BattleTech Lore & History - Second Succession War: Ignition Point (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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MechWarrior 5 soundtrack by Sean Kolton: www.seankolton.com/samples
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Barış Türköz
Cliford Mervil
Felix Mittermeier
Igor Mashkov
Jeff Nissen
Jol Acen
Pixabay
Putra Kusuma
Waldemar
0:00 Operation KUROI KAZE
2:39 Operation AKAI KAZE
5:09 Operation TALON
8:43 Operation LION
10:17 Operation TANTO
11:49 Operation LEASH
15:44 Operation STOOP
16:20 Operation BLACKSMITH
17:52 First Battle for Tikonov
20:19 Outro

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@Tzilandi 4 ай бұрын

"How do I restore my lost honor? Oh, I know!" - Chosokabe Motochika, before committing a warcrime.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Faking surrender is the only acceptable form of surrender for a true Kuritan.

@asgrahim9164 4 ай бұрын

Kurita moment

@nodu9303 4 ай бұрын

Nothing worse in the IS than Davion...

@JohnDoe-sx6iw 4 ай бұрын

@@nodu9303 only Capellans and Combine

@ulricgrey5219 4 ай бұрын

@@nodu9303 nope.... IS clans...

@NotThereJustGone 4 ай бұрын

And then, on the cusp of a second, needless calamity, the Lords of the Great Houses realized that another conflict was unnecessary because the real treasure were the friends they made along the way. The end.

@brandonclark435 4 ай бұрын

Canopus has the best drugs.

@NotThereJustGone 4 ай бұрын

@@brandonclark435 Where do you think I get the fever dreams of peace?

@oathbreakers 4 ай бұрын

I'll conquer you all with love and friendship

@RouterChain 4 ай бұрын

@@oathbreakers AKA drugs

@NotThereJustGone 4 ай бұрын

@@oathbreakers Hey, you can't spell "friendship" without "fried nips."

@Jomisari77 4 ай бұрын

17:48 "Mary's Little LAMs" XD Gotta appreciate merc humor.

@iller3 4 ай бұрын

As someone who's seen Tons of PvP-Guild names over the years, I can vouch that his would be very Plausible in a futuristic setting

@martinkafka9510 4 ай бұрын

Highlighting planets that are being talked about, correct label for chemical weapons, vertical map for Steiner/Kurita front - improvements all around for what was already top notch series.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Always trying to refine things and experiment a little with different formats to see what works.

@thedocklighter 4 ай бұрын

Have match, will strike.

@devalk_ 4 ай бұрын

The comstar meddling starts to really show What will those funny tech wizards come up with next

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

They aren't wizards just yet. Not long to go though before things get really wacky.

@elijahsnow3119 4 ай бұрын

The first true Comstar War thus begins.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

I definitely think of this one as "ComStar's War." Of course, that goes to a whole new level come 2837.

@elijahsnow3119 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Exactly so. Thing is, it also shows that really 2-5 wouldn’t have been nearly as awful wars as they were without Comstar’s efforts to crush everyone back to the stone age.

@Autofire-nw5ty 4 ай бұрын

I know nothing about Battletech. Only after watching a couple of live streams of Mercenaries last year I learned of the universe. You are teaching me the finer points and I love it!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Well I'm glad I've been able to teach you about some of the game's history.

@lorefox201 4 ай бұрын

KURITA AT IT AGAIN THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Spoiler, they continued to keep getting away with it.

@lorefox201 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank as they always do lmao

@JohnDoe-sx6iw 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Cause of their thic plot armor.

@AtreidesT660 4 ай бұрын

The thick plot armor is for the Wolfs and Black Watch. A Black Watch mech could take a 10 MT nuke to the head and not die. "Bruh they're just that awesome and kewl".😂

@AtreidesT660 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank you should shop in Heisenberg and weeping Jesse as opposing MechWarriors in the next vid just for the lulz 😁

@level98bearhuntingarmor 4 ай бұрын

4:16 only the dracs (and maybe capellans) would think fake surrendering would be honorable

@level98bearhuntingarmor 4 ай бұрын

@SvenVanDerPlank still wished they took Tikonov though lol

@MLCrisis1790 4 ай бұрын

Its amazing to think that the Inner Sphere united to fight the Clans but never realized that the greatest villains in history, arguably worse than Amaris and his goons, had been tolerated for centuries. And by the time they were confronted, it was too late and we had that wonderful warcrime-a-thon put on by WoB. Spot on, Great Houses...

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

What's weird is that as we get further into the 2ndSW, certain Successor States do wise up to what's going on. But the consequences of calling them out on it end up being so dire they realise that as long as the war continues, it's better just to leave them alone. Course they probably didn't envision it going on for centuries.

@MLCrisis1790 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Love them or hate them, Hanse Davion and Katrina Steiner did a lot to bring them down a few pegs. As well as a man named Frederick, of course...

@ryanshiver9044 4 ай бұрын

Comstar are the good guys

@MLCrisis1790 4 ай бұрын

@@ryanshiver9044 🤬

@ryanshiver9044 4 ай бұрын

@@MLCrisis1790 Always pay your phone bill.

@MechanicalFrog 4 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation and fascinating content. Thanks for keeping this going, Sven!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Thank you MechFrog, I'm really pleased you're enjoying it.

@SulliMike23 4 ай бұрын

These hotspots are just the beginning. But the Hesperus Battles will be the last time we see warships in use for the Inner Sphere before the Clans show up.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

They've still got a few years in them yet. I was actually surprised to learn while doing my research that there were technically still a few left after LCS Invincible (not counting ComStar of course).

@jamesperkins191 3 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankthey were mothballed iirc

@fredlandry6170 4 ай бұрын

I’m looking forward to a Fourth Succession War story, that’s one of my favorite conflicts.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

We'll get there eventually. The 3rdSW may be much longer, but there's not so much to talk about until the 3000s, so we're much closer than it might seem.

@MM22966 4 ай бұрын

AAaahh, I missed the live! Ah well. Also. Successor State logic: "Let's attack these guys over here at this border, so we can attack these OTHER guys over here at a different border!"

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Better to be openly at war with someone than having peace and risk them suddenly declaring war on you. Perfect Successor Lord Logic.

@dustandpolos8196 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like Comstar could consistently just focus stirring up trouble on the left side of the map where all the not-horrible people live; Davion and Kurita have never needed any excuse to kick off and randomly invade neighbours.

@Deadmeat313 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic stuff. Nice to see my homeworld of Tikonov getting a nice showing. 😊

@potsperm1666 4 ай бұрын

Jinjiro looks like a 60´s western actor for some reason :D btw thank you for your awesome work, great video!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like a classic case of 1980s BT art. It was the wild west back then in terms of quality/accuracy.

@potsperm1666 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankTRUE! makes them even more gorgeous ^^

@shawnarmitage7955 4 ай бұрын

God, guns, and Battletech. As someone who enjoys history, I look forward to your videos. Keep up the excellent work, my friend.

@jasonfarley9025 4 ай бұрын

Another awesome video Thanks again for all your work A separate series or individual videos, later, focusing on some of these more interesting battles might be fun

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Something I plan to focus more on once we reach 3025 and beyond. We've got plenty maps for the 4thSW which I'd like to include.

@bthsr7113 4 ай бұрын

Surrendering before dropping in forces to attack. Well at least it isn't Kentares again.

@harvestblades 4 ай бұрын

Now I want to hear about some of these detailed & legendary ground battles! Sources for some of the best to read about would be great!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Well obviously the biggest was the Battle for Terra which we did a 105 minute video on but there's others down the line we'll cover in similar detail. I'm not cutting anything quite as grand as that, it's just that usually there's a little more than I include on most of these battles. Far too little to make a video on, but often some specific quirk about the environment or defence that I gloss over.

@derekmccaig7645 4 ай бұрын

i know these take time to make and i appreciate every second of that, but GD.... i want them all now!!! lol thank you for these videos!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Working on them as fast as I can. If I can maintain this current pace, the series should be complete by the end of April.

@mathewkelly9968 4 ай бұрын

The Marik's and joining ComStar ....... They never learn

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Well this is the first real instance of that going wrong, but you're absolutely right. Despite the disastrous ramifications, two more Marik heirs would join before war's end.

@wazup85 4 ай бұрын

another great one

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it.

@ebla83 4 ай бұрын

Excellent work Sven! I would have watched this yesterday but I was busy chairing a seminar on international relations (I was at a distillery).

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

That sounds like a fair excuse. I'll let you off this time.

@Rooftop_gaming 4 ай бұрын

Love your work Sven.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoy it.

@ftako9028 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video as always. You can really see the passion you have for making these videos.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, I really do enjoy making them.

@gregdomenico1891 4 ай бұрын

And to think, Comstar continues to get away with this crap for another 200 years. As for the FWL/House Marik, their association with Comstar is really going to come back to bite them in the ass in the future.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

ComStar has been messing with the Free Worlds League for centuries. Right through the 2ndSW and into the 3rd, not even mentioning everything that happens in the modern setting. They're more antagonistic than the neighbouring Successor States sometimes.

@AtreidesT660 4 ай бұрын

Hey Sven, really good editing, really liked the small circular map over the image. It just works (couldn't help not quote Todd H😁) as a format. Just a question do you have the HBS game and have you considered using your game footage or screenshots for your future vids ? Anyways looking forward to the next vid.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

I do own it but I have never played it. I've always told myself that I'll play the games once I reach that point in the timeline with this series.

@AtreidesT660 4 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Waiting to play the game until reaching the timeline - That's some discipline right there Sven.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

It's the only reason I've been able to commit to this ridiculous project for so long. I know MW4 is in the Civil War era so we should be good until at least then.

@Nerd_Rage255 4 ай бұрын

Great as always

@filthyletonk1333 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant as usual. well done

@thomascraiker6449 4 ай бұрын

Great stuff as usual! Looking forward to your future projects.

@verysilentmouse 4 ай бұрын

Love your work

@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey 4 ай бұрын

Love your content.

@RouterChain 4 ай бұрын

Good video,thanks for your work,Sven!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

No problem, glad you enjoyed the video.

@alexwatts1064 4 ай бұрын

These videos are always a good part of my weekend. Thank you for making them!

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome. I'm glad you continue to enjoy them each time round.

@ragnarbaron6090 4 ай бұрын

I wanted to listen to this at 2:30 but my girl said we needed new curtains, I put my foot down and said I wear the pants in the relationship so I got to listened to it while hanging curtains 😂

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Fair enough. Hope they were nice curtains.

@MrOhidunno 4 күн бұрын

2:15 Still wrapping my head around all the lore, but It's interesting that the 5th Sword of Light was primarily deployed to the Davion border for this Succession war, but a detachment was sent to Chandler for Operation Kuroi Kaze. This seems like an odd choice to me.

@MrOhidunno 4 күн бұрын

Thinking about this more: it would have made more sense for the 8th Sword of Light to have fought with the 4th Arkab on Chandler. The 8th were stationed on Stanzanch, considerably closer to Chandler, while the 5th was stationed on Scheat on the Davion front.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 күн бұрын

@MrOhidunno Weird movements like that are usually just a case of a throwaway line on one of the old sourcebooks mentioning the presence of a unit in some random battle now conflicting with the more thoroughly mapped out lore in the later historical series sourcebooks.

@MrOhidunno 4 күн бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankoh wow, first of all, huge fan, love everything about this channel and the work you do. Every video is an absolute joy to view. I saw the line in question in the 2nd succession war Sourcebook for the attack on Chandler, and I'm kinda wondering if a 5th was typed when an 8th should have been. On a monitor with less definition and small text, it's super easy to switch 5 and 8 on a quick glance. (I've done this quite a bit myself.)

@foenrik8941 4 ай бұрын

The Stealths continue to be the MVPs of the Lyran side. Here's hoping they keep doing well, though I wonder if their luck will run out before or after the next Archon gets in charge. Kuritans demonstrating yet again their honor is a lie, nothing new there. And Comstar already skirting their so-called "neutral" stance. Jeanette seemed genuine in her interest, so them exploiting her like that...well, they clearly saw it as just an opportunity, nothing more. I wondered if they targeted the Free Worlds League just because it'd be easier to manipulate than the others, or if it served some symbolic purpose for them, since they don't ever try subverting any of the other nations in such a direct manner.

@sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957 4 ай бұрын

Jerome Blake: "You have to become a cult, it's the only way to maintain order throughout the inner sphere." Conrad Toyama: "What’s that? Become arguably the worst faction in the inner sphere?" JB: "No. What? No, I meant..." CT: "Can't hear you, I'm off to go kidnap and brainwash a noble, a thing whose repercussions I absolutely will not consider!" JB: *dies*

@carlosrgns 4 ай бұрын

i heard comstar some aggressive bill collection strategies

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Strategies include complete communication blackout and providing the nations you're at war with all of your secrets and current force deployments.

@oathbreakers 4 ай бұрын

The intro is doing the things

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Do you mean... doing things below the belt? 😐

@MrScientifictutor 4 ай бұрын

Some of the places you named were confusing. If you could say region of space or system or city then that would be more clear. Not to bash you videos. They are great.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback but could you clarify which moments confused you? Are you suggesting that I give no names and just say something like, "took three systems/attacked the capital city" for example?

@MrScientifictutor 4 ай бұрын

Some of the merik and lyran border war start. Especially the quote "through his office on a place". I have no idea what that sentence means. However I am not am battletech hardcore fan.

@MrScientifictutor 4 ай бұрын

Also. I have seen all your battletech videos and found them very clear but that one section I mentioned sounded just bewildering to me.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

That is an excellent point and definitely something I should have added a visual for. "A Place" is actually the name of a system along the Lyran's coreward periphery border.

@derekburge5294 4 ай бұрын

And then everyone lived happily ever after?

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

The only peace you can hope for is that the Draconis Combine conquers the other pretenders. Then there will be peace.

@jamesperkins191 3 ай бұрын

What are the Mechs at 17:01?

@SvenVanDerPlank 3 ай бұрын

Hermes II

@seanbrazell7095 4 ай бұрын

😁👌

@michaelthomas5433 4 ай бұрын

Blame the phone company for everything. Blame them for Amaris why not? Or blame them for the House Lords not helping Kerensky. What does it matter that they didn't even exist then? pfft.

@SvenVanDerPlank 4 ай бұрын

"What does it matter that they didn't even exist then?" And whose fault is that? Obviously theirs. Bloody ComStar.