuterzombie Ай бұрын

It's always interesting to step out to the Periphery - there's so much fertile ground for smaller campaign ideas.

@devlincognito5005 Ай бұрын

More of these please!

@bthsr7113 Ай бұрын

Spoilers for later eras The Marian Hegemony persists as of 3151, and aside from fighting the WoB allied Circinus Federation, continues to be a net negative to the region. They do have some cool domestic battle armor designs though.

@ebla83 Ай бұрын

Excellent work Sven. I appreciate you highlighting periphery powers!

@chriswoodend2036 Ай бұрын

It is incredibly rare for someone to turn out information on Battletech that I'm not at least moderately familiar with. Somehow I completely missed New New Spain for the last 30 years. Cheers for adding to my lore pool.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

It's never featured in any of the sourcebooks I've read. It's very early history and anything pre-Age of War might as well never have existed by how rarely it makes it into the sourcebooks. Victor Milán introduced it in his novels as the region/culture some of his characters descend from. You see an occasional reference to the Trinity Worlds pop up in other places.

@wazup85 Ай бұрын

always glad to learn about things in battle tech i had no idea about

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@roberterixson2061 Ай бұрын

Battle Tech really needs to adjust the populations of worlds. 2 million isn't a "capital world" its the state of Idaho.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Greenland has been inhabited for thousands of years, but the population is in the tens of thousands. If your colonies are on fringe ice worlds, and the only people going there are refugees in small groups numbering a hundred or so, how much larger would you expect the population to have grown in a couple centuries? Two million seems perfectly reasonable for a microstate capital to me.

@roberterixson2061 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Greenland has never governed anything beyond it's own borders. It would be like moving the pollution of Montana moving to Mars and removing every other person from Earth except Idaho and expecting Idaho to have the ability to govern Earth, icy or otherwise, and have the time and capability to take care of their Montana colony.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Greenland was a poor example, I just chose it because of it's icy climate. I get what you're saying, but you're missing the reality of where those two million are. It's not two million spread across the entire planet, hundred square miles per person, it's one maybe two major cities in a narrow equatorial belt. You've got small countries across Earth with a population under two million who can absolutely govern themselves. Lothario likewise only needs to administrate a country sized area, and to hell with the rest of the frozen wilderness. The League doesn't worry about governing that territory in the same way Earth doesn't worry about Antarctica; there's nobody there. You don't need to exert control over it. They can just as easily rely on governors/visceroys/whatever as local heads on their other worlds.

@roberterixson2061 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I think your choice of Greenland Is a good example, It's capable of sustaining a relatively small population concentrated in a small area with a vast inhospitable icy wilderness. It's not just this one example that leaves me to believe BattleTech needs to rethink its populations. Look a the casualty figures for the various wars. Wars between major galactic spanning industrial powers. Wars where not just city's, but whole worlds are glassed, in areas that should be some of the most densely populated areas of space. Wars that last decades and are so devastating it sets humanity back hundreds of years. The more BattleTech throws out numbers the emptier it's universe feels.

@Nerd_Rage255 Ай бұрын

As always great work.

@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey Ай бұрын

Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

@jmullner76 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this.

@guiltygearalonecompl Ай бұрын

Periphery bound and down

@inspiredwon2670 Ай бұрын

Excellent! More of this

@ftako9028 Ай бұрын

Quality work as always. Thank you for your dedication and passion for this great universe.

@takumicrary4396 Ай бұрын

Another banger video

@DeamonMaim Ай бұрын

Ah the Marian Hegemony or the absolutely best faction in the game 3025 and onward!

@azou5th Ай бұрын

Thank you for the Tuesday suprise.

@thetyrantofsyracuse Ай бұрын

Marian Hegemony!! Best faction.

@Mixer2904 Ай бұрын

Space Romans

@Tzilandi Ай бұрын

Hoedown in the Space Boonies.

@MrTony1995 Ай бұрын

Superb work as always. That you have less than 20k subscribers yet makes sad and angry at the same time.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Thank you. Maybe by the end of June we'll be passing 20,000.

@irondarknessdarkness8900 Ай бұрын

Hurray!

@drakozozhaeternus2840 Ай бұрын

Oh baby, pirates-turned-Roman LARPERS represent. LEGIO IV COMITATENSIS HERE TO CONQUER

@elijahsnow3119 Ай бұрын

Space cowboys. Looking forward to the Fronc Reaches. Need me some Starcraft style Colonial Marshals

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Fronc Reaches is much later in the timeline. I'm limiting this series to everything up to the Fourth Succession War, but we'll definitely return to the periphery at a later point.

@elijahsnow3119 Ай бұрын

Got it. I didn’t know if this fit into your narrator’s time line. At this point Fronc would still be the colonial development zone I think.

@Taiko206 Ай бұрын

@@elijahsnow3119 The Colonial Development Zone wasn't established around 3025, that happened about 40 years later. In 3025 there was nothing known about Fronc, except that 3 years earlier it still was listed as an independent world.

@Sierra026 Ай бұрын

Yar har, fiddle de dee! Being a pirate is alright to be! Do what you want ’cause a pirate is free! You are a pirate! -- Circinus Federation and Marian Hegemony National Anthems (probably) Great job with this series on the minor and micro nations, Sven! Looking forward to more.

@nikoclesceri2267 Ай бұрын

I fell the Marian’s would have a more Roman-esque songs for their national anthem

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

"Something more cheerful..." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbiZnZifx86qhn0.htmlsi=7LFnz2GoiJoSIVxn&t=160

@Western_1 Ай бұрын

190k people over 500 years and four planets seems very unlikely but if the quality of life was really high then it's actually very possible. That's like modern population growth rates.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

190,000 is Illyria alone, but its implied to be the highest of the four populations, so its defo under a million.

@lexington476 Ай бұрын

Its cool to hear about the pir... I mean privateers, corsairs, and ban... err buccaneers of the Periphery 🙂😃😎. Another great one Sven, 5 out of 5 👍🤘🖖. Looking forward to see what you do with the Third War.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

It's good to shine the spotlight on these totally legitimate and honest people existing outside the corruption of the Inner Sphere.

@chadweirick Ай бұрын

Sir Sven, I love this type of content! There are so many nooks and crannies in bother the periphery and even in the Inner Sphere at different points in time. I started catching up on the Dark Ages novels and am still reading through, but has me wondering: lots of these periphery micro-states (for lack of a better word) don’t have HPGs; would they have been unaffected by Gray Monday? Maybe they have interesting points of view? Some maybe turned to piracy? Some might have seen a chance to help? Others might be in a cult and see it as destiny. Would they all sort of nod and agree that they can mutually take advantage of this or did this see the micro-states engaging one another knowing no major state help was likely coming? Sooooo much fiction to explore. Do you know is much about it? Or is this something where theories still rule? If so, do you have any cool theories to share, sir?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Dark Age is a bit beyond my knowledge of the setting at the moment. I'm only up to 3058 in my own reading. However, I do know that the Marian Hegemony conquers the two nearest microstates later on and the Circinus Federation is heavily involved in the final days of the Jihad. If I ever reach that point in the timeline, I'll be sure to cover it then.

@chadweirick Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I’d love to see you cover the WoBJ. I’ve been so confused by it. I hope your interest in making videos keeps long enough to get all the way caught up 😊

@gregdomenico1891 Ай бұрын

The good old Trinity World's, home of the Caballero's. That whole section of space has some great history, but man, what a bunch of nutcase's.

@psychokozel9916 Ай бұрын

Concordat number 1

@ThugShakers4Christ Ай бұрын

I like this series, but what we really need is an 8+ hour long series exploring the lore of Far Country

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Remind me ahead of April Fool's next year.

@kenduncan3221 Ай бұрын

Make sure you have bird mech warriors also!

@lexington476 Ай бұрын

No 😀.

@mathewkelly9968 Ай бұрын

Nice as usual , pity Circinus gets WoBed though

@NomicFin Ай бұрын

The Marians are hilarious. An Irish space-pirate found a motherlode of germanium and started his own nation, and because he was a massive Romaboo he insisted everybody must wear togas and speak in Latin. They also straddle the line between a pirate kingdom and a semi-legitimate state that just happens to be populated by Roman cosplayers and generate a significant amount of their GDB through piracy.

@dubuyajay9964 Ай бұрын

Video on Farhome please. 🌿🌴🦕🦖

@yecnay25 Ай бұрын

Fifteen Year ambush sounds like they could have just built the actual factory lol. Love me Canopus but some of their lore is head scratchingly weird.

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

Sneaky post!

@DrendarMorevo Ай бұрын

Does this mean we will see the Jarnfolk in this series?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

They're too isolationist, with no real interaction with the Inner Sphere. There are a lot of deep periphery stories I would like to tell, but I'm saving those for another mini-series. I think the explorer corps would be a great way to segue into the Clan Invasion, so look for that after we've finished all the Succession Wars conflicts.

@Zattack19 Ай бұрын

Jarnfolk would be about 2 paragraphs lol

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

There's more than you think. Across the three Interstellar Players sourcebooks, there are a dozen pages or so on various aspects of their history.

@hobbstactv2571 Ай бұрын

Where episode one? I don't see it

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Two uploads ago. It's on the Aurigan Coalition.

@hobbstactv2571 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank ok I did watch that one. Whew, was scared I missed one

@1nONLY_DRock Ай бұрын

No Niops Association?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Nah, too insignificant. At that point I might as well make a video on literally any individual system and its planets. Such a series could go on forever and I'm eager to get back to the main history.

@1nONLY_DRock Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank They were practically a nation-state in their own right, and one of the last remnants of Terran Hegemony culture. It had an impact and a footprint on Battletech lore that outweighed its size. It's worth a look.

@Hotpointius Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank You know in 3025 the Niops Association actually has a larger population than the entire Illyrian Palatinate, Lothian League and the Circinus Federation combined. They're a real odd-ball by periphery standards and not just because of their retained Star League tech base. Just saying!

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Well maybe I did them dirty then by omitting them. I know they're a multi-planet technocratic society and that's interesting in its own, but I just didn't want to open the can of worms that was highlighting individual systems because I could go on forever with those. Maybe they factor into the story more later, but I've never seen them interacting with anybody else either, whereas with the others I'm partially laying the groundwork for future events.