I love that it felt like a combination of Fallout with the ship functioning as a Vault of sorts to help humanity survive a coming apocalypse and as a Star Trek reference in a way with the crew of the Constant wearing Starfleet-styled uniforms with the departments even lining up nicely to TNG-era Trek: the captain in red, the security team in yellow, the medical team in blue.

I like the idea of that quest but I am also annoyed that there are no skill checks to negotiate a better deal for the settlers with the board. Also it is quiet ironic that there is an option to make the ship disappear but not an option to make the resort disappear. Also the members of the board are immortals.

I was highly annoyed to find objects inside that ship that belong to the current era, like the little smart egg thing. The devs really should have been more careful

I loved the idea and execution of this quest. I only wish there was a continuation where you could see where the constant went and colonized

Fun fact:
The original plan were what the Enclave in fallout were trying to do was to build a generation ship. The vaults were meant to gather test data to help them design said generation ship by testing the effects of various scenarios.

This was reconnected at some point iirc but it was what the original creator intended for the enclave to be. Although perhaps with Vault Tecs own post nuclear bunker getting a direct hit & not surviving it was only ditched due to them not being able to control & collect data from the vaults post war.

I Can see fanfiction of the media already there being very much celebrated among the crew as it provides new media for them to consume, even if it’s just written content

Glad you picked up Starfield lore too. I haven’t started it yet but now I’m confident I won’t miss any good lore bits with you on the case!

This game has SO many side quests. I'm totally hooked! Lol

One of the biggest things to their mental fortitude is imagine being on a generational ship that can't support generation growth for some reason your ancestors the builders were unable to calculate a population growth of let's say three children per couple that would take some incredible mental fortitude to know that. To think somehow they didn't have the technology or the ability to compress every movie and book, movies alone mounting in total probably around 40,000 years worth of entertainment without any stopping for food, bathroom, work.

Wearing the tardigrade costume on first contact will give you unique dialogue

Just did this quest and found it a little disappointing. They seemed really determined to use this planet and the captain felt a sense of ownership over it, but when I decided they should get a grav drive they didn’t fight it and I didn’t even have to do a persuasion check they like already knew and were chill and excited for some reason which didn’t make sense and I would have atleast liked to have tried convincing them to change the plans they’ve had for 200 years. Felt very strange to not flesh out this very interesting quest idea

i love this little side quest. Since they show up every now and then

Maybe it's discussed during the quest, but it amazes me that the crew of the Constant aren't absolutely furious that this was their first contact with FTL-capable humanity. The Constant had spent the past 190+ years on the voyage - only to find that about 180 of those years of paralyzing boredom and harrowing sacrifice were completely unnecessary.

The Constant's mission or flight plan couldn't have been a secret, given how the expedition involved such a huge investment, had such a grand scale for the time, and how the original Brackenridge had made legal headlines by filing to claim the destination planet for the colonists. Presumably, anyone with a gravity drive (and the navigation system needed to make FTL useful) could have set up some sort of interception mission to let the crew of the Constant know they wouldn't need to spend the next ten generations sealed in a relativistic tin can.

Again, I haven't played the game yet, so maybe this is addressed. I can think of a few possibilities. Maybe the Constant's boost phase was hard-wired, and overriding it to slow back down that early would have overstressed the ship's design. Maybe the Constant's ten years of acceleration by the time the gravity drive was invented meant the ship was already booking it too fast for an interception mission to match non-FTL speeds with the colony ship. Maybe the colonists the MC meets see the previous generations as a sunk cost and just aren't worried about it.

...Or maybe it's simply that the culture shock hasn't worn off yet, and the Constant's crew have some ticking time-bombs among them as that realization sets in.

Favorite quest line so far. And that among a bunch of stellar story telling in this game!

more starfield lore please! there aren’t enough on youtube yet, you could really corner the market!

Thanks for covering Starfield as well as 76! Love your style and voice.

According to an SSNN broadcast I helped the Paradiso owers provide a surprise firewors show.

I'm about 40 hours into my playthrough and this so far has been one of my favorite quests.

Ship should’ve included at least one cheeky bobble head on a desk somewhere.

Definitely blowing them up in my next playthrough. Why did I get stuck running chores/footing the bill in order to meditate this situation between two groups whose business is with each other? 😂