What’s the Starfield timeline? To date, we’ve been piecing collectively the Starfield story and lore of main gamers and planets that seem in Settled Programs from the data teased in trailers and previews. Fortunately, Bethesda has now launched a Starfield timeline spanning 278 years, permitting us to trace all the main occasions within the story to date.
We have already got a powerful indication of simply how large Starfield is, so it stands to motive {that a} universe of this dimension will need to have an expansive historical past to match. The official Starfield timeline charts humanity’s course throughout the celebrities and their eventual settlement on distant planets, in addition to the founding of main cities. Given how lengthy we are able to count on our Starfield journey to take, allow us to stroll you thru the historical past of the Settled Programs.
Starfield story to date
Right here is the official Starfield timeline and story to date:
- 2050: People first arrive on Mars. By 2100, people reside in area.
- 2156: People arrive in Alpha Centauri (4.37 mild years away from Earth).
- 2159: The United Colonies are established.
- 2160: New Atlantis is based and turns into the official capital metropolis of the United Colonies in 2161.
- 2167: Cheyenne is settled by Solomon Coe, who founds its first settlement, Akila Metropolis.
- 2188: Coe invitations Volii to hitch Cheyenne in a brand new alliance – the Freestar Collective. The Freestar Collective is formally shaped in 2189.
- 2194: The United Colonies positions the star station known as the Clinic in orbit round Deepala within the Narion system. The unaffiliated peoples of the Narion system see this as a UC try to increase their borders and demand the UC take away the Clinic. When the UC refuses, the individuals of Narion vote to hitch the Freestar Collective, who mobilize to guard the system in 2195.
- 2196: In response to Freestar mobilization, the UC strikes a fleet into the Narion system and Freestar responds in sort. The Narion Warfare begins.
- 2216: The Narion Warfare drags on as public sentiment sours. Lastly, the Treaty of Narion is signed by the UC and Freestar Collective in 2216, ending the battle. The time period ‘Settled Programs’ is formalized within the treaty.
- 2221: The Freestar Rangers are based as an elite protecting and investigative power devoted to serving all residents of the Freestar Collective.
- 2275: Constellation is shaped by Sebastian Banks. Unique members embody Chloe Bao, achieved physicist; Aja Mamasa, the youngest member and Sebastian’s protégé; Darius Andris, botanist and specialist in xeno-flora; Bernadette Laurent, rich heiress and adventurer; Everado Gil, former smuggler; and Kadri Toma, biologist and doctor. The Lodge is in-built New Atlantis to serve the wants and folks of Constellation for generations to come back.
- 2305: Barrett joins Constellation.
- 2307: The Freestar Collective begins farming on the planet of Vesta within the Lunara system. By 2308 the United Colonies claims that by establishing a colony in a fourth star system, the Freestar Collective has violated the Treaty of Narion. Diplomatic talks break down and the UC lays siege to Vesta, killing anybody who stayed behind (or was introduced in) to defend it. The Colony Warfare formally begins.
- 2310: Constellation comes into possession of their first Artifact and tucks it away within the Constellation archives.
- 2311: After a number of years of battle, the Colony Warfare successfully involves an finish with the Battle of Cheyenne as a flotilla of civilian and army Freestar Collective ships takes down the main ships of the UC Navy utilizing hit-and-run techniques.
- 2315: The UC Vanguard is based as a part of a UC response to the Freestar Collective’s use of civilian ships through the Colony Warfare. The Vanguard is the UC’s personal civilian navy, counting on civilians utilizing their very own ships.
- 2319: Sarah Morgan turns into the youngest head of the UC Navigator Corps, although it’s a short-lived place because the division is shut down in 2320. Solid adrift, however nonetheless keen to place her coaching to good use, Morgan joins Constellation.
- 2321: Walter Stroud – co-owner of Stroud-Ecklund, one of many Settled Programs’ premier starship producers – joins Constellation and turns into its major monetary backer.
- 2322: Former Crimson Fleet pirate Vladimir Sall joins Constellation.
- 2325: Sarah Morgan turns into performing Chair of Constellation.
- 2325: Theologian Matteo Khatri joins Constellation.
- 2326: Barrett finds the unique Artifact within the Constellation archives and is aware of it should be particular.
- 2327: Freestar Ranger Sam Coe and his daughter Cora be part of Constellation.
- 2328: Andreja joins Constellation.
- 2328: Barrett convinces Constellation to buy Starstation L-868 and modify it to change into a deep area scanner, nicknamed ‘The Eye’.
Notably, Bethesda’s official Starfield timeline neglects to say Earth fully, leaving the destiny of our dwelling planet fully as much as hypothesis till we start to dig into the story. Nonetheless, it does cowl main historic conflicts, the founding of main Starfield factions, in addition to the origins of notable Starfield companions like Barrett and Sarah Morgan – which can nicely show helpful when hanging up a Starfield romance.
The Starfield timeline ought to convey you in control with the story to date, although we extremely suggest trying out the Starfield anime shorts for much more in-universe particulars concerning the open-world recreation. We’ve additionally bought the inside track on Starfield ship constructing and base constructing if you happen to’re trying to make your mark within the universe, in addition to the area fight that awaits you off-planet.