Anti-Psionic Backlash
The "Anti-Psionic Backlash" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Anti-Psionic Backlash

Situation event
A growing rebel movement is voicing opposition to continued efforts to explore and embrace our psionic potential. These dissident groups advocate for stricter oversight of psionic individuals and a wholesale rejection of further research in this area. If their activities are allowed to continue, it could threaten progress in understanding and mastering our emergent psionic powers.
The command below will trigger the "Anti-Psionic Backlash" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- Crush this opposition.
- Gain modifier: Dissenters Repressed
- Attempt to appease them.
- Gain modifier: Performative Pluralism
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
exists = owner
owner = { is_gestalt = no }