Man, a lot of you guys are lucky. I see the Dread Lords all the time, but they invariably crash the game and ruin the save file. They seem to be the *only* mega event that re-loading doesn't allow you to avoid. I like to try to play through the mega events, even the bad ones, but I've seen so many games cut off due to the Dread Lords that I'm finally giving up and turning those off.
Yeah, ElZoido is right on the money. There's an event where you find a "Ranger-class starship" which is then named the Lucky Ranger, and another where you find the PreCursor Ranger. The event is kind of annoying, because every time I've seen anyone get the PreCursor Ranger it's made a VERY noticable spike in the military graph. Of course, there was one very strange playthrough where over the course of a couple of years, all six races in my game got a PreCursor Ranger. That was
I've had strange experiences with the Dread Lords' arrival. Most of the time, it crashes the game and dead-ends that save file, which can get extremely annoying since I play on immense maps. So far, I've been able to play through their arrival once. Their little planetary system spawned in the middle of my territory so I almost immediately invaded their planet and took it over. Great planet, by the way, something like a Class 40 or so. But yeah, the whole "Woe to all" thing is spot on, becaus
