Research Sabotaged!
The "Research Sabotaged!" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Research Sabotaged!

Our research networks have been compromised! An unknown infiltrator has upended many of our data libraries, stealing research for their own use and causing significant delays to our ongoing studies. Our teams were able to switch to backup systems quite rapidly, but this will slow their progress. It's estimated that months may pass before we're able to re-integrate our research & development processes with the existing corpus.
The command below will trigger the "Research Sabotaged!" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Curses!
Regardless of your choice
- Gain modifier: Research Sabotaged
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Research Sabotaged! (operation.1030) connects.
Triggered by
- Research Secured
operation.1026
Firing conditions
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