The Retainer's Last Duty

The technosphere absorbs the resources without thanks, and without any communication at all. It begins to radiate energy, brightly enough to be dangerous, and you withdraw. The black hole reacts. Space around it writhes and coils, in ways your archives match to the events of the Horizon Signal. The technosphere is blue-white now. Abruptly it flames and cools, and only slag remains. Have its Brief makers been restored? There is no trace of sapient life in the system. But sensors locate unusual hyperextremophile organisms in low orbit around the black hole, basking in its radiation. The Science Officer is certain they weren't there before. There is no evidence, though, that they're sapient. Perhaps they're some remote descendant of the technosphere's makers. Perhaps they're the makers' ancestors.

The command below will trigger the "The Retainer's Last Duty" event in Stellaris:

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

• Life eternal?

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how The Retainer's Last Duty (akx.9620) connects.