The Loop Temple: Time and Stone

Our scientists have learned a great deal about the subterranean temple, but some questions remain. A roof aperture - along with the radial altar - suggests it was once a solar calendar, but it's so badly damaged by the earthquake that we can't be certain. If the builders found any particular dates important, we'll never know which ones. We've had better luck with the "unknown alphabet." It's a debased variant of a better-known hieratic script - not an alien language at all - and we've successfully deciphered it. The temple is dedicated to the "Waiting Worm" or the Worm-in-Waiting. Most of the inscriptions are sonorous, poetic invocations requesting its appearance or - if read in the other direction - its departure. There is also a body of inscriptions describing the "operations of the universe," which our more excitable archaeologist swears contains references to advanced field equations - nothing new to us, but very impressive for a temple of this vintage. We have yet to find a physicist who's prepared to go on record in agreeing that the references are meaningful, though. The temple holds no cosmic secrets or alien weapons, as far as we can tell, but its dark spaces have a distinctive, menacing beauty - and the poetry of the invocations to the Worm-in-Waiting becomes fashionable. They are set to popular music; they are published in collections.

The command below will trigger the "The Loop Temple: Time and Stone" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between these 4 options:

• Open the Loop Temple to the public.
  • Something from our past. What was, will be.
  • Gain modifier: Loop Temple Visitor Center
• Make the Loop Temple a place of pilgrimage.
  • A wisdom from the faith of our predecessors. What was, will be. Increases planet happiness, among other things.
  • Gain modifier: Loop Temple Pilgrims' Way
• Reserve the Temple for academic study only.
  • Let's limit access to those who need it.
  • Society: +300 to 2000
• There is something wrong here. Seal the Temple.
  • Better safe than sorry.
  • Influence: +100 to 600