Why is Kenshi 2 in the past, rather than the future?

[MetaPhage]

Would it not be better if Kenshi 2 took place 1000 years in the future, rather than 2000 years in the past? it kind of locks a few choices here.

First off, many characters that we meet in Kenshi such as Catlon or Tinfist or Bugmaster, would be essential and we theoretically should not be able to kill them or incapacitate them in Kesnhi 2. So I feel like it would be restricting.

Secondly, would it not be better if you were to go to the future to reflect on the consequences of the player actions. For instance, the majority choices would be canon. Many players go against the holy nation, and kill catlon so you can make those choices cannon and even make up a faction, call it dominion and say it is the remnant of the kenshi 1 player faction.

This also gives you more room for innovation. the world evolves, the geography can change and rather than going into the past, you try to write the future. Would that not be better?

better buildings, better weapons, all of that is also possible in the future, rather than in the past. In 1000 years, all parts of Kenshi can be rebuilt. Even the ashlands. Tides can come in, create new rivers, new lakes, new dry areas. I feel like it would open a lot more possibilities going into the future, rather than the past.

If someone here knows why is it better to go into to the past, then i would be happy to hear it. Also, would it not be better to call it Kenshi: Origins or Kenshi Zero / Kenshi 0. rather than kenshi 2, if you are set on going to the past and the origins?

[FizCap]

As far as I know, the more in the past you go in Kenshi the more technology evolves, it kind of works backwards. I don't know how they'll handle characters that are in Kenshi 1 but I assume there will be some kind of lore that might do something like Robots can have their memory transferred to other robots or something along those lines to explain how Cat-Long is in Kenshi 1 if you killed him in Kenshi 2. This is just my interpretation I assume the only people who will know the true answer is Chris Hunt since a lot of Kenshi 2 is kept ambiguous.

[Cattrina]

The problem with connecting Kenshi 1 and Kenshi 2 the way you suggested is super difficult. Not every player destroyed the Holy Nation. Also there are going to be player, who never bought Kenshi 1.

I agree with FixCap, there probably is, a memory-transfer available for the skeletons.

[philthymcnasty]

I am going to say something controversial, and probably a huge spoiler: The land of kenshi has no future. The skeletons are depressed because they have realized that there is no way to reverse the environmental damage. The last place to grow food is the holy nation, Slavery is rampant because it's the quickest way to get resources with the most minimum amount of food.

Maybe if the shek were to wipe out the blood spiders and the swamp raptors they could grow food in the swamp? but i don't think the settlements in the swamp are that old. I get the feeling that they were mostly drug cartels that set up shop quickly.

Even the hivers are not surviving, they are becoming fogmen or devloving into the southern hive.

kenshi is a cursed place and the only reason why the player faction is successful is because they were too stupid to give up hope.

So that's why we are going to the past, to answer questions and explain away some of the mystery.

[Soronarr]

Who said there needs to be consistency?

Kenshi 2 can easily be an alternate universe.