Lo-Fi Games

Doing a slave start, game completely vanilla. Annoyingly they won't work for long periods, changing cage or post usually fixes it. But it will crash randomly, during character creation, 10 minutes into the game, 6 hours later.

Computer is a laptop with an Intel N200, 32 gb ram, pci-e 3.0 ssd. Cannot find ogre.log anywhere, and the logs file is empty

This may be an issue with your GPU, Kenshi often doesn't get along well with Intel cards.

I would suggest trying this mod, which has been known to work around that problem for some users.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1294

Thank you, that absolutely took care of it.