Starfield Ending Explained

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So you’ve made your way out into the Starfield and embarked on a journey to discover the secrets of the known universe. But what happens at the end of Bethesda’s latest RPG?

If you’ve reached the end of Starfield, you might be wondering exactly what you just experienced. Luckily, we’re here to help you make sense of it all. Read on below for our explainer on just what exactly happens at the end of Starfield, and what waits for you afterwards.

On the surface, Starfield is a highly straightforward game. You play as an Asteroid miner who encounters a mysterious artifact that sends you on a vision quest. Following this experience, you team up with an organization called Constellation who has made it their mission to discover more of these artifacts and uncover their secrets.

These artifacts, it turns out, make up something called The Unity, the focal point of multiple universes which when complete grants its discoverers the ability to travel across parallel universes as Starborn.

The player will become a Starborn thanks to this mission from Constellation, but not without a few twists and turns.

Once the secret of The Unity is revealed, it helps to explain the entire origins of Starfield’s universe. Early on in the game, the player learns that Earth is a desolate wasteland that is no longer hospitable. While this could’ve been explained by natural disasters, it turns out Earth’s fate was caused by The Unity.

In the past a scientist named Dr. Victor Aiza discovered the technology for grav drives — the tool in which space travel was made possible in Starfield — thanks in part to touching an artifact piece of The Unity. Like the player, touching the artifact granted Aiza a vision that inspired him to create the grav drive.

However,