Shatter

Their gaseous homeworld was revealed to us in more and more detail. This time, we see its individual inhabitants. Beings of light, gas, and astral material leaked from the nearby rift are living in what could easily be described as a utopia. Eventually, a great structure was raised. An incredible piece of engineering, it stretched directly from their planet into the rift, allowing them to easily travel between this dimension and countless others. With such an astral conduit existing for so long between the planes, they have shaped many rifts to fit their specific needs. Their society stretched between a multitude of dimensions, colonizing entire universes as we would new planets. However, their greatest achievement was also their greatest disaster. Their empire spread further than the astral conduit could maintain. Brighter and brighter the megastructure grew until the sight of it was difficult to look upon without shielding one's eyes, until it finally burst violently in a dimension-spanning explosion that fractured their civilization. "shattered kin..." "war..." "help us..." Our Rift Sphere has been forcibly ejected from the Rift. A dimensional portal is now opening in the … System.

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

When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:

• We've opened a doorway...
• Seal it! Quickly!
  • Leads to event: The Seal

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Shatter (astral_rift.1020) connects.