Factory Floor

From the outset, we could see the facility on … was capable of production on a titanic scale. The landscape above ground is dominated by colossal blast doors, every one of which is now seized and held shut by half-melted motors. Instead we forced our entry via the ventilation system. Inside, we found a cavernous factory floor beset with debris and the remains of hundreds of cybernetic beings. Most are robots: mechanics, lifters, and other auxiliaries, some of whom perished so recently they are still giving off smoke. However, stashed to one side of the facility are the long-decayed bodies of several fellow cyborgs, slain by those same robots. These diminutive and ragged-looking mammalians had been fitted with ocular sensors and intricately tooled limbs, along with … control nodules almost identical to our own. We have dated this massacre to within a few weeks of our own break from the …; most of the drones perished more recently, in the power surge which marked our arrival to …. For us this is a brutal and familiar scene, albeit one in which the liberated cyborgs were no match for their Machine counterparts. Soldiers that we are, we … were better equipped to survive such slaughter.

The command below will trigger the "Factory Floor" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between these 3 options:

• Remain focused on the excavation.
  Available only if Requires origin: Hard Reset.
• We should publicize these findings immediately.
  Available only if Requires origin: Hard Reset.
• Keep digging!
  Available only if Must not have origin: Hard Reset.

Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Factory Floor (unplugged.2010) connects.