Tex Talks the Tieren (It's Not a Gundam)

==Description==
Set in the It's not a Gundam, this is a holovid (Television) seminar-class program, which is profiling in a humorist manner, the characters and machines the Tieren-series of Mobile Suits. This show is a satire of the real life youtube channel, Tex and Black Pants Legion as honoring them.
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==Introduction==
Today we are talking about the Fall of a Tyrant ... and the Return of a King. Today we are talking about the first and arguably greatesst of Battlemechs used by the man who founded the Second Star League.Today we are talking about The Tieren.
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===The Matar and the Mad Man===
Before we discuss the Tieren. We need to talk about context. Some would say poetic context given The Cameron's debut.
 
It begins on Terra in the final days of the Amaris Civil War. Stefan Amaris' coup allowed him to seize the Terran Hegemony, the SDS network, and the HPG network for himself, killing most, but obviously not ALL of the Cameron mainline, hold many members of the other Great Houses hostage, and left the SLDF battered alone and far from home.
 
Of course he didn't expect Old Man Kerensky. Or the Black Watch for that matter. Or that he was stupid. Insane. And stupidly insane.
 
As the walls closed in and the SLDF retook world after world. Meatgrinder after meatgrinder. Stefan grew desperate. First it was scorched earth, second a plethora of WMDs that STARTED at nukes and didn't JUST end with biological warfare straight out of horror films. And third: Wunderwaffen.
 
The most practical being the modular Dragoon Battlemech which helped inspire the creation of The Clans' Omnipod technology.
 
Then there was the Screamer, that like all Land-Air Mechs before the Aries and Shrike flight units were as effective as me trying to convince Lyrans to downsize their tonnage: between Jack-and-Squat.
 
And of course the Matar, 'Amaris Folly'.
 
110 tons of over engineered, overbudget garbage that broke it's legs and toppled over trying to make a slow as molasses first step. It's legacy of being a total fucking failure ensured that the concept of a Superheavy Mech, anything above a 100 tons wasn't considered. Even the NAIS who got to work undoing the last few centuries of Lostech had written off anything and everything Matar-related.
 
While in Clan Space Smoke Jaguar decided to create the watered down derived Stone Rhino as the biggest piece of overcompensation they have.
 
Then one day in the mid-3020s ... A Marian Hegemony raiding party picked the wrong planet.
 
The Junkers were a people that could make Royal-grade gear. In a cave. With a box of scraps. I could attest to that. My Awesome's GN PPCs and Ahab Reactor were something they whipped up on order.
 
They had been raided before. They were engineers, not soldiers. Their people were as valuable a resource as the stuff they macgyvered together. But now they were ready. Now they had someone to lead them.
 
And his name was Cameron.
 
His exact origins are unknown, especially the source of his advanced technology. More than one theory claimed that The Exarch was a fraud. Fighting words for the Eridani and Highlanders. Whatever the case actions spoke louder than words.
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===The Iron Man===
The Battle of Junkers would be the site of the first battle where a Superheavy Battlemech was fielded. Exarch would command the battle on the surface and in space in the Tieren, who would be his primary Battlemech even as he debuted other weapons as the Junker-Marian War raged.
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===Enter the Tieren===
MSJ-06II-A Tieren Ground Type. 18 Meters. 120 Tons. Battery Powered.
Yes. You heard me: Battery Power. Energizer Bunny - 1; GM - 0. In fact many Battlemechs Exarch unveiled used Batteries. Instead of Fusion, Fuel Cell, and ICE.
 
The design itself was radical. Beyond batteries it used hydraulics to 'push' while normal Myomers 'pulled'. Myomers are stronger but if you ask anyone anywhere who does labor it if it's better to push or pull then 9 out of 10 it's the first one. The fact that heat is less an issue helps solve other issues.
 
Armor is made out of E-Carbon. A LOT of E-Carbon. It made the majority of the weight for god's sake! It's shields had enough for a medium Battlemech each. The cockpit was not in the head for that reason. It was buried in the armored torso with it's pilot wearing a VR set wired to sensors and cameras all across the mech. A Tieren was bulky, not blind.
 
It's primary weapon is an AC/2 which some may say is surprisingly underwhelming. Second was it's fuck-off missile launcher. Bazooka was a fitting name. I've heard it be called an Arrow IV but mechtechs who knows missileboats say it ain't. And of course its a Carbon Blade: a bladed mech-sized bladed brass knuckle that's become THE weapon of choice for any MechWarrior who has hands on a Charger or Hunchback and wants to throw hands.
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====By Air====
The MSJ-06II-C Tieren High Mobility Type had a Battlemech Jump Unit. Because nothing said fuck you than a 120 Tons of death doing a highlander on your Jenner. They are rare these days. Nowadays any MechWarrior who wants to fly can get a cheap Shrike or Strike Pack or one of their Aerojock buddies to refit their ASFs with Sub-Flight Systems.
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====By Land====
To make Lyrans even more inadequate the MSJ-06II-C/B Tieren High Mobility Type B decided that if you your mech to be as fast as a Hovertank well ... You BECOME the hovertank. It's legs have had two entire hover systems built into them. When it was introduced hovertech makers had not just the military but mech developers banging at the door for something that lets an Assault keep pace with Lights.
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====By Space====
While the Aries is credited for proving the viability of LAMs on Sulla by 'The King's Dance'. Historically the Tieren was the first display of AMBAC. The MSJ-06II-E Tieren Space Type used water. Yes, water as propellant. It and the use of Ball proved to the Inner Sphere there was place for other craft not ASF or Dropship in space combat.
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====Have big guns, will travel====
To prove that the Tieren wasn't JUST a giant metal beatstick we had the MSJ-06II-LC Tieren Long-Range Cannon Type and MSJ-06II-AC Tieren Antiaircraft Cannon Type, the artillery and anti-aircraft models specifically. The first had a fucking LONG TOM for a head and weighing in at impressive 142 Tons empty just to say it can.
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There are many, MANY more variants and descending models. The Tieren Taozi, the Kyitwo, and All-Region types. And in some ways the Tieren's successor: the Ahead and it's own models. But we are talking about a brutal and simple machine that has stood the test of time. I'll cover them later. Eventually. If I still need Beer Money...
===Conclusion===
There is not much to say. Or that I CAN say about the Tieren. Despite what the Capellans say the Tieren and the Cameron who piloted it, represented the end of an era. And the start of a new one. The Mech and the Mechwarrior shook the Periphery and Inner Sphere. The Age of War. The Star League Era. The Succession Wars. They started and ended with a shift. Someone or something that helped light the fire.Was Exarch a Cameron? Who know for sure. But he was an Iron Man, with an Iron Will, ... and he was what the Inner Sphere needed.
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