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

Our forces stormed the facility and quickly subdued most inhabitants, meeting only light resistance. The archives reveal this was a prison. The captives were extremists who had advocated for extreme technological efforts to reheat the cooling universe, some wildly impractical, others potentially catastrophic. Some … prison leaders have barricaded themselves in a central chamber with explosives, demanding all inhabitants stay and be resealed. The tunnel could be filled with an invisible gas that makes the explosive inert to save the structures, but would cause most inhabitants to suffocate soon after.
The command below will trigger the "Cracking the Prison" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- Flush the tunnel with gas.
- Pops gained: +100
- −100 Energy Credits
- Quickly evacuate.
- Pops gained: +400
- Unity: +None to None