Color Out of Space
The "Color Out of Space" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Color Out of Space

What our people saw from orbit was … shutting down, every light source within the city snuffed out at once. What people on … experienced was much worse: vehicles reduced to road blocks, factories grinding to a halt, hospital equipment lifeless and inert. A world-wide blackout, as sudden as it was inexplicable. As silence and shadows veiled our world, strange light patterns bloomed in the sky, enveloping our capital system in a kaleidoscopic mist. The two events are doubtlessly related, but our … are still - literally - in the dark.
The command below will trigger the "Color Out of Space" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Curious.
- Gain modifier: Global Power Outage
- Start special project: Power Outage
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Color Out of Space (situation.2003) connects.
Can lead to
- Color Out of Space
situation.2004