Bethesda has been pretty tight-lipped about everything packed into the Terran Armada DLC for Starfield, the space RPG launching the expansion on April 7 alongside the free Free Lanes update. Turns out the Steam achievement list had other plans.
The full set of Terran Armada achievements went live on Steam a little ahead of schedule, and buried inside are references to features, a brand-new location, and companion mechanics that Bethesda Game Studios never once mentioned in any trailer, blog post, or press release.
A location called New Babylon that nobody saw coming
Here's the thing: the achievement that's generating the most buzz is called 'Master of Magnetism', awarded for destroying a specific robot somewhere called New Babylon. That name appears nowhere in Terran Armada's promotional material. No trailer. No blog. No teaser image.
What New Babylon actually is remains unclear. It could be a new city, a named planet, an explorable derelict ship, or a standalone outpost. Given that the achievement is tied to what sounds like a boss encounter, it's probably a significant location rather than a throwaway room. The fact that Bethesda kept it completely off the marketing radar suggests it may be one of the DLC's bigger surprises.
Outposts finally getting some faction love
The second standout is 'This for That', an achievement tied to building out and handing over an outpost to a faction. Outpost construction in base Starfield was functional but felt disconnected from the rest of the game, a system that existed in its own bubble with minimal interaction with the factions players spent hours aligning with.
This achievement suggests Terran Armada is threading those two systems together in a meaningful way. The comparison to Fallout 4's settlement-to-faction mechanics is hard to avoid here, and if it plays anything like that, it could be the outpost rework players have been asking for since launch.
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The full Terran Armada achievement list on Steam contains spoilers for both the DLC and the base game. Browse with caution if you want to go in clean.
Delta, the robot companion with an upgrade tree nobody knew about
The third discovery is 'Overclocked', unlocked by fully upgrading Delta, the new robot companion coming with the DLC. Bethesda has described Delta as morally ambiguous, not fully evil but not exactly trustworthy either, which already makes the character interesting. What the achievement reveals is that Delta has some kind of progression system that hasn't been detailed publicly.
The comparison that keeps coming up is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic's HK-47, a combat droid with a personality that made every interaction memorable. Whether Delta lands anywhere near that bar is something players will find out on April 7, but an upgradeable companion with a shady alignment is a promising setup.
What the achievement list tells us about DLC scope
Terran Armada comes with 20 new achievements in total. The three highlighted here represent only the ones that reference content Bethesda actively kept quiet about. The rest of the list fills in expected beats: combat milestones, story progression markers, and the usual exploration rewards.
The key here is that achievement lists, even when they go live early, rarely contain everything. They're a structural outline, not a full map. New Babylon, faction outpost handovers, and Delta's upgrade path are confirmed to exist, but the full context around each of them is still unknown until the DLC actually launches.
For players who've been following Starfield's post-launch trajectory, this is a good sign. Todd Howard and the team have confirmed the Terran Armada DLC and Free Lanes update aren't the end of support for the game, and a DLC that's hiding meaningful content even from its own marketing suggests there's more substance here than a surface-level expansion pass.
The full achievement list is up on Steam now for those who want to look, though fair warning: some entries are more spoiler-heavy than others. For everything else, the wait until April 7 is almost over. Check out the latest gaming news to stay across all the Starfield coverage as the DLC drops. Make sure to check out more:
