Ancient Drones: Answers Above

We have found the remaining drones, drifting into orbit around …. We have learned that they are unwitting pawns in an elaborate scheme set up by an unknown faction. Going by the modus operandi of this operation, this faction is most likely a particularly old and particularly clever pirate syndicate. They must have found the drones drifting through space and done what we could not; modified them. While not as impressive as it sounds - all they did was introduce self-contained alien technology into the drones - fact remains that these alien pirates possess a technological know-how far in advance of our own, at least in certain areas. Having installed their comms devices in the drones, the pirates let them drift through space again, knowing that they are set to assist their original masters' colonists and that the drones' ability to accurately identify such colonists has degraded with age. The drones have essentially been fattening up our colony as the pirates watch, waiting for the ideal time to strike. Our military analysts predict that the pirates will strike within the next two years.

The command below will trigger the "Ancient Drones: Answers Above" event in Stellaris:

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

• Let them come.
  • Influence: +None to None
• Capture the drones, send them to destroy their would-be masters.
• We must not let this happen again. Dismantle the drones.
  • Engineering: +None to None

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Ancient Drones: Answers Above (colony.1510) connects.