Starfield: You Won’t Believe How Long It Takes To Reach Pluto

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We are literally days away from Starfield’s official release, opening the gates for everyone on Gate Pass to enter the world. But the streamers and influencers, at least the ones who are honest, are just at the cusp of learning what Bethesda did with this world and what the limits of it actually are.

This was shared around by Peter Ovo on Twitter, but in fact, it was actually Alanah Pearce who made this startling discovery about Starfield.

But it’s best that we start where Alanah also started. A few days ago, she posted a YouTube titled “Starfield’s space exploration isn’t what you think.” In this YouTube, she explained her attempt to get to Saturn, just because.

To be more specific, she got curious about what Bethesda said about going to planets like Saturn. Apparently, Bethesda told content creators like Alanah that you won’t be able to take the time to go to a planet and land there. Now, obviously, you couldn’t land on a gas planet like Saturn anyway, but what early streamers apparently found out is if you tried hard enough you would eventually clip into an image of a planet.

Alanah later found out that her findings as she revealed in the video weren’t entirely correct either. But for the sake of establishing the sequence of events, I’ll share a link to her YouTube here.

And so we get to a Twitch stream that Alanah made later. This time, she targeted getting to the planet Pluto, from Earth. To put this in context, in terms of the real world, Saturn is 793 million miles away from earth, while Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away.

So, what Alanah did, was set a course for Pluto, and then go to sleep. The video ended up taking a little over 12 hours streaming, but roughly seven hours in, her ship actually reached the planet.