Echoes from the Deep

After doing some adjustments to the ship scanners, the crew of … and Science Officer …, although exhausted and on edge, have made a startling discovery. Close to the core of … is a plankton-like lifeform that stretches across the entire …, living in a shared consciousness with vast psionic abilities. The lifeform is able to survive under both extreme pressures and temperatures. It can even expand itself at rapid rates. It seem to either be hibernating or... hiding, as if it knew it was being watched. A lifeform this vast in size and versatile seems technically immortal. However it does not seem like it would hinder us to colonize the …, but it might have a negative influence on the population.

The command below will trigger the "Echoes from the Deep" event in Stellaris:

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

• We should try and contact it.
• We could poison the ocean to kill it.
• Better to leave it alone.
  • Your Empire gains the Negative Media Coverage modifier. Adds the Hostile Environment modifier to ….

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Echoes from the Deep (anomaly.4046) connects.