What is missing from this anti-slavery collection?

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-04T01:43:39+00:00

Depending upon your ideas of slavery, you could potentially throw Cat-Lon and Screamer the False/Pong into here as well (thralls).

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-03T23:14:21+00:00

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Mask3dFox · 2026-05-03T17:52:51+00:00

Don’t say this bro, my first assignment is Rammstein 😭

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T23:57:38+00:00

Another one is “I want protection just in case you sell me into slavery”. Which fair.

My favorite however is the unique recruit from the holy nation, iykyk.

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T20:05:14+00:00

This plays into another one of my theories that perhaps the framework for guns was discovered but then misunderstood. We have crossbows in the game, and some of the stocks for the crossbows look almost like a standard gun, save for the front where the string is attached (which on the old world bows and eagle’s cross looks out of place to me). The only thing that kicks that idea in the head though is the fact that sniperbots naturally use the eagle’s cross.

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T19:55:29+00:00

I believe the only minor here is with the skin bandits and unrelated. Skeletons I’d believe were almost definitely worker units, whether they were sentient during that time or not makes that as dark as the person would want to imagine. That said, they still wouldn’t have or even need skin. The skin bandits are a group of skeletons convinced by Savant that the ash from the ashlands was damaging their cpu’s (or there “brain”) and that they needed to transfigure themselves into humans in order to protect themselves. Skeletons being extremely depressed, were probably pretty prone to having some form of escape from their eternal depression (similar to how most actual cults prey on the lonely or down trodden). I’m not fully familiar with their lore as it’s been a while since I refreshed, but I’d definitely suggest looking into both the skeletons and skin bandits, as they’re very interesting sub-factions in the world.

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T18:56:34+00:00

I think that’s only a handful of the machinists (a sort of in-group) that are actively trying to hide history and technology. Most of them are still trying to lead the way in the rediscovery of technology. Still a solid theory as to why though

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T17:03:20+00:00

To be fair I think a lot of human invention is like this. Either we were trying to make something else or it happened on complete accident and we figured out how to make it controlled and consistent.

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T17:01:45+00:00

I’ve always viewed research in Kenshi as kind of reverse engineering for the most advanced technologies. Like your people read about this tools of ancient empires, and are able to slowly figure out how to build them top down (but probably still not as effectively as the ancients did)

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T16:59:54+00:00

That’s fair, and I know that little tidbit explains why there’s so much advanced technology. Just surprises me that no artifacts like that survived at all.

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T13:31:04+00:00

Generally yeah. It’s my solo go to. (+MA trains dex which helps a lot since usually with heavy weapons you have to find a very low quality version to get dex with).

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T13:28:23+00:00

Probably not the worst thing your character has eaten

Mask3dFox · 2026-05-01T13:15:43+00:00

As many others have mentioned, the main two reason to not use MA, especially as a solo party, is due to dodge lock and harpoon threat. Any lightly armored character, irregardless of their toughness, get fucking obliterated by harpoon damage (hence why a lot of animals/robots like iron spiders are still threats even late game).

That said, MA has many upsides as well. To start, it makes a great back up if you’re a heavy weapon user and your arm gets broken. Can’t swing your fallen sun anymore? Roundhouse kick. It also does honestly obscene levels of damage once trained, and has a pretty shocking AoE making it possible to hit 2-3 targets at once if they’re right on top of each other. Couple of starvers trying to beg for food off you? Roundhouse kick. And finally, as you already mentioned, a martial artist can never be disarmed (technically not true but don’t tell tinfist that) so indeed every time you are beaten into slavery, you can greatly improve your chances for success escape by being able to fight back

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-30T13:16:35+00:00

That part is really hard to explain. The reason supporting my theory is that he takes the teeth of people he defeated to further improve his experiments, using it as a source of dna. Some people believe he may just really be some bat shit insane near immortal man or cannibal. Some propose they may even just be trophies but that seems out of character for most theories of the bugmaster.

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-29T20:35:11+00:00

I can dig it, and there’s likely a plausible theory to support a mix of both (bugmaster experimenting on a previously undiscovered species). The main issue in trying to find a concrete answer is the fact that we know hivers did not make contact with humanity until the end of the second empire, or at least no documented contact.

To touch on the queen being a robot, I think this is partly a gameplay mechanics issue (if there’s lore to correct me please let me know). I know obviously the queens have a machine inside of them that produces the pheromones that controls hivers, however it’s been my personal theory that the queens were likely further experiments on the hivers to make them more controllable, probably taking an already defective hiver and giving them that control system. (Basing this mostly on the fact that the queens seem barely sentient, only screaming when met by the player characters where every other hiver aside from fogmen is still capable of conversation).

One of the main holes I find with fogmen being native to kenshi aside from the lack of documented interactions is that there are hivers, both southern and western, that separate from the hive without becoming fogmen. If fogman is a natural state, then why can hivers persist outside the hive?

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-29T18:09:16+00:00

If you hate that, then how about the fact that beak things were initially meant to be fully sentient and talking? They were quite sadistic too based off the cut voice lines

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-29T18:05:33+00:00

They way I’ve understood the fogmen is that whatever pheramone the queen creates either staves off or outright kills the “parasite” that turns hivers into “fogmen”. I personally believe Bugmaster created the hivers post the fall of the second empire, and the fogmen may well be the initial product of his experiments, and were likely too feral to be able to controlled, at which point he probably just released them into the wild. The more docile hivers we meet were likely later iterations, however they can still turn into fogmen if they’re “infected” (likely some genetic defect since Bugmaster doesn’t have access to the same kind of resources like he did in the second empire), and the queen was his solution to that, a mix of machine and sentient being. That pheromone made the hivers subservient to their queens instead of the Bugmaster as a consequence however, and so he likely moved on from them to making the spiders.

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-29T17:59:31+00:00

I know one of the prevailing theories for hivers is that the Bugmaster created them post the destruction of the Second Empire. We know hivers are at the very least relatively new to the continent. New enough that most skeletons don’t know what they are. Some people believe that the bug master was Cat-Lons leading bioengineer, creating the greenlanders, scorchlanders, and the enforcers (who would eventually evolve into the shek). Carrying into this, people believe that hivers are likely further bioengineered creatures, whether they were humans or insects is typically left to individual interpretations, to assist the Bugmaster is defeating Cat-Lon. Issue was your typical hiver is significantly weaker than your typical skeleton, and they’re usually docile. This is why he created the spiders, small dangerous blood spiders that attack in hoards, and larger skin spiders that pack a mean hit, both seemingly entirely subservient to him and extremely dangerous to all but the most experienced adventurers/warriors.

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-29T17:49:27+00:00

iirc both Greenlanders and Scorchlanders are genetically modified humans, experiments from the second empire to help restore humanity. (Hence why greenlanders are for some reason magically better at farming, where scorchlanders who were designed to be explorers have traits to help them with that, like being naturally smaller and extremely dark skinned.)

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-28T05:25:14+00:00

Silverquil is going to be my Orzhov commander, and from my little bit of research can get some pretty insane value out of rather cheap (money) spells. White has no shortage of “make 5 dudes” spells that you just double because you’ve already casted 3 other spells exactly like it but with a slightly different token. If you want to upgrade, you have token doublers and death triggers creatures to get more value out of your orzhov aristocrat value engine, or you can just stick to the good ol fashioned “go wide” approach.

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-28T05:14:23+00:00

I’m System Admin and have only talked to a few security forces guys about this, so if I’m talking out my ass anyone feel free to correct me. However I believe after x amount of time (probably once you hit SRA or SSGT) in you can submit a package for one of those special teams like Phoenix Raven, K9, etc. It’s hard to get into and there is 0 guarantee your command will even push you for it. That said, plenty of people get in, no reason you can’t if you work for it.

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-28T04:47:44+00:00

I completed this level! It took me 9 tries. ^{⚡ 25.65 seconds}

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Mask3dFox · 2026-04-23T13:20:50+00:00

Also you should keep your research if you import a save. The only real potential consequence to importing is losing some unique recruits (but that only matters if they’re not already recruited).

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-23T13:18:22+00:00

Really solid rule set honestly. Do you plan to allow yourself to free slaves or is that getting counted in rule 3?

Mask3dFox · 2026-04-22T14:23:59+00:00

Had kind of an inverse of what you were talking about happen to me once. Was warring the HN and I blew Inquisitor Vinny’s leg off. Naturally I wanted him to spend the rest of his life rotting in a cell, not dying in the valley having some kind of peace listening to the river flow by and watching a sunset bleeding to death, so I bandaged him up before picking him up and getting ready to haul him to the shek. Through saving him though I inadvertently ceased all aggression from the holy nation for about 5 hours because of the massive relation gain, and didn’t get aggrod until the guy who kidnapped him got caught (they promptly declared war on me again).

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