BattleTech Lore & History - Second Succession War: A Complete 35 Year History (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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A very special thank you to Jason from the Gaming Ambience channel. His mixes have helped my productivity in uncountable ways over the years. Many a video has been scripted while listening to their work. They very kindly allowed me to use some of those tracks here. Please give them some love: / gamingambience
Galaxy Map created from the Sarna Unified Cartography Kit (SUCKit) provided by Volt, colour added by Sven van der Plank.
Blank map available from Sarna: www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech...
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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)
Further references from www.sarna.net/ - Thank you to the Sarna.net discord for additional support: / discord
BattleTech belongs to #catalystgamelabs and Topps.
Art from HBS Battletech and MechWarrior 5 belong to Harebrained Schemes and Piranha Games respectively.
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Cliford Mervil
Felix Mittermeier
Igor Mashkov
Jeff Nissen
Jol Acen
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Putra Kusuma
Waldemar
0:00 Intro: Blessed Blake
7:55 I: Eye of the Storm
24:06 II: Echoes from the Past
41:49 III: The Auld Enemy
1:00:36 IV: Military Overview
1:18:28 V: Ignition Point
1:38:53 VI: Fortress Tikonov
1:57:19 VII: Clipped Wings
2:22:32 VIII: Darkest Hour
2:51:59 IX: Change of the Guard
3:23:10 X: The Last WarShip
3:45:35 XI: Marathon
4:04:40 XII: Exhaustion
4:27:07 XIII: Hollow Peace

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@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Another BattleTech Lore & History project finished... and in record time! I'm REALLY pleased with the way this series came together, but on the production side and the finished project. I think this is surely my best work to date. Thank you once again to everyone who has supported me in making these videos, whether its by leaving comments and likes, sharing the videos, interacting during the live premieres or supporting me through Patreon or Superchats. It means a tremendous amount to me.

@Elenrai Ай бұрын

You are honestly hitting a pace of output where lore nerds struggle to keep up... You have made an audience joking about 40 minute long videos being too short, struggle, to keep up. Be proud, that is pretty special! Now that I might have your attention; Any chance of a compilation of bloopers? At this point, surely there must be a lot of funny word salad to share :)

@beniboi6992 Ай бұрын

I was sipping my coffee when you mentioned LCS Yo Mama. Spit it out all over my keyboard lol

@inquisitorgarza312 2 ай бұрын

The Second Succession War was the war that set up the proper setting for the table top game and it was the consequences of this war that made every conflict afterward trace itself back to the second succession war.

@Logan912 23 күн бұрын

At least until the Clan Invasion disrupted the Succession Wars and the status quo of the Inner Sphere. Then, Comstar’s schism changed things up even further. Still, Pandora’s Box was opened with the First Succession War. No successor state would ever accept another government’s rule after that, and what the Clans never seemed to realize was that the only reason why the Star League (barely) worked was because they were just the militant wing of the Terran Hegemony which acted as a buffer state, and that’s why I think the ilClan is doomed to fail... besides the fact that Wolf already made tons of enemies over the years anyway. On the other hand, the Republic of the Sphere had the exact opposite problem of being a “neutral” state but without a “Star League” to keep everyone else in check.

@StormcrowIV 17 күн бұрын

Seeing Battletech and the Gaming Ambience channel together is a dream come true. Amazing content!

@WildWolfGod Ай бұрын

Sven, with the compilation and release of this video, from your first Age of War timeline to the end of this one, it's literally 24 hours worth of Battletech history. That's NUTS. Fantastic work as always! You're tied with Tex/BlackPantsLegion as my favorite Battletech Content Creator. Love the videos!

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Thank you very much, I'm pleased to hear that. I realised at some point I was passing 24 hours but couldn't tell exactly when until I cut the outros and condensed the project timeline at the end. Never imagined I'd do anything as ridiculous as this when I made that first 10 minute intro video a few years back. I wonder if we'll ever reach 48 hours...

@AAX11111 Ай бұрын

Even if you condensed down the Third and Fourth wars, the War of 3039, the Andurien Revolt and the rest of the pre-Clan age you are still gonna get a TON of content out of the Clan Invasion alone. It will be easy to get to 48 hours, especially if you include the Jihad and the Dumpsterfire Age.

@Marinealver 5 күн бұрын

You know the idea of a news and communication agency becoming a cult bent on dominating humanity sounded like such a far flung concept I laughed at it. This day and age however, I now understand it might not just be possible, but ALREADY HAPPENING!

@fluffly3606 16 күн бұрын

"How do I avoid dishonor while retreating without permission? Oh, I know! I'll commit blatant perfidy :D" Motochika... why am I even surprised

@BroundGeef Ай бұрын

at this point I’m expecting you not just to get all the way to the Ilclan era but also just straight up write the next era of Battletech lore before they even wrote it themselves

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

It's still a long way off so we'll see what happens. The goal for 2024 is to be completely finished with the Succession Wars era.

@ssjjshawn Ай бұрын

I mean we are still in the backstory of Battletech, not even to the time where the game tends to take place until the very end of the Third Succession War with the Galtor Campaign (The most detailed Campaign Battleforce ever released). The other times were Battles may take up a full Episode, like the Operation Klondike, The Battle of Luthien, Tukkayid, Operations Bulldog and Serpent etc. By the time we get to the Ilklan era theres a bunch of other Battles to consider, not least of which are the two Battles of New Avalon, the Third Battle for Terra, and the entire Jyhad era, which will be a clusterfuck of episodes to begin with. Basically the real meat of Battletech hasnt been reached yet. We have time

@richardfendt1166 Ай бұрын

Yeah maybe you can call them and offer to write some books

@alexknudsen2759 9 күн бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankyour videos are the greatest BT videos to ever grace this platform. Thank you for creating these

@lucassmith4524 2 күн бұрын

Almost five hours of 2nd Succession War goodness. These videos are very high quality. Is it any wonder, now, that cable TV is a ghost town?

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 күн бұрын

Thank you. I'm very pleased you're still enjoying them.

@ProjectRedfoot Ай бұрын

You have no idea how helpful this was. Couldn't sleep cuz I was worrying about work today

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Well I'm happy to provide you with a needed distraction.

@KMCA779 Ай бұрын

I love how everyone continues to use the "Mike the editor" image for Jerome Blake. I get a chuckle every time.

@FosforitoDuracell 2 ай бұрын

These extensive lore drops make work go by faster, and you do an excellent job of making it as compelling as the stories they derive from. Another great compilation!

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Cheers, glad you're enjoying the storytelling.

@SuperVeganShark 2 ай бұрын

Five hours of bliss!

@craigmorris4083 2 ай бұрын

And of course the Blessed Blake would like to remind us all... Pay your effing bills. 😂😂

@alexandermackie7621 Ай бұрын

You forgot the 'fucko!'

@manfredalbrechtfreiherrvon4042 Ай бұрын

God i love space AT&T

@nono2645 2 ай бұрын

yeah baby were getting caught up i love this massive lore videos just put one on in the background and paint away

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Hope it helps you tackle that painting to-do list and provides some entertainment while you're at it.

@nono2645 2 ай бұрын

@SvenVanDerPlank always and gives inspiration as well

@dragansnyder2786 Ай бұрын

Im Not even that far into this compilation, already I love that the Commonwealth has a ship named yo mama, clearly someone on the ship naming committee is a man of culture, and he probably gave his life for this, unless the Commonwealth are just taking the piss all the time, in which case he was probably promoted

@tillerzeit 14 күн бұрын

As I delve more into the succession wars era its interesting to see the wars and how they shaped future conflicts and doctrines. The first was a no holds example of total war wrought to its full extent all sides continueing on the auspice that total victory was at hand over and over again to exhaustions. The second sees the technical supremacy of comstar and the seeding of the word of blakes future hold in FWL territory with the destruction of all but the very last vestiges of SLDF equipment in the house militaries including warships. The end result left all powers exhausted, bloodied, and at the start of a near 250 year technological backslide. I know the 3rd is the longest and is more of a cold war with flashpoint conflicts and i look forward to the coverage of it.

@RippPryde Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this huge project. I've always struggled to absorb all the complex details of the Succession Wars, but the way you present them helps immesly and makes the lore come alive.

@Fanatic808 2 ай бұрын

Glorious! Glory to you and Glory to the Free Worlds League and House Marik!

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glory to the Marik eagle!

@Deridus Ай бұрын

Querry: Why the FWL? Is it because they're (technically) the most sane until the 3050's?

@bthsr7113 Ай бұрын

Comstar: MUAHAHAHAHA! All according to plan!

@Theotheralt2 Ай бұрын

Well, looks like I found my bedtime story for the next couple weeks

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Sleep well...

@marsar1775 Ай бұрын

LCS Yo Mama still makes me chuckle

@spartanalex9006 Ай бұрын

I could see a Culture Ship with such a name.

@KMCA779 Ай бұрын

I hope it's something big like an Overlord. If it's just something "small" like a leopard it's a missed opportunity.

@marsar1775 Ай бұрын

@@KMCA779 I mean, shes a jump ship. she can carry multiple overlords XD

@kylerogers8948 Ай бұрын

Fan freaking tastic. I love these large compilations.

@christiandouglas3914 Ай бұрын

I just pick up MechWarrior 5 recently & your video show up just when I need to dive in more into the lore. From the age of war up to this one, there's a lot for me to catch up. Good work, really appreciate it mate 👍🏻

@ThisName1 2 ай бұрын

WOOHOO! I love these long ones!

@albertparente584 2 ай бұрын

Finally!!! Love your vidsss!!!

@tmorton42 Ай бұрын

Fantastic all at once Great fun!! A very well done perspective

@BK2207 2 ай бұрын

Congrats in making this project done Sven ! 👍

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Cheers BK!

@camd6394 2 ай бұрын

My GOAT back it, love to see it

@sanguiniusonvacation1803 Ай бұрын

Next comes 5 toddlers slapping eachother for 150 years.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Ha, that's a pretty accurate summary.

@ssjjshawn Ай бұрын

Aye nice, now to see if the Cladius Steiner quote got added. Its one of the Best quotes in all of Battletech

@derekburge5294 Ай бұрын

The sheer amount of effort and love that goes into these projects is astounding!

@toxictoast6599 2 ай бұрын

aww you removed the wrap up pieces, well its still great, great job Sven. Maybe we will be lucky to get in opinion piece from you in the future, your thoughts on major events and personalities from the Succession Wars to this point.

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

I've always cut those out of the compilations in the past. A lot of it is just talking about production issues and what's up next, which is kind of pointless to repeat now it's finished.

@matthewb2052 Ай бұрын

A heartfelt thank you for this effort.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

You're welcome.

@cterrel Ай бұрын

Yessss! I've been waiting for this. My mind is ready. My body is ready.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Well I hope it proves to be worth the wait. Thank you very much for the kind donation, Collin.

@captainteutonica5474 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@jjureidini7530 Ай бұрын

Yes yes. Aff. I am ready for this. Thank you.

@Deridus Ай бұрын

Aff? (Shudders in dread) Oh.... no....

@kamikazebadger2686 Ай бұрын

Fantastic work

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Thank you

@julienseitz1350 Ай бұрын

SO COOL....😊

@dragonofdragons1720 Ай бұрын

can't wait for the third and fourth succession war videos

@AAX11111 16 күн бұрын

4:48:07 And thus does the Inner Sphere once again pivot and twirl around Terra. Its as if the Star League never fell in some ways...

@MM22966 2 ай бұрын

Ahhhhhh, audio/visual sourcebooks are so nice....

@jmill1334 28 күн бұрын

One thing I dont get is basically several peace agreements had more or less disrupted everything. Davion and Steiner could both focus on the Draconis Combine and Free Worlds on the Capellans. At least in Steiner and Davions' case, there seems to be little benefit of letting the DC out of that without some concessions, but they apparently couldn't even get a peace agreement?

@SvenVanDerPlank 28 күн бұрын

Everybody needed a break, but they all planned to start fighting again. And that's exactly what happened. 2.5 years to catch their breath, then straight back to it.

@jmill1334 28 күн бұрын

@SvenVanDerPlank thanks for the response, seems wild how quickly they go right back into the fire each time.

@psionics313 Ай бұрын

Fuuuuuuuck they need to bring back Minnesota tribe. I need it

@courier-sf6ze 2 ай бұрын

Damn. If you think of it, war really wasn't all that bad up until here. Because war made progress. Age of War was least the worst era in terms of bad despite it's name. Many sides were involved within their realms internal struggles, but war still managed to continue it's purpose of pushing people to seek progress. Reunification war ,despite how very unjust it was for Periphery realms, birthed the Star League. It brought progress, although in some twisted way of plundering the Periphery fortunes to Hegemony's favor. They brought the galaxy closer nonetheless, thanks to vast HPG project. Amaris is where it's all started to go the wrong way - it could be much more, a liberation movement to make way past the rotten Star League, but in the end he just betrayed everyone, and the war purpose was to satisfy greed for power of one individual. I believe if SLDF continued to do war, or Amaris stayed in power, died and another individual came, Inner Sphere would be in a much better situation than the 1st Succession War. Which was a total world war scenario, but I believe it would be just a single occurrence and succession lords could form some balance of power through coalitions and negotiating. It could be, if not for a fucking telephone company. ComStar really ruined everything, by breaking the sole positive piece of war - the engine of progress. This really makes them the biggest villain within the universe.

@RouterChain 2 ай бұрын

Its 23:38 on my clock,I really should be sleeping now but I think I have something better to do now. But in all seriousness,thanks for this great piece of work,hope that your channel will get more popular over time! Oh,and I wanted to ask: part of which series will be released next time? 3rdSW or Periphery mini-series?

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

I'm going to be slowly releasing the periphery series while I finish the scripts for the 3rdSW.

@RouterChain 2 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Got it,good luck with your future projects.

@Balevolt Ай бұрын

The Battle of Irian is a the stuff i live for in BattleTech. Then again I play FWL mercs so i coule be biased

@loreman2803 Ай бұрын

Glory to Sven and Glory to the DCMS

@Tzilandi 2 ай бұрын

I was looking to see if you'd added the Dainmar Liao photo to the compilation, when I noticed this: 4:00:00 Mattisskogen... that's a "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" reference. Astrid Lindgren survived this far into the future? Who names a planet "Mattis' Forest"?

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

I never did add that ridiculous picture of Dainmar because when I went to grab his image from the sourcebook, I realised just how low-res it was which put me off.

@Deridus Ай бұрын

Who names a planet a forest? Who names a planet Kooken's Pleasure Pit!?

@Tzilandi Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Aaawww… disappointment, thy name is Tzilandi.

@Elenrai Ай бұрын

@@Deridus Who names a planet "Dirt"?

@Deridus Ай бұрын

@@Elenrai (glares at Terra) No one. No one at all. Ever.

@ramblingmadman2047 17 күн бұрын

Kick ass channel brother. When Im able, Ill be investing kickbacks for your work. Unless you accept home brew hot sauce as payments

@seihai-kun6726 12 күн бұрын

What if the Patriarch of Constantinople was also the CEO of Comcast?

@redasylum Ай бұрын

I will never look at my telephone company the same way again

@henrymilner7061 Ай бұрын

Pay your bills fucko

@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam 18 күн бұрын

Nothing to see, citizen. Now pay your phone bill.

@shrimpofdeath5199 Ай бұрын

The continuation of ComStar not doing anything wrong.

@comentnine1574 Ай бұрын

How come there aren’t any guest appearances like what we saw during the Star League Civil War compilation?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

I only did that for the Star League Civil War. People have their own projects they're working on and I didn't want to constantly pester everyone to contribute. Plus it added a bunch of complications to production.

@comentnine1574 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank ah I see.

@Quoththeravenminiatures Ай бұрын

Love the WarShip art. Can you share a link/source at all?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

I used quite a few different images. Was there a specific timestamp you can point to? If so I can maybe answer what sourcebook I got it from.

@Quoththeravenminiatures Ай бұрын

The ones around 15:04 if possible. Thanks.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

They're both from the HBS BattleTech game artbook.

@inuboy867 Ай бұрын

Is this in the playlists?

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

Yes, it's in the playlist in the correct place.

@Deridus Ай бұрын

(Laughs in Spinward Deep Periphery) Minnesota is still out here... I mean, there.

@ssjjshawn Ай бұрын

With BLP gone, they probably aren't. The Claves arent canon, and some newer splats, sourcebooks and tech readouts hint that the Wolverines intergated into the FedSuns and maybe the Dracs. They also took back their last names.

@Deridus Ай бұрын

@@ssjjshawn Can't immagime them joining the Dracs, not after raiding the prisons. ISF would have found 'em out PDQ. FedSuns makes more sense, but I can't recall a timeframe where the could have joined either. I prefer to think they are camping outside of Järnfolk space, just enjoying some Freedom.

@ssjjshawn Ай бұрын

@@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into. Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels

@ssjjshawn Ай бұрын

@Deridus I mean a Miio agent named "McEvedy" with all the other hints showing up in the Third Succession War in newer stuff suggests its more FedSuns they got into. Which also makes sense when you realize that if they just disappeared again that was certain death. They had only a cluster of warriors, a few Thousand civilians, and a few crippled Warships and Jumpships. Which they couldnt repair, and they didnt have the tech or population to create a self sustaining colony. Even from what we know of the last jumpships path it still suggests integration mostly into the fedsuns. They are either dead or Davions at this point logically, from what we KNOW they escaped with thanks to the novels

@BaconMinion Ай бұрын

This is just further evidence that the BattleTech universe would be better off without humanity.

@Zattack19 2 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity. Any units, mercenary or house, have impressed you over this entire project just for being stubborn bastards who wont die? Even after getting savaged

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Good question but one I don't really have an answer for. Maybe I should do some statistical analysis and see which units have been involved with the capture/defence of the most planets.

@Zattack19 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Would be a fun "Notable Units" episode you could put together. Most victoroes, most defeats, most reformings

@Deridus Ай бұрын

Only (Inner Sphere) Merc unit I truly like the Iridani Light Horse. Snord's Irregulars, though, will always hold a special place in my heart.

@afitz34 Ай бұрын

McKinnons Raiders of the 7th Crucis Lancers on Kentares in Succession Wars 1 comes to mind. Damned good snipers.

@cynicalcitizen8315 Ай бұрын

The Jihad is slowly getting retconned out of canonization.

@SvenVanDerPlank Ай бұрын

What is this in response to?

@cynicalcitizen8315 Ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank some of the Renegade HPG interviews with some of the Key authors, Tex and Co. Unless I am wrong, which is understandable, the constant ridicule of the Jihad as unfortunate writing. I'm just happy that some of the weaker writing is not going away, but is slowly getting phased out of the world setting. Granted, I am running on 3 days of no sleep. So I'm fully ready to be debunked and I will try to adjust.

@Logan912 23 күн бұрын

I mean, *something* has to be there to explain what happened to the Word of Blake at least.

@EricDKaufman 2 ай бұрын

I got an 10 hours shift Saturday morning to assure the 3rd to 1st shift QC/QA transition. This should get me through it, factoring in pauses to actually do work. EDIT - Blake did nothing wrong. He turned Space AT&T into true Scientology

@merkarion7883 2 ай бұрын

Blake no...but his Successor did...Toyama especially

@SvenVanDerPlank 2 ай бұрын

Glad to provide you a distraction from work. Hope it makes the day go quickly.