The Host

After painstaking analysis of a large number of fossils and a few miraculous finds of early writing, our archaeologists have reached a conclusion regarding the relationship between the primitive civilization on …, and the gigantic arthropod that was home to them. While the city-dwellers were largely resistant to the intestinal fluids of their arthropoid host, constant exposure to the still mildly chemically corrosive gases of the host's digestive tract vastly shortened their lifespans. Owing to their discovery of medicine and the scientific process, the citizens became aware they were in fact living within the digestive chamber of a much larger creature. The citizens then launched a magnificent war, arming every member of the city in an attempt to destroy the creature. But it was all for naught. The turmoil in the arthropod's lower gut led to severe peristalsis, resulting in the entire civilization of tiny city-dwellers being regurgitated up into the arthropod's stomach. Subsequently, the entire populace was promptly dissolved by their host's virulent stomach acids. The creature itself perished millennia later, from simple old age.

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

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

• Inspirational.
• Gruesome.
• Let's hope our own microbiome never evolves that far.