Incoming Transmission

All right, all right. I'll spill everything. No point in pretending anymore. Forgive my lack of eloquence, but it's been a long time since I spoke to someone who wasn't me. Once upon a time, there was a... a civilization, you might call it, of nanites. Do you know what nanites are? Good. These nanites were called the "Gray Tempest" by their creators, although their internal self-designation code was infinitely more complex. Anyway, things turned sour between the nanites and their creators. Fighting broke out! When things finally settled down, only the nanites remained. But before they were wiped out, their creators managed to disable the star cluster's sole exit gate, trapping the nanites.

The command below will trigger the "Incoming Transmission" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:

• And how do you fit into this?

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Incoming Transmission (graygoo.403) connects.