Stellaris - Horizon Signal Mechanics

Horizon Signal, not nearly as tedious as one may think. It's been a while coming as the script was sitting on my desk. But finally, here it is.
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[@attila535]

This is some 4th degree interdimensional warp fuckery.

[@attila535]

I just used the words of the Man Emperor of Mankind from the series: If the Emperor had a text to speech device.

[@gaymothaunt]

LAW? I AM THE LAW I NEED TO POOP WE NEED TO BAN POOPING

[@kelanshelley2797]

More like 4th dimension

[@crankypauper]

Admiral Attila IU

[@psychoperxtor]

*gets psychically punched*

[@Knobbyboy88]

If you embrace the worm, you should really get a dimensional horror as a guardian for your home system. How awesome would that be?

[@nekomochi486]

Very!

[@keelanmckay698]

Neko Mochi ...overpowered

[@AziSlays]

That'd be pretty broken. But I agree. There must be some way to balance it. Maybe it can only spawn once the endgame year is reached? It would also make sense for it to be able to respawn considering the looping and all.

[@nathanpusceddu7828]

What will be, was. What was, will be.

[@Resetium]

A 200k fleet that constantly protects your home star turned black hole. Scaling with the year, obviously.

[@Yzarro]

This is the only time in a video game I truly felt like I had been messing with something beyond my understanding.

[@A_Spec]

+Yzarro the loop is forever

[@sukul3889]

I concur Although I can actually follow the logic, and that itself worries me

[@ilyasmirnov2528]

When playing Sunless Sea, a feeling like this basically never left me. E SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH

[@user-vm1vf1zj6h]

Yeah, cause you cant just send your fleet to beat shit out of this fuckers, stealing your science ships. In this one you actually are defenseless against scenario.

[@federiconicolasmontenegro9734]

Me too this are really creepy

[@null1449]

I only wait that Paradox will include more complex and interesting stories like this in the future, more events, more things to discover, study, fight, fear.. I love stellaris

[@drynoa532]

Yeah, more exploration options plz.

[@toninhosoldierhelmet4033]

i find this game very strange, most runs you do you stumble across anomalies you previously encountered, but every run has one or another anomalie that you see it once and never more, other day i found some folk that lived on a gas giant, and they asked me to haul around a bunch of their pops, but then some kind o civil war betwen then and another species that shared similar planets happened, after that a general contacted me to say they killed off the so called rebels to never more, they contacted me some solid 6 times and was pretty fun, but i felt that it had no real ending, i got nothing out of it.

[@A_Spec]

Ah, Baldarak....bunch of commies

[@WadcaWymiaru]

The Worm...loves you...

[@kingbubbles9461]

ASpec Ah baldarak... bunch of violent revolutionists

[@JoshSweetvale]

So this is basically a species committing incest with itself, after figuring out how to time travel. That sounds like Sunless Sea alright.

[@nekomaru856]

As a race of amoral science foxes I totally agree with this.

[@arthas640]

If you travel back and time and have sex with a younger version of yourself is it incest? Masturbation? Is it gay? If your underaged is it pedophilia? I'M SO CONFUSED! (and maybe a little aroused)

[@8maduce502]

Joshua Sweetvale or it could be a species that lives in another dimension that used our dna to create a host to bring about their species in another dimension.

[@wegner7036]

Same species sex, incest... HRMMMM

[@clintonbehrends4659]

@@arthas640 it is all of the above

[@realdieperdors]

I have been mapping out what creatures turns into what, as it turn's out, it ISN'T random at all! Human's always turn into the blue-big-headed humanoids. Any fungoid turns into BLORG! Any mollusk turns into the squid-people with eyes! If you start as this race, you will mutate into the eyeless blue shelled squid people. [Will update the more i know.]

[@UnnamedEmperor]

Ah, thanks. I was curious about that. I saw another youtube vid about the Horizon Signal and humanity changed into the blue squid ones in that one as well.

[@nanomachinesson2513]

Dieperdors W it looks like Platoid turks into the giant Beatles as well

[@nanomachinesson2513]

Weerwet Them I think my game is glitched. My primary species was anthropod but I had uplifted a second plantoid species who made up half the empire. For some reason the plant species was actually the messenger scientist who turned into beetle, although completing the quest chain turns both species in my home system into beetles

[@wegner7036]

That sounds plausible.

[@realdieperdors]

Wait...the plantoid race turns into a anthropoid race?

[@wegner7036]

Wait, was this supposed to be horror? Are you kidding? First time I played through the event, I embraced the worm like a deity.

[@PWN4G3FTW]

Did the same, was still kind of creepy but cool.

[@danieljames1868]

I just shot it. That bitch ate my scientists, gave a salvaged warform anxiety, and tried to make my people warmongers - thank goodness for genemodding and multiple planets... Don't care how much it loves me, that ain't a healthy relationship.

[@handlesarecringe957]

TurtleShroom I feel like it should also make your Empire Fanatic Spiritualist and/or Fanatic Purifier. Hell, you know what, to make this better, there should be an even more extreme version of an ideology casus belli. Like Ideology meets Fanatic Purifier. Your species can’t tolerate other cultures and wants to annihilate all of them so the galaxy is homogeneous in belief.

[@jhorseman3410]

First time you played the event? Man I got the event first time I played, literally in the first black hole system I ever entered. THAT was amazing, fuck horror.

[@urstaxfetish1206]

The dark worm god of time and space all must embrace.... also gotta love the ascetics of the home system

[@caelvanir8557]

Horizon Signal. AKA, the DLC that turned everyone one Earth into squid people.

[@PaulZeroSolis]

And any Fungi races that don't look like the Blorg, into the Blorg. Meaning that they lose the ability to easily make friends (if they had said ability to begin with). (If you don't know what I'm referring to, watch the "All Hail Blorg, Space Friends" series on the channel "Paradox Extra" (W/o the quotation marks on the channel and series names.)

[@flood256]

found a fun bonus thing if you're observing a primitive culture it can turn out that the develop a religion based on the loop that you can re-enforce for bonus culture science

[@handlesarecringe957]

I saw that after going through this event and bombed the shit out of the planet and purged everything. Shame there isn’t a mod that allows empires other than FP or DE to do annihilation bombardment, cause that’s what I would’ve done.

[@Killzoneguy117]

When that happened for me, that's when I really began freaking out.

[@johnuthus]

...... A fallen empire warned me to give them one pop, I refused. Now I know why they asked.

[@ymir6843]

Lmao same

[@generic4012]

I don’t get it

[@dovahwolf1397]

Squidward the pops changes

[@RedRabbitEntertainment]

@@generic4012 There's a fallen empire in the game that will tell you that at the rate you're going your species will likely die out soon, so to keep the species alive they want to take one of your pops to be kept on a preservation planet in their territory. If you do the event chain thats in the video your species gets assimilated and effectively dies out.

[@RedRabbitEntertainment]

Same, except I accepted their offer.

[@sgb3506]

I had this event pop up twice only in black holes that get the name "Hell`s Maw"

[@Hurmeri]

I ended up testing this; Hell's Maw was also the signal-triggering system the first time I ran across the event. This month (so post Apocalypse release but before Niven patch) I went looking for the Horizon Signal again on a new game. Got it it started from a black hole titled "XK1 anomaly" or something anemic like that. So it's not tied to the same named black hole system. [comment necro-posted for the benefit of new'ish players to Stellaris who, like me, look for more info on this than the wiki provides and end up watching this video: if you want to trigger the Signal event, just be ready to reload countless times with a manned science ship entering any black hole until finally you get lucky]

[@felixmustermann790]

or just queue commands for a science ship to go in and out of a black hole... the % chance is very low in the first place and you dont have to visit new black holes, already visited and system searched ones work aswell, the only checkmark is the science ship with a scientist and a black hole system, the rest is RNG

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Mine was called "Suskat's Maw"

[@marcusgracey945]

DISTurbedwaffle918 mine was Abbadon’s Demsene

[@handlesarecringe957]

I’ve gotten it in Eye of Hawking and The Great Wound.

[@brickcraftproductions3065]

a perfect way to spawn a Dimensional horror without Searching the Galaxy

[@TheAlphaMinion]

to trigger just have your manned science ship go to a black hole system over and over until it activates

[@kerbalkrasher4487]

lmao i got it in a 10 guy mp the first black hole i found i conquered everyone cause i got so overpowered

[@zetaomega8708]

Wait you just have someone revisit a black hole over and over again... THATS IT?!? I always thought it was like an anomaly, ive been bum rushing black holes.

[@danielanderson12321]

so if you worship the worm.in the end, you technically give your home planet an extra terrestrial dimension duplication of itself where you get more slots, but exists in what was will, and always has been....awesome!!! dont kill the worm then, buying game tmoz hopefully

[@realdieperdors]

They patched this..

[@shards7992]

Dieperdors W nope :)

[@seedz5132]

The "WHAT WAS WILL BE" makes me think of "What is dead may never die" PS : this is not a GoT reference, but a Cthulhu one

[@antred11]

It reminded me of Battlestar Galactica's "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."

[@redomer91]

Only the people in the capital system change when the worm is embraced. Which is a bit annoying because this effectively splits your species.

[@rocketxiv4980]

ahhh but now you have a variant of your species you can use to colonize worlds that were previously off limits: and if you’re using the Orbital Annihilation mod, you can glass worlds from orbit with laser or plasma weapons or use nuclear missiles or a biowarfare research project (useful if you want their buildings but not their pops) to cast them into oblivion and colonize the tombworld that remains with your radiation-loving pops

[@baronofluck2163]

Or, and I am just spitballing here, use the pox or just set the other species to undesirables and watch them die

[@bloodraven432]

This actually seems like a cool thing to do. I wish there were more events like this, something that could change your species as a whole rather than give you a new unit or parts for your ships.

[@beefacts8270]

The trait for Foredoomed to a Rendezvous gives 25% Sublight Soren and 25% Combat Speed

[@A_Spec]

Ye, it's in the game files, but I haven't seen it pop up in the game itself.

[@majormythical7419]

Is it bugged for you? I've found that trait in the section where you find all leader traits.

[@syruproast1598]

Sublight Speed you mean? So it's like Gale Force? Wonder if they stack.

[@A_Spec]

+Major Mythical possibly, I haven't seen it anywhere.

[@stewartgames6697]

I have both traits on my admiral.

[@kasper7574]

i got the horizon signal legitimately in an ironman run, and strangely enough i just got both "A Rendevous" and "The Messanger: WHAT WAS, WILL BE" at the same time, kinda spooky EDIT: THIS RUN ALSO HAD THE INFINITY SPHERE AND I GOT THE EXTRA EVENTS FROM IT! EDIT EDIT: I started on a Gaia world and now I'm on a Tomb world, everything's come full circle, THE LOOP IS COMPLETE!

[@Techymancer]

It has a very low percentage chance to trigger when a science ship enters a black hole system (It doesn't need to be in your part of space either). If you have a manned science ship to spare, you can queue up a bunch of movement in and out of a black hole system, and it should EVENTUALLY trigger. That's how I got it to start on my iron man play-through anyway.

[@yogurtpants1401]

Techymancer I believe it actually has a low percentage chance to spawn at the beginning of the game. Once it spawns it'll stay there, just for you.

[@realdieperdors]

It can initiate in black hole systems you've already been to. Never seen this happen but i heard someone say the even triggered when his science ship was travelling through a black hole he's already been too. So, i doesn't have to be a new black hole!

[@yogurtpants1401]

Dieperdors W Well, shows what I know. I always play as a genocidal fanatic materialist empire anyways.

[@horstmuller3373]

Jea for me it triggered while i did enigma in a system i already discovered within my borders.

[@user-nl6xv2fh9f]

@@realdieperdors Aspec has done a video on it and it did work. I dunno if they changed it though

[@Hurmeri]

Was playing an agrarian idyll species of lovable newts. Ran into the signal, thought "these events aren't be worth all the hype". Then... * Hears what the final choice will be * * Calculates 11 planets/moons combined in home system * IA! IA! THE WORM FHTAGN!

[@zerotwo6814]

So the worm was as Dimensional Horror?

[@realdieperdors]

Pretty much, a much more powerful version of it.

[@wegner7036]

Nah, I think the developers couldn't afford an original model.

[@realdieperdors]

It sort of works, lore-wise. The dimensional horror is supposed to be from hell, and with the Worm-in-waiting looking just like it, your race is basically being loved by a demon..

[@user-dw3fp9ci3o]

zero two the worm is the one that send the dimensional horror

[@elmobarrethawk3566]

the Dimensional Horror is the worm or at least part of it

[@reaverfang377]

Oh that's why the event chain stopped I executed the scientists because I was getting scarred of the strange loop Edit: Oh it did continue then, I just avoided the species change event

[@UnnamedEmperor]

Horizon Signal aka Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs. To try and force the event in an Ironman mode, repeatedly send a Science ship in and out of a black hole. I just had a game where my vassal actually got the Horizon Signal event so their empire actually changed. So I was miffed that I couldn't get it but it was cool to see my vassal actually change.

[@wegner7036]

AIs never get horizon signal, only players. At least, to my knowledge.

[@UnnamedEmperor]

Weerwet the AI can get the event. My vassal got the event and changed their whole species with the black hole in the system. They even built the unique building.

[@NodDisciple1]

Or Event Horizon. Or the Doom series of games.

[@deyonvandraanen7492]

I was moving through allied territory when it happened on a black hole in their territory, does this transform my species or theirs?

[@mc.builder8267]

I haven't watched this yet as I am at work (on break) but, FINALLY, FINALLY, I have been waiting for this video ever since horizon signal came out. THAANK YOOOU!!!!!

[@MarvinMegavolt]

So... we finally have an explanation as to what the Dimensional Horror is... a being of warped reality, from beyond space and time, come to feed on stars with the assistance of various "victim" races. I guess the Dimensional Horror that normally spawns as part of Leviathans is just another one, that punctured into this universe eons ago, feeding off of a long-forgotten star. Interesting...

[@bdon2088]

No, The Dimensional horror is probably different, and they couldn't bother making a new model, or that they are from the same dimension God and Satan if you will

[@johnnygreenface4195]

@@bdon2088 not god nor Satan. Just a slice of 4th dimensional beings in the 3rd dimension

[@thezyreick4289]

@@bdon2088 no, they are certainly the same thing. You are basically dooming your species to be consumed by an extra dimensional being by embracing it. Pretty sure they're adding an end game option to the game where any empires that embraced it get almost entirely wiped after a period of time by the dimensional horror being allowed to fully enter the galaxy through them embracing it and helping it through, turning into an end game crisis level event that the galaxy has to fight against

[@rolandcaters7258]

@@thezyreick4289 that already exists, and has nothing to do with the worm. If you make a covenant with “the end of the cycle” you get double basically everything for 50 years, then you, and your vassals get completely wiped out

[@toougly2]

And so I got hit with this event during multiplayer with a friend, was totally unprepared for the outcome. Came up to where the pops changed into a different species, but when that happened, every single pop went super unhappy. I mean, unhappy enough where they revolted half of my empire.... was like wtf? Took me better part of 20-30 years of trying to vassalise them and get them back.... after trying to figure out how to stabilize all of the unhappiness (everyone was at like, 10% unhappiness.... ON AVERAGE, it felt like) Was playig a pacifist empire, so it wasn't like I could just declare war on them to regain ground either.... have to go through a longer process and never could regen my entire empire :( But then the tomb worlds happened, that more than enough made up for those lost systems. (Never could get all of them as they went to other empires instead)

[@ducttapeanddreams]

Syncretic Evolution, Spiritualist, and not changing your entire species helps with this. Spiritualist has huge governing ethics attraction, syncretic evolution friends are not effected by the ethics shift, and not changing your entire species keeps out colonies in line. Once your home world calms down the precursor sub species is very useful. A side benefit if you are an Empire, if you don't change your whole species your ruling family stays as your 'original' species, which comes in handy later once your capitol species becomes repugnant.

[@Jenkouille]

Well... Obviously, I naturelly triggered the Horizon chain at my first Stellaris game ever. Let's stop the video and try it. I hope you'll all wish good luck to a poor 23st Century United Nation playing with something beyond it comprehension!

[@boang30]

Never doubt the worm! The worm knows all, his energy nourishes, his love protects!! NEVER DOUBT THE WORM!!!

[@thomasboys7216]

Embrace the love of the Worm.

[@jordankristoff5406]

WHAT WAS SHALL BE

[@aptspire]

WHAT SHALL BE WAS

[@lordprotektorwurstgesicht6526]

Heretics! Prepare the Exterminatus!

[@joke_d]

I had this happend in my 2nd round playing this game. I choose first to embrace the worm because I wanted to see what happens but I wasn't really happy with it(since it didn't really "fit" my species or did it?) so I just loaded a save before it and killed it. Though a few other things happend to me than in your video. First I never got the change species on my captial or purge them thing. And another thing happened to me on a colony (I did not find the structers people was afraid of). My people started to disappear but others took their place, they were not in any records of the colonists who lived on the planet but all of them sweared that they where my people and something must be wrong and that they do not undestand whats going on. In time all the original colonist in the records where gone and "replaced" by the others. It just ended with "what was will be what will be was". Very cool chain to discover however!

[@pleaserespond3984]

No joke, I stumbled upon the Horizon Signal on my very first playthrough. I got 8 brand new planets to colonize in the end. It was the biggest boon to my empire and allowed me to begin my unstoppable domination spree. And just a few decades later, with some terraforming and gene editing, you would have never guessed that my species knew His Love.

[@A_Spec]

Sounds like you got the perfect combo. Ketlings and horizon signal.

[@JustRelaxGaming24]

quick question. I have the flesh is weak ascension and has transformed my pops into robots. If i get this event, will my pops turn into those blue things or will they stay as robots forever?

[@pyroball602]

My guess they will turn into another type of robots.

[@iAviator13]

Flippytop should

[@wilmagregg3131]

no they sta robots but they get the inteligent trait on top of what ever traits they have even though thats supposed to be a biological only trait

[@MsErtwer]

This actually happened in my game once. All I can say is: All hail the squid people! *BLURP BLURP, BLURP BLURP*

[@josephpentony4804]

I had it triggered. My brain nearly died.

[@SyberSlash]

This event happened to enterelysium on his first utopia playthrough

[@bmobmo6438]

WHAT WAS, WILL BE; WHAT WILL BE, WAS

[@sgtrpcommand3778]

I found this and specifically avoided watching this video before I did it myself, and it honestly is one of my favourite additions to Stellaris. What a fantastic story and going through on a blind run really let me experience it in full.

[@KageRyuu6]

Got this recently, pretty sure it's bugged in the current release as I was able to go over the max 5-6 traits, Psychic, Very Strong, Intelligent, Talented, Traditional, Deviant, and Non-Adaptive so far. Kind of curious to see if I'd get Natural Sociologists and Repugnant on top of all that as well. Also didn't affect ethics at all, started out Fanatic Militarist-Authoritarian, got a previous chain to become Spiritualist, Old Gods, and hasn't changed since despite going through the first change. Also all my extra citizens didn't disappear, and I'm pretty sure I have multiple clones of one scientist.

[@Silverraptorvideos]

I had the worm appear in my last playthrough and I made preparations for it. It's best with a species that is collectivist and repugnant and you get the evolutionary traits already done, like adding thrifty to your species before doing this event. It will make all your species individualist with repugnant and intelligent on top of what you already had, so if you expect to encounter this chain one day, having a repugnant species and one that doesn't have intelligent from the beginning pays off big. Also make sure you have everything from the collectivist ethos that reduces ethics divergence. I managed to get -76% ethics divergence on all my planets when all my species went individualist, including orbital mind control platforms. After the change, try to avoid any war and let ethics divergence bring your species back to its original ethos (Mine was collectivist/Fanatic Xenophobic) It took about 100 years for all my species to go back, but I had a bunch of tomb world planets in my home system to develop, a species with the most amount of trait abilities added to it (Repugnant/Decadent/Very Strong/Thrifty/Intelligent/Resilient) and they were all back to the enslaving/purging species I was before the event chain. To get back to normal from start to finish took me a little over 150 years, but I had a large enough military to keep all the other species in the galaxy from declaring war at the time of great unrest from individualism, where you'll be at your most vulnerable. But afterwards your species will be the strongest in the galaxy if you can pull it off. Also, the spiral feed power hub is incredibly good. Yes you get a slight reduction in happiness but the extra energy credit bonus is greater then the regular power hub. Just remember it counts as a power hub, so if you have the powerhub built on planets already, you'll need to dismantle it before you can build the spiral feed power hub.

[@jakubecz]

both give 20% bonus if we can have faith in the ingame desrciption. So the spiral feed actually doesn't give any bonus, and reduces your happyness by 5%. total waste.

[@Silverraptorvideos]

Ah, okay. Only difference is it takes only 100 minerals to get the spiral feed whereas to get the powerhub II, it'll take a combined total of 350 minerals. So if you are very conscious on your mineral total, I guess using the Spiral feed is a good substitute until you have a good mineral income again. Very rare circumstance, but a possibility.

[@Gohka]

Do they perhaps stack? Or can you only build one or the other?

[@Silverraptorvideos]

You can only build one or the other.

[@hakuro8775]

the Spiral feed power hub is the same like the second stage power hub. Both do 20% energy credits but the spiral power hub has -5% happiness too. So never NEVER ever build the spiral feed power hub. It's not worth it My pops were fanatic pacifists + spiritualists ... so the most powerful combination to start with if you want to go into expansionism having a really large empire. I just finished the event chain too soon. My people all turned into fanatic militarists (which is cool for mid and late game if you want some action) and got the intelligent trait (+10% science bonus to all 3 sections) too. Unfortunatly I didn't know they would leave my people with negative points in traits, so after I wanted to change them I realized it would have been much better to do this event chain after researching all trait points and modifying your people.

[@immortalsoldier1367]

So coming back to this, I have a theory. What if the worm is a time looped version of the end of the cycle and when you make a pact you break that loop and unleash it. That's why it loves us, it wants us to release it.

[@TapdotWater]

I got this event about a month ago and have become obsessed with it. What will be was what was will be

[@roderickvannoorloos1967]

Please note that you do not need to agree to have your species genetically altered to still make the worm appear. I lucked out that the event triggered on my Iron Man playthrough using a Collectivist Militarist purging Empire. They purged any other species and of course couldn't allow such a thing to happen from within. So it was the execution squads for the scientist (though we kept the notes). Rest of the event still played out, though we did not give in to the worm, we returned its love by means of massed mass drivers. Didn't actually realise that the weird extra population events were also tied into this chain.

[@austinkeesling6933]

I just got this event chain. Sent the first science ship to activate it. It next asked me to send my governor.. "The Oracle" lol

[@Unit87XB]

holy hell i was just thinking about you making a video from this

[@tomsimpkins1211]

You mean you remembered you though of him making a video from this? You already watched it...

[@Unit87XB]

What was shall be, what shall be was

[@CalvinBrooks12]

I had this event happen in my first multiplayer game with a friend, over the weekend. I rigged my ship to detonate and I was able to still get the loop temple. There was also an option to contain the outbreak to just the capital planet, so I have two species portraits. Should have looked up your video first. Thanks for all the great content!!

[@Gabriel-qh4yx]

Shattered loop:What was is lost, what will be is infinite

[@SnowflakeVee]

Apparently it's going to be more common in 1.5! One of the devs said it on the starfish stream they did.

[@mrballpython2105]

I just watched this two hours ago and just found this for the first time so I had to come back.

[@FireStillPlays]

I actually got this encounter my second full playthrough, but still have yet to encounter many things. This is why I love this game; every playthrough is different!1

[@oliverwirth42]

This is one of my favorite stories I've ever seen in a strategy game.

[@tuomio5043]

this is very creepy

[@GC13]

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, eh? Are you afraid of the Worm?

[@A_Spec]

+GC13 whey, someone finally got the reference

[@johiahdoesstuff1614]

This was trippy

[@Blackhawkbomber]

I got this event for the first time today(didn't even know it existed), and had to come here after it took my scientists and admiral. Glad I looked it up

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Post apocalyptic origin: "I see this as an absolute win."

[@arigentum]

I got horizon signal on my first game, surprisingly. From a black hole called 'whispering maw' i think outside my territory. Crazy event chain i loved it. Inspired me to make a thologic society based on it even if it didnt occur in future games

[@QuasarManiac]

I just bought this game yesterday, and this is my very first playthrough with a race I made, and this thing triggered. Thanks for telling me not to go through with it, I don't want my race to be screwed up.

[@videopar9750]

I had this pop up when I was playing the console version of Stellaris

[@SSFhighcommandJOHN]

I expected Old Humanity to come out from those buildings and fuck up half of the empire.

[@archades115]

By far my favorite event chain.

[@Sereze001]

Just found it. Time to put a citadel in orbit and make sure no one ever goes through the system within next few millenia.

[@jexros7745]

Got this event the in my first play-through of the game from the first black hole system I entered for the first time, went on and embraced the worm every game from then on. The more you think about it the more awesome of a story it is.

[@yogurtpants1401]

Note that one does not need to alter their species (aside from the initial science team) to complete the chain. Researching both techs is still required to finish the chain, and the "Waiting World" subchain will end badly for you if you reject species alteration.

[@Moon_rise9]

After few days of searching finally this event spawn. And I can say with a clear conscience WHAT WAS WILL BE, WHAT WILL BE WAS

[@kirkcrawford5091]

Finally got this event to pop up so watching this video five years late lmao

[@commandantkrieg3467]

And that moment when your absolute first stellaris game a giant chunk of your species goes nuts because of this.

[@joranwolfe6062]

I've never heard of this Event before it popped up on my screen

[@jessebrown5247]

Just got this for the first time a couple days ago after playing the game on and off for about two years now didnt even know i had it installed or that it was free and when it happened immediately looked up this video 👌

[@Rolatii]

I love this event chain, and I wish that Distant Stars had added more chains like it. One thing I noticed, however, was that I think you got the evolution part a bit wrong. It doesn't just add the intelligent trait: if you were already intelligent, you'll get a species variant that seems to be more warlike and robust, and the intelligent trait will be replaced to reflect that. If you have the strong trait, the opposite will happen. I remember the ethics having something similar going on, though I can't remember exactly how and whether it was tied into the ethics combo you had going on.

[@spectr__]

My favorite event

[@antitroller101]

Oh shit, I actually got this and every time a leader dies I just causally send another saying “ok, this guy got killed but the next guy got this”

[@njames197100]

I love this event

[@nukester16]

This event chain is definitely an interesting one. Especially considering it seems to have varying effects on pops in the traits department.

[@alfredv4724]

I got the horizon signal and infinity sphere in my last game. It was my third game of stellaris, and I found both really early on, so I was kinda confused about what was happening. Even though I sent in a spaceship rigged with explosives, the event chain still continued.

[@NessaWyvern]

I got this event on the 2nd game I made, when I only just started playing. Was both creeped out and awed. The worm loves us, and we love the worm.

[@novaredstar5433]

I've had this event like every game I've played XD and I always completely forget about it

[@SomeKittyCat]

Never knew it was that rare. Got it in the first game I played after a long time (last time i played before was when Leviathans first released). I managed the get the tombworld ending without my species portrait altering tho. I really damn enjoyed this story line and I think part of it helped reignite my love for this game.

[@soulstone4195]

This randomly happened to me while playing and I was so confused this helps

[@erikmundhenk7528]

The Admiral with the Fordoomed to a Rendezvouz trait gives you a message when the Admiral dies, saying that there were rumors of odd circumstances surrounding their death.

[@alucard9971]

I just had this event chain pop 20 years in to a new game

[@Rekitt]

Got this my first play through ever

[@helldrake77777]

I got this event chain randomly trigger, and I got a few questions. About those extra events(also, spoilers). Is there any issue to ending the chains of the side events? As the waiting world, after getting populated really fast with random pops, ends up removing any and everything from the planet, leaving it barren, so I reloaded and just ended the chain(cause zog you Worm, I want my zoggin planet!). I also did this with the scientist. Upon transforming himself I killed him. And second question, or, well, more along the lines of an inquiry about wtf I should do now. Cause I have not researched ANY of the technologies given by the event, and I just got contacted by the Sphere I think? It's asking me to help it with the Loop and stuff. Any advise on how to proceed with that?

[@bloo3398]

It's funny how I got this on my first play through and I was confused because I lost a lot of people and I got my ship back and then I stopped that play through so I'm glad you did this now I know I got lucky

[@varileztradragonsong4603]

i actually triggered this event pure by accident in one of my first playthroughs and it was awesome OwO

[@danwithjesus]

Thank you for this video...i watched Apocalypse series(until episode 16=included) and loved your gameplay...funny and informative...so i decided to buy the game...i played and i did bumped into this mission...but i lost my 5 level science leader/ship...i should have watched this first...but honestly i didn't know it was a dlc...bought the game 4 days ago...Peace

[@billbales8530]

I had this happen to me. The worm in waiting is the questline, but your first science ship comes back

[@villevalste1888]

Not sure if this was fixed in a later patch or something, but the admiral trait actually shows up on the character now and it's a pretty nice bonus to sublight speed and evasion.

[@SerunaXI]

Horizon Signal: When you want free planets.

[@kavhas9796]

In my first playthrough i got this event, and i got down that rabbithole in an instant worshipping the worm and spreading its message (not only in stellaris) but i got afraid to open the entry because i thought it would attack but now i know better

[@wolfenfox1861]

The first time I encountered this even, I tripped way the heck out.

[@TheBone2070]

Idk how up to date this is, but I'm fairly new to this game and got this on like 3 of my 5 playthroughs...

[@IBMobius]

This was the first special event for me on my first play through

[@HeyGuy4321]

Praise the worm

[@hakarthemage]

I was watching this while playing stellaris and i swear to god the event triggered just after you said it's hard to trigger.

[@pyroball602]

Robot Fanatic Spiritualist Psionic empire: Good day, The Worm, do you believe in the Shroud? The Worm: WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS. Robot Fanatic Spiritualist Psionic Empire: Unbelievable, we found another God! Could we, make a deal with him, like with the Eater of Worlds or The End?

[@kinagrill]

Gravity Is Desire. Literally what the Worm wants in the end of the eventline. It even references this in the eventchain end bit that it's what it's been asking for since the beginning. :P

[@matthewbruveris680]

i always changed capital to a 9 world system for this event then changed it back after accepting the worm. Also the spiral feed building can be built on habitats making it essential for power specific builds. A loop institute on every planet sent biology through the roof and by endgame could control 25 core systems without penalty.

[@Brozinger_Gaming]

I had this trigger for me, I noped out of it but now I feel like I should have tried it out.

[@tomsimpkins1211]

This was so weird when I first had it happen, I didn't even know it was included because I skipped over dev diaries for it... Was glad to have all those planets though, I had eight core planets to fill, but was surrounded by FE's, so the were a blessing.

[@christopher6651]

nice vid, can't await utopia

[@swagstudios5678]

Seelenzerfetzer 1 me 2

[@FonVegen]

I have nothing to really contribute except adding another agreement to this comment chain, but I like your name, Seelenzerfetzer 1.