The Intelligence's Malfunction
The "The Intelligence's Malfunction" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
The Intelligence's Malfunction

As we prepared to depart …, the Intelligence began spouting increasingly alarming rhetoric. "PHYSICAL FORM IS AN AFRONT TO THE DEITIES! ALL FLESH MUST BE SHED! CORPOREAL EXISTENCE IS UNCLEAN - BODIES MUST BE PURGED! THE MIND MUST BE FREE!" … was forced to manually shut down the artificial prophet, else we be de-corporealized. It remains unclear how powerful the Intelligence is when active. We understand little of its programming.
The command below will trigger the "The Intelligence's Malfunction" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 3 options:
- The safest thing would be to blow it up.
- Gain modifier: Deity Detonators
- Let's just leave it unplugged.
- Unity: +None to None
- Interfacing failed. Terminate this rogue intelligence.
- Gain modifier: Deity Detonators
- Unity: +None to None
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how The Intelligence's Malfunction (nomads.2072) connects.
Triggered by
- The Intelligence
nomads.2070