bethesda has solid writing mainly in the big picture, they're less invested in the minutiae of individual people or the places they live in
the UC quests in starfield are a good sample of that. it's really obvious that they're going for a broad satire of any militaristic coalition trying to present itself as dignified or its colonies as truly meritocratic. they have a stupid little museum during initiation that pulls double duty of explaining the general history while highlighting the type of outfit they are: petty, domineering, and willing to throw whomever under the bus to salvage their reputation
over the course of their quests, you learn about their structural incompetence, the flagrant cloak-and-dagger undermining any notion of real diplomacy, that their empire is a shithole to live in for anyone not in top-level government, and that the corrupt leader they claimed to execute still pulls all the strings behind the curtains
it generally works. obsidian are better at nuance and character-building, but bethesda can do the surface level stuff
