Who knows, we might have an under-embargo Starfield review in the works that will lay matters to rest.
Here, let me shrug on my stolen boffin’s labcoat and attempt to give you an overview.
“Outer space” in the Elder Scrolls universe is… well, who knows, frankly.
They’re tears in the outer fabric of Oblivion that spill radiance from the magical realm of Aetherius.
And people in the setting should constantly argue about the Truths of those mysteries."
This is a setting that’s as curious about itself as you are.
There are gobbets of lore and locations that loosely reinterpret real-world missions to Earth’s orbit and beyond.
There are even Elder Scrolls astronauts, of a sort.
Walk on, brave explorer."
- and I sort of prefer things that way.
What better antidote to such dreary AAA-game maximalist thinking than a healthy dollop of mystery?
