Why is the game called Starfield?

[snuggleform]

Potential spoilers but not really, I beat the game but never saw any mention of anything called a "starfield." What is it referring to? I was thinking like electromagnetic field or higgs boson field but honestly nothing in the game's main plot made any reference to something like that.

[Kamikaze$X-GEN$]

well the universe is also simply called Starfield. A vast field of Stars.

[_oBSOLEte_]

I guess it's when they realised they could only put instances as large as a few fields before another loading screen.

[Trip]

Same reason it's called 'The Expanse' and not 'The Kuiper Belt'

[fauxpas]

It's just a poetic term for the galaxy; a field full of stars as far as you can see.


Just like the blackest sea is a poetic term for the vast emptiness of space.

[easytarget]

Starfield was the internal code name during development for the UI/Menu system.

They called it that because all space travel in the game was intentionally designed as simply using menus and pretending in your head you were traveling through space.

[Seekrt]

Sky-rim in space becomes Star-field

[percolator fish]

It's a tribute to Garfield.

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by TheNamlessGuy:

Characters constantly refer to space (or the milky way or some part of the milky way or whatever) as "the starfield"

This. I hear people saying "starfield", when referring to space, all the time.

I watch a lot of "Everything Wrong With..." videos, and every time someone says "starfield", my mind says "roll credits!".

[UNN Fleet Admiral O'Reilly]

Well, it's simple.

We have stars in the galaxy and we have fields in the planets.

Star - Field
Starfield

[percolator fish]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
"Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.[1]"

[Pheex]

Main characters namedrop Starfield multiple times during the main quest. No idea how you missed that

[way2juicy]

It is named after the fat, orange cat from comics, Garfield. Probably because the developers were just like the cat, lazy. Incapable of achieving anything worthwhile in 7 years.

[trtab]

They knew it'd go great with Starfailed.

Think about it, every freaking game company never says their game sucks. They all say their game is good. Well we know there's a lot of sucky games.

They subconsciously knew this game sucked. So starfield subconsciously rose to the top as their first choice.

[percolator fish]

Originally posted by Sasuke Uchiha:

It is named after the fat, orange cat from comics, Garfield. Probably because the developers were just like the cat, lazy.

I think it's a metaphor for rampant consumerism.

[snuggleform]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

It's just a poetic term for the galaxy; a field full of stars as far as you can see.


Just like the blackest sea is a poetic term for the vast emptiness of space.

Can you back this up with in game lore such as a character's words or some text from an in game book or such? Otherwise it's just speculation.

Originally posted by Pheex:

Main characters namedrop Starfield multiple times during the main quest. No idea how you missed that

Well I did miss it, can you point out where starfield was name dropped? The terms I remember were "starborn" or "unity" but never "starfield."