A Brief History of the Settled Systems (According to the UC) - Starfield Lore
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Honestly, I'm hoping starfield leads to more lore videos like this. I miss the old fallout lore videos.
We are definetly going to get that. He still makes lore videos for Fallout to this day. And there's way more content here than in Fallout 4
Oh yeah the lore in this game is insane. So much depth with all of the factions and side quests. So many different stories can happen in a galaxy.
i go back and watch his old ones for nostalgia
13:46 mins or 😊😊
I’m good 😊 I’ll 😅 poo off here here now now and I
A new lore series into Starfield would be awesome.
Once Ox completes the game and has some personal time with it, he'll likely start putting out more complete and in-depth lore videos, the ones we're getting just now are just appetisers the best has yet to come.
@@Nemisis007 yeah he's literally just explaining a little lore as he comes across it mid play. Give it a couple months and explain stuff even the devs didn't know about haha
@@Nemisis007fallout was my favorite game before this. And these Lore videos were one of my favorite parts. He really breathes life into every detail of the already rich stories.
@@niko9942 | I agree. No one does fallout lore videos quite like Oxhorn.
While people in the UC were forming different organizations, somewhere out there, the vault dweller was trying to find a water purification system chip
😁👍
Gonna be hard to do that with no atmosphere.
@@Knightwolf1994 vault dweller in the Starfield universe is just a pile of ash
The Fallout universe split from our own in the 1940’s, and StarField’s lore is entirely set in our timeline’s future. So the vault dweller could have very well been coming across Shady Sands while the UC and the Free Star Collective were getting their bearings.
Honestly I hope he makes this whole lore series
Another system needs your help, Here I'll mark it on your GPS
The best lore video Ox has ever done imo is Vault 11 I just loved the spooky story and vibes, I bet Starfield has something on that level waiting to be found can’t wait
Oh there is, Terrormorphs are more than brutal killers. Ox will definitely get spooked.
Trouble is most the content is procedurally generated in everyone's games, so everything that's in one area for ox, could be entirely different to what you and I would find. And everything's reset and muddled when you find the last artifact and use what it turns into.
@@jamesaustralian9829the environmental storytelling he uses for his videos definitely won’t be procedurally generated
@jamesaustralian9829 this isn't true. Some of it is. If it has anything to do with the story it's not pg
I really like how they did this in the game. Its really not a particularly original lore but its done really well and its believable. Really slick.
not all lore needs to be original. sometimes it just need to have that certain feeling. i personally think Starfield nails that special, cozy feeling
Also, the way they present it. On my first play through, while I was wandering around New Atlantis, I stumbled across a tour guide talking about a point of history in the game. That was really cool to me. They were giving me lore, but they weren't forced feeding it to me in exposition. I was learning about the games back story in a natural way.
@@johnmccarron7066 totally
Been watching Oxhorn since before the bombs dropped. Excited to see more videos on Starfield lore. Gotta love the entertainment of Bethesda Lore. As a man once said…”Lore never changes.”
9:24 "The Treaty of Narion has since become the foundation of all contemporary political relations, and *[it is]* only official violation, the cause of the galaxy's greatest conflict *[hyphen]* the Colony War."
Starfield's punctuation is something else.
I really enjoyed the UC vanguard quest line
I just joined the UC Vanguard and i'm kinda far in its own story line which has been great so far. So watching this is great as it is giving me tiny bits of lore that i may have missed. It's crazy to think that the Vanguard storyline could be made as a standalone DLC of its own. But like many past bethesda games, I keep forgetting that a lot of side quests are often deep and fully developed, taking you through levels up on levels of quests within its own self contained storyline.
I can't be the only ones that notice the Colony War was basically the prequel of Firefly? The UC/Alliance vs the Freestars/Brown Coats. Look at the uniforms for the Freestars, it's basically what Malcom & Zoe wear throughout the show.
Thats because that's one of the biggest cliches in the space setting. Firefly, Gundam, zone of enders, etc. The idea of being a colony and separating from an empire not only stems from history, but its also romanticized and a obvious eventuality when we do colonize planets.
And how a planetary evacuation formed the Alliance/UC…
The Starfield copies the boring aspects of NMS and other games it's the same for the story.
It would seem so, but at least the ‘brown coats’ of Firefly didn’t sell themselves to another master, like how the Freestar Collective let all the corporations puppeteer them.
Plus the UC isn’t out to drug and enslave the population. Keeping the vast majority happy (honestly, even in the poverty, The Well looks far better cared for than any of the Freestar Collective cities do. And that should speak volumes.) does enough to satisfy them that they have a peaceful population.
There’s a system Barrett needs you to save, Ox lol
so excited to start a new "world" of lore with this man! Starfield is proving to be a little rough around the edges but Bethesda has a way with world building and immersion that is unrivaled and Oxhorn is so awesome at these lore archives that really bring it all together. keep up the great work sir, you are one of the greats.
Oh free star uniform is a longcoat, if that is not a nod to firefly series I don't know what is.
I would guess the reason the UC had to execute three top commanders but not the Three Star Collective is that the Collective won the war, and you usually don’t see the winning side kill their military leaders.
Also, the UC’s tone is sort of amusing in how biased they seemed where the first war that was actually a stalemate they made out to be a complete victory and how they seem to almost treat the Collective’s victory in the second war as practically a draw. It’s also funny how the Collective’s militia fleet is treated as almost dishonorable but then it’s like “join the Vanguard, serve with honor, and become a citizen!”, when the Vanguard basically is the UC’s militia navy and is totally a ripoff of the Collective’s militia navy.
I’m so happy that Oxhorn is finding as much enjoyment as I am in Starfield
From what little I’ve seen in the lore it’s seems like the Collective is just a little too clean, they’ve gotta have a dark side to them as well because Bethesda always presents it’s factions with both good and bad sides. We’ve seen some of the bad side of the UC so I can’t wait to learn about the Collective as well.
Oh you haven't seen the well yet have you.
My favorite faction is by no means clean. Using aliens as weapons, The Well, Warcrimes, etc. They mean well and do take care of their people "for the most part" but they do plenty of bad things "for the great good" and "Peace". Don't think they're an objectively bad faction though and could best be compared to The New California Republic from the Fallout series.
Two of the FC's Governors are proven to be exploitative and even murderous in their pursuit of power and profit. The UC leadership is much more disciplined through its stifling bureaucracy than a council of old-fashioned robber barons.
Oxhorn made my Fallout Playthroughs all they could be. This series would sell more Starfiled games. Well at least one. I have actually been on the fence with picking up the game. This stamp of approval would clinch it.
If you like Skyrim/fallout, you’ll like Starfield.
SERVICE
GUARANTEES
CITIZENSHIP
I'm doing my part! o7
I am too 🫡 as a Ex soldier UC Native Vanguard woman 👩🏻 who’s in a marriage with a Ex Freestar Ranger who has a child from a previous marriage.
If their are DLC for starfield at some point let's hope it could add ground vehicle and maybe a power armor exo suits, including adding the lore to the starfield's main lore like far harbor, dead money. Hay maybe even some park like Nuka world or remnants that is used as a black market where Crimson fleet and mercenary, smuggler, any spacer.
“SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP!”
After the vanguard recruiting process, I ran out the building yelling “IM DOING MY PART!”
Would love for you to cover the mission “entangled”. By far my favorite one of this game so far and it’s impossible to miss considering it’s main story
Some additional information that the uc left out about the colony wars is that they started it by slaughtering the colonists on that farming outpost plus the city of londinion is located outside of the UCs three legal star systems making it very hypocritical. And while exploring the moon of Kreet ( the one with the illegal UC xeno lab) I found several examples of a UC presence on the moon, a mine occupied by house varuun with at least one dead UC marine inside, and a makeshift encampment home to a single vanguard pilot
I hope this channel will talk about (what’s happened to) the Earth on Starfield lore someday.
UC = United Citizens Federation from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers
FreeStar Collective = Terran Confederation from Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
6:48 - Yes, Oxhorn, and it makes perfect sense. Play the game and pay attention to the info dumps.
Go to planets. choose random areas to drop into find procedurally generated bases/structures., accept manhunt missions from Vae Victus.
There is a TON in the game I highly doubt you've found yet. Can't wait till you do as I love your videos.
Time to hop back on the Oxhorn train. Glad to see you back in my feed man.
When you do the Freestar Ranger quest line and the UC Vanguard quest line it starts to make a lot more sense.
honestly the best part of this is that they do just go "The Freestar were cowards for hiding behind their civilian captains *cough* volunteer navy *cough*, anyways come join our vanguard fleet, a totally unique and honorable civilian captain volunteer navy"
But yeah honestly the colony wars does just seem like the leaders on one or both sides were really looking for a fight, like there were some easy diplomatic solutions there but instead countless lives were lost over some farmland.
So glad to see you making starfeild content reminiscent on the good ol days. Looking forward for more to come
Someone else might have mentioned this, but didn't you watch or read The Martian, Ox? Once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it.
So, even with the laws in our world/time, the UC is legally correct to say that the FC colonized a fourth world and violated the treaty.
God i need a Starfield lore series. Your fallout ones are unmatched
Gonna take a shot at this for the hell of it, faction Fallout 4 comparisons.(At a Guess)
United Colonies/Vanguard = Current Brotherhood of Steel or Minutemen
Freestar collective = Minutemen or Brotherhood of Steel
These two above can be swapped, both have bits of each other.
House Va'ruun = Children of Atom
Crimson fleet = Gunners
Pirates = Raiders
The whole Hall of Propaganda sure makes me curious about that Serpent cult & their doctrine...
UC and Freestar are not enemies, they are more like advasaries. In many quests they work together or try to play nice. I've found that Freestar holds more of a frudge than the UC as a whole.
Oxhorn please do starfield lore videos your crispy smooth voice is the only reason I rewatch fallout lore before it was The Lone Wanderer on Shoddy Cast but you put the Emphasis in Detail like no other I love your lore videos please do more for Starfield and Thank you for all your hardwork
By trying to prevent Narion from joining the Freestar Collective, the UC violated the Centaurus Proclamation, so the Treaty of Narion wasn't exactly legal. It's no wonder the Freestar Collective violated it Also,, wouldn't the secret Xenoweapons facility on Kreet be considered a violation of the Treaty of Narion? Pretty hypocritical on the UC's part.
I would love if this became a full series
Great idea can’t wait for more star field lore
Its a new era of Oxhorn!!!!!
Let's hope they add Intergalactic Polish Empire in the next DLC 🤍❤️🥰
The inflection while saying "After deployment of a UC Medical Starstation in Orbit around THIER World, the citizens of Narion also requested to joining the Collective" The absolute Gall of those Narions for daring to want to join the Collective when the UC "only" deployed a medical station in their orbit! Please more lore vids! So happy to see them come back!
PS. UC sounds similar to America's Colonization as far as the rules and benefits of citizenship.
I think you’re looking for parallels that don’t exist
@@Mr.ByrnesI wasn't talking about the born citizenship. I was talking about the earning of your citizenship. Even today you can join the military to earn your citizenship in the US. And flat out the benefits of citizenship during the colonial days are VERY similar. Especially the land rights.
Great lore video Oxhorn | I Love learning the lore. Also I think I may have come across where Londinum was without spoilers you will probably know when you are there as A UC ship warns you off as the surface is unsafe as it as vicious predators and they cannot/willnot help you if you land. I'll let you guys find it yourself.
Oh, FYI, London area on earth has some huge structures. Nowhere near what the city was, but there was structures there. I received a visit London on Earth mini quest during my trek into Mars
If Sam is with you he’ll claim that the UC aren’t being truthful but who knows.
i look forward to no doubt more lore on this game, thank you once again ox
After playing this game today I just have to say it's absolutely massive like you'd think 101.7 GB on console is small but this game is unfathomable when it comes to hoe big it is but its also definitely a must play for anyone who loves exploring and seeing impressive world design and loves the satisfaction of walking around in the calmness of space farming resources
I want a whole series on this.
Service guarantees citizenship in the UC.
Would you like to know more?
In reality people would have debated the findings about the impending magnetosphere collapse until it happened :/
My theory was that house varum caused uc and freestar to end war because common enemy
As a window into how the wars were being fought, Vae Victus means "woe to the vanquished", or "woe to the conquered". This means that whatever the winner says or does goes. In the context of war crimes trials what did the Admiral do to earn that name?
First of all, Oxhorn and lore, They go together like bread and butter. coffee and donuts, fish and chips, another night just me and my cat. Great job 😻.
No citizenship until you've served. (Robert Heinlein Starship Troopers). As a vet, that has a certain attraction. Plus for the UC.
A brown coat on a Freestar Ranger? (Firefly, Joss Whedon.) Rebels have more fun. Plus for Freestar Collective.
Tomorrow is the 6th of September, when us mere mortals can start exploring the starfield world. we shall see what we shall see.
Thanks again Oxhorn, your video's are entertaining and informative.
YES I binged watched all your fallout lore series. I was so hoping you would do starfield next!
Going based on the "official lore" given to channels from Bethesda to hype the game at launch, the UC monument thing actually does a surprisingly good job summing it up. The only real things i see missing is that house varuun wasnt from the uc they were essentiaoly a lost colony ship from earth that was separated for hundreds of years. And the crimson fleet being born from the UC supermax prision that was undermanned due to them sending all their troops to fight off house varuun.
All in all I gotta give credit to Bethesda for writing the two main factions as each having one win, and I each essentially being the unintentional aggressor of one war
You can visit old earth monuments. For example I visited the shard in London.
Love starfield and love your commentary
Sams the best to take to that in my opinion, he has counter arguments for just about everything in there and sheds some freestar thoughts on it
I'm getting starship troopers vibes from the UC, the whole you aren't a citizen unless you do military service thing reminds me of it way to much
also UC is like starcraft terrans
I'm having so much fun with this game and I already saw all this but I love oxhorns take.
The only weird thing is the timelime. They barely settled for 30years after earth and they already having wars. You would think the first colonies would barely be getting comfortable/growing a reasonable population. Instead 2 years in and people already want to leave and be independent. They already have a ship building industry? Wow
This seems like a Heinlein novel meets a Fallout game 😊🎉
While not explicitly confirmed im pretty sure the Vanguard was formed as a direct response to the Battle of Chyenne where the UC learned the hard way how effective civilian/privateer ships could be (contrary to the history lesson, VV says the civilian ships were active combatants). Commander Tuala does hint on this direction without outright confirming, saying "the Vanguard was an acknowledgement by the top brass that not every top pilot went through a UC flight school"
Thank you for your videos.. I absolutely love them
Oh! The earning citizenship thing is very similar to Starship Troopers (book, I've not seen the movie). Everyone can live in the city or whatnot, but only people who have been in the military are allowed to be citizens and vote, and everyyyyything gets voted on, so there's a whole heap of the population not allowed to participate. Making people fight with you to be a part of you isn't terrible, but not everyone is cut out for fighting, and it definitely will lead to some unfortunate inequalities
The movie doesn’t talk about voting at all, so there’s a difference there.
One of the female soldiers acted like enlisting was her only chance to gain a reproduction license (she said casually while everyone was discussing why they joined “I wanna have a baby 🥰”)
While the reproduction thing is a bit nervous, can I ask how the voting system turned out to be in the book? Because outside of that one concern, I thought it looked like a decentish society. (With the understanding that our current society sucks ass, which makes it easier to come to such a conclusion 😅)
@Norinia You only got to vote if you were a citizen, and you could only be one by fighting. The fighting was just throwing bodies at a losing war, so all the vets were maimed and bitter about life.
I don't remember the channel name, but there's an audio book version on CZcams. I think it's about 6 hours, but it was really interesting
@@BaldingClamydia I’ll check that out some time. I remember hearing the author wasn’t so thrilled with the movie (understatement, but understandably) so it should be fun seeing what he envisioned for it, compared to what said title is now 😅
To me it sounds like adding house va'run in the armistice is mainly a olive branch
Would love to see more lore videos of Starfield 🔥
I hope mechs are introduced in dlc; that would be a good way to transverse planets without all the running; heck maybe even allow training of wildlife to defend your outposts
You can see the various (unplayable, no matter how good the condition seems) mechs still around in Starfield. They’re just flagrantly out in the open everywhere, just not functioning because lack of Bethesda code.
I got a look at a Mech that I think is what one of the NPCs said she used to sleep in, due to it being far more comfortable and felt more safe than being out in the open. Looked like an incredible two person design (makes me wonder if they were running like what Pacific Rim was running.)
Solid bro. Love it. There’s a lot of deeper spiritual/religious/occultic undertones to the game and story.
I hoping you would do lore video's on starfield. I know it's a new franchise but it should grow if they keep up on this new style they got going
Got to say, i love the UC's PR.
UC, lost the war after the FC defeated their fleet and gave them the chance to end the war.
UC: After using a human shield to defeat the mighty fleet, the freestar collective sued for peace which the UC accepted in order to prevent future deaths.
Hot tip to keep up with the metric ton of Ox content lately, stream it in the background on your phone while you scavenge and loot in the game. I used to do this with diamond city radio when I played fallout 4, and now I'm doing it with ox, and Starfield. There is so much to the game that it's always good to hear the Ox perspective on things. Game on good folks!
Fun story. One of my mods kinda messed the Earth up a bit. Now, wherever I land on the planet, be it at points of interest or random locations, it's always INFESTED with Terrormorphs. Like, dozens upon dozens of them. Easily 20 directly around the landing point, and you can find more roaming the land if you move around a bit.
Not only has it made the Earth my best location for random power leveling, but I find it kinda hilarious that our former home planet is pretty much filled to the brim with thousands of the worst predators in the galaxy. XD
The playlist has been made. This is now a series 😀
I was told I'd wait 10 years to become a UC Citizen but I immediately rise to the rank of Navy CAPTAIN???
Found the Terrormorph that broke out of the Kreet facility. It was pretty tough, even on the lowest difficulty. Dunno how they seem to travel through Space, but I found a planet the other day where I was warned by the UC against landing because the military was down on the surface fighting the things.I was under the impression that the Kreet facility made the Terrormorphs from a different species, but since that's incorrect, maybe this planet is their home?
The UC Vanguard storyline reveals the true nature of Terrormorphs and how they ended up on any planet that humans have visited.
@@BogeyTheBear Right
I found myself agreeing with most of your commentary through the video, your comments hold to what would otherwise be the most likely outcomes.
But, I also love the nuances of Bethesda's writing. We as a viewer may find the writing outlandish, yet the modern parallels are still with us today.
The US military waged a 20 year war against the taliban, winning nearly every campaign and engagement militarily. Yet, we wholey capitulated given our failures to deal any killing blows and a domestic population tired of the 20 year conflict. Yet, few in the US government will admit we lost the Afghan conflict.
Russian forces suffered near the same fate 30 year prior when they were thrown out by Afghan insurgents.
Vietnam was much the same. The Tet Offensive was the VC's death knell. One last suicide mission before surrender, as US forces had won nearly every engagement to that date militarily speaking. Yet, we know how long that conflict stretched. Vietnam was lost at home in the media, and the hearts & minds of Americans. The ultimatly conflict fell to domestic protests.
Great military powers often win the war militarily. Yet public sentiment and sour politics can still ensure a total loss... So, is the bias on the UC's depiction of events. Or, in our own perceptions of military power in war?
I also really want a Mech now.
Here's hoping that's a future DLC
Hey anyone who’s played Starfield for a few days which fraction is better Pirates, or the Vanguard
Vae Victus meaning Woe to the Conquered or Suffering to the Defeated.
Was this Admiral known as Vae Victua or was the judgement known as Vae Victus. The implications of someone is known by the name "Vae Victus" are rather startling.
He was known as Vae Victus, for brutally defeating his classmates in an academy training exercises. He would keep the name after he fired on Freestar Collective civilians - as well as own, during the Colony War. He's just a brutal guy.
I would LOVE a starfield-style fallout lore series
Always quality content.
24:00 Foreshadowing a operation were the player/character has to "Access" the archive, whether or not the three are in agreement.
Oh man, i was hoping you'd play this game
It is interesting that the United Colonies had its big independence dilemma in 2261, exactly 400 years after the American Civil War.
This is especially true since the UC shares so many similarities with the old earth United States, both good (democratic values, economic strength, culturally influence, etc.) and bad (militarism, bureaucracy, etc.).
You can go to the orientation hall without enlisting for the Vanguard, but you cannot go to the simulator. I really liked the story part, but I hated the big clunk noise when a panel lights up or down
14:19
Xenomorphs vs mechs? Damn, when do we get that game?!?!
A brief history to one of the craziest old school runescape content creators huh? I've always been curious about the systems he uses ngl. :D
Missed these lore videos. Can only make so many more videos about FO 4, and FO 76…well we know about 76.
No Aliens? Strong vibes from "end of eternity" of Asimov.
The uc reminds me of the Terran federation and they have tried to weaponize the bugs like the uc did with xenos
It does not lock you out. I am currently a part of the UC Vanguard and the FSC Rangers.
so Starship troopers vs firefly
Can you do a lore video on the ECS Constant?
Finish the Vanguard quest line and you’ll learn more about those officers that were “Executed “
It’s vaguely similar to cyberpunk lore, just in space. Seems like they borrowed a lot of ideas in terms of factions and civil wars. There’s even a gun in the game called Maelstrom which is the same aesthetic and colors of a gang in Night City by the same name.
The lore of the game is solid, plus you can tell theres some bias with the UC storytelling too, which is expected since they're telling it from their point of view.
Freestar Alliance gives me Firefly Browncoat vibes.
Doesnt the first mission kinda imply that the UC was the first to break the treaty? (The mission between leaving vectera and getting to new Atlantis
im looking forward to playing starfield but honestly moneys SUPER tight right now..
how long yall think before the price drops a bit? 3 months? 6?
“The FC defeated the UC by only using civilian ships”.
Because the UC refused to shoot them. They’d already defeated the official Navy of the FC, Civilian ships entered the fight precisely because of that and they won because the UC literally didn’t fight back.
? could you build a settlement on earth? So like could I go to about where I live now a build a base so I could just go home in the game?
I don't think so, not at the moment anyway, that would be cool, though.