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BATTLETECH: Clan Wolverine

Big Red-40TECH

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As per the youtube members of this channel, we have produced the #ClanWolverine video, and done so respectfully. In this #Battletech / #Mechwarrior video, I cover as much as I can, going over a basic introduction as to how the #Clans came to be, before going into the history of #ClanWolverine, which is found in only a few sourcebooks, and mostly comes from the novel #BetrayalofIdeals. #Wolverine didn’t exist for long, so instead of talking wholly about instutitions, it’s really the story of #SarahMcEvedy, #FranklinHallis, and #NicholasKerensky. The #SLDF would probably be ashamed to see what the clans were before they left.

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Alright, time to delve into the video.

This one's really long, I hope you all enjoy it. It's not my usual kind of video, so I hope so.

Also, resources are found here. If you want to learn more, PLEASE read for yourself, it is worth it:

Betrayal of Ideals: The most complete piece of Wolverine lore
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Some additional information can be discovered in Operation Klondike: (Which is on sale as of me posting this video, though temporarily)
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To learn about the Minnesota Tribe, there are references found in:

The First Succession War:
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The Second Succession War:
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Redemption and Malice appears to still be locked to Kickstarter Members.

#SLDF #StarLeague #Exodus #Exodus2 #Inner Sphere #DraconisCombine #Comstar #WordofBlake #Clans #Ilclan #ClanInvasion #SuccessionWars #MinnesotaTribe #Clave #TheClaves #Kerensky #Widowmaker #StarLeagueDefenseForce #SnowRaven

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20 Comments

@BazztheBazz 4 years ago (edited)

I think there's a tragic irony in the fact that after Nicholas Kerensky died, Clan Wolf started to implement the very same openness between castes and tactical flexibility that they helped destroy the Wolverines for using. And that by low-key adopting a lot of the things the Wolverines had done before them, the Wolves were able to repeatedly succeed where the other Clans failed. So in a way, Nicholas's own chosen Clan proved him wrong in the long run.

@QuillpointEtcetera 4 years ago (edited)

I'm imagining Anastasius Focht passing down orders to the Wolverine pilots before Tukayyid: "Announce that your mech is called a Wolverine so that the Clanners get angry at you and start chasing you. Once they do, retreat toward one of the kill zones that we've prepared."

@BoisegangGaming 4 years ago

Honestly, the most tragic thing is that Clan Wolverine was massacred and genocided for nothing. It didn't prevent the Clans from developing a path away from N. Kerensky's vision. It didn't prevent the Clans from falling into internal strife centuries down the road.

It was a senseless, useless war that did nothing but cement Kerensky's legacy of being a controlling madman.

@MAD-3R_Marauder 4 years ago

Outlawing something even to the point of not allowing to be spoken about, only shows how much you are afraid about said thing and Nicholas is a prime example of this.

@Gigas0101 4 years ago

How to beat the clans:
Step 1 - Pilot a Wolverine
Step 2 - There is no step 2 you already won.

@twohorsesinamancostume7606 4 years ago

Funny how quickly "honor" falls by the wayside the second one of the Clans outshines the other. It's almost comical how childishly petty the Clans get when they don't get their way, even when it's their own damn fault.

@metalmadness5851 4 years ago

Every dictator chooses a scapegoat, be it ideology, religion, or former allies, and then attempts to purge them. In every case, this leads to their downfall.

@blue95kun 4 years ago

Only one battlecry is required.

"WOLVERINES!"

@jamessmith5666 4 years ago (edited)

You're right. The Hallis line did survive through descendants in the Inner Sphere. It is said this line did not join Kerensky's exodus. Two such members were indeed part of Com Star, they were Bordon Hallis and his cousin Jodi Hallis, they both fought and died against Clan Steel Viper and Clan Nova Cat respectively in the battle of Tukayyid. The warriors of both Clans would go on to hunt and kill Bordon's children, Kristen and Leonard. The last surviving Hallis, would then face off against both Clan stars on the planet Zurich in the Federted Commonwealth while fighting for the famed Eridani Light Horse. Did Andrew die? it is not certain. He may have survived and his identity changed with the help of Comstar. This is the story presented in the Mechwarrior Second Edition adventure; Bloodright

@dreammirrorbrony1240 4 years ago (edited)

My group of players always found this story a truly great premise for a battletech campaign for surviving Clan Wolverine forces that managed to escape. In our timeliness, they not only survived but prospered far beyond what the clans feared, far south of the Inner Sphere. Ironically, their existence was primarily held back by their bitter & never-ending hatred for the clans.

@BCWasbrough 4 years ago

This is where Things Go Wrong for the Clans. This is where Nicholas K proves he has more in common with Stefan Amaris than his father. This, like every good story from the Battletech universe, is a tragic one.

@mikhielthorsson6033 4 years ago

I can remember reading all the books,novels, and lore back when Battle Tech first came out. And the one that has always stayed as a constant was that Nicholas Kerensky was the egotistical maniacal snake in the grass that would do and did anything for power above all else including the myth of the so oft touted honor of his new society. Jaimie Wolf in one of novels makes mention of the nuke that Clan Widowmaker set off, Natasha Kerensky said that it was a shame she could never live down.

@archerbascha8757 4 years ago

Clan Wolverine makes the Wolf's Dragoons look like try hards.

@vali6717 4 years ago

If I am ever going to build a force from an existent clan mech list I will have to consider Ghost Bear, but I will always be a Wolverine at heart.

@mr6johnclark 4 years ago

Anything Associated with the name "Wolverine" is something you never mess with.
Either a bunch of Teens with AK's hunting Russians in the US in the 1980s.
OR
A short canadian with claws built into his hands.
This clan is no execption.

@SulliMike23 4 years ago

I refuse to believe that Clan Wolverine is gone. After the Minnesota Tribe’s appearance and disappearance, they had to have gone somewhere.

@GovGenMarcusKerensky 4 years ago

As a long fan of Clan Wolverine, having played them exclusively when I table top gamed, as well as writing an obscene amount of fan fic about what happened to them after they disappeared, this was an AMAZING video. Thank you so much for the care and effort you put towards this project.

@justicier10-7 3 years ago

This was really cool backstory! Always cracked me up that this clan was so hated that the clan variant of the Wolverine battlemech was not allowed to carry THAT name with the IIC designation... instead, the clans named it the Conjurer to completely avoid any reference to the Not-Named clan.

@ivanjimenez01-IJ 4 years ago

I read the book Betrayal of Ideals it was a very good book to read. In a twist irony Nicholas had every mention and history of Clan Wolverine erased. But kept a personal diary of what really happened to that clan. It was Phehan Kell (hope I spell it right), after becoming Khan of the Wolf clan did he read the account and learn the sad truth.

@mikewaterfield3599 4 years ago (edited)

From a lore standpoint, they are probably the most interesting faction imaginable. The best of the SLDF, combined with the best of Clan ways free of Jim Johnes Kerensky’s influence.