Honestly, I'm hoping starfield leads to more lore videos like this. I miss the old fallout lore videos.

A new lore series into Starfield would be awesome.

While people in the UC were forming different organizations, somewhere out there, the vault dweller was trying to find a water purification system chip

Honestly I hope he makes this whole lore series

Another system needs your help, Here I'll mark it on your GPS

The best lore video Ox has ever done imo is Vault 11 I just loved the spooky story and vibes, I bet Starfield has something on that level waiting to be found can’t wait

I really like how they did this in the game. Its really not a particularly original lore but its done really well and its believable. Really slick.

SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP I'm doing my part! o7

Been watching Oxhorn since before the bombs dropped. Excited to see more videos on Starfield lore. Gotta love the entertainment of Bethesda Lore. As a man once said…”Lore never changes.”

I can't be the only ones that notice the Colony War was basically the prequel of Firefly? The UC/Alliance vs the Freestars/Brown Coats. Look at the uniforms for the Freestars, it's basically what Malcom & Zoe wear throughout the show.

I would guess the reason the UC had to execute three top commanders but not the Three Star Collective is that the Collective won the war, and you usually don’t see the winning side kill their military leaders. Also, the UC’s tone is sort of amusing in how biased they seemed where the first war that was actually a stalemate they made out to be a complete victory and how they seem to almost treat the Collective’s victory in the second war as practically a draw. It’s also funny how the Collective’s militia fleet is treated as almost dishonorable but then it’s like “join the Vanguard, serve with honor, and become a citizen!”, when the Vanguard basically is the UC’s militia navy and is totally a ripoff of the Collective’s militia navy.

so excited to start a new "world" of lore with this man! Starfield is proving to be a little rough around the edges but Bethesda has a way with world building and immersion that is unrivaled and Oxhorn is so awesome at these lore archives that really bring it all together. keep up the great work sir, you are one of the greats.

There’s a system Barrett needs you to save, Ox lol

9:24 "The Treaty of Narion has since become the foundation of all contemporary political relations, and *[it is]* only official violation, the cause of the galaxy's greatest conflict *[hyphen]* the Colony War." Starfield's punctuation is something else.

I just joined the UC Vanguard and i'm kinda far in its own story line which has been great so far. So watching this is great as it is giving me tiny bits of lore that i may have missed. It's crazy to think that the Vanguard storyline could be made as a standalone DLC of its own. But like many past bethesda games, I keep forgetting that a lot of side quests are often deep and fully developed, taking you through levels up on levels of quests within its own self contained storyline.

I really enjoyed the UC vanguard quest line

Oh free star uniform is a longcoat, if that is not a nod to firefly series I don't know what is.

From what little I’ve seen in the lore it’s seems like the Collective is just a little too clean, they’ve gotta have a dark side to them as well because Bethesda always presents it’s factions with both good and bad sides. We’ve seen some of the bad side of the UC so I can’t wait to learn about the Collective as well.

Oxhorn made my Fallout Playthroughs all they could be. This series would sell more Starfiled games. Well at least one. I have actually been on the fence with picking up the game. This stamp of approval would clinch it.

I’m so happy that Oxhorn is finding as much enjoyment as I am in Starfield

“SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP!” After the vanguard recruiting process, I ran out the building yelling “IM DOING MY PART!”

If their are DLC for starfield at some point let's hope it could add ground vehicle and maybe a power armor exo suits, including adding the lore to the starfield's main lore like far harbor, dead money. Hay maybe even some park like Nuka world or remnants that is used as a black market where Crimson fleet and mercenary, smuggler, any spacer.

Would love for you to cover the mission “entangled”. By far my favorite one of this game so far and it’s impossible to miss considering it’s main story

I hope this channel will talk about (what’s happened to) the Earth on Starfield lore someday.

6:48 - Yes, Oxhorn, and it makes perfect sense. Play the game and pay attention to the info dumps. Go to planets. choose random areas to drop into find procedurally generated bases/structures., accept manhunt missions from Vae Victus. There is a TON in the game I highly doubt you've found yet. Can't wait till you do as I love your videos.

Some additional information that the uc left out about the colony wars is that they started it by slaughtering the colonists on that farming outpost plus the city of londinion is located outside of the UCs three legal star systems making it very hypocritical. And while exploring the moon of Kreet ( the one with the illegal UC xeno lab) I found several examples of a UC presence on the moon, a mine occupied by house varuun with at least one dead UC marine inside, and a makeshift encampment home to a single vanguard pilot

Gonna take a shot at this for the hell of it, faction Fallout 4 comparisons.(At a Guess) United Colonies/Vanguard = Current Brotherhood of Steel or Minutemen Freestar collective = Minutemen or Brotherhood of Steel These two above can be swapped, both have bits of each other. House Va'ruun = Children of Atom Crimson fleet = Gunners Pirates = Raiders

So glad to see you making starfeild content reminiscent on the good ol days. Looking forward for more to come

Time to hop back on the Oxhorn train. Glad to see you back in my feed man.

Oxhorn please do starfield lore videos your crispy smooth voice is the only reason I rewatch fallout lore before it was The Lone Wanderer on Shoddy Cast but you put the Emphasis in Detail like no other I love your lore videos please do more for Starfield and Thank you for all your hardwork

When you do the Freestar Ranger quest line and the UC Vanguard quest line it starts to make a lot more sense.

God i need a Starfield lore series. Your fallout ones are unmatched

I would love if this became a full series

honestly the best part of this is that they do just go "The Freestar were cowards for hiding behind their civilian captains *cough* volunteer navy *cough*, anyways come join our vanguard fleet, a totally unique and honorable civilian captain volunteer navy" But yeah honestly the colony wars does just seem like the leaders on one or both sides were really looking for a fight, like there were some easy diplomatic solutions there but instead countless lives were lost over some farmland.

Great lore video Oxhorn | I Love learning the lore. Also I think I may have come across where Londinum was without spoilers you will probably know when you are there as A UC ship warns you off as the surface is unsafe as it as vicious predators and they cannot/willnot help you if you land. I'll let you guys find it yourself.

Great idea can’t wait for more star field lore

i look forward to no doubt more lore on this game, thank you once again ox

Someone else might have mentioned this, but didn't you watch or read The Martian, Ox? Once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, even with the laws in our world/time, the UC is legally correct to say that the FC colonized a fourth world and violated the treaty.

UC and Freestar are not enemies, they are more like advasaries. In many quests they work together or try to play nice. I've found that Freestar holds more of a frudge than the UC as a whole.

UC = United Citizens Federation from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers FreeStar Collective = Terran Confederation from Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Its a new era of Oxhorn!!!!!

I want a whole series on this.

YES I binged watched all your fallout lore series. I was so hoping you would do starfield next!

Sams the best to take to that in my opinion, he has counter arguments for just about everything in there and sheds some freestar thoughts on it

First of all, Oxhorn and lore, They go together like bread and butter. coffee and donuts, fish and chips, another night just me and my cat. Great job 😻. No citizenship until you've served. (Robert Heinlein Starship Troopers). As a vet, that has a certain attraction. Plus for the UC. A brown coat on a Freestar Ranger? (Firefly, Joss Whedon.) Rebels have more fun. Plus for Freestar Collective. Tomorrow is the 6th of September, when us mere mortals can start exploring the starfield world. we shall see what we shall see. Thanks again Oxhorn, your video's are entertaining and informative.

By trying to prevent Narion from joining the Freestar Collective, the UC violated the Centaurus Proclamation, so the Treaty of Narion wasn't exactly legal. It's no wonder the Freestar Collective violated it Also,, wouldn't the secret Xenoweapons facility on Kreet be considered a violation of the Treaty of Narion? Pretty hypocritical on the UC's part.

Let's hope they add Intergalactic Polish Empire in the next DLC 🤍❤️🥰

The whole Hall of Propaganda sure makes me curious about that Serpent cult & their doctrine...

Going based on the "official lore" given to channels from Bethesda to hype the game at launch, the UC monument thing actually does a surprisingly good job summing it up. The only real things i see missing is that house varuun wasnt from the uc they were essentiaoly a lost colony ship from earth that was separated for hundreds of years. And the crimson fleet being born from the UC supermax prision that was undermanned due to them sending all their troops to fight off house varuun. All in all I gotta give credit to Bethesda for writing the two main factions as each having one win, and I each essentially being the unintentional aggressor of one war

After playing this game today I just have to say it's absolutely massive like you'd think 101.7 GB on console is small but this game is unfathomable when it comes to hoe big it is but its also definitely a must play for anyone who loves exploring and seeing impressive world design and loves the satisfaction of walking around in the calmness of space farming resources

In reality people would have debated the findings about the impending magnetosphere collapse until it happened :/

Oh, FYI, London area on earth has some huge structures. Nowhere near what the city was, but there was structures there. I received a visit London on Earth mini quest during my trek into Mars

The inflection while saying "After deployment of a UC Medical Starstation in Orbit around THIER World, the citizens of Narion also requested to joining the Collective" The absolute Gall of those Narions for daring to want to join the Collective when the UC "only" deployed a medical station in their orbit! Please more lore vids! So happy to see them come back! PS. UC sounds similar to America's Colonization as far as the rules and benefits of citizenship.

I'm having so much fun with this game and I already saw all this but I love oxhorns take. The only weird thing is the timelime. They barely settled for 30years after earth and they already having wars. You would think the first colonies would barely be getting comfortable/growing a reasonable population. Instead 2 years in and people already want to leave and be independent. They already have a ship building industry? Wow

My theory was that house varum caused uc and freestar to end war because common enemy

If Sam is with you he’ll claim that the UC aren’t being truthful but who knows.

I'm getting starship troopers vibes from the UC, the whole you aren't a citizen unless you do military service thing reminds me of it way to much

Got to say, i love the UC's PR. UC, lost the war after the FC defeated their fleet and gave them the chance to end the war. UC: After using a human shield to defeat the mighty fleet, the freestar collective sued for peace which the UC accepted in order to prevent future deaths.

Love starfield and love your commentary

I hope mechs are introduced in dlc; that would be a good way to transverse planets without all the running; heck maybe even allow training of wildlife to defend your outposts

Would love to see more lore videos of Starfield 🔥

As a window into how the wars were being fought, Vae Victus means "woe to the vanquished", or "woe to the conquered". This means that whatever the winner says or does goes. In the context of war crimes trials what did the Admiral do to earn that name?

The playlist has been made. This is now a series 😀

I was told I'd wait 10 years to become a UC Citizen but I immediately rise to the rank of Navy CAPTAIN??? Found the Terrormorph that broke out of the Kreet facility. It was pretty tough, even on the lowest difficulty. Dunno how they seem to travel through Space, but I found a planet the other day where I was warned by the UC against landing because the military was down on the surface fighting the things.I was under the impression that the Kreet facility made the Terrormorphs from a different species, but since that's incorrect, maybe this planet is their home?

You can visit old earth monuments. For example I visited the shard in London.

This seems like a Heinlein novel meets a Fallout game 😊🎉

You can go to the orientation hall without enlisting for the Vanguard, but you cannot go to the simulator. I really liked the story part, but I hated the big clunk noise when a panel lights up or down

Hot tip to keep up with the metric ton of Ox content lately, stream it in the background on your phone while you scavenge and loot in the game. I used to do this with diamond city radio when I played fallout 4, and now I'm doing it with ox, and Starfield. There is so much to the game that it's always good to hear the Ox perspective on things. Game on good folks!

While not explicitly confirmed im pretty sure the Vanguard was formed as a direct response to the Battle of Chyenne where the UC learned the hard way how effective civilian/privateer ships could be (contrary to the history lesson, VV says the civilian ships were active combatants). Commander Tuala does hint on this direction without outright confirming, saying "the Vanguard was an acknowledgement by the top brass that not every top pilot went through a UC flight school"

Solid bro. Love it. There’s a lot of deeper spiritual/religious/occultic undertones to the game and story.

Oh! The earning citizenship thing is very similar to Starship Troopers (book, I've not seen the movie). Everyone can live in the city or whatnot, but only people who have been in the military are allowed to be citizens and vote, and everyyyyything gets voted on, so there's a whole heap of the population not allowed to participate. Making people fight with you to be a part of you isn't terrible, but not everyone is cut out for fighting, and it definitely will lead to some unfortunate inequalities

To me it sounds like adding house va'run in the armistice is mainly a olive branch

Service guarantees citizenship in the UC. Would you like to know more?

Missed these lore videos. Can only make so many more videos about FO 4, and FO 76…well we know about 76.

Fun story. One of my mods kinda messed the Earth up a bit. Now, wherever I land on the planet, be it at points of interest or random locations, it's always INFESTED with Terrormorphs. Like, dozens upon dozens of them. Easily 20 directly around the landing point, and you can find more roaming the land if you move around a bit. Not only has it made the Earth my best location for random power leveling, but I find it kinda hilarious that our former home planet is pretty much filled to the brim with thousands of the worst predators in the galaxy. XD

I hoping you would do lore video's on starfield. I know it's a new franchise but it should grow if they keep up on this new style they got going

I found myself agreeing with most of your commentary through the video, your comments hold to what would otherwise be the most likely outcomes. But, I also love the nuances of Bethesda's writing. We as a viewer may find the writing outlandish, yet the modern parallels are still with us today. The US military waged a 20 year war against the taliban, winning nearly every campaign and engagement militarily. Yet, we wholey capitulated given our failures to deal any killing blows and a domestic population tired of the 20 year conflict. Yet, few in the US government will admit we lost the Afghan conflict. Russian forces suffered near the same fate 30 year prior when they were thrown out by Afghan insurgents. Vietnam was much the same. The Tet Offensive was the VC's death knell. One last suicide mission before surrender, as US forces had won nearly every engagement to that date militarily speaking. Yet, we know how long that conflict stretched. Vietnam was lost at home in the media, and the hearts & minds of Americans. The ultimatly conflict fell to domestic protests. Great military powers often win the war militarily. Yet public sentiment and sour politics can still ensure a total loss... So, is the bias on the UC's depiction of events. Or, in our own perceptions of military power in war? I also really want a Mech now. Here's hoping that's a future DLC

14:19 Xenomorphs vs mechs? Damn, when do we get that game?!?!

A brief history to one of the craziest old school runescape content creators huh? I've always been curious about the systems he uses ngl. :D

Hey anyone who’s played Starfield for a few days which fraction is better Pirates, or the Vanguard

I would LOVE a starfield-style fallout lore series

Thank you for your videos.. I absolutely love them

No Aliens? Strong vibes from "end of eternity" of Asimov.

It is interesting that the United Colonies had its big independence dilemma in 2261, exactly 400 years after the American Civil War. This is especially true since the UC shares so many similarities with the old earth United States, both good (democratic values, economic strength, culturally influence, etc.) and bad (militarism, bureaucracy, etc.).

Vae Victus meaning Woe to the Conquered or Suffering to the Defeated. Was this Admiral known as Vae Victua or was the judgement known as Vae Victus. The implications of someone is known by the name "Vae Victus" are rather startling.

Always quality content.

Finish the Vanguard quest line and you’ll learn more about those officers that were “Executed “

Freestar Alliance gives me Firefly Browncoat vibes.

The lore of the game is solid, plus you can tell theres some bias with the UC storytelling too, which is expected since they're telling it from their point of view.

It does not lock you out. I am currently a part of the UC Vanguard and the FSC Rangers.

“The FC defeated the UC by only using civilian ships”. Because the UC refused to shoot them. They’d already defeated the official Navy of the FC, Civilian ships entered the fight precisely because of that and they won because the UC literally didn’t fight back.

Doesnt the first mission kinda imply that the UC was the first to break the treaty? (The mission between leaving vectera and getting to new Atlantis

The uc reminds me of the Terran federation and they have tried to weaponize the bugs like the uc did with xenos

im looking forward to playing starfield but honestly moneys SUPER tight right now.. how long yall think before the price drops a bit? 3 months? 6?

Oh man, i was hoping you'd play this game

24:00 Foreshadowing a operation were the player/character has to "Access" the archive, whether or not the three are in agreement.

It’s vaguely similar to cyberpunk lore, just in space. Seems like they borrowed a lot of ideas in terms of factions and civil wars. There’s even a gun in the game called Maelstrom which is the same aesthetic and colors of a gang in Night City by the same name.

so Starship troopers vs firefly

Heck ya. The king of lore is doing starfield too.

The UC is less biased then I'd expect them to be regarding their history.