Bethesda has unveiled a complete timeline ofStarfield’shistory, revealing whenwe first visit Mars, start living in space, establish the United Colonies, found New Atlantis… and how quickly it all goes wrong. Spoilers: we start wars across the stars. Sounds about right.
In 2050, humans finally visit Mars. The current expectation in the real world is for the first crewed Mars mission to happen as soon as the 2030s. Bethesda is far less optimistic and gives us 20 years before we finally set foot on the red planet. Maybe bureaucracy and general global unrest set it back - it wouldn’t be far-fetched.
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50 years later, in 2100, “humans are living in space”. That’s a pretty quick turnaround from the first manned Mars mission. But again, Bethesda is being pessimistic. NASA believes that in the ’30s we will have people living on the Moon’s surface “and doing science”, not unlike sending people to the perilous wilds of the Antarctic for research.
56 years later andwe’ll have made it to Alpha Centauriwhich is 4.37 light years away. This leads to the United Colonies in 2159, followed by the founding of its capital, New Atlantis, only a year later. Then in 2194, the UC establishes a star station in the Narion system. Its people see this as an attempt to expand into their borders and demand the removal of the station. The UC refuses, leading to Narion War.
This war lasts 20 years, finally ending in 2216. Things stay quiet until 2307 when the UC attacks Vesta and kills anyone defending it, leading to The Colony War. However, it’s a far shorter conflict than the Narion War, ending after four years in 2311. Jump ahead 19 years and you reach the beginning of Starfield, when we join its unfolding story.
There are a lot of other details such as important historical figures joining the likes of the Constellation, who finds the first Artifact in 2310, and the founding of important organisations like The Freestar Rangers, but you can read all of it in more detail in the Reddit post embedded above.
Maybe in 30 years time, when we’re all playing the newest version of theSkyrimSpecial Superduper Anniversary edition, we’ll look back at this timeline and see just how accurate Bethesda’s predictions are. We could have the first astronauts on Mars in ten years, and we could be living on the Moon in the same timeframe. As for whether we reach Alpha Centauri in the next century, I doubt any of us will live that long to compare it to Starfield. But if it proves popular, maybe they’ll still be playing the remastered PS15 edition by then.
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