The Meaning of the Machine

The last piece of the puzzle found, our … got to work. The component from … slotted neatly into a control console. The manual from … was employed to install it correctly. Once this was done, all three machines burst into life. Thunderous vibrations shook the dust and snow from the plateau. With a crackle like that of lightning a … was instantly vaporized, the swirl of dust that was once a body quickly sucked into the trenches towards the Sectoral Disturbance Depressors. Herein lies the key to what happened on …: the trenches leading to the bottom of the machines are fuel lines, drawing in the bio-matter of their surroundings. The result is a trail of destruction across the planet. The Sectoral Disturbance Depressors are now fully operational. There is enough fuel left for a single use. All that remains is the push of a button.

The command below will trigger the "The Meaning of the Machine" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:

• Activate the machine.
  • Engineering: +None to None
  • Physics: +None to None
  • Gain modifier: Disturbance Oppressor Activation
• Do not push that button.
  • +600 Alloys
  • +1000 Engineering

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how The Meaning of the Machine (cstorms.176) connects.