History Characters / Starfield

* NeverLiveItDown: Walt will repeatedly bring up Matteo's reputation for helping himself to religious artifacts that aren't his; pilfering something in Walt's private collection is technically how he ended up in the purview of Constellation's interest.

* AnimalNemesis: You encounter him while he's hunting A-99, the SoleSurvivor of a batch of Sirens, a species of genetically engineered, horse-sized feline nightmares that're covered in near-impenetrable bone armor.

* BadassBureaucrat: If you talk Hank Ferraro down during Red Tape Reclamation and he turns himself in, he handles the arrest deftly without throwing the book at the misguided miner. And if he's presented with the evidence of Hurst's corruption, he handles it with earnest seriousness and even waits a bit to make the arrest so you can get the red tape favor you need out of the corrupt governor first.

* BadassBureaucrat: The UC government when at its best is this. When you first enter New Atlantis after the tutorial levels, you can overhear a UC bureaucrat giving a BadBoss a dress-down over a poorly handled evacuation from a space station after Va'ruun zealots attacked, [[ReassignedToAntarctica giving her a bureaucratic exile]]. And when the UC Vanguard quest line progresses to a [[spoiler:[[TheDreaded Terrormorph]] attack on New Atlantis]], the President's cabinet gets its shit together real quick and signs off on what needs to be done (with frequent unanimous votes), its sole naysayer getting in-line real quick as well if you play it right before the attack. It's a testament to this that the mission in question sees more obstructiveness after the attack from the ambassador of the rival Freestar Collective, which was [[{{Irony}} formed partly in protest of the UC's bureaucratic monolith]].

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Due to wide rumors of morally questionable methods of acquiring pieces for his collection, it's somewhat challenging to feel remorse for causing the Hunter to kill him and take his Artifact instead if you pre-empt the Hunter's attack on the Lodge.]]

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** Neon has this reputation, with its numerous gangs, and the corporations that own it running the place as their own fiefdom. It's also where the drug Aurora is made. Officially Aurora is only allowed withing specific locations and authorized vendors, and taking it outside the city is illegal and brutally enforced by the Rangers. In practice Aurora trade is lucrative and widespread through both Freestar and UC.

* TheUrsurper: [[spoiler: Ularu has been bent on taking Masako's place as CEO, and whether or not she suceeds is dependent on the player's decision to ally with her or not.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Unfortunately, Bayu knows all the tricks to always stay one step ahead of the Freestar Collective's law enforcement agencies. No matter what you do over the course of the game, there's no meaningful way to even make a dent in his operations.

* FunWithAcronyms: MAST, the Military-Administrative-Scientific Triumvirate, is the central governing agency of the United Colonies. "Mast" is also an apt general description of the capitol building in New Atlantis.

* {{Expy}}: The [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Terran Federation]], specifically the original from the books, at least as far as its citizenship is concerned: to earn the right to vote and own property, one has to perform civic duties first, even if they were born to parents with UC citizenship. The key difference from the Terran Federation is military service is not the sole path to citizenship in the UC, which also offers scientific and bureaucratic career opportunities to its people. However, a foreigner seeking UC citizenship has no alternative but to enlist in the UC Vanguard, a volunteer civilian navy that operates under the UC Navy.

* BadassBystander: Walt isn't normally one to take the field, but he personally gets involved in the acquisition of an Artifact through dealings on [[WretchedHive Neon]] and also takes part in the running gunfight through Slayton Aerospace HQ. He's also guns-out (''unlike'' Matteo and Noel) when it comes time to evacuate the Lodge when [[TheDreaded The Hunter]] pays a visit.

* CreateYourOwnVillian: Ikande is adamant about the threat the Crimson Fleet poses and is pushing as hard as he can to take them down despite MAST skepticism. If the player ultimately sides with the Crimson Fleet [[spoiler:the player learns at the conclusion of the quest line that the Fleet was falling apart on its own and it was the Legacy operation that revived it. Whether they refused Sysdef and joined the Fleet out of spite, were kicked out of Sysdef for excessive violence or sided with the Fleet at the end, it's Ikande's actions that are responsible. His hated pirates now have millions of credits and a battleship.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Ikande is highly popular with his soldiers and is noted by several to take personal concern to their personal well-being.

* HeelFaceTurn: Went from being a pirate cutthroat to being the operator of the group's orbital observatory around Jemison, known as ''The Eye''.

* FamousAncestor: Sam Coe descends from Solomon Coe, an early-days explorer from before the death of Earth, and later a principal founding member of the Freestar Collective after the cataclysm. The Coe family is a Freestar political dynasty because of it.