Encountered

The "Encountered" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.

Encountered

Country event

We have detected the presence of a pre-space civilization on … in the … system. They are in an early Industrial Age, with electricity and internal combustion engines gradually coming into widespread use. We should consider building an Observation Post above their world to study them more closely.

The command below will trigger the "Encountered" event in Stellaris:

Player choices

When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:

Interesting.

Event chain

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Encountered (action.6) connects.

Can lead to

Contact Report: …story.6

Firing conditions

Show raw conditions

is_ai = no
NAND = {
  has_origin = origin_broken_shackles
  event_target:primitive_civ = {
    OR = {
      has_country_flag = broken_shackles_parent_country
      has_country_flag = broken_shackles_abductees_country
    }
  }
}
event_target:primitive_civ = {
  NOR = {
    has_country_flag = humans_machine_age
    has_country_flag = humans_early_space_age
    has_country_flag = benefactor_empire
    has_country_flag = solarpunk_country
    has_country_flag = fotd_hunter@root
  }
  OR = {
    has_country_flag = industrial_age
    has_country_flag = machine_age
    has_country_flag = atomic_age
    has_country_flag = early_space_age
  }
}