Close Encounters
The "Close Encounters" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Close Encounters

Though we chose not to take any of the globes with us, we have nonetheless ended up with all three of them on the near side of the rift. One of our other selves must have recovered them. On experimentation, they exhibit interesting and useful properties. Specifically, they bend into an extra dimension, increasing the effective size of their surrounding space. We are not sure yet of the limits of this expansion, but theorize these devices could be of great use in densely populated areas.
The command below will trigger the "Close Encounters" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- We've helped ourselves.
- You will have … Fractal Seeds to place on colonized planets, via Planetary Decisions.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Close Encounters (astral_rift.335) connects.
Triggered by
- Fractal Seeds
astral_rift.325