OutlawReport
English：Outlaw · Factions
A bucket the game keeps for criminals who belong to nobody, with no towns and no leader. Its main working use is to tag slaves and prisoners, which is why the Outlaws you meet are mostly in a cage or a cell.
Outlaw is a faction in the game data, but it is not a power the way the Holy Nation or the United Cities are. It works more like the Drifters: a container for criminals who owe allegiance to no government and no gang.
It holds no town, and no world state ever hands it one. The place the tag actually gets used most is on slaves.
These names are not the same thing
Kenshi has several things with "Outlaw" in the name, and they are unrelated:
| Name | What it actually belongs to |
|---|---|
| Outlaw | This article. A classification faction, mostly slaves and prisoners |
| Holy Nation Outlaws | A real bandit faction of people who fled the Holy Nation |
| Outlaw Heavy, Outlaw Swordsman Captain | Troop types of the Rebel Farmers |
| Yabuta Outlaw | The Yabuta Outlaws, who only exist once Yabuta of the Sands is released |
Four similar names, four unconnected sets of data. Seeing "Outlaw" is not grounds for assuming the same people.
Where you meet them
Outlaws do not patrol and they do not come to rob you. They turn up where somebody else has put them:
- The cells of Tengu's Vault, the United Cities military prison at the southern end of the Skimsands, holding whoever the Empire considers worst. Luquin, Psycho, Screamy, Sinklyde, Hex and Espher are all in there.
- Slave markets and slaver bars. Ray is bought off a drunk, and Garret's slave spawns bound to his owner.
- Escorted in the field. Slaves appear alongside Noble Hunters in Stormgap Coast, The Great Desert and The Hook.
- In cages. Characters taken by the United Cities are usually kept caged.
Reading the relations table
Outlaws have five special relations. Everything else defaults to 0:
| Towards | Relation |
|---|---|
| Police | −100 |
| United Cities | −100 |
| Dust Bandits | −50 |
| Sand Ninjas | −50 |
| The Holy Nation | −50 |
The two −100s define the tag. Police is the faction that handles bounties and crime, and the United Cities is the largest buyer of slaves on the continent. Marking a character Outlaw means the law wants him, and there is somewhere to sell him once they have him.
The −50 to the Dust Bandits and the Sand Ninjas says the other half: an Outlaw is not welcome among bandits either. There is nobody behind him.
That backstory on the wiki
Besides the data, the Fandom article on Outlaws carries a passage about how these people see themselves: mostly runaways from mainstream society, oppressed by the status quo, who would not call themselves criminals but challengers to the inept rule of the Holy Nation and the United Cities, taking back through thievery what they believe is owed to them.
Two things can actually be checked: the tag is used heavily on slaves, and people taken by the United Cities usually end up in cages. The rest is guesswork.