[Help] - Changing Fallen Empire Species via Event

[Dunraven]

Hi folks,

I've written an even to change the dominant species of a specific fallen empire via event. I want to change the specifics/theme of a particular FE to a specific combination *without* modifying 00_fallen_empire in order to maintain compatibility with as many mods as possible.

For reasons I can't pin down, it doesn't work.

An identical event targeting the Marauders *does* work. It seems to be some sort of problem with the event not firing and/or the effects not executing on the Fallen Empire.

From looking at vanilla events, I know that the country_event type fires for Fallen Empires. So I just genuinely have no idea why it doesn't work.

Just in case it matters, I've tried firing this on_country_start, as well as on_press_begin. I've also tried a version that fires on_start and is a general event just in case Fallen Empires don't get an "on_country_start". That version also does not seem to work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

country_event = {
    id = grimdarkify_events.2
    hide_window = yes
    is_triggered_only = yes
 
    trigger = { has_civic = civic_lethargic_leadership }

    immediate = {

        create_species = {
            class = "FUN"
            portrait = "orkz"
            name = "Testy"
            plural = "Test"
            adjective = "Test"
            traits = random
            extra_trait_points = 5
            allow_negative_traits = no
        }

        last_created_species = { save_event_target_as = da_testz }

        every_country = {
            limit = {
                is_country_type = fallen_empire
                has_ethic = ethic_fanatic_xenophobe
            }
            change_dominant_species = {
                species = event_target:da_testz
                change_all = yes
            }
        }
    }
}