Starborn
Who are the mysterious Starborn? Why are they so interested in the Artifacts? And… how do you become Starborn?
| Faction Types | Minor faction |
| Joinable | No |
The Starfield Starborn are a major faction in Starfield, but unlike any other group in the Settled Systems.
Firstly, the Starborn are not united. They can be best described as individuals with a single thing in common: they want the Artifacts, and they’ll kill anyone in their way, even other Starborn.
Warning: major spoilers lie ahead for Starfield’s main story.
The Starborn are individuals who have gathered all of the Artifacts and created the Armillary. This is the very same task that you perform during the Starfield main questline.
When the Starborn finished the Armillary, they traveled to The Unity. There, they cast aside their bodies and their previous lives to travel the multiverse. The Starborn explore and fight across an infinite number of parallel universes to gather more Artifacts and recreate the Armillary.
The reason? Each universe you travel to has a limited number of Starfield powers that you can earn. In order to get all 24, you’ll need to follow the same path as the other Starborn and travel to a parallel universe.
Starborn NPCs
Two prominent figures exist within the Starborn faction: The Hunter, and The Emissary.
These two NPCs are the alternate versions of characters you have already met. The Emissary believes that only select individuals should be allowed to craft the Armillary, as the unworthy will only sow more violence and needless chaos.
The Hunter has a different belief. There is no morality behind who gathers the Artifacts and attains more power. The Hunter finds The Emissary’s motives self-righteous and judgemental.
However, The Emissary’s position is based on a historical moment. It is because of the Artifacts, because of the Starborn that the Earth was destroyed. The Artifacts fuelled mankind’s creation of the Grav Drive, a Starborn inspiring his parallel counterpart to create the technology despite knowing it would destroy the Earth.
How to become Starborn
To become Starborn, you need only follow the main questline to its end in the mission One Giant Leap. Simply step through The Unity and you will shed your human form. You will begin the Starfield New Game Plus above Vectera at the very start of the game.
As a Starborn, you get the best armor in the game, a melee weapon, med packs, and the Starborn Guardian ship which has the highest power level in the game, unique weapons, and the ability to go invisible when boosting.
Progressing through the game as before, you get unique Starborn dialogue options. You can tell this parallel version of Constellation everything that happened, kickstarting your quest to hunt down Artifacts and temples.
Unfortunately, the other Starborn in this universe will remain hostile towards you. It’s a race, after all, between you and the other Starborn to gather the Artifacts again, and again, and again.
Starborn overview
The Starborn faction is a Minor faction that you can encounter in Starfield.
Starfield factions can provide unique Starfield armor, Starfield weapons, and even faction-specific missions at various points during your playthrough. Each group possesses its own unique idealogy and doctrine, along with a unique range of NPCs and enemies (should you get on their bad side). Should you wrong a faction you’re friendly with, you’ll accrue a bounty, which you’ll need to clear at a Tracker’s Alliance bounty board, or face bounty hunters, a jail cell, or unrelenting hostility.
Starborn NPCs
Within this faction are a number of named characters you can encounter in a variety of locations in Starfield.