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The L-Cluster is a cluster of stars located north-east of the galaxy and entirely inaccessible through the regular hyperlane network, experimental subspace navigation, or jump drives. The L-Cluster contains on some celestial bodies a unique Strategic Resource: 
What else will be found in the L-Cluster is randomized at the start of the game. As such reloading a previous save before accessing will not alter the result.
L-Gates
Some Black Hole systems are home to L-Gates. These heavily modified gateways cannot be activated with the 
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Players can spend 50 
Once 7 L-Gate Insights have been collected, the 
Once the first L-Gate is activated one of four things will be found, with the following weights:
| Outcome | Chance | Opens all L-gates |
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| Gray Tempest | 35.7 % | 
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| Dessanu Consonance | 21.4 % |
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| Gray (Silence) | 21.4 % | 
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| L-Drakes | 21.4 % |
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Up to 10 L-Gates can exist in a galaxy and new ones cannot be constructed. Only one L-Gate is located in the L-Cluster, in the Terminal Egress system, and as a result any L-Gate in the galaxy will connect to the same gate in Terminal Egress but the Terminal Egress gate can be used to travel to any L-Gate inside the galaxy. Unlike regular gateways, L-Gates in enemy systems can be used during war.
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Completed Sentry Arrays will not grant visibility of the L-Cluster before an L-Gate is activated. After L-Gate activation, it will grant visibility of the L-Cluster.
Gray Tempest
A common outcome of the L-Gate activation is an invasion from the L-Cluster. All L-Gates in the galaxy except the first one activated will open at the same time and bring an invasion force. In a tiny galaxy with only one L-Gate the empire that activated it will endure the invasion instead.
If a Gray Tempest fleet bombards a colony until it reaches 100 
Nanite fleets are composed of one titan and 5 cruisers all equipped with a few energy weapons and numerous strike craft. Their energy weapons deal -25% damage to shields and double damage to armor, their strike craft ignore shields and 66% of armor and their titan weapons ignore all shields and armor. Therefore point-defenses are necessary, preferably Flak Artillery, and 
The Gray Tempest home system contains a factory station twice as strong as the usual fleet which will create a new fleet every 10 years. If the factory is destroyed, all Gray Tempest ships will dissolve and all Nanite Worlds will get the Terraforming Candidate planet modifier.
Dessanu Consonance
Another possible outcome of the L-Gate activation is finding an empire called the Dessanu Consonance inhabiting the entire L-Cluster. Upon discovery the Dessanu will provide the empire that opened the gate +1 
Living Metal technology if it hasn't been already researched. Their only request is that no ship will enter the factory trinary system at the heart of the L-Cluster and that they are not asked about the Nanites. The Dessanu will never leave the L-Cluster even if they become hostile, nor will they build new fleets.
Each time a ship or fleet enters the factory system the Dessanu will demand that it leaves within 60 days. Refusing to do so or inquiring too much about nanites will make them hostile, as will attacking them.
Each Dessanu system contains at least one Gaia World. However, if a planet is successfully invaded and occupied it will turn into a Nanite World with the Terraforming Candidate planet modifier. All armies will safely retreat back in orbit. If the factory is destroyed the same will happen to all Dessanu worlds.
Gray
If the L-Cluster is abandoned a random Nanite World will have a Level 3 Surface Signature anomaly. Investigating it will reveal a nanite entity taking the form of a member of the species discovering it. Asking it to join you will add Gray to the Contacts menu. Gray can take one of three forms at any time (except if it is in battle or merging state):
- Governor Level 10 leader with the
Nanite Entity trait - Nanite Titan ship (around 40k fleet power)
- Nanite Warform army (around 1k army strength)
Should Gray be destroyed it will merge back and reappear in 10 years.
This outcome leaves only one L-Gate activated, all the others coming online afterwards one at a time every one or two years. This gives the empire that activated the first L-Gate a significant head start, especially if opened in the early game.
L-Drakes
The only outcome of the L-Gate activation seemingly unrelated to nanites is the spawning of L-Drakes. Each L-Gate in the galaxy will activate and bring an L-Drake which will travel to a random system three hyperlanes away and nest there. It will not be hostile even if its nesting system is claimed. If an L-Drake is attacked all L-Drakes will become hostile towards the attacking empire but each L-Drake killed adds a moderate reward of 
Engineering and 
If the empire that opened the L-Gate enters a nesting system with a science ship it will have the option to start a special project to tame the L-Drake residing there, gaining control of it. The option is not available if the empire is 
genocidal.
This outcomes leaves all L-Gates activated and leading to an abandoned L-Cluster, allowing everyone access.
Outcome
The outcome of activating L-Gates is determined with a global flag at galaxy generation, so reloading a save file won't change the result. We can know the outcome without even encountering the L-Gates the way we use a script to check global flags (Console required):
effect if = { limit = { has_global_flag = gray_goo_crisis_set } custom_tooltip = "Gray Tempest"}
else_if = { limit = { has_global_flag = dragon_season } custom_tooltip = "L-Drake" }
else_if = { limit = { has_global_flag = gray_goo_empire_set } custom_tooltip = "Dessanu Consonance" }
else = { custom_tooltip = "Gray" }
The output of the script explains itself.
From a strictly storytelling/roleplaying viewpoint, the outcomes tell their own story over time: the text shown to the player in the Gray outcome describes the events of the Dessanu Consonance which in turn describes the events of the Gray Tempest. However, this is entirely narrative in nature; you will not encounter the actual "earlier events" outcome if you open the L-Cluster earlier in the game, as the outcome is already determined (as described above).