The Horizon Signal: An Intervention

This time, … is the only crew-member aboard. The ship is running fully automated... and its systems are programmed to detonate the drive once conditions match those immediately prior to the last ship's disappearance. As it approaches the exit point, the telemetry stream fills up with fascinating data. Once again, space flexes, gravity uncoils. … reads off the headline data, echoing the telemetry. They are commendably calm: we've sent a professional. It takes a little while for anyone to realize that something is peculiar about the timing. … is no longer echoing the data: They're predicting it. The telemetry disagrees, but only for a few seconds, until it catches up. Our monitoring team is just reporting that the prediction interval is increasing when there is a sudden energy spike. The drive has detonated: a brief flare of stellar fury, quickly lost in the darkness of …. Whatever we encountered there, it may regret its interference. We'll never know. The Horizon Signal does not come again. But our team may find something interesting in the ashes of the ship.

The command below will trigger the "The Horizon Signal: An Intervention" event in Stellaris:

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

• And yet, this may not be the end.

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how The Horizon Signal: An Intervention (akx.9012) connects.