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The Empire's trading heart, built on a rock plateau and fed by three slave camps at once - the most economically solid city in the United Cities, and the one most directly built on trafficking people.

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Heng is a United Cities city built on top of a rocky plateau, southwest of the capital Heft and east of Tengu's Vault. It also gives its name to the surrounding zone.

If Heft is the Empire's political centre, Heng is its wallet.

One bridge, two towns

Next to Heng is a second plateau carrying its satellite settlement, Trader's Edge, the two joined by a metal bridge. Trader's Edge is run by the Traders Guild itself and is effectively a special economic zone, but its entrance is manned by United Cities samurai — the Empire supplies the muscle, the Guild supplies the money.

The Guild's headquarters sits on Trader's Edge, with the head of the Guild, Longen, inside, along with the recruitable character Yamdu. That makes the Heng-plus-Trader's-Edge pairing the Empire's true trade hub, and its defences are correspondingly solid.

The trader Harmothoe's caravan frequently turns up in one of the two towns.

A city fed by three slave camps

Heng's supply comes from Stone Camp, South Stone Camp and Eyesocket — three slave camps run directly by slavers.

That is a key number: Heng is the United Cities city fed by the most slave camps of any, which is also why it has the most stable local economy in the Empire. Part of the capital Heft's food security is routed through Heng.

Put another way: the richest, most civilised, most commercially vibrant city in the Empire buys its stability directly with the output of three slave camps. Slavery in Kenshi is not background flavour; it is a mechanic that can be traced item by item along a city's supply lines.

Lord Yoshinaga

Noble Circle member Lord Yoshinaga lives in the noble house inside the city. He is a Scorchlander, carries a wakizashi and wears a dustcoat and wooden sandals — the least noble-looking dress sense in the Noble Circle.

Entering his residence without permission counts as trespassing, and 5 Hooded Empire Noble Guards will attack at once. They all wear Masterwork armour and carry weapons manufactured by Edgewalkers.

Yoshinaga is responsible for raising and dispatching the patrols that cover the Skimsands, and is quite possibly Heng's de facto "Lord Mayor". His personality is set to Fearful — a marked contrast with his own line, "You're dirtying my soil, peasant boy! Bow for my forgiveness!"

What is in the city

• Bars ×2 (one big Empire bar plus one ordinary Empire bar)
• General shop, farm shop, clothing shop, mechanical shop, weapon shop
• A Robotics Workshop (repair point for Skeletons and characters with prosthetics)
• A Thieves Guild (stealth gear)
• Noble house, police station
• Buildings for sale: Longhouse ×2 (19,200 Cats)

Heng's shop density does not match Heft's, but it is one of the few northern cities with both a Robotics Workshop and a Thieves Guild.

The Heng zone: opportunity and human trafficking

The zone called Heng is arguably more notable than the city. This is the heartland of imperial commerce, so the roads are crowded with two kinds of people at once:

• Those making money: Guild caravans, slave convoys, the Mercenary Guild, bounty hunters, Manhunters, slave hunters.
• Those being made money from: starving vagrants, escaped slaves, Rebel Farmers.

And the two categories change places constantly. Manhunters will package up a fallen traveller and sell them; vagrant bandits will in turn rob a caravan caught alone.

Zone environment values: Water 20%, Arid 100%, Green 0%, Swamp 0%; for resources, Stone 110%, Iron 100%, Copper 70%. The terrain is canyon — good for setting up a chokepoint and equally good for an ambush.

Better make sure we've got some expendable cats for bribes before we get too cozy here in the canyons... — line spoken by a non-manic player character on entering the region

One point worth noting: the wiki estimates this zone's population density at at least 4x that of The Great Desert — The Great Desert has four large cities and the Heng zone only one, yet the patrol frequency of vagrants, Manhunters and rebels is comparable if not higher.

Town overrides

Heng has three override paths, all of them variants of "supply chain breaks → civil war".

Malnourished

Trigger: the slavers Grande, Haga and Ruben must all be killed or captured. All three slave camps' supply lines break at once, famine and poverty crush the city outright, and roughly 5 buildings become ruins in the chaos. Yoshinaga is still there, but the gate samurai and civilians are all malnourished.

Half-destroyed (civil war)

Trigger: either Longen or Emperor Tengu is killed or captured. Three squads of rebel swordsmen spawn inside the city (each with 6–10 rebel farmers, 2–4 rebel swordsmen, and occasionally a bonedog) and fight the townspeople; around 7 buildings are damaged.

Empire Peasants

Trigger: both Longen and Emperor Tengu are killed or captured. About a third of the city is destroyed and it falls under Empire Peasants control. Depending on whether Tinfist is alive, there are two slightly different versions. This is Heng's terminal state; no further override follows it.

Trivia

• Before version 1.0.51 Heng's two bars spawned no NPCs other than the barmen, which meant players could recruit absolutely nobody in the "Empire's third city". The bug was later fixed.
• Converting from Yoshinaga's patrol spawn values, Heng ranks third in size among the six northern United Cities towns.
• Heng is the only northern UC town without a camp-bed slum. That is fairly anomalous in an empire whose cities are full of vagrants.
• Heng is also the only northern UC town that cannot enter the "Malnourished" and "Half-destroyed" states at the same time — because its malnourished override is already equivalent in effect to half-destruction.

Buildings and shops

Bar x2 (Empire Big Bar and Empire Bar), Clothing Shop, Farm Shop, General Shop, Mechanical Shop, Noble House, Police Station, Robotics Workshop, Thieves Guild, Weapon Shop

Buildings for sale

Sells

Vendors here stock 152 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.

Items

Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Bloodrum, Book, CPU Unit, Cactus Rum, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper Alloy Plates, Copper, Cotton, Crossbow Parts, Damaged Book, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Generator Core, Greenfruit, Grog, Hacksaw, Hinge, Iron Plates, Leather, Luxury Goods, Medical Supplies, Motor, Power Core, Press, Riceweed, Robotics Components, Sake, Simple Rug, Skeleton Repair Kit, Spring Steel, Steel Bars, Strawflour, Tools, Water Jug, Water, Wheatstraw

Weapons

Combat Cleaver, Desert Sabre, Falling Sun, Foreign Sabre, Guardless Katana, Heavy Jitte, Heavy Polearm, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Iron Club, Jitte, Katana, Longsword, Mercenary Club, Naginata Katana, Naginata, Ninja Blade, Nodachi, Plank, Polearm, Ringed Sabre, Staff, Wakizashi

Robot Limbs

Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right), KLR Series Arm (left), KLR Series Arm (right), KLR Series Leg (left), KLR Series Leg (right), Scout Leg (left), Scout Leg (right), Skeleton Arm (left), Skeleton Arm (right), Skeleton Leg (left), Skeleton Leg (right), Steady Arm (left), Stealth Leg (left), Stealth Leg (right), Thief's Arm (right)

Light Armour

Cargopants (padded), Cargopants (reinforced), Cargopants (sneaky chain), Drifter's Boots, Drifters Leather Jacket, Drifters Leather Pants, Fog Mask, Halfpants (padded), Halfpants (reinforced), Halfpants (sneaky chain), Heart Protector, Ninja Mask, Ninja Rags, Samurai Clothpants, Swamp Ninja Mask, Trader's Leathers

Shirts

Black Cloth Shirt, Blackened Chain Hive Shirt, Blackened Chain Shirt, Blackened Chainmail, Chain Shirt, Chainmail, Cloth Shirt, Dark Leather Shirt, Leather Shirt, Leather Turtleneck, Leather Vest, Rusty Chain Shirt, Rusty Chainmail, Turtleneck, White Vest

Medium Armour

Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Black Plate Jacket, Mercenary Leather Armour, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, White Plate Jacket

Nutrition

Bread, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Meatwrap, Ration Pack, Raw Meat

Crossbows

Bolts Heavies, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Junkbow, Ranger, Spring Bat, Tooth Pick

Legwear

Cargopants, Gi Pants, Halfpants (ragged), Ninja Pants, Worn-out Shorts

Backpacks

Bull Backpack, Garru Backpack, Small Thieves Backpack, Thieves Backpack

Clothing

Black Rag Shirt, Ninja Gi

Headgear

Sandogasa

Mercenaries

Mercenary Plate

Vendors and stock here

Compiled automatically from the wiki's vendor data: shops that can appear in this settlement and what they may carry. Actual stock varies with world state and randomisation.

Black Market Bar

Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Bloodrum, Bolts Heavies, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Book, Bread, Chainmail Sheets, Combat Cleaver, Cooked Vegetables, Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Electrical Components, Fabrics, … (57 items in all at this shop)

Clothing Shop

Cargopants, Cargopants (padded), Cargopants (reinforced), Cargopants (sneaky chain), Chain Shirt, Chainmail, Cloth Shirt, Drifter's Boots, Drifters Leather Jacket, Drifters Leather Pants, Gi Pants, Halfpants (padded), Halfpants (ragged), Halfpants (reinforced), Halfpants (sneaky chain), Leather, Leather Shirt, Leather Turtleneck, … (31 items in all at this shop)

Empire Big Bar

Bread, Cactus Rum, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Grog, Meatwrap, Sake, Water, Water Jug

Empire General Shop

Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Book, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Grog, Hacksaw, Iron Plates, Leather, Luxury Goods, Medical Supplies, … (25 items in all at this shop)

Empire Mechanical Shop

Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Book, Chainmail Sheets, Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Generator Core, Hacksaw, Iron Plates, Leather, Skeleton Repair Kit, Spring Steel, Steel Bars

Empire Weapon Shop

Desert Sabre, Foreign Sabre, Guardless Katana, Heavy Jitte, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Jitte, Katana, Longsword, Mercenary Club, Naginata, Naginata Katana, Ninja Blade, Nodachi, Plank, Ringed Sabre, Staff, Wakizashi

Farm Shop

Basic First Aid Kit, Bread, Bull Backpack, Cactus, Cotton, Dried Meat, Garru Backpack, Greenfruit, Raw Meat, Riceweed, Water Jug, Wheatstraw

Independent Bar

Bread, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Greenfruit, Grog, Meatwrap, Ration Pack, Water, Water Jug

Robotics Workshop

Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Book, CPU Unit, Copper Alloy Plates, Crossbow Parts, Damaged Book, Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right), Electrical Components, Fuel, Gears, Generator Core, Hacksaw, Hinge, Iron Plates, KLR Series Arm (left), … (39 items in all at this shop)

Shek Armor Shop

Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Heart Protector, Mercenary Leather Armour, Mercenary Plate, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, Skeleton Repair Kit, White Plate Jacket

Thieves Guild

Armoured Hood, Armoured Rags (black), Black Cloth Shirt, Black Plate Jacket, Black Rag Shirt, Blackened Chain Hive Shirt, Blackened Chain Shirt, Blackened Chainmail, Dark Leather Shirt, Drifter's Boots, Drifters Leather Pants, Fog Mask, Guardless Katana, Katana, Mercenary Leather Armour, Ninja Blade, Ninja Mask, Ninja Rags, … (25 items in all at this shop)