Turns Into Dust
The "Turns Into Dust" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Turns Into Dust

When our invading ground forces defeated the last of the Dessanu defenders on …, everything on the …'s surface crumbled into dust! On closer inspection, the gray dust consists of billions upon billions of inert nanites. The cities, the lush forests, the oceans and the Dessanu themselves - everything on the …, aside from our own forces, had been wrought out of these nanomachines. Now that they have been rendered inert, … no longer supports life. Our ground forces are withdrawing back to orbit.
The command below will trigger the "Turns Into Dust" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Most peculiar.
Regardless of your choice
- Colony destroyed
- Gain modifier: Terraforming Candidate
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Turns Into Dust (graygoo.150) connects.
Can lead to
- Incoming Transmission
graygoo.156
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
from = { is_country_type = "gate_builders" }