History VideoGame / Starfield

* SpaceCompression: At work as usual for a Bethesda games. ''Starfield'' features the largest cities seen since ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and feature generic citizens to pad the civilian numbers. That said, each city is still positively minuscule for how big they should be in the lore. Even New Atlantis, the setting's largest city, feature maybe at most 5 skyscrapers in which civilians resides, far from a metropolis home to the largest population in the Settled Systems. UC as a whole counts 4 major settlements[[note]]New Atlantis, Cydonia, Gagarin, New Homestead. And the last three are explicitly smaller and on the downslide.[[/note]] yet somehow makes up about a third to half of the human race. Akila City meanwhile, the capital of the Freestar Collective counts maybe two dozen one or two story buildings and is moderately larger than a major city in ''Skyrim''.

* SpaceIsCold: It's a plot point that a particular supercomputer was built on the moon because it is "colder" there, making for better cooling; and they mention building it in space if that didn't work. This isn't, of course, how temperatures work; with no air to carry away heat, their supercomputer ought to have more heat problems on the moon, not less.

* LightningBruiser: C-class starships start off fitting the mold of {{Might Glacier}}s, being the biggest, toughest, and having the most power out of the ship classes while being inherently slower and less agile than smaller ones. However, it is very possible, even easy, to design a fairly large C-class ship that has perfect or near-perfect Mobility while crew and skill bonuses can push its top speed over 200. The Bruiser part comes from access to C-class weapons and shield generators which are the most powerful in the game, and even after those are accounted for the ship should have enough spare maneuvering thrust to add large capacities for fuel and cargo before Mobility starts dropping below 100.[[note]]All of this assumes that C-class engines are used, which have the lowest top speed of 130 but provide by far the most maneuvering thrust. Using lower-grade engines would result in slightly higher top speed but very poor mobility due to less maneuvering thrust.[[/note]]

* CanadaEh: "Can-uck!" (a play on Canuck) is a brand of food items with a stereotypical Canadian theme, their packaging featuring giant maple leaves. They sell mundane items like coffee but also more stereotypically Canadian items like poutine, bacon, tourtière, pouding chômeur, and maple syrup flavored soda.