As noticed by Twitter user Timur222, Bethesda has registered a trademark for the title Starborn, which could be the 2nd Starfield expansion after Shattered Space hits later this year.
A Starborn is something the player can eventually become in Starfield’s new game + system. Shattered Space takes place in the home of House V’aruun, a sect devoted to a serpent god. The Starborn are an ever-present assortment of allies and threats throughout your new game + adventures. As nothing is said about the story potential for a Starborn focused expansion, if this filing even is that, I am curious what it could focus on.
The question of “who created the system that makes Starborn” is never fully answered. A lore focused adventure into who or what created the system that allows for new game + in Starfield was my hope from the outset. Shattered Space never sounded like it would focus on that, and low-and-behold it did not, instead focusing on the mysterious House that crept through the shadows in the main campaign.
I personally adored Starfield at launch, giving the game a 9.7 in my glowing review that you can find HERE. In it, I stated:
Back in June of 2018, we got our first tease of Starfield. A glimpse of a planet from space, a satellite, and then a jump to another world as everything turned white. This exploration is the heart of Starfield’s universe. I’ll mark any mechanical spoilers later on, but I’ll keep as much story stuff out of this text as possible. The premise of the game is a simple one, early on you come across an artifact made out of unknown materials. Tasked with removing it from planetary bedrock you’re stunned when you rest it free and tasked with returning it to Constellation. This begins your journey across the galaxy to hunt more artifacts, fight or join pirates, defend the people or rob them blind, and so much more that it would take me 10,000 words just to describe all of the various quests I’ve found.
Would make sense since we got Dragonborn in Skyrim.
I hope Bethesda doesn’t just make two big expansions. Keep this train rolling!
I don’t think they will ever answer who or what created the unity, I think they will keep it ambiguous while still hinting at something more. Like how the serpent is hinted at in the base game as being from another dimension, as the only way to come under its influence is to grav jump.
While expanding the Starborn beyond individuals out only for themselves to an actual faction, looking to maintain control of the Unity.
Yeah, hard to tell at this point if they eventually will or not, but I definitely don’t see them making a DLC for the current Starfield revealing everything. Fleshing out the Starborn as a proper faction and improving how you interact with the rest of the game as one, would be the perfect DLC for me this gen.
It’s definitely something they should take their time with and try to avoid what happened to Mass Effect, where they wrote themselves in to a race against time scenario with the Bring Down the Sky DLC and rushed to give us an epic conclusion in the sequels.
Todd has said he regrets Skyrim and FO4 not getting more DLC and he talked about yearly content for Starfield so id expect content beyond this year and the next
That’s right, I forgot he said that! Yearly expansions for the next 10 years please!