Bethesda role-playing games put a big premium on player choice and agency, focusing on providing lots of different ways for you to solve problems, complete quests, or otherwise interact with the world. In Starfield, venturing through the galaxy to uncover the game's story and explore the more than 1,000 planets it contains will require a spaceship. Good news, though: If you don't feel like building one, it sounds like you can steal one.

During Microsoft's Extended Xbox/Bethesda Showcase event, Pete Hines, Bethesda's senior vice president of global marketing and communications, spent some time talking about all the different stuff you can get up to as you work your way through the vast galaxy of Starfield. As with other Bethesda games, the studio wants players to have opportunities to approach their missions or encounters in a variety of ways. Hines talked about the studio hoping to create situations in which players can talk to each other about how they might have dealt with a mission or encounter, and in sharing their experiences, realize there are options in the game they might not have considered.

The example Hines used for the solution for one hypothetical mission might be to just storm an enemy ship, shoot its entire crew, hop into the cockpit, and fly off into the sunset. He didn't provide any tangible details but emphasized that "you can do anything" in Starfield. So it sounds like that might include stealing pirate ships while you're working through the story or just wandering the galaxy.