Crack it open! ...potential spoilers

[loppantorkel]

I got a "Don't count your planets" event. A giant egg has been found, I've barely started the game and I figure this is related to the Leviathan dlc. I can Study it from afar, or I can crack it open.

Playing normally, I'd not crack a giant egg open, so I'd choose the study from afar option, but then I'd lose out on the more interesting Special Project, which is the whole point of experiencing new content.

I'm also on Iron man mode, so no save scumming. Can you give me a good hint what's the better option here? Is Earth doomed already?

[monkeypunch87]

More boring then you think.

[Ryika]

It has two potential outcomes, one positive which willspawn a much bigger (8 instead of 4) society deposit and gives a good amount of extra society research immediately, and one negative outcome that will destroy the science ship and the researcher on board. It will NOT spawn a leviathan or anything of that sort, so no real danger.

The positive outcome happens 90% of the time. If it's worth the risk is your decision, but personally I always take the special project if the deposit is nearby.

[loppantorkel]

:-/ sorry to see. I suppose they can't throw gamebreaking events on you early on, but it would've been kind of fun to see too.

Thank you for your help :)

[Exarch_Alpha]

I would have no problem if it worked like the standard leviathan.

[Setster007]

I'm playing without DLC and I got the event, so it isn't DLC related, jsyk. (And for anyone else who reads this post.)

[tattuvamasi]

If you leave it, you get a science bonus but eventually it hatches a voidspawn that hangs around in the system. It's tough and you can't use the system when it's there, but killing it gives you some rewards. If you ask the curator enclave, they say it will eventually mature into a much bigger voidspawn, but I've never seen that happen.

If you crack the egg, you usually destroy the creature and get a permanent science bonus on the remnants of the egg, but there's a small chance of a giant extradimensional creature that destroys the science ship and then disappears through a portal.

There's also an event where an inhabitable planet is an egg that hatches and destroys your colony, with similar outcomes except that you can't prevent it as far as I know.

[Lex]

Originally posted by Ryika:

It has two potential outcomes, one positive which willspawn a much bigger (8 instead of 4) society deposit and gives a good amount of extra society research immediately, and one negative outcome that will destroy the science ship and the researcher on board. It will NOT spawn a leviathan or anything of that sort, so no real danger.

The positive outcome happens 90% of the time. If it's worth the risk is your decision, but personally I always take the special project if the deposit is nearby.

Just did it and got the worst outcome, good thing i swapped to a bad scientist...

[harken23]

If you plan on playing the game more than once, rest assured that you will run into that one again.