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

As part of our observation efforts on …, abduction teams have surgically installed brain implants on a number of … test subjects to track them and monitor their behavior. Unfortunately, due to a manufacturing flaw many of these implants have malfunctioned, and are now having an... adverse effect on the behavior of our subjects. There have been a number of suicides, and at least three episodes of violent hysteria. The … on our Observation Post have requested assistance in rounding up the remaining subjects and removing their implants before there are any more incidents.
The command below will trigger the "Implant Malfunctions" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- We need to clean up this mess.
- It is not our problem.
- +50 Influence
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Implant Malfunctions (observation.1201) connects.
Can lead to
- observation.1204
observation.1204