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Stellaris: Astral rifts

Astral Rifts are a new type of narrative exploration in Stellaris that can bring great rewards—such as relics—or get your scientists killed.

To avoid wasting resources spamming scientist hires, I recommend following my guide:

Entertainment Nexus

  • Those vaulting vulpines!
  • A tissue sample would be particularly useful

Volcanic Chamber

  • Let's fly straight toward the obelisk
  • We should try to flee
  • Let's destroy this obelisk

Abandoned Complex

  • Search for the caretakers
  • Collect samples

Dimensional Conflict

  • Let's find the source of its longevity
  • We must activate this dodecahedron

Dimensional Dump

  • Bring it aboard to help it
  • Let's try to negotiate instead

Crystal Rift

grants access to the only Planet 40 in the game.

requires that Sol is not your capital system, that you have visited at least 5 Astral Rifts, and that you are in mid-game to have a chance of triggering it. See the official wiki [ stellaris.paradoxwikis.com ] (in english) for more details.

  • Utilize A.I. to check for hidden patterns
  • Rather prioritize field manipulation
  • Preserve what relates to physics
  • We've opened a doorway...

Chemical Wasteland

  • We must investigate these robots
  • Let them approach
  • Extract data from these medical infrastructures

Hatching Ground

  • Let's move closer to them

Genesis

  • No games—immediate electromagnetic charge!

Tropical Habitat

  • First, let's locate that pink gas
  • Best to descend directly into it
  • Take samples from the deepest soil layer

The Lattice

  • Let's push this exploration further
  • Recover these objects

Psionic Stranger

requires the Zroni precursors to achieve the best outcome

  • We can only offer our perspective
  • On the contrary, encourage it to enter

The Tower

  • Let's try to communicate with it
  • Best to leave this place

The Advisor

  • We wouldn't refuse that...
  • Deactivate this thing
  • Send it an electromagnetic discharge...
  • Let's try to recover its core

The Fluid

  • Deploy the collection rig
  • Use the gases
  • Let's see where the main flow leads
  • Immediate pumping of exotic gases!

The Garden

  • Burn these weeds
  • Study this place discreetly
  • Continue remaining discreet
  • Retract the cable

The Mechanism

  • Jam a few gears

The Vortex

  • Continue the exploration
  • Best to just observe
  • Observe

The Corridors

  • They'd better smash through the walls
  • They can just hack this terminal

Entangled Dark Matter

  • Examine this net
  • First, study the captive mass
  • We are explorers from elsewhere
  • So let's offer it the scientist's namesake body

The Microverse

  • Establish contact
  • Rather destroy it
  • End their suffering

The Miniverse

  • Repolarize the hull
  • Best to observe from the edge

Lone Object

  • Let's try to translate these glyphs
  • Scan the entire perimeter
  • Rather send a drone
  • Take a sample, then turn back

Siege on Paradise

  • Contact the planet's inhabitants
  • We'll help them as best we can

Windswept Planet

  • Best to rise above the storm
  • Rather investigate them
  • Feed the fungi

Bleached Planet

  • Prepare for contact
  • Examine one of these beings
  • Have them turn away immediately

Desert Ruins

  • Have them press the blue one
  • Have them press the triangle
  • Rather have them press the six

Strange Station

  • Study these people more closely
  • We rejoice in this newfound friendship between us

Subnautical

  • They should descend even deeper
  • Have them don pressurized suits
  • Let's try to approach it

White Darkness

  • Send a drone to explore
  • Take a sample

Rockworms

  • Continue surface observations
  • Collect samples of these microorganisms
  • A few explosive charges will suffice