Designers Under Duress

Excavating the R&D wing of this facility has been a grisly task. Significantly more of the mammalian cyborgs met their end here, where they had been deployed as technicians, engineers, and even cyberneticists. These specialists designed most of the weaponry arrayed outside, and we found evidence they were even responsible for many of our own augments. Intriguingly, whereas most of the equipment they used is … in origin, we also found several bespoke tools of a superior quality, with design flourishes much better suited to their own organic forms. We begin to reveal a timeline in which a society of advanced technicians was abruptly assimilated by the …. We suspect the Machine had not been here longer than a few decades; many of these manufacturing techniques appear indigenous. It may be fortunate that such gifted technologists did not remain part of the … for long, else when it turned against us, it would have wielded an even more potent arsenal. Instead, we remain alive now to pick through this species' potent legacy of research.

The command below will trigger the "Designers Under Duress" event in Stellaris:

When this event fires, you can choose between the following option:

• Excellent.
  • The Embodied Identity shift towards …