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

The irradiated fragments the … crew registered in close orbit of … are indeed the remains of a space-faring vessel. With a very distinctive design, it matches no known make on record. We have extracted some data from the ship's damaged computers, recorded in an alien language like nothing we have ever seen before - and one we are unable to translate. By studying the remains, Science Officer … postulates that the craft, known as the 'Kohtalo', suffered a navigational error when exiting FTL, bringing it too close to the gamma-ray jets of …. Large portions of the ship were stripped apart through radiolysis. There are no survivors.
The command below will trigger the "Blinding Fate" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Unfortunate.
- Society: +None to None
Regardless of your choice
- Leads to event: Contact Report: Remnants
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Blinding Fate (distar.60) connects.
Can lead to
- Contact Report: Remnants
story.5 - Déjà Vu
distar.61