No one on Earth has ever taken a rocket ship to the sun, but we’re pretty solid on what it is and how it works anyway. Since the stars are the source of magic in the TES universe, and there are dozens of groups who study magic very, very seriously and have done so for millenia, there’s a good chance they have some…

Nope. Canonically those are holes in the universe caused by fleeing Aedra. They just look like stars. In the context of the TES universe, this is all well-trod science, not mythology.

I’m not even convinced that they can coexist in the same continuity. The cosmology and physics of the Elder Scrolls universe are weird. Nirn (the planet on which the continent of Tamriel sits) exists in a cosmos that doesn’t contain any stars as we would know them: canonically, the sun and every “star” in the night…

What makes this easter egg particularly fun isn’t just that it suggests that Fallout and Skyrim are a part of the same world. It also implies that, despite being the more technologically advanced society, Fallout is set in the past, whereas The Elder Scrolls is the future. Heh. Well, I guess that explains why The…

oh shit, so Prey and Skyrim takes place in the same universe cuz Aperture Science got their portal gun from the Prey aliens

Oh yeah, because when Brian Fargo and Chris Taylor sat down to write fallout 1 they totally were inspired by TES:Arena rather than..oh i don’t know - Wasteland 1 and mad max.

same engine = same universe