Roots of Life

Equipped with protective gear and frost-resistant heavy machinery, our … made short work of the tedious yet simple process of removing the snow and fine dust layers. Soon, strange patterns were discovered, a series of trenches spreading in a root-like pattern covering a vast swath of territory. Within those crevices we found the desiccated remains of all sorts of organisms; everything it could pull from the planet's surface, from vegetation to wildlife and all that existed between. Somehow, the trenches ground up the organics by pulverizing them between their rocky walls, extracting any useful nutrients and transporting them to a convergence point in a process akin to digestion. The dust they spat back out now covers the majority of …'s landscapes. This begs the question as to who, or what the crevices were feeding.

The command below will trigger the "Roots of Life" event in Stellaris:

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

• Find the origin.