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

Having pieced them together, the foreign objects inside the destroyed drones have been identified by our experts as one-way transmitters. Since they are not set to receive, it is safe to assume that the drones were not acting at the behest of some third party. Rather, some entity has been keeping tabs on the drones' activities. It is advisable to look into this matter.
The command below will trigger the "Ancient Drones: Alien to the Aliens" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Continue our monitoring efforts.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Ancient Drones: Alien to the Aliens (colony.1509) connects.
Triggered by
- Ancient Drones: Panning For Gold
colony.1508
Can lead to
- Ancient Drones: Answers Above
colony.1510
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
owner = { has_country_flag = FLDrone_country }