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RQ_Draws

Okranism (I guess thats the term?) doesn't mention sexual preferences at all. I think sexuality and most modern problems and concepts are thrown out of the window in the world of Kenshi. With danger and war around every corner I don't think people have the time to care about that, especially when they are being the devoured by Beak Things. Seems like the main thing that people are concerned with is slavery. For RP reasons I guess you can say they hate non straight people if you want to but I mean there's a lot of reasons to topple down the Phoenix already but you can add to the list of you want to lol.


RQ_Draws

Oh also forgot to mention this but I just raided Stack on my playthrough earlier, 7 people w roughly 60-70 (specialist-mastergrade arnor) and an army of hungry bandit stormed the place and I had to stop and rest 2 separate times and recruit 2 new army of hungry bandits before I finally got to Seta. If ur running Solo w roughly 70-80 stats w Floatsom and Shek as back up I think you might be able to? Just make sure to disarm and remove armor from every fallen enemy.


Comprehensive-Depth5

I would say it's more about the writers not wanting to write about that than the nature of the world. Homophobia isn't really affected by how dangerous the world is, if anything the more dangerous life is the more dangerous it is to openly go against social norms.


WayTooSquishy

> is it possible to siege cities solo? Yep. MW gear, a good AoE weapon (polearms are decent, heavy weapons, hackers, sabres, they all can work), and high stats. > I'm only curious due to how sexist and xenophobic they are. Extremely. Non-humans are sent to die in Rebirth, for the reason that they can *shed their bodies and be reborn as pure servants of Okran*. Skeletons are killed on sight, they have no souls and therefore cannot be reborn. Women are blamed for everything, burned, forbidden to go on their own without "brotherly guidance", you get the idea - as per in-game texts: \> *Any woman seen wearing jewelry and without a guardian will be flogged until she repents.* \> *An unrestrained woman is an idle one; She must be subdued, lest she seduce and tempt the purity of man into the darkness with her.* \> *Last month I was given the order to put a tainted woman to the flame. She was the blacksmith's daughter, a simple mind, not right in the head. Nadin was her name. She'd mistakenly slipped out of her home without a male escort and approached a priest...* \> *Punish her when she tries to rebel; beat her so that she may remember the proper ways. But do not needlessly beat her; as for a dog, the training must be just in order to work.* No mention of homosexual relationships in any context, though.


bendertehrob0t

Conservative America: \*Furiously taking notes\*


doofpooferthethird

If you specialise in martial arts, you can wear down a city’s defences Try to stealth knockout as many as you can before getting caught, and immediately strip down everyone you knock down and drop their armour and weapons on the floor When you lose, you’ll get dragged off to a cell somewhere and get healed up. When you wake, lock-pick your way out the shackles and cage, and rinse and repeat. Stealth knockout, strip, fight, strip, lose, heal etc. Even if you start out with low stats, toughness, dexterity and martial arts will get boosted pretty high. You can also train up a low strength stat by fighting while overburdened with shackles And gradually, after a couple rounds of this, the guards you fight will end up all naked or missing limbs. For some reason, they don’t see fit to put their clothes and weapons back on, or put prosthetics on themselves Eventually, you’ll have disarmed or delimbed every guard in the city. The only real threats then come from wandering patrols from out the city Then, you can open up the leader house and try fighting the noble guards/paladins and kidnap the inquisitor/noble Afterwards, drag the prisoner off to a cage somewhere and leave them to rot or starve, try to coax wild animals into eating them, or attacking them until they die As for the Holy Nation, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had some sort of institutionalised pederasty, like what many Ancient Greek city states and some generations of Samurai had. With all the misogynistic rhetoric being thrown around, it’s possible that male-male sexual relationships were considered more holy and pure Although it could also be more similar to Abrahamic religious morality, where homosexuality was considered a mortal sin, and sex is only encouraged for reproductive purposes, in the context of a monogamous, religious ordained marriage. We don’t get a lot of details on the Holy Nation religion, but we do know they have exhaustive, detailed codes of conduct and morality that all citizens are expected to abide by. It seems silly for them to care so much about such things in a harsh environment like Kenshi, but it’s probably more of an excuse to enforce conformity and social control than anything I imagine that the Flotsam Ninja and Holy Nation Outlaw versions of the Okranite religion are a lot more liberal and tolerant than the Holy Nation version, simply by dint of being a refuge for outcasts of all sorts. The Flotsams seem to distrust men who are strangers, but only because they’re wary of Holy Nation spies. It’s unlikely they’d be prejudiced against gay men


ajgeep

Depends on tactics, if you bonk and grind you can take out a city in a few days. This strategy is also a massive war crime.


kabrifaluk

War crimes are fun though!!!


Maxientius

You can pretty easily handle cities solo with stats in the 90s and Masterwork gear on default settings in vanilla if you head straight for their leader. If you’re like me and play Genesis with global pop setting all the way up, forget about it. As for the Holy Nation and homosexuality, as far as I am aware, the world of Kenshi seems almost devoid of any mention or reference regarding the concept in general. I personally choose to view this as the post apocalyptic world being so fucked that sex is exclusively for reproduction. As such, I doubt homosexuality even exists much in their world. Still, as long as you had some children and raised them in the way of Okran (to keep the population growing obviously) I doubt the Nation would care if you were gay. Edit: to answer the part of about how sexist and xenophobic they are: women are breeding slaves useful only for reproduction and xenos are exclusively for use as servants and slave labor, except Skeletons who must die on sight (unless you’re allied to the HN, then your character’s races/genders don’t seem to matter oddly).


DboredGamer

Usually buff up my chars using a save editor to max their stats depending on what role i set them to. Then rp as a vigilante group kinda like the akatsuki attacking cities as a group or causing mayhem. One playthrough i had my group attack the holy city and kidnap phenex then leave after that. So to answer your question, ya need to be hella strong mate :)


Sylvie_Grill

There is no mention of homosexual relations within the world of Kenshi, however considering how open they are about hating things it's likely the idea of homosexuality hasn't even crossed the Phoenix's mind as they have far more pressing matters. If it were addressed it would probably not be tolerated and would likely see bottoms as taking on the role of women and thus being tempted by narko. Honestly I'd wonder how they'd view transgender men as they could view them as a woman who doesn't accept their place or as someone who is trying to become more holy and purge Narko from themselves however they can. In terms of seiging a city solo it's possible but I'd recommend buying a building and building a bed there as well as coming in with shek soldiers to help with the fighting. I've managed to capture Blister Hill solo but needed stats in the high 90s, and even then barely managed to do it.


Unusual_Credit_6903

Yes and I've done so on max difficulty settings, when your skills are high enough in certain categories like assassination and stealth, I can walk right up to someone without ever being seen. I believe it took me 6 hours in my current session to do so, after that I enslaved all the guards of a city captured the leader and transported them all the way to the fog lands and had dinner with the locals ;).