The most relevant mod I found is Bad Guys Redux , which lets you play as a Hive Queen and mass-recruit Hivers from existing spawns, but it does not appear to add a direct “turn queen over as a bounty” feature by itself. I did not find a confirmed Kenshi mod in the results that specifically lets you hand Hive Queens to rival factions as bounties so they can occupy the territory afterward.

What seems closest

  • Bad Guys Redux : lets you control a Hive Queen and build a force from existing Hivers.
  • Settlement takeover / world-state mods : the search result about taking over settlements suggests there are mods focused on ownership changes, but not clearly bounty-driven Queen handoff.
  • Hive overhauls like Mogwai Hive Rework and Hives Expanded add Hive content and faction flavor, but the results do not show the specific bounty-and-territory mechanic you described.

Likely answer

If you want that exact behavior, it may require a combo of mods plus FCS editing rather than one ready-made mod. A practical path would be:

  1. Use a Hive/faction overhaul for richer Hive content.
  1. Use a settlement/world-state takeover mod for post-bounty territory changes.
  1. Edit bounty/faction relations in FCS to make a captured Queen trigger a handoff or invasion chain.

Useful search angle

The best keywords to hunt with are:

  • “Kenshi world state takeover mod”
  • “Kenshi bounty faction overhaul”
  • “Kenshi settlement ownership mod”
  • “Kenshi Hive Queen bounty mod”

I don’t have a verified mod name that does exactly what you want, but the closest confirmed pieces are Bad Guys Redux for Hive Queen play and takeover-oriented mods for territory changes.