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Shek Settlers

Part of a series to make Kenshi a more lively world.

The Shek are a devestated kingdom. Having just faced near total annihilation at the hands of the human kingdoms, the Stone Golem wants to rebuild. She has set out dozens of settler caravans to seek out new lands to settle in.

What this does:

This mod gives the shek a little more presence in the world by adding in camps full of Shek Settlers.

It adds in 4 new character layouts and 3 new squads. They are all very lightly armed and armoured troops tasked with surviving out in the harsh world.

These groups are purposefully weak, as being a settler is not a job for a mighty shek warrior.

Your typical nest will be composed of 3 of the 4 new NPCs.

1. Shek Colonizer. These act as the camp and caravan guards, having low-medium stats. These are unnamed Shek.
2. Shek Settler. These are named Shek who carry around the building material needed to build a new colony. Often you'll see them with shaved horns, as is tradition to do to civilians in Shek culture. They're useless in a fight.
3. Shek Settler leader. In game, simply named "Shek Settler" they distinguish themselves with their orange long coat and more expensive gear, plus they wear nice hats. They have stats similar to the Shek Colonizers.

These Shek can form nests in the following locations:

Border Zone
Shem
Shun
The Hook
High Bonefields
South Wetlands
The Outlands
Sinkuun

Then, there are the lost settlers. Some settlers decided to try their luck up north. They were weeded out by the Gutters in vain, and forced to move even further north. Other lost settlers were simply separated from their groups. In Shek culture, this is seen as cowardice, so they've abandoned their faction and now belong to no faction. It is safe to attack them.

They can be found roaming (and starving!) in these biomes:

Fog Islands
Vain
Cannibal Plains
Royal Valley
Arach
Gut
Sonorous Dark
The Pits
+A few more I forget where

Known Issue:

Home nest squad goes roaming/doesn't spawn. If someone could confirm that there are approx. 3 colonizers, 5 settlers, and a settler leader in a nest, with no animals, that'd be nice <3 Multiples of this exact number works as well.

Future changes:

Add small talk among the groups.
Adjusting spawn rates, especially in Gut. There are no homeless spawns in Gut aside from the Lost Shek Settler spawns, however since Gut is set to spawn the same amount of homeless spawns as most other biomes these lost shek settlers could be fairly common. I've changed this to be roughly half, but its untested.

I am unsure if this works with mods such as Recruit Prisoners, as it adds new NPCs. Regardless it shouldn't cause major problems.