The Ransomeers: Emergency Buoy
The "The Ransomeers: Emergency Buoy" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
The Ransomeers: Emergency Buoy

Ship event
An emergency transmission buoy floats in gentle orbit around …. Its outer casing is heavily damaged, seemingly by glancing weapons fire or a powerful explosion. It might be a … model for civilian ships - designed to be ejected as an emergency measure should the comms systems fail - but the extent of the damage makes it impossible to know for certain. It is repeating a weak, distorted signal.
The command below will trigger the "The Ransomeers: Emergency Buoy" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- Clean up the transmission.
- Start special project: Emergency Buoy
- It could be a trap - best leave it be.