Missed the rarest event - the end of the game.

I'll never forget when I used a ring world start and immediately found sanctuary. That was probably the most overpowered run I've ever had.

For me the rarest “event” is finding earth in WW2. Done a ton of games specifically looking for it and just nada. Also the voidspawn

I would love if the gas giant revolution would give like half of its probability to happen to the other ones.

I was just googling this the other day and had little luck on getting reliable info. The timing on this couldn't be more perfect.

This just makes me wish that there was a rare events for psionic empires to become a hive mind with unique bonuses. Like how synthetics and machine empires are different but synthetics being superior

There’s this one event where a ruined ring world will spawn and when the systems surveyed, it gives an event chain that can lead to unfreezing nerve stapled pops from ringworld cryo. Only happened to me once, and I didn’t get to see if anything else happened past reviving the pops, but it was quite interesting

Had a friend get the galatron in a megamodded game. Since he was new and scared of people attacking him. I asked to make him a vassal. He accepted, then I got all his relics and the galatron. He has since never accepted being vassal again.

My Aquatics iron man game had both Brain Slugs and Nivlac. I guess that luck was to make up for all the other unlucky events in the game. I had only two small wet worlds in my territory other than my homeworld, everything else is sub 20% habitability. Two of my neighbors were tomb world hive minds (so no pops if i conquer and the planets are shit, especially for a spiritualist) and the other two were advanced start aggressive militant empires that curb stomped me at year 40 and took half my territory. A wormhole opened from my admin planet to a powerful slaving despot empire who promptly leveled the planet and stole half its pops, crippling my empire. Three L gates were somehow in my territory which was less than 10% of the galaxy at this point, so of course the ai activated the gate early and Grey Tempest came out.

Saw the nivlac twice, sanctuary a lot, horizon signal a lot though less lately, and blue lotus once, but I assumed lotus was from a mod cause it was so weird.

I've had Sanctuary spawn a few times, but its always been on the other side of the galaxy. By mid game some other empire has already taken it over.

My rarest was finding the Voyager probe, and using it to find Earth. Too bad our blue marble was a tomb world upon discovery, and the game doesn't tell what happened to it.

Note; After the release of Overlord, the Brainslugs are no longer rare and you can get them quite easily.

One of my favorite events was when I had the Contingency spawn while the machine Fallen Empire was still alive. They woke up, helped beat back the Contingency, then left the galaxy and gave up their ringworlds. It was awesome.

"a lot of people really like the worm" I think this was a mistake, its ok I will correct it for you. "EVERYBODY LOVES THE WORM AND THE WORM LOVES US"

I got brain slugs once and it was my second ever game with necroids, I thought it was cool having 2 parasites in one body, and those bonuses were amazing, alongside with having basically no downside

A bit late to the party but one pretty rare event and one of my personal favourites is the "Hole In The Void" event It's connected to the Prethoryn Scourge crisis and to get it to happen you must capture a Prethoryn Queen through the "Wounded Queen" event, be psionic and wait a 100 years. After all that you get the event, it's a huge wall of text essentially but it is pretty spooky.... (Spoilers below) You learn that over the last few months, the Captured Queen has been getting very uneasy, while at first it is theorized that she's just missing the connection with the rest of her kind, that is not the case. Your telepaths find that she's actually still in contact with her kind and has been frantically speaking about a "hole in the void". Your empire is baffled by this until a team of scientists researching Prethoryn intergalactic travel who are trying to map a path of where they went before they got to you discover that a small spiral galaxy located about 30 million light years from your own has...... disappeared. The galaxy was discovered in the pre-FTL era of your species but has now stopped producing any form of light detectable by your sensors. It has simply vanished from the sky. Either something caused all of its stars to go out all at once or there is something so large that its obscuring the entire galaxy. Most people in your empire are disturbed by this, while some like to think that the galaxy never even existed at all and was an error of primitive telescopes. You get a bit of physics research.

I just wish i could unplay this game and be able to experience the events all over again. Then again i tresure the memories i made all these years playing it. Bought it on pre order and playing since day one

Once i had an alien empire have the galatron. That was the first time I encountered it, as it gives you a special casus belli. I had a lot of fun RPing in my head that run. The Grand Galatron Crusade!

Can't wait to see Another Galactic Imperium speedruns

Gotta love how the galactic imperium titles start out in a normal numerical fashion, then, past the tenth come in with titles of grandiose finality, even going so far as to deem number 13 "the truly last galactic imperium", before just going for "another galactic imperium" for all the ones after, as if the entire galaxy just has had enough of all this constant rising and falling of empires.

The imperium one seems quite tough since in my experierence the ai will never lead a rebelion themselves, and the ai won't try to become custodian that often either.

My days of exploring the stellaris wiki have paid off, only one I didn't know of was the another galactic imperium.

Had all the stuff you were talking about at least once - but the crystal empire. Even though I almost exclusively play Voiddwellers, I never even knew they existed

I use to get the blue Lotus facility in every game that I think it was bugged to always spawn. Now it is actually rare but that was a nice early game event

The Crystalline empire did actually spawn in my latest singleplayer game, where I played void dwellers for the first time. Didn't realize they were so rare or were so powerful.

I've had the brain slug spawn twice within the five games I've played and sanctuary once. In terms of rare things, I'd include the event chain where you rescue gas giant people and move them around to "colonize" planets and have a civil war. They are totally invisible outside of events. I only had it happen once. Edit: Gas Giant Signal is what it's called.

In a game I recently played, I came across the nanites time bomb. But instead of giving me a natine ship or terraforming a Gaia World for me, a nanite swarm settled on a planet. I then got an event chain, giving me access to 3 distinct options - leting it live, destroying it or trying to controll it. I choose the latter and "the swarm" terraformed the planet in a size 20+ world, suited for my species and on top on that a planetary modifier, recuding building cost and upkeep as well as contributing 25% to engineering research. I did not even know that that possibility for the event existed.

First play through had a huge event chain searching for a mystical planet. Ended up finding a gaia world in a new system that spawned with primitives. Some random aliens show up bomb The Primitives into extinction and then fly away leaving me with an empty Gaia world. 400 hours later and I’ve never seen this event again.

The entire time I've played Stellaris, Project Blue Lotus never spawned once for me. I've seen the brain slug event happen twice; I've seen Horizon signal three times and I've seen the Reliquary once. I've been playing the game on and off for days on end since launch. I've logged over 1200 hours in this game. So think on that, considering I've only seen those events in that time (considering that I've roughly played about 800 hours since they were all added). Just shows how rare they are. These were times when I saw them legitimately. I've never seen the Crystal Enclave before. This is new to me.

550 hrs on Stellaris and I've only had Sanctuary, Blue Lotus and The Worm. The Crystal Enclave really blew my mind.

Finding Spice Melange is quite exceedingly rare I admit

I never would’ve guessed brain slugs were rare. I only recently started playing Stellaris a few months ago. In the three games I’ve played, I got brain slugs all three times. Maybe the developers made it a more common event with 3.0?

I've seen Sanctuary once, it was in a game where I got Cybrex as my precursor and had an abandoned ringworld in the system next to my home system. Literally 3 Ringworlds in my territory before I even had mega engineering. I've seen the brain slug event several times, it's one of my faves. I've never seen any of the others.

In one of my games, the Prikki-Ti got the Grand Herald. They steamrolled through a quarter of the huge galaxy by year 50. It was... interesting.

I've still never seen "The End of the Cycle" happen, despite years of trying. :(

I only ever get the brain slugs when I am turning my organics into synthetics

I've only ever seen another empire get the Galatron, relatively early too, and my god the galaxy was a bloodbath. Everyone loses their collective shit

For me the rarest event that I have only seen once was the L-Gate Community that spawned in the center of the galaxy. Not sure what that event was but it was pretty cool.

Mr. Aspec, you forgot the super rare anomaly, with an event chain called Ancient Hulk. Gives you a 25 tile Gaia world in the end.

Think I've seem Sanctuary spawn once, but I constantly play on huge maps so that prolly helps out a bit I also once got Brain Slug with the Oracle governor and, uh, the slugs completely negated the Oracles negatives to research so.....

I've seen most of these, but not Galatron, Another Imperium, and Crystal Enclave. I think before I realized how rare it was I once saw an AI empire with the Galatron but never went to war with them for it. Which I now regret, immensely.

I was shocked to see that on the wiki, your video, and ps4 achievements that The Galatron is that rare but to my surprise I had obtained it on my first game with the DLC to get it. I feel extremely lucky and sad that it will take a while to get it again.

My first determined exterminator games, I spawned behind a choke point in a corner of the map, I had 3-4 actual systems taken before I tried to get past the choke point only to find out it was a sanctuary. Game’s nearly impossible by this point as I had advanced neighbors and both pirate factions near me as well. This is the same day I learned that the sanctuary doesn’t attack pirates... I’m still just about 30-40 years into the game and can’t do anything

The rarest event for me is the Prethoryn Scourge been playing the game for years and not once i had them show up :(

Also! Do you think you can do a vid about hive minds? I wanna know what you think if they are fine how they are or if you think they could be so much more if paradox just overhauled them? Maybe even give them their own spices pack like synthetic dawn?

05:42 I remember the brain Gu'Aold! I think it was on my very first Stellaris play through where I encountered them. I never did again after several hundreds of hours. It started to become a myth to me, I am glad to know I didn't imagine it and it is real.

Was literally googling this a couple of days ago, thanks

I haven't seen Sanctuary in a while, so long that I started to believe they accidentally removed it from being able to spawn. I never got Horizon Signal. 😅 I always wanted to play with it.

Most of those I have seen and experienced, I have even once had the ring world spawn litterally next to my home system (in 3.4 no less) but then there are some of those that I honestly never knew about.

Another rare event. The Wanderlust event (The rogue scintist event) - i literally saw it once. Once

Brain slug I get this almost every match lol. I have 15 science ships running around in beginning game.

The event where you find the three vials that each give you a different trait is a lot rarer than it used to be. Also I've only ever seen the Sea of Consciousness once.

Well thank you for that. That's going to be many more hours of Stellaris. Couple of those i have seen a few times in my playthroughs but the others not. And that's after thousands of hours of playing.

In my first devouring swarm run I had sanctuary spawn 3 jumps from my capital on a small spiral galaxy. Needless to say it went a long way towards ensuring the swarm devoured all.

Not really an event but since I only have the console version currently, my favorite thing to do is let a fallen emp. wake up and expand a little(while at good relations with them) and let them build special buildings so that when we go to war I can take some sweet megastructures i cant build like the science megastructure that gives you 100 of each science

Funny I got the brain slug twice recently, i also got the horizon signal when it first came it, it was creepy, and I didn't know what to do.

I got Wanderlust to start on my second ever play-through. I had no idea what the quest-line was really pointing to, until "Galactic Power Surge."

One of the funniest/rarest events I think I ever had was the "space puppies" event that occurred due to constructing a ring world. I think it maybe have been due to a certain system, but essentially these puppies were from a removed planet and inhabited a portion of the ring world. Upon later investigate you found they were abducting and eating workers lol.

I managed to get brain slugs with my ocean paradise ironman run. This run also ended up having the cybrex, sanctuary, and the robot fallen empire near me. It was a little annoying but I got L gate dragons after which was a nice surprise, followed by a not so nice surprise of the purifiers to my south killing the curators and artisans. The strangest part was they were lythoids and rivaled my genetic ascension species for the most prolific in the galaxy.

I think I've seen the crystal enclave event, but I didnt pursue it, as it was a game that I have lost xD I've played void dwellers a lot, so that would make sense.

I only recently started playing and got Sanctuary on my 2nd game lol. It was pretty nice, halfway across the galaxy and iirc 30-40k worth of fleet took it pretty quick. I also got the brain slug on my 3rd, it was pretty nice.

I've actually seen Sanctuary a few times. I'm playing a game right now and just found it on the other side of an enemy territory.

I have an iron man spawn with a ruined matter decompressor,ruined nexus and a ruined ring near me and sanctuary.

Can't wait to hear about the attempts (and subsequent failures) of trying to get the 'Another Galactic Imperium' to happen.

The rarest thing that I can think of is not an event, but still the rarest in the game. The spawning of a green sun in the universe.

I love how I got the Galatron on the first try at the first game after Megacorp came out and never since then.

The galatron CAN be gotten by the AI from the caravaneers.

Stellaris “the another galactic imperium” speed run when?

Sanctuary, Impossible Organism and Horizon Signal are the ones I "usually" get when it comes to rare events. But is baffling that you can rebuild the Galactic Imperium and that Crystal Enclave. I never had any of these

I haven't seen (good) brain slug and calvin in a long time, but the evil brain slugs appear pretty often. I finally got the galatron this summer, right after they upped its chances in a patch. Never seen Blue Lotus, Crystal Enclave, or, well, anything beyond the first galactic imperium, big shocks there.

I got horizon signal on my first proper run. I honestly wasn’t sure if Stellaris was secretly a horror game lol

Years ago I encountered a previous version of my empire through a anomaly. They were in a different universe. I think we could have some limited interaction between us. This was 4 or 5 years ago I haven't seem it since.

I've seen Nivlac exactly 1 time in over 3500 hours of playtime. It was while I was playing a RS that had lost its organic pops in a series of unlikely events involving a xenophobic fallen empire. It was one of the more memorable games I've played.

I just recently got the brain slugs one. I love how many rare events there are. always makes every game fresh

I got the galatron on my first reliquary, I now open reliquaries whenever I can.

I've gotten the Galatron twice! I always try to roll for it! Didn't know how rare it was, but that makes sense! To be honest, the first time I found it was on one of my opposing empires, so I decided to... fix that. It deserved to be in the hands of the Imperial Nexus, after all.

I got the Horizon Signal on one of my FIRST games. My society of Technocrats converted to Spiritualism between the Shrine of the Gods and this and it's was incredible. I had no idea what was going on and I've HOPED to have it happen again because it was super interesting. My current game JUST got Brain Slugs and they are AWESOME.

I did not know some of these existed. I loved the brain slug event because it was a fun story. The horizon signal was my least favorite event chain to get multiple times. My issue with the the event chain was how much it changed my empire so radically which made me sad.

The towel

Kind of expected the Grand Herald. I havent seen it at all since its spawn chance got nerfed

Never forget the first time I ever played, I opened the Reliquary for the first time... and low and behold, I got the Galatron. Had no idea it was this rare.

I’ve only seen the brain slug once. I already had a lot events that made my technocrat empire research things really quick. The brain slug helped make things ridiculously quick to research thing.

Haven't watched, but Sanctuary for sure. 36 days played and only seen it twice, once pre alloys era, and again a couple weeks ago.Era, Edit: Sanctuary is by far my favorite system in the game. I had great memories with it the first time and every game I play I want to find it. I got all the primitives to uplift at once and fight each other on the edge of the galaxy, with me being a blocker to leaving the system. Sadly the fight was cut short because of the the end game crisis but was fun while it lasted

Woo!

I think I’ve encountered the sanctuary once or twice and possibly even in an multiplayer game with friends but never knew it’s low spawn chance until now, pog

I've seen the Nivlac event quite a few times throughout 2019 and 2020, and I got the brain slug event pretty much every other campaign.

Wow! I had the Blue Lotus event just the other day and had never seen it before despite many many hours playing!

I remember I was starting my newest game of stellaris and started reading relics I never got before and discorvered the galatron and thought "damn this is OP!". A few hours in and tried my luck at the reliquaries and I actually freaking got the galatron! Think i used all my luck for a whole month for that.

I think Sanctuary is my favorite event. They mysterious lore possibly behind it works perfectly in this game.

First time horizon signal completly blind was amazing. A real rollercoaster of an event

A note on sactuary, If one of the Pre-FTL empires enters space, the system will permenantly stop them from expansion by repeatedly killing the starbase, and making it impossible for them to make any ships.

Love stumbling onto Sanctuary mid game, becomes a great way to test my fleet and get a Ringworld in the process.

I actually had the cryalline enclave spawn in the game I am currently playing as youtube's autoplay sent me here. I didn't realize it was so rare!

Never seen or even heard of blue lotus, the impossible organism, or the crystal enclave. I have seen the brain slugs but only a time or two at most. I still hunt for the galatron. I did not know about the stacking imperium. Good info!

I do recall the crystal enclave appearing in one of the games (since my BF was obsessed as playing as a void dweller). When i also played against a bunch of other friends had the Galactron appear twice out of the 100s of games. Unfortunately, kept having the bugs where the merchants UI would bug out and be stuck on the screen for the rest of the game.

Paridayda is a rare event that should be on this list. the event allows you to find a Gaia world which has primitives on it and a special motiver. That event is really rare.

12:27 you know, I just found this in a game. And now I have the will to continue said game.

I did not realize that the Nivlac where that rare, I had them every other game a few years ago. I've only encountered Sanctuary once though, and never actually defeated the guardians. The brain slugs I've seen once as well and of course the horizon signal when it was so common. I really enjoy the storyline of the worm.

The SG1 reference made me like you even more, cheers bud.