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

Researchers on … have eagerly anticipated the countdown of the mysterious atomic clock of prodigious precision found on … for the past 42 years and 3 days. Several decades' worth of heated speculation and conjecture have evaporated in an instant: the clock has just now reached its momentous deadline, ejecting a stream of self-replicating nanites! The nanites have constructed some manner of advanced computational network on the surface of …. The network is inactive, and seemingly devoid of any AI, the nanites having deactivated the instant its construction was complete. Our researchers are somewhat baffled as to the purpose of the network. Studying it should keep them occupied for quite some time.
The command below will trigger the "Atomic Countdown" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Incredible.