Test Subjects Escaping
The "Test Subjects Escaping" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Test Subjects Escaping

Planet event
A number of our valuable test subjects have fled from a facility on … via a makeshift escape tunnel. Fashioned using improvised tools and bare …, the tunnel must have taken years to build. We cannot be sure how many knew of its existence, and how it remained undetected for so long.
The command below will trigger the "Test Subjects Escaping" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 3 options:
- They have earned their freedom.
- Half of the Test Subjects on … will depart as refugees.
- Unity: +None to None
- Shut down operations until we can find them.
- Escaping Test Subjects will be recovered.
- Gain modifier: Testing Lockdown
- Execute those that remain as an example.
- All of the Test Subjects on … will be lost.
- Gain modifier: Example Set
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Test Subjects Escaping (shroud.1105) connects.
Can lead to
- shroud.1010
shroud.1010
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
exists = owner
owner = {
is_twisted_experimenters_empire = yes
}