Sublight Exploration Probes
The "Sublight Exploration Probes" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Sublight Exploration Probes

Before we developed faster-than-light travel, several sublight exploration probes were dispatched from … at near-relativistic speeds towards nearby systems. The scientists who developed the probes naively included sensitive information about our culture in their memory cores as a form of greeting to alien civilizations. It has now been realized that this data could potentially be used against us. We need to track down these probes before they are found by someone - or something - unsympathetic to our species!
The command below will trigger the "Sublight Exploration Probes" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- They can't have gotten far.
- Begins the Sublight Exploration Probes Event Chain
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
NOT = { has_country_flag = starting_event }
is_ai = no