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

After detailed analysis, we now have a partial understanding of the construct found on …. This machine is a crude and destructive terraforming device. Designed to irradiate native biospheres through stimulated radiation growth of targeted resources, it causes a cascading effect that devastates the planet's ecosystem in the process. This provides its user with abundant extractable materials at the cost of raising general toxicity across the planet. While the exact workings of this process remain only partially understood, we have successfully decoded the device's communications frequency, identifying two additional locations transmitting the same signal.
The command below will trigger the "Deconstructive Terraforming" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- The search begins.
- Society: +None to None