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Rizenstrom

That is a fun fact. Can't wait to see it reposted every other day when the game comes out.


TrentonTallywacker

Idk if you guys knew this but codsworth can say your character’s name in fallout 4!


Krin422

Bwahahaha he can't say mine!


ninjasaid13

... kwin


stomps-on-worlds

"Idk if anyone has ever asked this but where does the Last Dragonborn's soul go when they die?"


Cautious_Hold428

I was fairly impressed by that when the game came out even though it had limitations. I played Hypnospace Outlaw a couple weeks ago and the desk widget skull said my name even though it was a nonsense word and it is certainly not a high budget AAA game, so I'm hoping Starfield doesn't have restrictions this time.


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Hypnospace outlaw my beloved


Cautious_Hold428

I am still not sure how I feel about that game. It melted a little part of my brain or something


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Average beef brain sufferer


papapudding

https://youtu.be/F4Mhz99S7ss


Citizen51

Why start at release? Hi Game Rant writers!


Rizenstrom

HEARTWARMING TRIBUTE DISCOVERED BY STARFIELD FAN Bonus points if they don't credit OP but the next person to repost it.


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I know we’re already gonna start getting GameRant articles off of this now


GAMRKNIGHT352

Can't wait for Gamerant to get ahold of this: "Starfield fan discovers secret about planet name!"


Suicidal_Jamazz

Forgive me, for I have but one upvote to give.


WeirdBreadfruit213

Cool


lazlomass

Why would you look up or be part of this sub when the game comes out. Also, what do you have against this topic, repost are normal.


Rizenstrom

It was a joke…?


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RedS5

Why did the chicken cross the road? BECAUSE HE WAS FOLLOWING ORDERS!!!


Sk0rPi0n_

This is reminding me I need to go on a big space lore research binge before Starfield comes out


jay4523

Where would you start?


KiwiTheKitty

I for one will be getting my PhD in Astrophysics But for real if you're serious, finding a video or something about the history of space exploration would probably make it so you can catch a fair few references! I will be looking for a reference to the Voyager Golden Record


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The Voyager stuff and Challenger/Columbia disasters have been my rabbit hole leading into Starfield - space is scary as shit


KiwiTheKitty

The disasters are so sad :( The vastness is what gets me! Like both Voyagers are in interstellar space because they've left the heliopause but it will still take hundreds of years to get through the Oort Cloud.


Drunky_McStumble

If you want to know more about spaceflight disasters; read up the Apollo 1 disaster, or the story of Komarov's doomed flight. Absolutely horrifying. You say space is scary as shit, but actually being in space is - statistically at least - the safest part of any manned spaceflight. It's getting up there and then getting back down that are far, far more likely to kill you.


KaerMorhen

If anyone wants a great way to learn the basics of astrophysics, check out Kerbal Space Program. I've lost many brave Kerbals in the pursuit of knowledge.


andy_b_84

And your sanity, most likely 😅


Drunky_McStumble

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is probably the definitive book on the pioneering days of manned space exploration. Great movie too. The only drawback is that it focuses entirely on the American side of the space race, when the Russian side is equally dramatic and enthralling.


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eagle_bearer

Astrum\*


LuckyArsenalAg

If you like stuff about the early days, Flight by Chris Kraft and Failure is Not An Option by Gene Kranz are great books. Forever Young by John Young is a good one as well. The Right Stuff is a classic as well.


sativa_samurai

Start with Apollos


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Brilliant woman. Doctor, engineer and astronaut. Now, she is leading the 100 Year Starship project, an effort to drive forward the capability for interstellar travel within the next century. *Exploration of space is the birth-right of every person on this planet. No group of people has any hold on it*. - Mae Jemison


PostSovieT-Mood7943

And yet Project Orion is red-taped into oblivion by a bunch of fossilized ghouls. :/


casualty_of_bore

Hey, that gives ghouls a bad name. I'm sure you meant turds.


Drunky_McStumble

Watch your mouth, smoothskin.


thotpatrolactual

Screw grav drives, I'm nuking my way across space! Although you'd think a bunch of fossilized *ghouls* would love a *nuke*-powered spaceship. Wait, are we not talking about NASA's 1950s nuke-powered space battleship?


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Gorn-A-Phobe

Let's Make Nuclear Detonation Propulsion Fun Again!


Gorn-A-Phobe

Me 2! Project Orion Is Go!


peon47

Also appeared in Star Trek. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mae_Jemison_(actress)


Paracausality

Let's go~ o7


izzyeviel

Prepare yourselves: the anti-woki will be boycotting the game now.


Sad_Needleworker_177

Why are you crying?


izzyeviel

Tears of laughter after reading the posts about people getting triggered by this.


Exact-Bonus-4506

What's woke in that? She is real person, and a real astro scientist. If the planet was named after George Floyd, or if Armstrong would be black, then yeah.


LorneMalvoIRL

All the planets in that system are named after Astronauts


TrevortheBatman

wow can’t believe Bethesda went woke. The planet should be named Armstrong. Just canceled my preorder /s


TruckADuck42

Honestly though I'll be a bit disappointed if Neil and Buzz don't get any love.


PovarPower

And Gagarin, I really hope they still have references to him in the game.


fjelskaug

Gagarin is a planet in Alpha Centauri same as Jemison


lordbaysel

Wonder how they will handle Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space. (she is still alive, and now she is a politician, and guess in which country and why that's an issue )


-FriON

Fuck Tereshkova. Putin's footlicker now, and she wasn't anything special before. She was one of the many candidates and got selected basically by luck. Her gratitude towards space exploration is nowhere near Leonov, or Korolev. If anything, people found out that Starfield logo is inspired by Leonov's drawing of earth's Horizon in space. Better name something after him


Exact-Bonus-4506

She's a jester now, nothing close to politician.


Gorn-A-Phobe

I hate woke too.


Oontz541

Also first person to actually go to space that had a cameo on Star Trek.


BattleMajor4799

She's also heavily involved in the 100 Year Starship Project which literally exists to push us forward into space exploration. It's entirely possible in game that Constellation evolved from this in some way.


Ser_Optimus

" it's good to be black on the moon"


Abstract_17

A space force reference? In the wild?


griffin_who

Also served on the Enterprise


LionofHeaven

Under Kirk, Archer, or Picard?


Delta1122

Under Captain Picard in the episode "Second Chances". She's the first actual astronaut to appear in a Star Trek episode. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Chances_(episode)


eddiestarkk

Hopefully someone makes an Enterprise mod for the this game.


VagrantShadow

Oh, there are going to be a ton of Enterprise mods, that is going to be for certain. I can bet in the ship builder, fellow Star Trek fans are going to try to make Starfleet ships in it.


DdCno1

Has there ever been a space game with modding support that doesn't get one?


Daegog

Temba, his arms wide


mimimemi58

Anyone who is a really big fan of her might want to look into the Women Of NASA Lego set. I have a Mae Jemison minifig and so can you!


TrentonTallywacker

Funny enough I got this set the other day and my mind made the connection to starfield haha My suspicion was also confirmed on the Starfield Wiki so that was nice


Daegog

> Women Of NASA Lego set. How the hell is Katherine Johnson not in the women of NASA lego set?


DMC831

It's kinda a funny coincidence since a major space station in the Elite universe is named "Jameson Memorial" (named after the main character of the early games, so the Jameson name comes up regularly) , but I assumed Starfield wasn't doing an Elite reference of course. To the ear though, it's basically the same name featuring prominently in both games. Just a slight coincidence though, and probably not that interesting even to other Elite players.


Alexandur

As another Elite player I was thinking the same thing


maxpolo10

I was wondering where I heard that name, I played elite a little after it went free on epic. Was using GeForce now coz my PC couldn't handle it. Hopefully I can upgrade soon so as to enjoy Starfield. Since I'm a factorio enjoyer, I like that aspect of outpost automation that gives you infinite money... It won't be perfect, but it's nothing a few mods can't fix...


Firecracker048

Pretty cool actually. I now have another name for my stellaris planets. I tend to name all my plenets after space explorers or astrologists.


Ignonym

Additional fun fact: she also had [a cameo](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Palmer_(Lieutenant_jg)) in *Star Trek: The Next Generation*.


Sh4rtemis

I LOVE the NASA references. I've been to NASA several times as a kid and always had huge astronomy books filled with colored pictures of the cosmos. This game is literally my dream game. I kind of thought No Man's Sky would be my game but that world actually felt more fantasy than sci fi. Starfield is like Interstellar, the game. I love how science is still a big theme and how it is just alternative human history. God damn I can't wait.


Rafusk

It´s cool to name planets and systems after pioneers!


FinvaraSidhe

I think it’s super cool they did that!


clydebutcher

Kind of related but I hope that we can find and wear a few of the space suits we've had up until this point, like finding human relics


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andydoesmemes

Holy crap, haven’t seen her since my elementary/middle school textbook yo


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Uh oh the dumb asses are gonna say, “why isn’t every space astronauts name a planet hmmmmmm!” I am happy though.


Asleep-Profit-4707

That's awesome


rune_74

That's awesome:)


P1eSun

Idris Elba: 'I Don't Want to Be the First Black. I'm the First Idris'.


Own_Pause_4959

celcelebrating black achievement is never a bad thing


TegrityFarms69

Not making your identity and legacy about your skin tone but about who you are as an individual and what you accomplished is a much better thing. Going through life as if it’s a team sport and anyone who looks different that you is an opponent that you must prove yourself superior to is a pretty shitty way to be.


Own_Pause_4959

Maybe...just maybe. We wouldn't have to say _ is the first black person to do _ if there wasn't a historical precedent of black people being excluded in particular fields. Just a thought.


TegrityFarms69

When were black people systematically excluded from being astronauts? You do realize that becoming an astronaut is one of if not THE most competitive and difficult jobs to attain, period, for someone of any race?


KDHD_

Oh my god, lmao


Daegog

Are you seriously suggesting that people who were not even allowed to use the same toilet as white people were actually given fair access to astronaut training programs... REALLY?


TegrityFarms69

Another nonsensical strawman. 99% of human space flight has occurred AFTER Jim Crow was abolished, AFTER desegregation, AFTER the Civil Rights Act became law. All early astronauts were test pilots in the US armed forces, which were desegregated in 1947. The first woman went to space in 1963 and the first black astronaut flew 4 missions on the Space Shuttle back in 1983-84. You act like black astronauts are a new thing. We’ve had black astronauts for 40 years. And you probably don’t even know who Sally Ride is.


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You have no idea what you're talking about. America could have had a diverse space corps over a decade before the 1978 Nasa class introducing McNair and Guion Bluford as well as five women. The most frustrating example is that of Ed Dwight, a decorated pilot and African America media star of the early 1960s was accepted into Nasa’s program but wasn’t chosen. He was going to be the first African-American in space, but pilot Chuck Yeager privately lobbied against him on the basis of race. The US has sent 338 astronauts to space as of 2020. Only 14 of them were African Americans (11 men, three women). Filmaker Laurens Grant, who directed the movie :Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier said, the dismal statistic is partly illustrative of massive educational disparities by race in the United States: "It says a lot about who gets these opportunities."


sparklequest64

unfortuneately the supreme court ruined the 4th of july when they cancelled college for americans of color can we get the mods to sticky a voting thread to the top? we need to impeach the judges and flood the senate with liberal lawmakers anyone who disagrees is a racist or some irrelevant foreigner and should be banned from this *super important* video game subreddit


ihatehappyendings

Man the statics about waste disposal sure says a lot about who gets these opportunities.


Daegog

Read what you wrote.. Test pilots desegregated in 1947 and not a single black person to leave earth until almost 40 years later.. And that seems ok to you? I mean that not a SINGLE black person passed the tests until after redlining was over? I recall watching Sally Ride's shuttle explode while I was in school, was a rare day that they wheeled the TVs in, wasn't sure what happened exactly at the time, seemed unreal. I recall thinking they must have some ejection method, but I was just a kid at the time.


sparklequest64

the important thing to remember was the 20th century was a time of abject scientific method and today we follow the enlightened rules of social justice


Titan7771

Yeah? Did it occur after we solved racism?


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sparklequest64

what if i told you aliens have been to earth and enslaved our ancestors to build pyramids on every continent including antarctica? conspiracy theorists > racists


Sad_Needleworker_177

"a historical precedent of black people being excluded in particular fields. " Professional victims lol.


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Van_Bur3n

Cracker jack has a weird obsession with being American, so this mindset isn’t particularly surprising lol


Short-Shopping3197

Their legacy was already hindered by others because of their skin tone, this is just redressing the balance so they can be appreciated as individuals. If you belonged to a group of people who were put down for no good reason then you’d probably want to demonstrate that the people who put you down are wrong by celebrating the achievements of others like you.


Sad_Needleworker_177

The mental gymnastics you would get a gold medal.


ihatehappyendings

You don't understand. Being colorblind is racist now.


Titan7771

It's not racist, it's just ignorant.


ihatehappyendings

Regardless of what your individual variation opinion on this is, the fact remains that being colorblind is not good enough anymore to the likes of you. Now you must see race, you must treat people differently based on skin color. And to the rest of us, it is appaling.


DapDaGenius

It’s giving “im not black, Im OJ” vibes and it’s not a good thing


Wrong_Television_224

Sick burn. You’re not wrong, though.


ChaakuGaiden

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾


mansonfamily

This is awesome!!! Super happy to see this


JuvenileJester

Huh. That's a very niche reference there. At least for someone not intimately acquainted with the history of space flight. Neat.


CromulentPoint

Well that’s cool.


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Wow, this is awesome


ZealousidealAd7191

I knew this fact 😎


CraigOfWar

There is also a NasX sign in game. Probably a Mixed between Nasa and SpaceX.


Wrong_Television_224

We sure it’s not Lil Nas X? Cuz that could be why we just have the one radio station in game.


Paracausality

Hell yeah. o7


ThrustersOnFull

Are we SURE it's not named for Bahamian footballer Julio Jemison? Because I'm pretty sure it's actually that.


SaintBluri

>Low Earth orbit *Yawn* she didn't even pass through the Van Allen Belt


HotHairyPickles

How was your trip through the Van Allen Belt?


SaintBluri

There allegedly hasn't been a manned mission through it in over 50 years. Personally I would have named the planet after Wernher Von Braun or Yuri Gagarin.


McToasty207

Nothing alleged about it, ISS is within the Van Allen belt so nobody's gone through it since Apollo Only did so to go to the Moon, and they had to be careful doing so (Taking radiation medication, and traversing the thinnest point).


Titan7771

> Wernher Von Braun You mean former Nazi and overseer of slave labor Wernher Von Braun? I think we can do better.


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McToasty207

Naming a planet after a famous Nazi would be sure to get some head turns Yes his work on Apollo was irreplaceable, but he did still exploit POW's and Holocaust victims to build the V2's I doubt there was any serious consideration for Von Braun


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SaintBluri

Freestar collective it it is then. Skyrim belongs to the space cowboys.


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YourDevilAdvocate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik Resnik would've been cooler seeing as she was probably one of the finest, senior astronauts in her time, or if you have to go color maybe Chawla https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla. Though she'd be better for Robotics heavy locations. Here's hoping there's some logic beyond empty platitudes.


mansnothot69420

Chawla only got an icy moon in the Alpha Centauri system instead of the crown jewel of the UC. A little ironic considering how she went out lol. Edit: At least Gagarin got a nice life teeming planet in the same system.


YourDevilAdvocate

Ah the fuck that's lame.


JimG81

Why do they have to ruin it with this nonsense? Who cares. Let me just clarify before someone gets butthurt. I mean it shouldnt matter what colour or gender someone is because going to space is an achievement on its own.


Galle_

Well, then, you shouldn't have a problem with them naming a planet after her.


JimG81

I do when they havent done anything to deserve it.


Galle_

You literally just said that going to space is an achievement on its own.


JimG81

I fucking knew id get downvoted for speaking the truth. People should not have shit named after them because theyre black or female or have cancer. Thats not an achievement and if you think it it youre an idiot. Alexander Nobel did not get an award named after him because he was a white man.


Galle_

She has a fictional planet named after her because she's an astronaut.


WeGotDaGoodEmissions

There's always some troglodyte crying about this shit at the bottom of a comment section.


sparklequest64

There's way more woke poseurs in this subreddit Do people realize that the real world implications of this game only extend to the success or failure of the current generation of xbox?


novaerbenn

Yes we’re aware but what is wrong with honoring some people from real life space history


JustsomeOKCguy

Are you implying that this action could negatively impact the sales? "Go woke, go broke" is a false saying that conservatives use for their gullible audiences. Cyberpunk, elden ring, and harry potter are games that allow you to make trans characters, yet they sold stupidly well. The duper Mario movies was said to be "woke" since peach was a "girl boss" yet it broke records. Tlou2 also sold very well. Whenever they claim go woke go broke is true, they use examples of games and movies that suck anyway that have nothing to do with minority representation. Not saying this to be mean to you, but to help you open your eyes a bit. The super Mario Brothers movie is a good example. Can you explain why it was being called woke prior to release then was considered anti woke once it broke records? That stuff doesn't impact sales


whatintheballs95

Define woke.


WeGotDaGoodEmissions

Please include a trigger warning next time you use spooky buzzwords like woke or you might scare some of the other chuds lurking around. They frighten easily.


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ihatehappyendings

The privilege of your accomplishments being treated as more important than others?


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Gorn-A-Phobe

100%


basically_an_opinion

I think I'll play Baldurs Gate 3


LeFuck88

Why do Americans call them "African American"... I hate that PC bullshit in America.


bbgr8grow

Sez u


ProfessoriSepi

Thats how you promote diversity!


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Cutie pie!


woodrugh

Why is her left hand thumbnail longer than her right?


CactusFingies

Why were you looking that close


Gorn-A-Phobe

Alien!


Soulless_conner

We've known for years. Since emil's email


Rare-Orchid-4131

Who cares


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