i wonder why this took so- GOOD LORD

@joaosturza

12 күн бұрын

It's Aurora borealis

@crownfinger943

12 күн бұрын

My eyes shot out my head when I saw this

@georgeorwell8501

12 күн бұрын

Great vidya

@franciscoadasilvajr4514

8 күн бұрын

WORTH IT, BABYYY!!

Session 0 DM: "Welcome to our 2nd Lancer campaign. We are playing core rules with the KTB expansion. So to start, you need to pick a House as your starting employer. We have House Liao, House Kurita, House Davion, House Marik, House Steiner." Players: "Wait...What???"

@rodioncantacuzene6639

10 күн бұрын

Remember to pay the telephone company 👀

@bthsr7113

3 күн бұрын

Also some weird Harrison guys, who won't shut up about this guy or guys called Kerensky, piloting super mechs.

@jaypax

3 күн бұрын

@@bthsr7113 Camp fire at the end of the day in an undisclosed location and planet. Lancer A: "Kerensky? Ain't he the one that survived HA hit squads and got his people off planet and disappeared towards the Galactic Rim? " Lancer B: "Yeah, that's the guy." Lancer A: .............. Lancer A: "Never heard of him." Then slowly turns to look into the fire and takes a long sip on his tin cup. On Lancer A's suit is a patch with the word "EXODUS".

Cradle: "Hey you wanna be part of our utopian civilization" Karrakis: "You merely adopted civilization. We were born in it, molded by it..."

this guy is basically the Bricky of Lancer

@VallornDeathblade

11 күн бұрын

"TOM PARKINSON MORGAN! YOU HACK!" ~ Zak

@kronos661

9 күн бұрын

Except a good version of him.

Nearly an hour of a funny nerd explaining the space knights in mechs. Love this channel.

Calendula: "I'm banishing you to the shadow realm." "Nooo-" "...Much better!"

@werewolfjedi38

12 күн бұрын

Welcome to the backrooms

@SaintlyDemon

11 күн бұрын

Good ol' Spooky Dave. Gotta love Spooky Dave.

I love that they just Ignore the 3 pillars and there isn’t anything that 3rd Committee can do about it. It’s just perfect.

@Steampunk_Kak

12 күн бұрын

I mean, Don't forget about the grey lmao. When it comes down to it, Union will easily look the other way if it get's there goals accomplished. All for uniting humanity!

@necktiefox2917

11 күн бұрын

Doesn't mean they're happy about it. Or that they wouldn't pounce on kharakis the micro second they don't need to rely on them any more. Or that the Baronies don't consider the feeling mutual. After all, the Fourth Colum and deniable mercenaries exist, and i'm just saying, H0rus can't be supplying ALL of the guns the Sanjaks and Ungratefuls have...

"Karakus is the seat of Humanity, Earth fell", I mean if one faction of humanity is capable of mega structures ala ring worlds, then it is deserving of the "Throne of humanity"

LETS GO I've been so excited to learn about the Trade Baronies. The Knight Houses in 40k are my favorite factions so that Feudal Mech vibe is so far up my alley I'm so excited.

@Zaktact

12 күн бұрын

Imperials knight's is what initially drew me to the system. Karrakin Trade Baronies sunk the hook on getting into the setting.

@anguscampbell3020

12 күн бұрын

​@@Zaktact Hey man I really like your content but you do need to do some editing of your scripts/videos. Maybe cause you're talking very off the cuff and its hard to edit stuff, especially when you had a good take but here are some errors that are just irksome. Your enthusiasm is great though! Your intro to Lancer video is what got me into the universe and its quickly become my favorite scifi setting =). So here are some things I noticed, I hope you find this helpful. Its not meant to be mean, its just some editing notes. 12:40 "can be predicted years in advanced." You mean advance. There are lots of little mistakes like this, its ok. I get it, its a bit like finding typos. But if you're not careful these sorts of mistakes can add up and make a video difficult to parse. You can't just throw -wise in as a suffix where ever you want. An example of this is 13:08 "union has to respect nobility-wise." I'm not even sure what you mean, I assume you mean that union has to respect the nobilities' requests as well. At 16:42 you say "The planets even under lightspeed-wise being very close" this sentence is also nearly entirely unintelligible. I think you're trying to say that "even at lightspeed they are very close" so just say that. Then at 10:15 you say "internal politics-wise". I can't really make out what you mean at all, I guess there's some aspects of internal politics that are concerning. At 34:00 "Black Witch-wise" so on and so forth, its a bad habit you have. If you catch yourself about to add -wise anywhere stop, take a breath and rephrase that sentence is my advice. Your videos will benefit from doing this. I just want to point out that in 1984, part of Newspeak was to just slap -wise onto any word to turn it into an adjective. If you've read 1984 you should know Newspeak was an intentional attempt to limit thought and expression and dumb down the population. You are unintentionally replicating it here, just meditate on this a bit. Sorry to be harsh. 25:25 "Again some people are looking across internally in the concern." This is unintelligible, I have no idea what you're trying to express. I actually had to stop watching because it became difficult to follow. Overall good video, I hope this is helpful. Its not meant to be mean.

@Zaktact

12 күн бұрын

@anguscampbell3020 Heyo, scripts-wise (a joke) I'm not the best. It is honestly one of my weak points when it comes to video production. The use of "wise" has slipped it's way into my general grammar similar to "like" being used to compare something. This doesn't excuse it, especially if it confuses and irritates. Though when using it, it generally alluded to a summation of that subject. "Nobility-wise" meaning virtually everything involving the nobility. The nobles, their property, their traditions, their bloodlines, their internal politics. There are even more lazy uses of it and slips. "Lightspeed-wise" being a good example of a slip up. "Advanced" was a slip of the tongue I didn't notice till WAY after. "Again some people are looking across internally in the concern." Meant to be clarification that it wasn't the totality of the concerns military goals outsiders were investigating, but the internal goals within the concern. The physical systems and the major houses inside them. This is just really poor wording on my part though. In short, I hope this cleared some of the confusion and showed that this comment and it's suggestion are noted. Not the first comment I've gotten that I've listened. I will admit though, the 1984 Newspeak comparison threw me.

@anguscampbell3020

12 күн бұрын

@@Zaktact Your videos are really great-wise and I think you're funny. Enthusiasm-wise, double plus good for the setting :P Your analogies are also great. The newspeak comment was a bit of a joke, hope it didn't go too far lol. I imagine its hard putting together and summing up this lore. The way they write it can be dry, and dense but the content is great. Its good to have other communicators like you come along and share it in a less dry manner. Your off the cuff script has drawbacks and benefits, I imagine good analogies spring to mind while you're recording which would be hard to replicate with a script. And part of the fun is seeing how much you just enjoy the lore and the spontaneity you exhibit. This will come at the expense of intelligibility though, and make your job editing more difficult. I don't know, what the right answer is honestly. Your presentation style is clearly working already so maybe my suggestions are best ignored.

@tomarmadiyer2698

11 күн бұрын

​@@Zaktact Keep doing you There are entire books about style, but there's MLA APA Chicago-something.... And this is KZread where the individual is appreciated more than the style. Style is a guide, an outline, something to follow. But you my guy? You have STYLE. A style. Your style. Take the good, leave the bad love yourself, and moderation in all things, including moderation.

( 38:01 ) poor Egregorians. The only other sapient species in the universe, wiped out. Dead. By sec-comm’s hands. (This is me subtly asking for an Egregorian video 🙏 )

@MRx36000

10 күн бұрын

Lets not be subtle about it, this lore video would be awesome!!! :D

@WhisperingWisp357

8 күн бұрын

I second this!

“Wake up, babe! New Zaktact Lancer video!” *And it’s a big one*

that Drake fade in at 36:04 really got me

The surprise transition to a federal monarchy with no major civil war caught me off guard the most in the video. Thanks for the video.

@nate3285

2 күн бұрын

There was NOT enough time in the video to go into detail on the Dynasticlade- and you are very right, it is incredible no civil war broke out! But to expand on why: 1) Tyrannus was an unquestionable authority after winning the succession war, one that no-one wanted to even attempt to fight. 2) Calendula (the namesake of the frame), Tyrannus’ daughter, reigned over the transition- and reigned well! 3) The major houses, the forces that could conceivably wage a civil war if they weren’t scared shitless of Tyrannus, got a pretty good deal out of the Dynasticlade, gaining more power since they would no longer be beholden to a monarch. And 4) After the long low Passacaglian period and the succession war that followed, there was little love left for the crown. A lot of people, noble and ignoble, were happy to see it gone. If you couldn’t tell, I do recommend reading the field guide.

FORTY MINUTES?! AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?! IN THIS PART OF THE INTERNET?! LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR CHANNEL?!

The CALENDULA is my favorite mech, it's so fun and complex; Shred, CC, DPR + so tanky. And may the Passions have mercy upon your enemies, if you find a BROOD-SIBLING’S MOLT.

40 minutes of pure unadulterated Zachary Tactical content? Its a Christmas miracle in June!

When you hear house of stone “ROCK AND STONE”

Yes! Inject more Lancer lore into my veins!

I dont know why but this line, "Karakis is the seat of humanity. Earth fell" Is like HEAT bro

@bthsr7113

3 күн бұрын

I wouldn't agree with how Karakis runs, but for their perspective, it is a perfect summation of why they shouldn't answer to Union, and should run the show themselves.

Mega engineering and mechs to hell with learning about union I want to learn more about these folks

After reading the whole KTB book because one of my players wanted to be from the Baronies, yeah, a 40 minute video is nice and short. Add on the core book and I've read...what must have been *literal* hundreds of pages of lore.

You sold me on the Trade Baronies. They make the sausage Union needs to survive. With the constant reminders that Lancer is supporting be optimistic, I probably am not supposed to like them, but they are honest in their evil, and I can respect that more than a post-scarcity society that is still dealing with modern day problems.

@kennyburkamp4054

9 күн бұрын

Honestly there not even bad guys other then the hyper militaristic political party that the house of stone is under that tend to do questionable stuff and very bad things every one else just have there own agendas and goals including stuff they think is best for the nation and its people some of which do coincides some what with each other frankly I am not necessarily support of a probably ment to be good guys your suppose to want win well I do sympathize with them I don't think what there immediately going for is good or for the best I am all in on the house of remembrance and there liberal party more moderate progressive stance on how to not treat none nobles as second class citizens and soften the divide between them and make some real changes with out getting rid of the nobility or the existing power structure but working with and modifying it well still retaining the culture and society and making more accepting of relationships between noble and non noble people of the society that are not just working relationships the only problem is they have the some of the lest political power with only control of one major house and no real intentional support by union compared to the ungratefuls this just makes it more fun tho to root for them and see how they come out on top somehow because they are kinda the underdog in the game and they got my favorite major house company crimson memory such a cool name

@AndrewChumKaser

Күн бұрын

Post scarcity societies are going to be plagued by issues even more than scarce ones. When man has nothing to do but busy himself with bread and circuses, he'll find new ways of upending the status quo.

@135forte

Күн бұрын

@@AndrewChumKaser The status quo is that your every need and whim is met at a moment's notice. Once they are safe and fed, humans tend to stop caring about much else. Even if someone does want to shake things up, getting backing is hard, especially if your goal isn't to take responsibility for caring for the masses. Punching Ted to take his sandwich isn't as fun when he can just immediately get medical care and a new sandwich at no cost

THE 30+ MINUTES THRESH HOLD HAS BEEN PASSED. A NEW ERA OF ZAK HAS BEGUN

Selling Ghengis MK1 licenses to albatros operatives is based and justified.

I love the use of the Nebulous OSP cargo ships for the wake traders.

Thanks for the video lancer man

@nathankiefer9323

12 күн бұрын

Thanks for the man, lancer video

LETS GOOO Been waiting for this one for nearly a year now lol

I love the world of Lancer so much! Thanks for showing it off and allowing myself and others to find it and learn how cool it is!

The claims about Throne Karraka's size comes from a fanmade World-Anvil page. I looked through the Field Guide and couldn't find a concrete sqaure-kilometre figure about Throne Karraka. Not saying that Throne Karraka can't get that big, but just an FYI for those who don't have the actual Field Guide. Great work on the vid Zaktract!!! EDIT: ignore me, the figures are in the core book

@Zaktact

11 күн бұрын

I actually grabbed it from the Core Book, not the Field Guide. Page 387 talking about Fulcrum Worlds.

@great-wall-of-nowhere9377

11 күн бұрын

@@Zaktact oh shit, my bad chief

Waking up to a 40 minute zaktact lancer vid is like waking up on Christmas morning

it didn't even feel like 40 minutes. those are the best videos.

This was absolutely incredible. I had no idea just how fascinating and multilayered the trade baronies were. Thank you so much for this monster of a video and for all the other ones you've made so far.

Honestly two hours would have been a great watch

Great video as always man. You make a lot of this lore easy to digest and it honestly makes me want to play as a minor noble trying to get his house higher in the ranks.

Man, I love your style. I'm sitting at work listening to your video -- it's the vibe.

God I LOVE this video You put so much effort into it and it shows So excited to learn more about the baronies

Code Gease eat your heart out. This is what nobles with mechs should look like!

I HAVE BEEN DYING FOR THIS ONE !!! Dragon lancer does alot with them, but your videos have that editing i adore !!! So much easier to understand, thank you soo much !!!

Ah yes. The knights of 40K What’s that? This is the Karrakin Trade Baronies from Lancer? Oh. Eh. Potato Tomato or whatever. Basically the same.

You do what you need to do to keep the content flowing as you see fit. Would I have watched a 2 hour video? Absolutely! Would I want the sacrifices on you that would require? Absolutely not! Post when you can, as you can because to me, it's all gold!

17:55 showing the imperial palace is fitting

Fun fact: the passacaglia is also a type of musical composition, possibly of Spanish origin ^^

40 MINUTES?! welp, now i have something to listen to while nyoooming in Warframe

Hurray! Been looking forward to this video!

This was super fun to watch through and learn about. Thank you!

Ive been so pumped for this one karrakin is my favourite faction love the space knights

This is perfect! my next session will have my players going to the Karrakin Trade Baronies

Hey, I've been waiting for this.

I loved the video ❤ and I can't wait for the many others coming (especially the video about 3rd com ❤)

This was one of my favorite videos you've produced so far, I can see why it took so long to produce this video. I can't wait till the next one.

So the baronies are the Mechanicum to Union's Imperium?

@Zaktact

12 күн бұрын

Not a bad comparison. A client state which the larger power relies upon for a majority of it's industry, holding onto ancient inherited tech, with it's own military. Fits quite well.

@thesatelliteslickers907

2 күн бұрын

with the added intrigue of the increadibly strained relation between them that the mechanicus and imperim simply cannot have, being a "good guy" faction and a "bad guy" faction forced to work so closely simply from how much they rely on the othee

God i love Lancer lore so much. I hope someday i can find the right group to play it

I've been looking forward to this one!

Holy crap, Planetside 2 trailer background footage. Nice.

Finally! I have watched your other lancer videos like three times now in lack of more good content lancer

Omg yes i love long form video. Thanks for this

This was incredible 🤩 Absolutely fantastic job mate. Man I can't wait to play some Lancer 😃

Respect. Loving the videos mate, the editing is solid, love the little touches to other games and such.

These videos have been awesome! Thanks for the help, planning on running a lancer game next week.

I love these videos so much, it’s thanks to this that I even know lancer exists

Take all the time you need. Love your stuff. Plus, hey - more videos means more content!

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR LETS GOOO

Such a good video.

I love them so much!

Nice and informative round-up, thank you, mr. Lancer-man Very much interested in hearing about KTB religions, it's pretty neat from what I know

@Zaktact

9 күн бұрын

A real interesting non-centralized... something. Hard to summarize the millions of versions across the KTB. It is really cool though.

Incredible video

UNGRATEFUL MENTION! WOO!

3:53 in case someone was wondering, these ship are from the game Nebulous fleet command.

Keep 'em comming! :D

I'm currently playing a comp/con who was a political, and military advisor for a duke of House of Stone. Baronic Intelligence deemed this comp/con as a threat, and he was shipped off to forge world adjacent to Free Sanjak. He was freed by a HORUS cell, and given a Salamander (homebrew Kobold alt in Expanded and Enhanced Combat). He was picked up by the Ungratefuls after being a free intelligence, causing havok within the forgeworld, and was deemed to be a valuable enough asset to be a captain of a company. Shit went down, and now he's on the run. AWOL, and in the pocket of a UIB handler in exchange for a life free of conflict.

Omg Dude, Please make more on the Trade Baronies. I LOVE fuedal societies in a hyper futuristic state! Also.please make a public discord! I'd love to takk and speculate with people who also love this

Best channel by far

When you segued into the colony ships I thought you were about to drop a raid shadow legends on us. Thanks for keeping away from that stuff, but with vids this detailed you’ve definitely earned the right to cash in on that lol.

40 minutes of Lancer Lore from Zaktact and it's not even my birthday. 😩 Looking forward to learning more about te baronies after they've been mentioned in previous videos, so time to dive into this vid immediately!

Noble Houses, expansive medieval-like cultures, knight mechs and a claim on humanity similar to the claim of Byzantium over the Roman legacy? Oh yeah, this is my kind of stuff.

Oh boy this is the longest lore vid so far. And also thank you I'm about to introduce KTB in my star system

Oh, glorious day, we have been fed well my brothers and sisters!

There is so much good lore, sometimes i forget that there is a game attached to it

Bro inspired me to buy the books.

God you did such a good job

You can tell SSC didn't build the Orchis because it has hooves instead of creepy feet.

We're getting an HOUR OR TWO??!??! YAY!! I like how this sits between 40k and Dune. Coriolis Rpg is similar but without the mechs. I enjoy these and look forward to the big ones!

what this says to me, is that the number 1 most pressing issue for the union, as well as its greatest source of potential issues. is its heavy reliance on the baronies for reaources. as it stands they cannot opperate without them, which means they have no leverage to enforce demands for them to respect the pillars, but without that. they have a major source of potential political unrest completely unplugged

With a bit more unity, closing the tech gaps could make the Baronies THE dominant powers. If they get on par with Union and the megacorps best, they might decide to do away with Union, and SSC is already trying to cozy up to the Baronies. Because no other faction seems to be able to achieve planetary and solar cracking materials. So Union has to increase the tech edge or find alternative material extraction on vast scale to dilute Karokan power. The biggest thing holding the Baronies back is their neo feudalism, but with this level of material wealth that the other big boys rely on.... that only hurts them so much.

I imagine like union asking for some resources: "So we neeed to build a few stations" "Yeah sure how many" "Like 3-" "3000 sure no problem we can make it in a week" P.s. fun fact; it is estimated that we could dismantle pluto whithin 60 years with current tecnology and self replicating robots, cool.

Fun fact! Orcus is based on White Glint from Armored Core 4 and 4A!

My lowd I thought this was 25 mins or so but damnn. Lovin it tho

AND HE HAS DELIVERED!!!!

Hell yes!

Fuck yeah! Capitalism and giant robots! I like your funny words, magic man! Also, 40+ min of zaktact? Pure bliss.

Oh yeah let's gooooo🎉🎉

I see more Zaktact covering Lancer, I hit like

cool

Now that I know more about the Baronies, their mech offerings become even sadder. The face of their stables is a reskin of the first SSC mech in the base book. Their special ops mech is a reskin of a base book Horus mech, And both their artillery and off tank are just SSC designed. There isn't a true statted KTB mech yet, and that these are the most KTB offerings available feels indicative of there being a roadblock of creativity in the IRL design process. This is one of the most important factions in a mech game oozing personality, and there is not mech that is truly theirs for the player to enjoy. It makes me worried about the potential to continue developing the setting and game. What are the Aunic people going to have for mechs? What WON'T they have? I could be very wrong, but it feels concerning.

lancer realy is peak fiction.

Black witch made me think the devs played warframe, Limbo- sorry, Calendula removed all doubt also, I totally would have watched the 2 hour version

Only problem is that FirstComm and SecComm doesn’t actually exist, there’s not even a clear line drawn between them. These Committees were named post-TriComm’s revolution, making a statement of “We will do what FirstComm did, and what SecComm failed to do.” Despite there being no clear distinction between First and Second.

I love lancer so much. Just a cake with a Slight Golden outer layer, and a rotten core inside lol.

LETS GOOOOOOO THANK YOU KING, Keep up the excellent work, Do you think you will make videos on cain once it comes out too?

@Zaktact

11 күн бұрын

The art of Cain (and of course Abaddon working on it) has caught my attention. I'd have to see if the lore grabs me though. Definitely am giving it an earnest look when it comes out.

Still need that Pegasus video