BattleTech ABCs

[A filler entry while I work on other things this week.]

A is for Amaris, the Usurper detested.
He killed all the Camerons, then by Kerensky was bested.

B is for Blake, Blest Minister of Communications,
Told by the Great Lords to restore HPG stations.

C is for Cameron the Royal and ComStar the Holy,
Once forging, now hoarding much lost technology.

D is for Davion and for DeChevalier.
One a great general, the other just cavalier.

E is for Light Horse, the warriors Eridani.
Most noble and skillful of soldiers mercenary.

K is for Kurita and also Kerensky.
One killed Amaris. The other, Kentares.

L is for Liao, cunning and oily.
S is for Steiner, prodigious industrially.

M is for Marik, and for malfunction.
Coalitions and widgets break at this junction.

W is for Warlords, the five Successors.
They tore down the Star League to become its possessors.

I is Invasion and IlClan, Nicholas' blood.
In their eugenic utopia our names are all mud.

F is to forget all others alphabetical.
Fortresses fallen, and futures inescapable.

Have a 'Mech, Frankie Valli

I don't generally bother writing up 'Mech stats anymore unless I have a good bit of fluff in mind to go with them. But last January, apparently I had a craving to make a heavy cannon and two heavy lasers go 80kph with as little tech as possible, and I had a song stuck in my head.

I was pretty proud of that "Meacham / each won" rhyme.

The tune is a brassy, energetic variation on Mack The Knife. The CD jacket claims it's performed by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, but it's a cheap CD compilation, and I don't really trust their fact checking.

The full lyrics are unGoogleable, so I've put them [with some guesses] below the cut.