Which faction will you side with?

[dkunkle77]

While I'm not sure how much influence we the player will have on the specific factions or, if like in so many games, you end up being the leader of a faction by the end, but is there a faction you'll gravitate towards? Based on what little we know, FreeStar Collective seems to my liking. It has a Firefly or Belter from The Expanse vibe to it. The underdogs. They strike me as being more individualistic in spite of having the word "Collective" in the name. Not sure if that loyalty will put me in outright conflict with the United Colonies. I don't think it will as that would make it hard to interact with the Constellation group given they're located on the UC capitol world. So I don't think it'll reenact the Empire vs. Stormcloaks. I'll eventually do a play through where I focus on UC and maybe a play through where I go full pirate if possible.

So how about everyone else? Is there a faction you want to favor first? Are you going to be as indifferent as possible and just focus on missions that deal with the Artifact? Or are you going to just play as a space pirate or smuggler if that's an option? Just curious what everyone else has tentatively planned in regards to their first play through.

Thanks and take care.

[A. Silvermane]

Said in the past couple of threads on the same topic, I'm not siding with anyone I don't have to. Anybody I will side with will be betrayed if the option arises.

[Cy]

The stated ideals of the Freestar Collective seem to align with what I'd support in real life, but the idea of calling a group of government-skeptical individualists a "collective" rubs me the wrong way. Collectives are all about submitting to the will of the group, which is the exact opposite of being a free thinking individual. Makes me wonder how good the writing and characterization is going to be if they seemingly mess up that simple concept.

Though I suppose there's no way to know until the game comes out.

I'll probably go with Ryujin Industries, because real life ideals aside, I like playing characters who become powerful at the expense of others in games like this, and Ryujin seems like it will be the for the most nakedly power hungry. Plus I tend to gravitate towards the factions that the game tries to tell you are the "bad choices". I sided with the corporations in Cyberpunk and Outer Worlds. Why stop the pattern here?

[Tenoshii]

Going to roleplay a triple agent pretending to work for Constellation and the Serpents but actually I work for the aliens that haven't been discovered yet.

[Daedrius]

Here's a list of the factions we can join from the SDB.

https://www.starfielddb.com/factions/

[A. Silvermane]

Know what I changed my mind. If this game has something like The Republic Of Dave from Fallout 3, I'll said with them.

[rumax]

dark side of the force ofcouse

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Originally posted by Cy:

Makes me wonder how good the writing and characterization is going to be ... no way to know until the game comes out.

In Fallout 4 the escaped synths eagerly submitted to the equivalent of a full frontal lobotomy and called it "liberation." The writing and characterization is going to be really bad, as with most Bethesda games. It's the rest that makes them fun.