Alien Ship Captured!
The "Alien Ship Captured!" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Alien Ship Captured!

We were able to disable the exploratory vessel of the …, but only after a bloody firefight that continued even as we boarded their ship. So ferocious was the struggle that no living survivors remained - it seems that wounded combatants committed suicide rather than permit themselves to be captured. Despite their hasty last-minute efforts to wipe their computer systems and rig the ship to explode, their vessel is still very much intact, and our … are poised to see what they can find out from it.
The command below will trigger the "Alien Ship Captured!" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- The ship will surely yield their secrets.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Alien Ship Captured! (first_contact.260) connects.
Can lead to
- The Cruelty of the …
first_contact.262