A Light in the Darkness is a side mission in Starfield that lets you brag about your adventures to local media so that stories get published. You can do all of this by talking to a reporter at the SSNN building on New Atlantis. In exchange, you'll get a modest amount of XP and Credits for your trouble and fame...probably.
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How to Start A Light in the Darkness
Sometime after you've completed the first main story mission, a man named Tommy Bitlow might rush up to you in the Spaceport not far from your ship. He's an SSNN research intern and tells you to talk to his boss Nadia Muffaz. She researches and writes most of the stories for the network, and Tommy thinks you'd make a great eyewitness for a story about the firefight at the mining installation at the start of the game.
If Tommy doesn't pop up, then you can go directly to Nadia to start this quest.
Find News Stories for SSNN
Nadia is over in the SSN building in the Commercial District, which is right near the TerraBrew patio. Most of this quest involves telling Nadia about your exploits across the galaxy. She'll offer compensation for each of them. The mining installation firefight on Vectera, for instance, got us 65 XP and 650 Credits. Subsequent stories got us the same amount of credits each time and diminishing returns on XP.
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Below, we've got a rundown of all the stories you can tell her about, but keep in mind that all but the first have story spoilers from all sorts of side mission chains. If you want to remain spoiler-free, simply check back in with Nadia after you complete a series of quests, and you might have something new to tell her.
- Deliver news about the Vectera Mining Attack
- Tap to Reveal
- Tap to Reveal
- Tap to Reveal
- Tap to Reveal
- Tap to Reveal
Once you've spilled the beans on all of these events, you'll wrap up this quest for good.
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