With Starfield scheduled for takeoff in September it's time to start thinking about Starfield companions. Normally in a Bethesda RPG we'd expect that you could recruit members from each of the Starfield factions, though during the Starfield Direct it only mentioned that "some of the members of Constellation can join you on your journey." We may not see companion characters from every faction necessarily, though some that we've been introduced to do seem like they probably hailed from another faction before joining Constellation.
From what we can tell in the big Starfield Direct presentation, it seems that Starfield's companion characters may be unofficially tiered, in a way. Major characters with obvious faction alignments like Barrett and Sam Coe have four total skills while other crew members have only two or three. We don't know yet if that means we'll be upgrading companions or whether they'll each have these innate skills throughout your playthrough. Your crew will all join you on your ship, as Bethesda showed, and can be assigned to specific outposts as well.
