Critical Power Grid Malfunction
The "Critical Power Grid Malfunction" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Critical Power Grid Malfunction

Country event
In yet another effort to undermine our defenses the Contingency has turned its efforts towards cutting off our power supply. They have sent malicious agents into the core's control drives, causing the plants to run on overdrive. Though several power stations were destroyed in the process, we were able to identify the hostile code segment before they could disable the entire power grid.
The command below will trigger the "Critical Power Grid Malfunction" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- They will not defeat us.
- The Contingency has sabotaged several Generator Districts.
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
NOT = {
has_country_flag = machine_power_failure
}
any_owned_planet = {
num_districts = {
type = district_generator
value > 3
}
}