Draconis Rising - Original Song ft. Craig Cairn 

But not kurita again such a shameful display of honor

They still gon' learn who the Real Sword of Light is.

Unless you speak German. Then it's Tuesday.

@@anthonywalker6268 "Yes, yes, sushi is a very nice dish. But tell me, have you ever had Bratwurst? Here! Try some. AT VELOCITY"

That and warcrimes...like all the warcrimes

You sure that was a brick and not a stray autocannon shell?

@@terryhiggins5077 Oh so that’s why I can’t hear anything and my roommate is a fine red mist against the wall.

@@imperialfist2304 GM Autocannons: Because ****** that guy in particular.

Need to fix their targeting system if they hit a guy and not the stereo

@KarSoban as long as you're just as quick to blast the Cappellans and Kuritans. Oh, and maybe look at breaking bread with the Aranos. Or knocking sense into them depending on whether it's a good family running the Reach.

For some reason I read this in texs voice

@@commanderstorm8874 Probably because I learned that fact from Tex myself.

So the Black Watch was partly birthed by Kurita being Kurita?

Kuritian stupidity knows no limits or reason, hence why it’s just best to solve the problem with LRM’s.

@@kannonball5789 Yep, every member of the Blackwatch has mastered the art of making a Combine Samurai shut up about honor for five minutes, and also combat. However, the program's main concern was the former, which honestly speaks to the absurd character for both the Combine and the Star League.

Nice scout lance.

Provided that by spirit, you mean "passion for putting PPCs on everything", I agree.

@@Balmung60 What are PPCs?

@@michimatsch5862 Basically an energy cannon. From Sarna: "The Particle Projector Cannon (or PPC) is an energy weapon, firing a concentrated stream of protons or ions at a target with damage resulting from both thermal and kinetic energy."

@@michimatsch5862 A glorious weapon that shoots a bolt of lightning and melts an awful lot of armor

@@Balmung60 and also fucks with your entire lance's radar system because fuck technology

Just form a firing line, the Kuritans will mass light 'mechs and charge en masse.

But that's my primary employer! ;-; Can't have them dying on me

@@shoulderpyro Davion's in need of some excellent 'mercs these days.

@@shoulderpyro Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target and every target is one bribe away from becoming a client.

@@laughingsnake1989 or simply "war crimes may just happen, unless you choose to pay me more".

That's funny

But those were all used by every faction regardless of "heritage". I mean the Battlemaster, one of the more famous of the Unseens, was Hanse Davion's mech of choice.

@@GhostBear3067 It's a joke. Please don't make me dislike the community.

@@SendarSlayer mine response was also meant in jest, but I cannot convey tone for shit over text despite my best efforts. My sincerest apologies if I came off rudely.

@@GhostBear3067 he was being a weirdo himself and doesnt like people talking about lore if it ruins a joke, its a thing

*stiener scout squad intensifies*

I mean you have a point but cmon they are literally space weebs… still better then capellans though. Hell the clans are better then capellans

@@Fanatic808 the clans are better than most at least clan wolf and Mabye ghost bear are

@@commanderstorm8874 you named two of the four okay clans the rest are well they’re clanners utterly insane

@@commanderstorm8874 Ok guys but can we all agree that the 3 of us would totally take on a Steiner Scout lance after listening to this?

got to make up for their poor marksmanship somehow.

@@decepticonpecock no, target rich environments. When the dragon vomits up locusts, it takes an accumulated lot of ammo.

Can't wait for the Scouting Song of House Steiner

Give me one on Marik and it better have “The greatest threat to a Marik is another Marik, glory to Marik”

Stieners would just be work work work

Throw in Rasalhague even if they didn't have a house, if only for their scrappy "Fuck y'all leave us alone."

@@steelgriffin7716 I love Rasalhague purely because I’m a ghost bear fanboy.

And the one of the ways to show your faith to her is to NOT donate to her shrines.

They’re still better than Capellans.

@@paladinslash4721 True, true. Then again, not exactly a hard standard to surpass..

@@paladinslash4721 Capellan's have that plunky underdog energy going for them. The Combine is that rich douchebag that goes around bullying everyone because no one can really stop them because Daddy donates a lot of money to the school.

@@paladinslash4721 never trust a Capellan

red and gold > literally every color

Fuck that, get the battle pope, its time for payback

Why thank you. Here, have a barrage of PPC’s to the face

Me, a random Merc with a 4P variant Hunchback: Hey, you need me to melt some lizards? With one headshot I can down anyone.

Not the AC firing, no an actual spare AC/10 being thrown at their commander (x

@@shoulderpyro Davions love their Autocannons so much, they now use an LB/X-Autocannon-Autcannon that can fire Shotgun Autocannons that split off into smaller Autocannons.

In domine patris, in domine fili, in domine spiritus sancti! Amen, amen!

@@lukalovric2463 non draco sit mihi dux

​@@thelordchancellor3454 Vade retro Santana Ninquam suade mihi vana

Just like the Battletech universe, this statement is borderline discriminatory! :D

The Combine is pretty awful, but then you have the Capellans. Fuck the Capellans.

@@jaffarebellion292 At least the Capellans do right by skilled mercenaries, have genuine social mobility for common citizens, and a never say die attitude against overwhelming odds. I can't think of a single positive from the Combine as a whole.

@@Significantpower Well... Japan-inspired? ;-)

@@Significantpower Seppuku. It eliminates an evil person.

And Kentares IV. Never forget, never forgive.

*Revs RAC5s with vengful intent*

"WE'LL DEFEND OUR BRETHREN FROM THE COMBINE!"

@@mariic2 our cause is just a mission divine

@@NP3GA Remember New Avalon and never forget!

@@mariic2 WE'LL TRAMPLE THE SERPENS

@@NP3GA AMEN, AMEN!

Always works

Eh, as a aurigan reach guy. Those fucks keep pissing on my home somehow. Always willing to deul the guys just to watch theur wrecks burn. Nearly lost when one drew a knife. And i prefer ghost bear. Least rasalhauge is doin good

I kind of like them because they're honest about it. Everyone else going "Oh we're actually not bad and we just want to have peace and prosperity and oh did i just invade your worlds, I'm sorry... give it back? Give what back?" And Kurita is just like "... dude I just want to rule the Inner Sphere, period. It's mine now. Even if I have to kick your mechs in the face to make it happen."

sins when there thge combine the "anti-hero"

@@wartorngaming1037 During the 3050s to the Dark Age, the Combine underwent reforms dialing down the worst of their fanaticism, brutality and bigotry. Eventually the reactionaries won out though.

@@wartorngaming1037 could you please explain what you meant

@@kacperkonieczny7333 you said "To make a villain faction seem like a anti-hero faction is quite a task." meaning that there are the anti-hero faction now, but wasn´t the combine one of the "evil" faction

@@wartorngaming1037 In the context of the song yes. Outside they're still the evil faction

I didn't see that, thank you

the ceppellans arent punching bags, they are in fact the most MANDITORY of targets for any merc worth salt... the only thing worse than them is Their shit subastandard pay... good to meet another davion/steiner merc

Well you must live playing Davion then. Both neighbors are deeply shootable.

@@bthsr7113 indeed, i tend to take most contracts from steiner raselhague and davion...

@@bthsr7113 Rascalhague actually.

God bless Davion and Steiner (They happen to fund me the most.)

@@Dogue83 shut up tube boy. Get Foct'd

@@Dogue83 because I seen the way clanners dress and I'm permanently scared by it's terrible aesthetic. Next time bring some banter that isn't lazy cope

@@Dogue83 clanners dress like 80' coke heads who got bodied by the phone company. Not to mention you couldn't defend a warship from a kamikaze attack. Now all your "cool mechs" are mass produced by Steiner bois who will literally drown the clanners in bullets. Now accept my batchall to fight on the surface of the sun space weirdo.

@@Dogue83 you lost TO. THE. PHONE. COMPANY. argument over space hun. Even if you didn't house Steiner would literally have buried you in mechs they could replace immediately while you were to stupid to realize you didn't have any decent supply lines or ability to match industrial output. You would have been surrounded, cut off, and bled dry. The clans only had success because they attacked a weak nation with a blitzkrieg that was stopped. BY THE PHONE COMPANY. YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT WHEN SPACE AT&T GAVE YOUR GENETIC SUPER SOLIDERS THE BELT.

No no absolutely not the only good guys is house Davion but the bar is really low

@@Lucas-wq9tp House Davion are opportunistic fuckwads. They're far from good guys. As far as the Houses go, there are no good guys, there are only bad guys: the Clans.

@@Lucas-wq9tp And that's only because Davion gets plot armour out the wazoo and are written as the good guys.

The houses are all as terrible as each other but I prefer house marik, I would wager the old capellan are nasty but all houses now adays understand that they must treat their people well, god bless sun-tzu liao

@@lupisvolk2420 thought House Cameron was sort of decent.

Kentares massacre, the SEVERAL times they massacred the civilian portions of the big 'merc companies (Eridani Light Horse and Wolf's Dragoons) to try and intimidate them into staying on their contract with them, etc, etc...

Yeah, and we forget that this will do for the most loyal fanatics and other DCMS lost all will too fight after that crime.

Combine only won at Luthien because Hanse Davion sent the two biggest mercenary companies in the Inner Sphere to help them.

Just don't trust Capellans if you dive into our glorious land of awesome. BattleTech is great

@@feezer06 who are capellans...

@@temp3608 A nation known for their double crossing nature. Their as quick to hire mercenaries to solve a problem as they are to shoot said mercenaries in the back afterwards. You ether keep taking their contracts after taking one or get a lot of holes in your back.

@@elchjol2777 sounds like someone needs to be exterminatused

@@temp3608 Everyone that borders them has tried,they are very hard to put down for good.

@@Dogue83 nah, that would be Steiner and Davion. Kurita is weird. But at least they aren't Liao and the Capellans

@@Dogue83 expect a scout lance

The Grand Dragon solved its firepower issues.

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F to the yeah!

I mean, every Great House is, by our modern day example, an expansionist state that does not respect the principles of democratic or sovereign government unless something compels them too, and as I said in another cmment, House Davion is a military dictatorship with an Arthurian fixation strong enough they sometimes even believe that they're more. Each House has in the past committed acts of aggressive warfare, have stifled the democratic will of planetary populations, and employed weapons of mass destruction on one another to such a scale it almost collapsed interstellar civilization, to the extent that BattleTech is as much an interstellar post-apocalypse setting as it is a space opera or military SF work. But of all those five only one was so depraved morally and ethically to slaughter a planetary population *the old-fashioned way*, simply as punishment for living on the planet where their ruler was shot on the battlefield as a legitimate target of war (as opposed to some kind of act of treachery or assassination). And this was not done by the feuding Mariks and their capacity for murderous infighting, the greedy and powermongering Steiners, the repressive police state of House Liao, or the military-worshipping Davions. It was done by House Kurita, the Draconis Combine. The ruler who did it died an old man, too, he wasn't overthrown for his horrific barbarism, or for staining the honor of so many of his soldiers, driving so many to suicide, etc. No, they remained LOYAL to that monstrous butcher, and the unit that performed the massacre even maintains the memory as a source of PRIDE, as they see it as a demonstration of their devout loyalty that they'd commit such dishonorable and evil deeds at the command of the Coordinator. So, yeah, House Davion aren't angels, and if I call them my favorite House, it's mostly just aesthetics and perhaps some consideration that they are one closest to my personal moral beliefs and ethics. But don't tell me there's no "bad guys", or that House Kurita are on the same moral plane as their neighbors. Maybe that was an intent of the devs at one point, to have a setting of gray, but if that was their intent, they really, really shouldn't have decided to make House Kurita the War Crimes o'Clock faction. Which, in the later Dark Ages time period, *they still are*. The slaughtered Pope of New Avalon's Catholic Church is but one of many testaments to *that*.

Courior here. I bring an open letter from House Steiner to both House Kurita and House Davion post the "Steiner-Davion debacle." I quote: "We don't like either of you. Please accept our kind regards by way of entertainment in the form of the Steiner Scout Squad to both your capital planets in do time. Kind regards: House Steiner. P.S. We still won't like you afterward, but we'll be happy to moderately cool tensions if one or both of you could help us get rid of this Clanner upstart. He's very annoying and we think he got some of his pretentiousness from the Davion side of his blood, while taking after his mother in the 'I'm gonna rule the whole inner sphere even though no one likes me' thing he's got going. Yes, we facetiously paraphrased your attitude you contraction-hating deepspace son of a hexa!" That will be 13 C-Bills.

Sadly, the Clan that invaded the Combine was staffed entirely by belligerent morons.

Clan Smoke Jaguar were creeped out. They're not used to people being happy to see them.

You're thinking of a capellan planet.

@@williamsteimer5871 Clans never reached the Confederation. Even in the Dark Age where there are Clan splinter factions in Marik space.

My King Crab I use in MW5, which I have dubbed "Dakka Dakka", will happily employ its quad UAC/5s to the cause of turning Drac 'Mechs into postmodern art. 😀

Someone get me my Awesome it’s time to PPC these “Gottlose Kiritianer” to death

I managed to jury-rig a KGC-010 in MW5, so let me join in with you.

Sadly, the Hegemony is a thing of the past.

But why house Kurita in specific? They weren't responsible for Amaris, and all the rest are just as guilty of not interfering. If you want to hit a house that's a right shithole, attack the Cappellans. Fuckers brainwash their own citizens and see them as property of the state. Not even the Dragon is that bad.

Okay, this is weird, I can see there is a reply to my comment but I can't see that reply... can anyone else see the comment?

@@Arendelft There should be one I made? I didnt delete it, thats for sure o-o But in short, Cappellans worse than Kurita. Attack them instead. Though in the end neither were responsible for the shit Amaris did

@@shoulderpyro True, they weren't responsible, they sure as frag were responsible for sitting by and doing nothing for the entirety of that war, all the Houses were, would have loved for Kerensky to humble them instead of, well, what he did do. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but they absolutely would have deserved it (and let us not forget the 4 succession wars that came after, Kerensky could have prevented that whole catastrophe as well.) Also, why on Terra can't I see your first comment? I can see that it is there, I just can't see it itself...

@@Dogue83 Dude, are you kidding? They were, if anything, all in at this point. War was all they knew now, most of them didn't have homes left, didn't have families. Star League was absolutely everything they had left, the thought of civilian was repulsive to many of them. They, at this point, would have followed Kerensky to the Gates of Hell, and they would have followed him to humble a mere one of the Great Houses that sat back and watched them suffer as they burnt Amaris to the ground without a second thought. And the fact that it was a Former Nation would only encourage them to fight it given that they sat back and just watched Star League burn... that would not have stayed their hand but instead almost forced it. And the Houses weren't in the "right" for sitting back and letting the Hegemony brutally die in the horrible way it did just because of the final First Lord of Star League, the weren't right to watch billions of people die because of the actions of one foolish man of even a series of foolish and tyrannical First Lords, they'd be right to be glad that House Cameron had come to an end, but that's where that right begins and ends. Sitting back and watching billions of people suffer and under Amaris makes the "Great" Houses no better than all the First Lords of House Cameron, makes them no better than Amaris himself.

Or in universe “Kurita forces had an Atlas, a Highlander, two Chargers, six Dragons, two Centurions, and 11 Panthers and fled before a force consisting of six Catapults armed for anti infantry work, three Jenners, and four Urbanmechs!”

And Knights Defensor shall push them back! Remember New Avalon! So sayith the WarriorPope of New Avalon!

I believe the Clanners and Capellans might disagree on some of those points, particularly willingness to fight with great zeal. Marik and Davion would try to argue that they've kept their states functional (well...mostly) despite imposing a single culture on their subjects. Steiner would boast they don't need to match anyone's zeal, prowess or tactics since they can literally just bury their opponents in equipment. And Comstar-*[REDACTED]*

I'd also posit that the Combine is also the most honest nation of the bunch. They're the only nation the truly owns up to its crimes, instead of excusing them to save face. Like ComS--[REDACTED]

Yes, unfortunately. Several Clans, a few merc commands and Periphery realms have been wiped out in Canon. The Free Worlds League ceased to exist for about 50 years. Great Houses don't die, Cameron aside.

Fire Nation as it was at the height of the Hundred Years War but basically starting that way and, with one brief exception, never ever improving. Just that someone stopped Fire Lord Ozai from his mass murdering. During one of the big conflicts of the setting, when their ruler of the time - Minoru Kurita - went out in a lower ranking officer uniform to a battlefield on an occupied world called Kentares, he got sniped by an enemy soldier. His son and heir Jinjiro ordered the planet's entire population be slaughtered in reprisal. And his soldiers obeyed. When some of them leaked news to the rest of the known galaxy, the leakers were all executed as traitors. After five months, 90% of the planet's population had been exterminated, numbering about 52 million dead. And unlike the rest of the mass death in the setting, it wasn't from nukes or biochem warfare, it was straight up soldiers going street to street across the planet, murdering anyone in their path.

Yes

It's from the BattleTech setting, House Kurita - the Draconis Combine - are one of the five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere. They came up a bit in the short-lived animated series in the 1990s and a lot more in fiction, especially the books "Wolves on the Border" by Robert Charrette, Michael Stackpole's "Warrior" and "Blood of Kerensky" trilogy, and the works of the late Victor Milan. They are, aside from one stretch in the 1990s, the setting's unapologetic bad guys.