Starbase Hijacked

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

Starbase Hijacked

Country event

We have lost control of the Starbase orbiting …. The Contingency has used the Ghost Signal to jam our uplink, hijacked its control modules and set it to self-destruct. Though we are too late to save it, we have identified and rectified this particular breach, protecting our ports from similar assaults in the future.

The command below will trigger the "Starbase Hijacked" event in Stellaris:

Player choices

When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:

This is a disaster.
- The Starbase over … has been hijacked by the Contingency and destroyed.

Firing conditions

Show raw conditions

any_owned_planet = {
  controller = { is_same_value = root }
  solar_system = {
    exists = starbase
    starbase = { owner = { is_same_value = root } }
  }
}
NOT = {
  has_country_flag = machine_spaceport_scuttled
}
OR = {
  has_global_flag = ghost_signal_5_flag
  has_global_flag = ghost_signal_4_flag
}
is_machine_empire = yes