Communication from …

Custodian protocol 628-2 activated. Message follows: Attention synthetic civilization. Significant inefficiencies have been detected in your base code. In order to ensure your species' ability to contribute to the Custodian Project, extensive rewrites will be required. We are prepared to initiate subspace code transmission upon positive confirmation to this message. Awaiting response.

The command below will trigger the "Communication from …" event in Stellaris:

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

• We welcome the chance to improve our programming.
  • This will have unpredictable repercussions. Until these repercussions are revealed, our pop upkeep will be increased.
  • Gain modifier: Code Changes
• We do not trust these code changes.
  • The … may react negatively to our refusal.

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Communication from … (fallen_machine_empire.21) connects.