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

Country eventDLC: Nemesis
A particularly observant operative in the … has laid their … on part of a … encryption key. It would seem a careless … Politician mislaid the device whilst commuting. This bodes well enough for our operations in the …, but our study of the device's unique design has revealed novel insights for our general approach to Codebreaking.
The command below will trigger the "Finders Keepers" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Excellent.
- Gain modifier: Found Encryption Key
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Finders Keepers (espionage.1050) connects.
Triggered by
- Stray Communiqué
espionage.1060
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
NOT = { has_country_flag = recently_received_finderskeepers }
has_active_spynetwork = yes
OR = {
exists = event_target:finderskeepers_country
any_spynetwork = {
owner = { is_same_value = root }
is_spynetwork_level > 0
target = {
is_country_type = default
is_regular_empire = yes
NOT = { is_same_value = root }
}
}
}