Hi hello, searching for anime mechs, cybernetics, genetic alteration, top of the line luxury brands, and very questionable business practices? Well Smith-Shimano Corpro is right for you; and you might be right for it. Really hard to sell a company that runs a eugenics program.
Of our Chassis Line Up we have:
Black Witch - Magnets break a PC
Death's Head - Snoipin's a good job mate
Dusk Wing - Dragonball Z
Metal Mark - In and Out
Monarch - MISSILE
Mourning Cloak - Teleports behind you
Swallowtail - Nuh uh
CHAPTERS
00:00 - INTRO
00:13 - SSC?
00:46 - SSC HISTORY
03:28 - SSC PRODUCTS
05:31 - CONSTELLAR WORLDS
07:32 - GENETIC PRODUCT
09:33 - CDC
10:18 - CONSTELLAR CITIZENS
11:30 - CONSTELLAR CONGRESS
11:59 - CONSTELLAR MIDNIGHT
12:21 - BLACK WITCH
12:42 - DEATH'S HEAD
13:17 - DUSK WING
14:21 - METAL MARK
15:20 - MONARCH
15:50 - MOURNING CLOAK
17:55 - SWALLOWTAIL
18:39 - OUTRO
All the licenses will have their individual videos at a later date. This was just a general overview.
Patreon: / zaktact
SSC does not sell people; according to its marketing, it sells potential.
I have to remember to mention it in the manufacturer videos one of these times. LANCER is a ttrpg where you play as elite mech pilots in the far future of the Orion arm.
There's also a void warship game attached! 3 of the big 4 corporations also produce voidships with the 4th slot being taken by a shipmaker from the Baronies iirc.
There is however at least one SSC ship in the book which is fun@@ShadowfireReality
I once made an SSC Death's Head pilot that was basically an influencer used by SSC as a way to appeal to the young-adult population, which of course was the most bio-engineered catgirl thing in the cosmos, that in the free time smashed herself with alcohol and nicotine because she couldn't cope with the fact that she had to go into battle dressed like that as contract policy. She piloted a Death's Head because she could be as far away from everyone else as possible and hopefully never have to interact with her co-workers.
Ooh, that's amazing.
Soooo, Im stealing this idea for some of my games, This sounds like a great mid level boss character that you could convince to become an ally for the final battle.
Inevitably, someone makes an SSC catgirl.
@@KillerOrca It has been the meme since the day came out.
As a one off character, that's a great idea. I'd kind of love to do a 'Starship Operators but your Lancers' campaign myself. If only for the corporate mandated drama non-sense driving all the PC's up the wall. (also I just know a friend of mine will make 'that one fool who totally buys the propaganda')
I find it funny that so many people focus on SSC's potential for catgirls in space, but they probably have The Thing sitting in an illegal genetics lab somewhere.
They probably have the while damn SCP website squirreled away somewhere. Probably Opol.
Monarch: "The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't."
My "We don’t sell people" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
One of my characters (their chassis is a Monarch) says they like Smith-Shimano Corp not because of the luxury factor, but due to the unique engineering philosophy behind the designs of the chassis. They also bought cat ears alongside their chassis so do with that what you will.
Thats the one side of Monarch pilots. The other side are all Project Wingman nerds.
Are the cat ears for there mech, there hardsuit or for themselves
@@kennyburkamp4054 Self-genetic modification.
@@kennyburkamp4054 I would assume the answer to that was 'Yes.'
Every time you said “we don’t sell people!” I was waiting for the “Any more” Great vid!
That sly marbo killed me!
Wouldn’t be the first
Yeah, he does that. A lot.
Sly Marbo doesn’t kill you. He just takes away your life privileges
Sly Marbo once threw a grenade and killed 5 enemies, then the grenade exploded
I do love the idea of playing something like Atlas as a character who treats their mech as just a major cybernetic enhancement
It can work. Jetstream Sam's cybernetic augments are only an exoskeleton with his only cybernetic replacement being his right arm that he lost.
I have a character who is an Atlas "pilot" who is actually just an android who integrated Atlas equipment into their chassis.
Mourning cloak: "Don't worry guys! I've got this!" Rolls 3 of the same number *AAAAA-*
SSC: We're Technically Not Slavers SSC: Building Better Cargo Cults SSC: Evolve or Die
I want to make a campaign centered around union sending in some lancers onto Opal and just fill it with terrifying monstrosities and other terrible experiments for the players to fight now Also you cannot tell me that SSC doesn’t make furry gene mods, because that is absolutely a thing they would be doing
So your players are just gonna reenact those 40k meat canyon videos?
@@JamesSmith-zt4kd no, if fact it would probably be the opposite
@@Pixelcat607 Haha!
On discord, the Narrative Designer of the game said that catgirls, specifically, have been banned by Union. Maybe it was they who brought Opal to its doom
@@lucaballarati9694What about catboys?
the fact I picked SSC as a ex-scientist for my first character without prior knowledge as to how "interesting" they are really tells me a lot about my thought process (I don't think)
Well, you could play into that. The one legitimately ignorant of how horrible the company is scientist who is capable enough that HR quietly works to keep them from being disillusioned with the company.
Hey i did the same thing! (Except for my 4th character lol) Ex-SSC engineer that now tries to inflict her team with ideas too crazy for even the SSC middle management to stomach. Didnt think catgirls and augmented reality was on the table when i made the character, but here we are!
I mean, on a corporation level, building better people might be SSC's passion, but it's not their only profession. They need Chassis R&D, Omninet coders, license lawyers, janitors, etc. Plenty of room for qualified people out of the loop of the more unique dark side of SSC. Though the higher they are placed, the odds of them knowing that the corpo is doing seriously sketchy stuff rise exponentially.
I picked ssc for my first character and then found out you could be a cat girl because ssc. My dm thought it so funny he let me turn her into a cat girl.
I imagine that the Mourning Cloak's teleport looks kinda like Loki's timeslipping. It's technically harmless but it looks and feels like they're being ripped apart.
14:00 another interesting thing about that metavault raid, if i understand correctly, horus sent out a message to a bunch of people basically saying "raid a metavault lol", in the hopes of getting the tech from inside (page 406 of the full lancer core book), but it leaked onto the net and ssc got a hold of it. So the dusk wing is basically a horus mech made by ssc (hence the eldritch horror flavour texts)
in short horus *WANTS ITS SHIT BACK* oh now THAT is a funky story start. your company is hired to protect a data cash from a horus raid maybe one or all of ya are still in basic Everest units, and after surviving the ordeal the teams split with offers. SSC or horus antics whom do you side and how will this mess end
Oh my god I was not expecting this company to be so dystopian. I mean a certain amount is expected but still I was surprised how deep the rabbit hole goes. I do like a couple of their mechs though.
Well lore wise living on a consteller world is not the worst place to live if you don't mind having no choice of a arrange marriage you expected to have kids with and stuff and in many cases the places ssc go to for people that sign the contract have shit life's possibly homeless or considering suicide they don't normally strong arm these people inspecially because they normally don't have to the new life or start that ssc is offering them is better then what they have now no lies required on ssc part on what they are offering the consteller military is there both for advertisement and because sometimes the local governments don't like ssc taking parts of there population even if they are willing going, it dystopian yes but work because ssc is promising a future or a better one for these people that they don't have or feel like they don't have and the people sign knowing what to expect before signing there life away but they sign anyway in most cases they don't regret there choice because there life was just that bad before and there new life on a consteller world chosen for them by others that feel like a legit improvement that might just be the most fuck up part
Wasted opportunity for Ace Combat jokes about Monarch. But I'm going to remember the "we don't sell *people*" slogan. That is such a suspiciously specific denial
I always got Robotech/Macross vibes from the Monarch but same difference! Just insert "the rocket knows where it is" meme here.
And sound more like they don't want a piece of carefuly crafted eugenic assets lost or messed up by someone
The second Lancer game I played, I made a Monarch pilot. His mech was named Crimson 1. The pilot himself was afraid to take his helmet off or even speak all that much because he saw his world entirely vanish from existance due to someone using a Horus-provided Unmaker warhead on it during one of the many MANY wars they had with each other in the skies. Resulting in him basically being a nameless, faceless, silent protagonist. Yes. He was literally as close to an Ace Combat/Project Wingman reference as you could get as a pilot.
I’ve spent whole day writing lore for my campaign just waiting and hoping for this vid to come out and i knew it wouldn’t disappoint, great job! Also I’ve shared your vids with my players and they loved them as well and helped immensely to get them into the setting
Happy you liked them, and happy to help.
I like endless space.
I like it as well.
YES! I just commented about how heckin’ psyched I was about this on the other SSC video
15:20 I want a drones! that shoots missiles while I shoot missiles!!!😂
Pretty sure you can do that with some Hydra license parts flavored as missile launching drones. Or some of the GMS hives. Given how damage types aren't that important (except Burn, we don't talk about Burn) it's likely easy to just make them explosive.
I’m starting a Lancer campaign this week. So I really want to thank you for these lore videos.
This is quickly becoming the set of vids I get the most hyped for when a new one drops. Love these, keep up the great work! 🖤
SSC mechs are great. Love me some duskwing. Also wasn't ready for the, "We don't sell people, we sell potential." Lol
Mourning cloak also has some text about organic components that need to be maintained if memory serves. With the implication being that not all the genetic work went into human lines...
There's also the fact that it's straight up powered by a black hole, which you can expose to stop time.
Yes, u need to maintain the FADE cloak w ur own material and u have a personal SSC concierge to facilitate that
I played the Mourning cloak during a oneshot to rescue a non combatant from a station under siege and I just teleported past all the enemies, picked them up, and teleported back. Still had a boss fight but we really didnt need to as we got the target to safety but decided to stay and finish off the enemy(and to not let our GMs work go to waste). I flavored the blade as a laser scythe… It was so fun
So... time to talk about my character Sniper, first introduced on an SSC research world, ie no actual colony, and is afraid of space... on a planet with no colony... made a mistake and ran with it, had him actually be a clone because he was a damn good lancer for SSC but it memory transfer messed up so he didnt remember anything from his original life. He got his fear because his previous life ended with him suffocating in the vacuum of space. His first mech was a Deathshead, because I like being a glass cannon, and his suit was designed around survivability without direct confrontation, so of course stealth suit and sylph suit. He was a wrenchmonkey sniper, made his own weapons, and if he couldnt make it out right, he went for the best of the best of the best, SSC loyalty and all... even his signature heavy weapon was something he made on the battlefield (yes, i used invent and create skill a lot, GM both loathed and loved me at the same time), a 100mm single shot anti material rifle... he also could somehow never die and was always on the brink of death, HA got his dna once and he got cloned (turncloaks, the lot of us) and the clone got double whammied with reroll twice, so he was super dumb and crippled (which later came into play as a copy of a copy situation). He later started using Monarch, which I'll summarize my usual first turn with a quote, "I am become death, destroyers of worlds". We created a company by accident because i needed an excuse to not leave my mech because space, i created Nutrinobars. And not only that, but i also had to tell my sister that i had died and now i was a clone, she didnt take it well. Also put an NHP in a female version of my body. And we blew up the space Vatican. Stopping the Aun war that was going on. I miss Sniper, but my GM did say that he plans to come back to the Lancer universe, and i already have a character in mind, Sarah (aka S4R4H), the NHP put into the human body... I waited to see this one because of how closely related my character was to SSC lore and all
fucking this was a neck breacked pace of antics ALSO WHY THE FEMALE BODYED NHP! out of all the funny side things i am seeing that takes the cake as funnest.
@lechking941 oh buddy, this wasn't half the antics... this is just a plot summary, and the female body was because of gender identity and all, that's all
Also, funnily enough, because i surrounded myself with NHPs, there was a running gag that i wanted to date them
Metalmark is more like the Solid Snake of the SSC line, it is also very much an "I'm invisible all the time!" character like the Dusk Wing but the fantasy here isn't to be a ninja, it's to be the ultimate special forces soldier.
If you are playing morning cloak you need to play one of the disappearing scream meme when ever you teleport
Ooh, I have to keep that in mind.
Bro, you got a real fun style for these videos. Hope people keep turning up for your Lancer stuff so you can keep making it! More people need to get into this amazing game.
Five seconds and I had to stop, you had already done the most perfect job of summing them up anyone could
"Thats very shimano of you" -Smith Shimano(probably idk)
The switch of Opal from pristine to ruin was hilarious. Thanks for the video.
These videos are always great, keep at em
this group is giving such a fun idea for a pilot.
I went out and bought lancer because of these videos. thank you and keep up the great work!
These are the vids I send people now when I want to convert them to Lancer. Great job my guy! ❤
I home-brew that SSC affiliated Lancers have any easier time acclimating to new Biospheres, since you they probably use gene mods like disposable vapes
Great video man. Also, I wanted to comment that I think you have improved your talking timing a lot, you used to do a little way too many dramatic pauses but now they actually hit because you just used them like three times, and usually w something happening in the background. Keep up the good work. Considering the amount of people that play Lancer, it's surprising how little quality content there is. Hope that once you are done with the Manufacturers series you get into other lore stuff, I'd love to see your take on the Aunic or Karrakin lore.
Happy you liked the video. I do plan on covering Karrakin at some point.
Glory to Horatio
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm just getting into Lancer and these are informative, to the point and entertaining at the same time. Keep up the good work! ^^
Morning cloak is quite literally just the dance of the boral valley in design
Im early! This has been fun to watch so far and I love your explainations!
Amazing Video as always! don't forget to add it to the Lancer playlist
Fantastic Video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖
Love these PLEASE MAKE MOAR
Currently assembling a World of Darkness and Lancer hybrid setting. SSC is a Toreador and Tzimiche coalition project to produce terrible things and research dark perfections deep underneath Constellar worlds. Having a lot of fun with it so far.
WOO! new zaktact lancer video. Win!!
That intro was perfect
My first ever real character in Lancer pilots a Monarch. He got the print key for it, as well as the original mech, by trading it for the starfighter he used when he flew for the Union. While it was worn and torn from use, it still had its air of luxury and grace. Until he repainted it stark white with red Mustang stripes and surrounded it with camera drones that livestream all of his missions.
This is such an awesome series. I love it
Swallowtail is just NUH UH the frame…
I am brazilian, of course I see morning cloaks every now and then
You've got classics like: Ermm acthchually you don't hack me LOCK ON! *Naruto jutsu hands* V1 Ultrakill Itano Circus *teleports behind you* TARGET ACQUIRED! *_RULES OF NATURE!_* No idea what those last two are.
Making a second comment to state that metalmark is just Zero from borderlands 2
I have no idea how I didn't see that.
Deaths Head is still anime, google "86 Anime", "Ghost in the Shell", "Apple Seed",& "Certain Scientific Railgun".
Glad tot see someone bring up 86. Good stuff. Though I'm definitely getting more of a GiTS vibe from Death's Head.
Your channel is awsome.
Lol. I literally took a level in death's head to make my Barbarossa climb walls
Zaktact for the lore and the memes, BadLuckGamer for the mechanics, equally balanced, as all things should be
Swallowtail: Think more marksman, less sniper
I wasn't expecting Connor to sneak his way into this vid
4:54 yooo is that Connor dawg VA?!?! Very fancy boy indeed. 15:03 also this (particular part) is just Ferrari btw.
All of my pilots are catboys and I've justified it by writing a unified backstory where, during the Interest Wars, a family of Karrakin knights purchased an experimental super soldier gene sequence license from SSC so that their lineage would produce better pilots. The genome happened to also be one of SSC's first animal splicing projects that they are now famous for (and Tom can't stop us).
And naturally no one looked at the fine print, or admitted they didn't know, so now everyone who knew it was a mistake are the few elders to ashamed to correct that. Meaning everyone in this generation (and possibly the one before it) legitimately believe this is totally the family signature thing? Because that's the comedy gold I'm picturing.
@@Sorain1 Yes, exactly. Except this first happened during the Interest War, so there have been *multiple* generations of catboy pilots. Also, due to politics reasons, many family members have fled Karrakis to the four corners of space, so I can have a white-haired carboy pilot no matter where the campaign takes place!
Hell yes it’s out
Horatio sees potential in this venture
Lore reason for some of their mechs having toes?
Supposedly biological inspiration and lessening divide between pilot and machine.
There's one mech designer at Smith Shimano that really like sucking on toes. People have tried to get rid of them but they're too damn good
Quentin Tarantino works for SSC
GodDAMNIT Tarantino! @@RandomGuy331
That’s what they all say@@Zaktact
The Mourning Cloak may teleport you to a completely different part of the galaxy if you roll three of the same number, but you do get 20 coins as consolation so I think it balances out.
When I start playing Lancer im gonna get me a Metalmark and name it Snake Eyes, cause thats what always pops into my head when this modell is described.
I like these guys
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE CITY IN LOBOTOMY CORPORATION
You happen to have a explanation and focus video on being a Pilot? Like we could get into the talen tree, but I feel like understanding Pilot Equipment is a pretty cool concept that would be worth investigating, because I still have no clue what a proper "Hardsuit" really is.
so hard suits are essentialially mechanized astronaut suits. they have power sources mainly batteries and allow the wearer increased physical capabilities and hostile environment protection. If I am reading the lore correctly most hard suits were civillian applications first before starting to get weaponized leading to Mech frames that we know of now. hope this helps
Hey could uou do a video on how to start a lancer game
I love the bene gesserat
And here I thought Horus and Harisson were the most moraly dubious of the corpos
The Death's Head is a sniper, the Swallowtail is a marksman. Got it.
Or Antti-Materiel and Sniper.
Damn, can a man get the song you used for the Swallow Tail showcase. It's super chill
Loafers Without Socks - Jeremy Korpas. It's in the KZhead audio library if you're interested in using it.
Monarch is the Macross fan's choice, and I love that! Because not all "anime" esque mechs are shonen, some go back to the old school mecha. Also I'm a sucker for missile spam.
My head canon for the teleporting is they get stretched to the point they have to be, then the rest of there body follows. This doesn’t kill them obviously but having your body stretched across time and space can’t feel good.
Hold on... That cut away to some Gigantic titan looking thing of a mecha going slowly up a wall... That implies you can mix and match your mecha using some kind of system... I gotta wonder how that works, and I can imagine some... Odd builds coming about because of this.
"Remember, they dont sell people" that cracked me up 😂😂😂
I played with a Death's Head in a one shot. I literally sat on the backline, destroyed things at range. Also played a little support. Had a cockpit that could hold a few passengers, so if anyone went down they could just shelter in mine.
and we thought Shiawase was already bad...
I imagine any ssc pilot hops out of their mech kitted out like dripped out ultra instinct goku
Or megamind
I was thinking Seto Kaiba.
I wont lie, ive just started collecting BT and deep diving the lore but this is gonna be a secondary port. Idk what Lancer is
As close to a Battletech tabletop as we're gonna get outside of Time of War.
so its the tau
White Witch is also Revengencw as they "harden in response to trauma".
Ferrofluids, son!
What are those "onic people" he keeps mentioning? The ones that got their technology stolen to make the Mourning Blade mech
The fact you didn’t call this video gundam, Gucci and genetics is criminal
I am a Death's Head fanboy. 2 base repairs? Fuck it we Ghost in the Shell.
Now I'm curious: where the proposed missions are located in the book?
At the end of the manufacturers sections there's something called "Flashpoint" which has a starting scenario and premise for a mission based around the faction. It's only narrative set up, no real encounters. Still a nice read into what missions within the faction might look like.
16:50 it's made of Aunic people.
Why does lancer just sound like the far future of the cyberpunk world
This just leaves Harrison armories
Is the deaths head holding the piss jar?
it's canon that the mourning cloak travels through the warp with every teleportation (don't trust any other sources) and the triple number is just the perils of the warp dping ttheir thing, trust me an inquisitor told me this
7:31 you sly dog lmao
No vicroy rocket shotgun
Alsome male more stuff like this I'm here for strange crazy trips like lancer malagos
Seeing Connor (cdawg) killed me
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