Tears of an AI
The "Tears of an AI" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Tears of an AI

Our inquest into the loss of an AI on … has returned some baffling results. Prior to its terminal failure, the AI had made repeated attempts at purging its own records and memory banks. When lab staff disabled the AI's access to deletion functions, the AI appears to have forced a termination of its core operations by manipulating hardware capacitor control, in order to overload its own drive circuitry. Quite simply, our AI sought its own destruction, though it remains unclear as to why.
The command below will trigger the "Tears of an AI" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- Get to the bottom of this.
- Continue looking into the matter.
- Malfunctions happen.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Tears of an AI (syndaw.521) connects.
Triggered by
- Tears of an AI
syndaw.520
Can lead to
- Tears of an AI
syndaw.522
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
event_target:target_planetoid = {
owner = { is_same_value = root.owner }
is_occupied_flag = no
}