Earth is uninhabitable and abandoned in the Starfield universe.

Welcome aboard! Glad to see you are trying out Starfield. I really need to get back to my game soon.



To add on to what Khajiit said, Earth was made uninhabitable a long time before the events of Starfield, so it won't be possible for your character to be from Earth (unless maybe you reeeaaallly stretch the lore, or Bethesda builds upon the lore in some way that you can justify it). You'll find out why Earth had to be abandoned near the end of the main questline. I won't spoil it, but I will say it's actually a unique reason why that isn't something that has been done to death in other fictional media.

There are a lot of homesteads randomly scattered about the Settled Systems, but cities that might make sense for your character's birthplace are New Atlantis, Gagarin, Neon, Akila City, or Londinion.

What, you already made Andromeda, dangit! Ann Dromeda is going to be my second character in this game! I actually thought of Ann Dromeda before Sky Pilot got running in my head yesterday morning.

Yep, her profile is the opening post for this thread!

Well shoot, I bet I picked up Andromeda subconsciously then. Pretty sure I read thru this thread within the last month.



Really? When is this mentioned? or it's too much of a spoiler, don't answer please. I don't think I heard this during the tutorial, and there is no opening movie like there is for Fallout games, not that I noticed.



Thanks for the info Rader. Skye will eventually have more backstory, like where she's from and so on, but it'll take time for us to get there.

There's some resemblance to Mass Effect so far, in the sense we can choose what sort of "job" our people have held in the past, and this means we can pick a smidge of Background during chargen at all. I also noticed pre-written topic responses we can choose as the quest moves forward. Glad this game is open world, of course. Mass Effect is fun, but the lack of exploration (on MY terms or my characters' terms) often made me skip returning to ME in the past, opting for Fallout on my PC instead.

This post has been edited by Renee: Dec 22 2025, 05:55 PM

You find out pretty early on. Sarah Morgan mentions it in an early quest in the main story. And when you get the ship from Barrett, you can go to Earth right away and see for yourself. When you read the stats for Earth that you see for every planet, you'll find out something in particular about it that makes it uninhabitable now, but you won't find out the reason for this until late in the main questline.

Another city I forgot to mention is New Homestead on the moon Titan, which orbits Saturn. IIRC, that is the first settlement founded off of Earth, as it was being settled even before Earth became uninhabitable.