Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold
The "Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold

Sorting out the errant innards of the shattered drones took much longer than anticipated, as each drone seems to have been built from a slightly different design, assembled from slightly different parts. Once this fact was established, one thing stood out - the parts that were identical. Separated from the rest, it is clear these parts are of somewhat modern, if alien, make. It is likely that someone has done what we could not, and tampered with the drones.
The command below will trigger the "Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- This warrants further investigation.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold (colony.1508) connects.
Triggered by
- Ancient Drones: Looking For Drones
colony.1507
Can lead to
- Ancient Drones: Alien to the Aliens
colony.1509
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
owner = { has_country_flag = FLDrone_country }