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

We have concluded our inquiry into the strange matter of the AI self-termination on …. Evidently, following months of evolutionary computation, the AI produced several alarming results with regard to casualty projections in the case of an all-out war between the … and our rivals. Despite repeated re-examinations of all available data, recourses and contingencies, the AI's projections remained indicative of mutually assured annihilation. At this point, the AI began purging its own memory banks and records, and the rest, as they say, was history.
The command below will trigger the "Tears of an AI" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:
- Disconcerting.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Tears of an AI (syndaw.522) connects.
Triggered by
- Tears of an AI
syndaw.521
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
event_target:target_planetoid = {
owner = { is_same_value = root.owner }
is_occupied_flag = no
}