Starborn is a main story mission in Starfield. It is the seventh story mission, and immediately follows the All That Money Can Buy mission, when taking off from Neon. It is extremely short.
Objectives[]
- Surrender the Artifact
- Or Grav Jump to Anywhere
- Return to the Lodge
- Talk to Noel
- Attend the Lodge Meeting
- Talk to Sarah
- Add the Artifact
Detailed Walkthrough[]
Conversation with the Helix (Starborn Guardian ship)[]
The mission begins immediately after All That Money Can Buy. You are faced with a decision: fight the Starborn, surrender the Artifact, or attempt to flee using the grav drive.
- You can also select the Starborn dialogue option, if you have the trait, which avoids a fight altogether.[1]
Fighting the Starborn or fleeing have the same effect. The Starborn will grav jump away if you win the fight. You will grav jump away if you choose to flee. In both scenarios, you leave with the Artifact. If you choose to jettison the Artifact, you lose the Artifact.
Regardless of what you decided, Walter wants to regroup at The Lodge, as the Starborn are a new unknown. He instructs you to tell Noel to analyze the data from the ship's sensors, and that everyone will want to weigh in on what they just witnessed.
The Lodge[]
Return to New Atlantis and head to The Lodge (or fast travel to the front door). Once inside, Noel and Matteo will be surrounding the Artifact collection, and Walter will approach it.
Talk to Noel and ask her to look at the data from her ship sensors. She will transfer the data immediately and brings it up at the table. She will be shocked, asking if it is a prototype. She will call all the members of Constellation to the table to look at it. Nobody will have any idea what the ship design is from, or what material the ship is made out of. Walter explains that they called themselves the "Starborn". Nobody has heard of that name either. Barrett theorizes that it could be intelligent alien life. Matteo goes even further and states it's "avenging angels coming down to stop humanity from accessing forbidden knowledge". Sarah will ask for your opinion on the matter - all we know is the Starborn are after the Artifacts, and they are willing to take them by force.
Regardless of what opinion you give, someone from Constellation will agree with it, and someone will disagree with it. Sarah takes control of the table. She instructs Noel to analyze all the data from the ship sensors - gravitational waves, scans of their weapons, shields, everything. Right now, Constellation is in the dark, and you need to know everything you possibly can about the Starborn, including ways to fight them, if necessary. She states that for now, they should stay the course. Continue collecting Artifacts - that becomes even more of a priority now that we know someone else is searching for them at the same time. She will then ask Vladimir if the Eye has picked up anything new. He will state it has found a few new leads. Sarah bids everyone good luck, and to be careful.
Add the Artifact to the collection, and the mission will complete.
Rewards[]
- Levelled Credits
- 300 XP
- Levelled Constellation Space Helmet
Notes/Trivia[]
- [1] If you chose the Starborn dialogue option during All That Money Can Buy, you can avoid making this decision altogether with the Starborn ship Helix. They allow you to keep the Artifact, stating "As Starborn, we will settle this later". You can "half" come clean about your past or continue to hide it (since you came from a different universe, but none of the characters in the main story know that yet). Even if you start to explain you aren't who Walter thinks you are, he states that "We all came from different walks of life. All that matters is who you are now". Walter "doesn't need to know any more than that".
- An image of the Starborn Guardian will pop up on the screen on the table during the discussion with all the members of Constellation.
- Completion of this mission triggers the activity "Speak with Walter". This leads to the mission "Overdesigned".
- After completing this mission, when doing further "Power From Beyond" missions, Starborn Guardians will begin to spawn after acquiring your power/power level up.
- All the main Constellation followers (Sam, Sarah, Barrett, Andreja) will have a new conversation with you after finishing this mission (although it may not trigger right away).
- Each of those conversations have a Starborn option, if you have the trait.
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