What Happened To Earth In Starfield?

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By the time takes place in the year 2330, Earth has become uninhabitable. What remains of humanity's home planet is nothing but a few landmarks among a vast desert wasteland, and over a century since its fall, mankind has set up homes across a variety of different star systems, referring to them as the ""

[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Starfield.]

Despite this, players can still visit the abandoned planet and can unlock several points of interest by reading books found throughout the game, bringing them back to crumbling landmarks such as London's Shard, New York's Empire State Building, or Dubai's Burj Khalifa. 's main story will also involve traveling to Earth as part of the mission "" which comes quite late into the campaign. At this point, players will visit the NASA Launch Tower in Cape Canaveral to uncover the planet's past.

Collectable snowglobes can be found at each of Earth's locations.

Although it's no longer deemed to be inhabitable for mankind, it is still possible to visit Earth in Starfield and see its remaining landmarks.

Earth was deemed uninhabitable in 2203, over a century before 's story began, but its fall began sometime before that. The reason Earth is inhospitable is that the planet’s magnetosphere collapsed, andits atmosphere dissipated into space.

This was brought about after theoretical physicist and NASA astronaut Dr. Victor Aiza's discovery of an Artifact in the 2100s, and the invention of the Grav Drive technology — something that players now use for fast travel in — in 2138. A mere twelve years into these experiments, in 2150, scientists announced that the magnetosphere would fail completely approximately fifty years later, and Earth's nations banded together to coordinate a massive evacuation effort. Despite these attempts — which continued up until 2199 — only a fraction of the planet's population managed to escape, and billions of people died when Earth finally fell in 2203.

Very few people are aware that