Kenshi - The Origins of the Shek 

It's kinda sad, really. Other than her, her glorified personal assistant, and a handful of the "servant class", very few see that their warmongering ways will ultimately be their undoing. It's kinda why in order for the world of Kenshi to have a chance to recover, the shek kingdom either has to be reformed or wiped out

@@kazumablackwing4270 You are forgetting the huge population of shek outside of the shek kingdom. The shek kingdom might very well fall but the shek as a race will very much persist. Its probably a good thing that they lose part of the warrior culture and assimilate to be more mellowed out. That said united cities got some serious issues too.

@@Smilemonster1912The thing is, the UC will inevitably suffer a revolution and they won’t win

Just share this dudes channel with him! you dirty junkie. He can listen to it has he plays or elden ring, works or whatever

It only took me a month to get all achievments and I'm 4 bosses away from from beating the game at lvl 1. Elden Ring PvP is dope, but I've been playing Kenshi since it was out for early access. That says something I'd think.

Remind them they can play both Lmao I’m literally doing that. One day Kenshi the next Elden ring.

Kenshi is a niche game that appeals to a niche group of gamers, it always will be.

It's what I do my friend. If it last more than 4 hours see a Hiver for quality wares yes?

Unless you have a top tier PC I doubt it would run well at all

I would also love to know this

I use a lot of mods as well as custom graphical settings and a heavily adjusted TSUKI.V2 RESHADER. The armor you are seeing is the shek armor present in the Kenshi Genesis mod!

Yeah it was around that poll that I accepted I am a Kenshi RU-vidr. I branch out on occasion but Kenshi is my niche lol

FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED! I put him in there as an Easter egg and my character to get footage with hoping someone would say something or notice him. Yes. Yes it is lol.

I'd argue every major faction is xenophobic. The only reason the shek don't attack humans on sight is because Esta won't let them. Prior to her it was hundreds of years of open racial violence. It's ironic this switch from blatant militarism to their current structure is mirrored by the HN The HN is aggressive to anyone not human. But there is a case to be made they provide the best chance of survival and comfort the humans specifically and as a whole treat their people and allies well. (Not diving into the sexism. I know it's there but even still the point remains). But until the current Pheonix took over. The HN were more isolationst than militaristic. The current pheonix took a much more aggressive and xenophobic route, opting to seek out and attack non humans and their associates. So while the Shek went from Racial motivated Militarists to Semi Isolationists under Esta, the HN went from semi Isolationists to Racial Militarists under the current Pheonix. The UC is its own animal being blatantly classist more than racist. The only probable exclusion to that is the hivers but there could be a case to be made with the fact their military leader is Eyegore, a hiver. But MOST of their issues are class related (can't be clearer on that, racism exists in the UC, but it's usually not blatant racism as much as class based oppression in which racism is used to insult and abuse but its not the primary cause just a tool the nobles use to attack the poor peasant class.) In summation. They are all evil racist monsters and no one faction should be spared as good or even kind. They are all just different shades of evil.

The term Bugmaster is likely a title given to him due to his utilization of Skin Spiders. His age, I actually explain in my Origins of the Hivers video, but essentially there is reason to believe he was the same engineer who genetically modified the humans into Enforcers (who eveolved into the Shek) during the mid second empire, and later a different batch of humans into the Hivers as well in response to the famine and rebellion. Catlon wanted a subservient workforce who required less food, and was resistant to acid and radiation (their main source of agriculture in the grid was blown up by a nuclear explosion. We know it was nuclear because of the presence of titrinite in the crater) His knowledge of genetic modification could have easily led him to discover a gene that slowed or prevents his aging. He also has a deep hatred and desire to attack catlon. that's actually why he is raising an army of skin spiders. That part isn't a theory either that's written in game.

@@HeroInHisHead I was actually just about to delete this comment as I just finished watching the Origins of the Hivers video. The more I watch, the more I'm just completely fascinated by the scale and depth of the lore. Hopefully in the upcoming Kenshi 2, with it being set 1000 years prior, we will get a lot of answers to the Bugmaster specifically.

Love the passion. If you watch some of my other lore videos. Namely the one om the second empire. You'll note that the HN and SK have a deep rooted hatred for one another that delves back to the founding of each when the Cult of Stobe (the precursor religion to the HN) was repeatedly attacked, oppressed, instigated, infiltrated, and punished by the Enforcers (the progenitors of the modern day Shek) at the behest of Catlon and his Empire. By attributing the Skeletons to Narko and the Enforcers as the servants of Narko it becomes much clearer why the HN holds more expansive and outward aggression toward the SK than say the Western Hive. The Shek are seen currently as the direct Servants of Narko due to their former status as the Enforcers for the Skeletons and the hate between then is essentially a founding part of their origin story. Whereas the Hivers are attacked on the basis of being "non human abominations" the shek are basically demons to them and servants of the devil and warrent more aggressive measures because of it. In truth I find it more likely the HN did strike first due to their religious beliefs that have become skewed over the millenia and the Shek fought back due to their militaristic code.

Should be noted though I wouldn't be surprised if the SK did antagonize the HN first. But I think First Blood was on the HN

@@HeroInHisHead I can see were you are coming from HIHH, and i really like your channel, when you are finished with your nugget mafia can you do a history of the HN video even tho I already know much of the lore of kenshi. and can you do a HN playthrough bc you don't see much of that nowadays, all I see now are just snippets of them.

Dialogue and ingame locational clues indicate the massive rib and bone like carcasses that are found throughout kenshi, namely places stobes garden, the bonefields, etc were the aliens that the 1st empire fought. The behemoths were created to stand against the life forms massive gargantuan size that made even leviathan look like fleas. As well as there being no mention of the shek until the second empire when the enforcers were introduced to the world's lore and then as they evolved became the shek.

​@@HeroInHisHead I am about 700h in this game, and there is still more stuff to learn and discover ^^ Love this Game! Thanks! great content, keep it up ;)

@@HeroInHisHead Will you do a video about the aliens?

That begs the question of what the enforcers looked like especially since it's implied that the enforcers infiltrated the Cult during the second empire

In this video you're seeing the "Make the Holy Nation Great Again" armor mod

@@HeroInHisHead sounds like my kind of mod

Only one to notice (including out of my self evidently) but yes...that's what I meant lol.

@@HeroInHisHead I gotchu, new homeboy. All good.

Interesting. I suggest you watch my origin video on the hivers as you are pretty close to my own thoughts on the bugmaster which is cool because I have found very few people who linked him to them besides myself

@@HeroInHisHead Thank you for the quick reply! Yes i have watched the first two and the origins, i love them. I saw someone thought he may be the product of one of rhinobots child prisons. But i like the idea that he is the last one left and maybe he could be the one who created the animals around kenshi.

You'd be surprised how many people didn't notice that lol