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You can only see it through the use of the "dev" menu. It is not supposed to be seen in regular play.
Since it really look like a statue of Athena, I suspect it's a generic asset. Since we are not supposed to see it, they never updated it.
Edit, a quick google fu found this :
https://fr.3dexport.com/3dmodel-athena-statue-175093.htm
So yes, it's a statue of Athena. And I'm fairly certain it is not related to the lore of the game, it's just either a stock asset or something they bought early on as placeholder.
I think this game sort of follows along the lines of robots going rampant a la "The Matrix" or "Terminator." We advanced in technology to the point of creating hyper intelligent AI and they turned on us, creating a dystopian future, I.E. "War against the machines." We humans fought against our own creations and won, but in the process, lost many important pieces of ourselves, such as our history, technology, and our past in general.
It could be that the other races were simply man-made or machine engineered some time during this timeline. That, or they could simply be a byproduct of all that has happened.
Yeah something like that is probably true. I suppose that Hivers could have been made to replace skeletons, for various reasons
Best I could think of is that they came to be during the height of human technology when someone messed with caste system bugs and genetically modified them, or they could have come to be from the mutations that seem to run rampant in this world, perhaps from a nuclear war.
Unless I am totally wrong, which I freely admit im probably totally wrong about lots of what im about to say, I think that a very long time ago this new world was colonized by humanity. Humans had became advanced enough to reach this new world and also to invent sentient mechanical and biological servants to carry out the task of exploiting the planet's resources. Humanity and their servants, (shek, hivers, skeletons,) spent an undetermined period of time taking everything they could from the planet until some kind of cataclysm occurred that ruined most of the continent and ended contact with any other civilizations out in space. This event was so terrible that it ruined large swaths of the environment, in some areas literally flooding the land for long periods of time. I think the leviathan coast, on the opposite side of the continent from the ashlands, where the original civilization used to exist, is probably an example of what most of the world looked like before this first apocalypse happened.
I do have a working theory about what this apocalypse was. I think that the skeleton's guilt over *something* is a major tell about what actually happened. I also think that the bugmaster plays into this. Let me explain.
If i'm right about humanity coming to this new world with mechanical and biological servants of their own design, I think its also completely within the realm of possibility that humans used the same type of science to essentially make themselves immortal or at least extremely powerful, intelligent and immune to aging. The bugmaster may be one of these ancient human beings, perhaps the last one left on the planet. It can't be coincidence that when you beat him and loot his chest he has a map to the ashlands where cat-lon is and its implied that hes training to go defeat him. Maybe its for simple revenge or just for control of whatever remaining technology is in cat-lons city, who knows. Might be both, even. It'd be neat if it had something to do with that floating ship above cat-lon.
If the bugmaster is one of these ancient humans, its also possible that he was capable of exuding a pheremone to control the spider colonies of Arach, or that he was smart enough to figure out a way to control them in a similar way.
So here is what I think happened. Skeletons, as humanity's most intelligent servants, are tired of being subservient to humanity. However, humans have stacked the deck greatly against any sort of rebellion by controlling the most powerful weapons of war and their natural enhanced strength and intelligence. In order to succeed, the skeletons were forced to commit absolutely heinous atrocities against the humans. This first battle is what originally started the first mass extinction events that were documented, and in some way also reduced humanity's genetic advantage, reverting them back to their original forms (IE just like normal humans again.) This is also probably the start of the devastation thats evident everywhere in the world.
Whatever they did, they must have also severed contact with whatever civilizations are out in the galaxy at the same time. That part im REALLY reaching for though, it could be that Kenshi is the only world with human life on it or it could be just a minor mining colony that fell out of contact with the rest of humanity, and humanity doesn't care about it because it has bigger problems, or Kenshi is just that insignificant.
Anyway, if i'm right that Kenshi is just a colony world, there needs to be some explanation as to why the rest of humanity hasnt come back to check out whats going on. Maybe the Skeleton rebellion spanned the entire breadth of a galactic civilization. Who knows.
So then we have the first and second empires. They're both notable for conflicts between skeletons and humans, though most of the details are left blank. Cat-lon mentions that he tried to control the humans, so I think its possible that the Skeletons probably tried to reverse roles on humanity and rule them, but it ended terribly because humans wouldnt cooperate. This resulted in further decay, extinction and regression of technology.
At this point it isn't hard to see why the Skeletons are depressed and generally tight lipped about what really happened to the world when they get asked about it. They might be responsible for reducing their creators from almost demigods to tiny brains scrabbling in the mud and sand, desperate to survive. They're also clearly at least partially responsible for the tremendous destruction thats evident in so many areas of the continent. This is probably why the world of kenshi is currently divided up by the other races while the skeletons lack any real representation in world politics except for the small influence of the anti-slavers and machinists. Despite being smart and strong enough to control everyone else, many of them wipe their memories to stop remembering the bad times or just stay depressed, wandering the world in search of some kind of redemption, or fuming in their ancient home like cat-lon.
I completely agree with what you're probably thinking, this is essentially just head cannon. But I'd like to think its kind of an educated head cannon. I completely admit that most of these leaps im making is just stuff that I think would be a cool explanation for the big question marks left in the world. I will defend myself a little and say that I don't think the Sci-Fi explanation I presented is totally unrealistic. After all we're talking about an ancient civilization capable of creating Particle Uplink Cannons from C&C, sapient humanoid robots, gigantic robots used as weapons, tremendously large manufacturing facilities and what appears to be a floating spaceship.
The presence of ancient stone ruins, cobblestone roads, and stone bricks points to an ancient civilization predating what we call the first civilization. Quite possibly the origins of the first civilization itself.
All the intelligent races of Kenshi appear to be offshoots of the same survivors of the events that ended the first civilization. According to the in-game scientists anyway. Even humans are said to look significantly different than they used to in Kenshi's history, which means the Bugmaster is likely somewhat recent, given he has no visual differences when compared to a normal human.