Starfield: A Little Story about Boredom and Potatoes

 Anyone who has followed my Twitter account might tell you that I can develop some weird obsessions in video games. No game has given me more to obsess over than Starfield. Collecting potatoes is just one of these things. The photo below was taken while exploring Huygens III in the Huygens system. At the top of the stairs and an elevator lies an Abandoned Freestar Collective Garrison. Now I may have visited one of these facilities before but if so, it was long ago and I have forgotten. It wasn't marked on the planetary map as a point of interest so I assume it was deposited there when I landed.

Shortly after dispatching the usual Spacer scum I discovered this slate belonging to Freestar Pvt. Brown.  Touch or click to expand.

To summarize Pvt. Brown was a recent arrival who was very bored, questioned the mission and felt excluded by his colleagues. However he knows how to distill liquor and believed that might be his ticket to acceptance. He mentions using potatoes in his final paragraph and that immediately sent me to scouring the post for them.

I did find some related notes.

The C.O. put a bit of a damper on my potato search.

Pfc. Russo preferred to fill his time with paranoid thoughts about the seemingly dormant mission.

Some folks just disapprove.

There is evidence of the shine operation in a couple of places. The C.O. would have needed to be quite blind not to notice this going on.

This is just one little story about different personalities trying to exist out in the far flung fringes of the Settled Systems without much to do. You can always pretend you're at the beach I guess.

Whatever happened they ran out of potatoes before they bugged out because I could find nary a one. Time to go shopping again in Akila City I suppose. Just when I begin to think that I might have experienced all the encounters and points of interest I seem to stumble across something unfamiliar.