The Waiting World: Everyone Is

Further unlikely news from …, where the population had been mysteriously increasing. Population numbers are now what we'd expect, but there has been some sort of information sabotage, or... or what, our administrators aren't really sure. None of the individuals on the planet exists in our records. Every original colonist is missing. It's as if they've all been replaced by complete strangers. As against that, they all swear they're loyal citizens of …. They're all productive and apparently sane. In all communications they deny all knowledge of any confusion, and insist there must be a mistake at our end.

The command below will trigger the "The Waiting World: Everyone Is" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between these 3 options:

• Abandon the colony immediately, before this spreads any further.
  • This will grant independence to the colony.
• Purge them, and permanently quarantine the planet.
  • Start special project: Purge the population of presumed alien duplicates
• Send a team to investigate.
  • Start special project: Investigate the... whatever happened to the population

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how The Waiting World: Everyone Is (akx.9540) connects.