Buried Beacon

A hidden vault has been revealed beneath the fortress proper. Inside is what looks to have been a Machine substrate: a devolved node, capable of propagating a nearly-independent avatar of the entire Machine Intelligence. We assume this was a last-ditch effort to assert direct control of the stubbornly resistant locals. The technology is unlike anything we've encountered before from the …; further study is sure to advance our own AI research. In the act of tearing down its now-defunct communications array, we noted that this avatar had dedicated an entire receiver circuit to monitoring signals from the … system.

The command below will trigger the "Buried Beacon" event in Stellaris:

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

• Worthy of investigation.
  • Physics: +None to None