the dread lords will declare war on the Thalan Empire

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In my current game I got the Dread Lords mega event again. Unlike all previous times, they spawned in a far off corner of the map. I didn't even find them until about twenty turns later, so they'd had time to build up a small fleet. In the hopes of nipping the problem in the bud I've moved the bulk of my defensive forces towards their far off homeworld. When I went to destroy the troop transport that was encroaching towards one of my allies, however, I was greeted with a warning that if I did this the Dread Lords would declare war on my empire.

Umm, aren't the Dread Lords supposed to be at war with everyone from the outset? I never negotiated with them, but we appear to have started out with peaceful relations. I've heard of an assortment of glitches with this very promising event, but not this one, so I figured I'd mention it.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It should also be noted that once I did declare on them they were suprisingly easy to deal with despite having had 20 turns to build up. They'd only constructed about five ships. Granted, it took a fleet of my best capital ships to deal with each one, but still.

This is all playing on "tough" incidentally.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
When the dread lords appear in all their movie special event glory they usually message me right off asking for help. For me their little lone planet spawns in a the worst of enemy territory and right from the start they are ganked. Your right they also don't build up their fleet nearly enough either. They need a serious boosting to actually be a threat.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i've got the event twice. the first time, they spawned in the middle of my empire. i rush built a transport with 5 advanced troop mods. my losses were greater than usual, but i was still able to take them out without a problem. none of the 5 troops taking a whole planet business that i remember from the DL campaign.

the second time they appeared in another game, i never even found their homeworld (i'd only explored about 2/3 of the map at that point). but i also never got a message about someone wiping them out. so i assume they didn't actually spawn.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I hope I get this instead of pirates again    hehe.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had the buggers show up on a world not far from my borders. I got all the AIs, even the one minor race, to declare war on them (of course none of them seemed to be doing anything against the DLs).
I pushed some transports and wound up hitting them with 2 million troops with tidal disruptors and stellar marines. Actually had another transport or two but my logistics prevented a larger fleet.
They had 20 troops only but a big advantage. Anyhow, despite my fears, my lads took out their 20 at the cost of 418,000 casualties. It was worse than a Rambo movie.
I mean, these guys can't be THAT good.
I hate to think what would have happened if I'd waited until they built a ship!
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Apparently the AI can negotiate with the Dread Lords once they appear. I've seen several of the other races make peace with them. However, I have no way to initiate contact.