The Fear of the Dark

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This article has been verified for the current PC version (3.10) of the game.

Event chains

Events

Empire event chains

Habitable Worlds Survey

Comet Sighted

Fleet Maneuvers

Horizon Signal

Mass Extinction Through the Ages

Radical Cult

Sublight Exploration Probes

Wanderlust: Rogue Scientist

The Hunt for the Hyacinth

 Fountain of Youth

 Genetic Crossroads

 On the Shoulders of Giants

 Homesick

 The Cost of Freedom

 **The Fear of the Dark**

 The Guest

Anomaly event chains

Drifting Battlefield

Gas Giant Signal

Impossible Organism

Limbo

Orbital Speed Demon

Shrines to the Old Gods

The Ransomeers

 42 Years and 3 Days

 Lost Amoeba

Colony event chains

A New Species

Abandoned Terraforming Equipment

Ancient Drones

Dancing Plague

Feral Overload

Hidden Vault

Impossible Corrie

Metallic Puddles

Mharin Kharin

Migrating Forests

Mushroom Picking

Myrmeku Activity

Nemma World

Rise of the Manifesti

Subterranean Civilization

The Doorway

Underground Vault

Unexpected Mineral Seams

Primitive civilization event chains

Anti-Alien Task Force

Missing Scientist

Rogue Agent

Shuttle Crash

 Propulsion Proponent Proclamation

Once the Mid-Game year has been reached empires with the  Fear of the Dark origin will be given a unique event chain. The event chain is completely linear, each event leading only to the next until the event chain is over.

### Confirmation Requested

*Our partner planet has requested that we confirm some of their findings. Once again, they claim to have evidence that **The Divider** was destroyed by a malicious foreign entity. This has become tiresome; every few years it seems they discover some new "proof".*

**Let us humor them.*** Issue Special Project: Confirm Findings

### Horrific Proof

*[pre-FTL planet name] were right!

The attack we suffered all those years ago was perpetrated by a malicious entity capable of launching massive tungsten projectiles. Only the unique gravitational features of our home system allowed us to survive. By analyzing the data from that fateful night and cross-referencing it with these new findings, it was possible for us to triangulate the source of the asteroid-sized tungsten round.

It originated from an incredibly mineral-rich (yet otherwise unremarkable) system we have had in our logs for decades.*

* Point of interest: Hunter System

### Desolate

*The system of our old aggressors is barren. While it isn't unusual for an asteroid belt to be mineral-poor, this one has been stripped bare. Not only that, but where there should be minor planetoids rich in rare metals, we have found only dust. However the species inhabiting this system managed to gain the tungsten necessary to construct their bullets, they no longer have the resources to do so now. They don't even seem to be capable of leaving their planet.

While they have done their best to remain hidden, preventing all radio signals and even limiting the use of artificial lights, we have detected life on the system's lone habitable planet.*

### The Hunters

*Observing the **Fevorians** has been a revelatory experience. In fact, their ideology is remarkably similar to that which produced the split in our own species. However, rather than choosing isolation, the Fevorians opted for a strategy of pre-emptive strikes against any life signs they could detect. Once they ran out of heavy metals, the aliens returned to their world, scraping whatever bare subsistence they could from their now barren home. While the leadership of our partner planet is urging us to adopt the same tactics as the Fevorians, how best to deal with our would-be exterminators is no easy question.*

* **Settled Differences** modifier added
* The Fevorian Survivors pre-FTL civilization is destroyed
* Fevor becomes a  Tomb World

* A year after constructing an observation post the Fevorian pre-FTL civilization will discover FTL

### Embracing the Dark

*Destroying the Fevorians was... easy? One fewer hunter, threatening our existence. We have not felt this in sync with our partner world for a long time. Perhaps they were right. There are only two types of life out here: the silent and the dead.*

* Fevorian pre-FTL civilization destroyed

**We shall silence them all.*** Unity Gained:  5000
* The pre-FTL planet in the home system is annexed
* Empire shifts ethics to  Fanatic Xenophobe and  Militarist
* Empires gains the  Fanatic Purifiers civic
* If empire has  Corporate authority it is changed to  Oligarchic

**No, we will not be the aggressors.*** Unity Gained:  5000