Starfield's Starborn Are Seriously Strange

The apathy of the hunter seems excessive at start. When you meet him at the bar. Till you start running through ng+s and eventually become like the hunter yourself. Its so well done i struggled to believe Bethesda wrote it

Two things. If you choose neither The Hunter nor The Emissary, when in the unity it says that you keep the way open for those after you, so more than just those on your ship go through. Two, you have to give something of yourself to the old universe to start ng+ that could be reseeding the artifacts.

When I first saw the Hunter, I kept trying to figure out a way to hire him for my crew. I like the idea that when you go through the unity, you exist everywhere and every when at the same time, only coalescing into the reality that you get more artifacts for. What if that’s the situation? Getting the artifacts solidifies you into the universe, and the Starborn are rabidly searching for the reality they left, or one close enough. Losing everyone and everything just to move forward would probably cause some people to go crazy.

A minor point: There is at least one other "named" Starborn I have encountered in every universe so far... The Trader. Of course, they are just a "mysterious ship" during the initial playthrough. I definitely am not sure, but IIRC they do seem to recognize your transformation from your initial game when you encounter them in NG+ .. something along the lines of "good to see you made it". There are also alternate universes where you meet some "one-off" named Starborn: one where "Constellation" is made up of different versions of yourself and one with a vengeful Starborn Cora who is hunting down every version of you across universes to avenge her Dad, whose heart you broke. Not sure how those might influence your thoughts on the Starborn.

Unity could be like a tree where everytime you enter it, you spawn into several branches/universes. Which would explain why the hunter is a starborn before you, in all of em. And hes simply so much further up the tree that hes exponentially ahead of you

I gotta' be honest. Seeing your video about this is a breath of fresh air. I have no idea what's up with The Starborn, what their goal is - but I intend to keep asking and keep searching. There's a lot of cynical takes about, "The quality of BGS' writing" and, "How this game is worthless" and "How Starfield is dead and every other space game is better because X reason or Y gameplay concession or Starfield does Z worse" or. Something. But here you are, engaging with the media on its terms, asking questions about it. You have no idea how much I respect and appreciate that. I'm happy to stay tuned to whatever you have to say about one of my genuinely most favorite games in the future. Thank you.

I think starfield is a meta commentary on how people play bethesda's games. the different starborn are all examples of the kind of role play we as the player can have in the starfield world. youve got the obvious: be the merciless, kill everything for fun hunter. or the righteous, help people, good guy trying to do whats right emissary. then less obviously: the trader, representing a less common roleplay approach of a merchant. Petrov, "the collector" the captain of the scow being that player who hordes everything, collecting everything in the game. and as for the unexplained hows and why's of the mechanics of the world, keeper aquilas is literally telling us its up to us to come to our own conclusions with his "your truth" speech.

The Starborn are obsessed with the power of the Starborn. It's a step beyond psychotic that we aren't meant to take. That has to break the mind in ways we can't even begin to understand. The emissary is as fruity as the hunter. They're just two sides of the same coin. It's all about power for each of them regardless of what the emissary claims.

loved the vid! great discussion

Yeah I’ve burnt some speculation trying to come up with a working theory on the Starborn, no luck yet 🤣🤣🤣

The longer we get into the 5 year delivery schedule and more story is released, i'm sure a lot of these questions will get answered tho i'm sure for the continuing IP be it if it gets a sequel or goes full SaaS, but i think its the meeting with the Creators that will most likely spell out the point in all of this.

This was such a great video, made me start questioning even more than I thought I already did with this strange but similar universe, thank you 🙏

What if, when you step into Unity, you arrive at a world where all is reset but starborn. Its the same world but reset. Not a multiverse. (just like the game, reset only) All starborn will retain their previous experience and memory. Lets say, Helix got all the pieces at the last fight we have with him. He will then go through the unity as a 'winner'; whereas for us, we will be reset but retain the last memory of losing to Helix. Hunter and emissary at which will not be fighting us, but lost to Helix and then reborn together with us where Helix got 'upgraded'. Whoever win will reset the world to the time the winner's touching their first piece of artifact. Example, Lin touched the artifact (instead of us player) will set her (Lin & this artifact) reset time/point exactly the same as us player if she eventually collects all and go into the Unity. We will be reset and loop again and be in the cave with her without knowing anything. But Lin will. If somehow Lin is defeated at anytime, this reset time/point will be cancel. By using this theory, artifact is a character save, time save & coordinate safe for whoever first 'touch' it. By collecting all 24 pieces, it will activate to one's only save. But this will exponentially increase any starborn's chance of winning over normal human(retaining all memories, knowledge & ability). Still, loop holes everywhere. Let say, i won for the first time. Went to NG+1, Went to the cave, got my artifact and went into hiding indefinitely. Did not break the cycle, but agonizing for the rest of the starborns. Will Unity interfere.

You’ve asked the same questions I’ve had since originally “glimpsing the Unity”. My theory is that when the artifacts are assembled into the Armillary and the Unity is activated the artifacts are reset in that Universe as if we never found them or even existed. Restarting the search for the remaining Starborn and explores. Also maybe the time line resetting for our character each time is to give us a chance to live life again, before ours was interrupted by this never ending quest.

I appreciate the ability to make different choices and have done so. I still tend to choose neither and try to reason with them at the end, as that feels "right" to me. The times I have chosen a side have been in alternate realities when my companions aren't a factor. I generally choose to avoid the main quest until I have done some factions first.

Apparently there is pattern filled by ZeniMax called "starborn". Perhaps we'll get expansion that will fill the gaps and answer some questions

Man I love your videos

Incredible video. And I hope we get more answers!

Finally some lore videos please keep posting

Great Video !