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[Third Flower]

Greetings Inner Sphere scum!
Allow me the pleasure of introducing the powerful and mighty Clan Smoke Trees!

Born when the powerful and fair-minded Hanse Karensky tired of endlessly fighting for such meaningless ideals as "honor" or "power" or "glory", and instead decided that his skill in battle should always be used to preserve and protect, rather than destroy and pillage.

Named after the smoke tree of Strana Mechty - a genetically modified tree, shaped to better with-stand the harsh conditions of the planet, and the sharp claws of climbing smoke jaguars - the clan values the ideals of these mighty arboreals:

- Stoic non-aggression. Just as the smoke tree does not attack its enemies, but depends on slight chemical changes to make its taste unpalatable to its natural predators, so does Clan Smoke Trees never attack, and instead simply defends with weaponry and superior skill, that ensure the safety of its enemies. This is possible because of the clan's intense training and dedication to a worthy cause, but also because they have formed a caste-less society, where free exchange of ideas is key. As a result, tactics have advanced many centuries beyond those of their primitive clan cousins, or the stone-age like Inner Sphere.

- Defense of those within its leafy embrace. Just as the smoke tree lets its lower branches bend, to create shelter for those beneath them, so does Clan Smoke Trees protect all that ask for it. Such a feat would be impossible for lesser 'Mech jockeys, but for Clan Smoke Trees, the defense of those in need is an ideal sacrificing everything for, and as such they have gained everything through their sacrifices.

- Nourishment of the bottom of society as well as the top. The smoke tree has deep roots, and high upper branches. It stretches its mighty frame to the sky, but is securely fastened on the ground. Such a magnificent display is simply not possible, without the full understanding and commitment of the whole tree - from strong roots, over sturdy and industrious trunks, to branches that reach ever for great glory. Such is the society of Clan Smoke Trees - free, completely socially mobile, and based around ideals of true strength: The courage to face honest criticism from your peers, the valor to face one's own failures and improve, and the power of acting from a morally defensible position. In Clan Smoke Trees there are no divisions of the rich and poor, the free and the enslaved. In Clan Smoke Trees all are equal, and decisions are made with only consideration for the greater commonality - a commonality that includes the enemies of Clan Smoke Trees.

Now, a year from now, Clan Smoke Trees will show its might to the InnerSphere, and demonstrate the might of semi-pacifistic, tactically advanced and strategically super-powered warfare!!!

We are currently not recruiting openly, but if you catch our eye, by acts of kindness and true valor, then maybe you will find that smoke tree branch on your Mech's dashboard one day. When you do, light it on fire as you hold it from the highest point around, and let all see your dedication to our powerful cause!

Now I, the Grand Star Emperor of Clan Smoke Trees, Third Flower, will answer your questions!

[Amarus Cameron]

[NWHHarrier]

I for one welcome our new arboreal overlords and shall provide much decorative yet ultimately inferior shrubbery in supplication.

[Illegal Username]

Would have preferred "Toke Jaguar"

[Ramrod]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 June 2012 - 05:00 AM, said:

Top comment on the video:

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A Smoke Jaguar died. The world is a better place...

Edited by Ramrod, 28 June 2012 - 05:39 AM.

[Amarus Cameron]

Ramrod, on 28 June 2012 - 05:11 AM, said:

A Smoke Jaguar died The world is a better place...

Gotcha you all are serious... we shall see who is dying when we all get in game. My totem uses your totem for a sitting post until it rips the throat out of passerbys.

[Third Flower]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 June 2012 - 05:00 AM, said:

Please don't post memes in the Clan Smoke Trees thread. Clan Smoke Trees believes in memetic frugality, and your post does not adhere to our principle of informed, critical self-reflection.

Edit: Also, your juvenile attempts at meeting the unknown with foolish bravado should be of serious concern to yourself. I would counsel exploration and mastery of your own temperament, before you try to explore and master the realm of tempered steel.

[Ramrod]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 June 2012 - 05:16 AM, said:

Gotcha you all are serious... we shall see who is dying when we all get in game. My totem uses your totem for a sitting post until it rips the throat out of passerbys.

The war crimes perpetrated by the Jaguars at Turtle Bay and beyond are deadly serious.

[matux]

OK...


Not Sure if talking about pot culture.....



Or just reallly High,,,,,

[Illegal Username]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 June 2012 - 05:16 AM, said:

Gotcha you all are serious... we shall see who is dying when we all get in game. My totem uses your totem for a sitting post until it rips the throat out of passerbys.

Chill, all of y'all

[Third Flower]

A young disciple once asked Hanse Karensky "Master, why do people fight?".

Hanse Karensky turned his mighty attention to the disciple, and was silent for a moment. Then, with a voice that carried the strength of the oak and the wisdom of the willow, he asked of his disciple: "Think of the tree that has been wounded by an iron spike. What does it do?"

The disciple, being an avid and dedicated gardener in his spare time, knew the answer "It grows around the spike, and absorbs it!"

Hanse smiled, for he knew that he had shared his wisdom this day.

[Bastard Ken]

Clan Smoke Trees will not tolerate repression. Heatsinks and armour preserve the 'mech and defeat attacks, but the state of mind associated with these warriors is "unconsciousness" whereby we escape rather than resolve our dilemmas. Aggression is an extreme need of both the body and personality sometimes to release the nervousness that has accumulated and continues to build up to an unbearable degree. It serves the same function for the collective personality for the society as well. A culture in which violence and warfare are the prevalent form of release prefers not to witness internal confusion and actually chooses to act without conscious participation, maintaining a semi-numb condition.

[NWHHarrier]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 June 2012 - 05:16 AM, said:

Gotcha you all are serious... we shall see who is dying when we all get in game. My totem uses your totem for a sitting post until it rips the throat out of passerbys.

My totem and your totem, sitting by da fire, my totem told your totem, I'm gonna set your flag on fire! Talkin' bout hey now, hey now! hey now, hey now!

[skamage]

matux, on 28 June 2012 - 05:21 AM, said:

OK...


Not Sure if talking about pot culture.....



Or just reallly High,,,,,

Agreed...most likely really high

[Third Flower]

Please do not discuss the use of drugs in this topic. This topic is for the discussion of Clan Smoke Trees, a clan in the BattleTech Universe that will participate in MechWarrior Online. It is not a topic for discussing the use if drugs - legal or otherwise - beyond the ceremonial use of smoke tree bark as a mild pain-killer.

Please get back on topic, and feel free to ask questions about the mighty Clan Smoke Trees.

[Amarus Cameron]

Third Flower, on 28 June 2012 - 05:35 AM, said:

Please do not discuss the use of drugs in this topic. This topic is for the discussion of Clan Smoke Trees, a clan in the BattleTech Universe that will participate in MechWarrior Online. It is not a topic for discussing the use if drugs - legal or otherwise - beyond the ceremonial use of smoke tree bark as a mild pain-killer.

Please get back on topic, and feel free to ask questions about the mighty Clan Smoke Trees.

Sarcasm detected

[Amarus Cameron]

Third Flower, on 28 June 2012 - 05:19 AM, said:

Also, your juvenile attempts at meeting the unknown with foolish bravado should be of serious concern to yourself. I would counsel exploration and mastery of your own temperament, before you try to explore and master the realm of tempered steel.

I always worries me when a guy talking about "trees" starts giving out advice. But hey man, your thread, have at it. I will look for you on the battlefield *bows out*

[Third Flower]

Well Amarus Cameron, your "sarcasm detector" is obviously non-functioning. Perhaps you have not been exposed to an appropriate number of difficult social interactions, and your ability to interact in a nuanced way with others has never been developed. We can work on that, if you are willing to keep an open mind, and will not succumb to the temptation of instinctual reactions. Such is the Clan Smoke Tree way.

Edit: Like the mighty smoke tree grows at its own, measured pace, responses come in their appropriate time. Do not bow out, Amarus Cameron - challenge yourself and grow!

[Amarus Cameron]

Third Flower, on 28 June 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

Well Amarus Cameron, your "sarcasm detector" is obviously non-functioning. Perhaps you have not been exposed to an appropriate number of difficult social interactions, and your ability to interact in a nuanced way with others has never been developed. We can work on that, if you are willing to keep an open mind, and will not succumb to the temptation of instinctual reactions. Such is the Clan Smoke Tree way.

Edit: Like the mighty smoke tree grows at its own, measured pace, responses come in their appropriate time. Do not bow out, Amarus Cameron - challenge yourself and grow!

Honestly I just did not want to legitimately make you rage, was just poking fun at the really close name to my own Clan's

I did not realize this thread was going to be a venue for debate...of what I do not know but it seems to be going that way. Fine I will keep checking this thread but your guruish disconnect with emotional response is offsetting and not something one normally encounters on forum boards. I may just lurk and laugh at the crazy responses.

[Third Flower]

Good choice, Amarus Cameron.

I have been called a guru, and I have been called a ******* *** ****** ******* ****** ******. The truth is, I am Third Flower, and I embrace that I have the potential and desire to be both, at certain times. Do not feel set-off, for I am as you, except that I have seen what the smoke trees hide. There is no mysticism to our way - there is no esoteric knowledge. There is only the practical reflections on complex matters - the courage to examine closely the self as well as the other. That it sounds unusual for a forum board is no surprise, I agree, but that should be a cause for alarm: We need more of this, not less!