Starfield’s Best Moment Could Only Be Done in a Videogame (Spoilers)

*This article contains spoilers for Starfield’s entire main story*

I know I’m not alone in spending an unhealthy amount of time daydreaming about just what would happen if we ever discovered that we weren’t alone in the universe. First contact narratives are one of my favorites in science fiction, and the promise of traveling the stars to seek out alien life was one of the things which had me most excited about playing Starfield.