Shake up your gameplay with new galaxy-wide Mega Events! These new events introduce additional complexity requiring your skill and strategy to overcome if you hope to be victorious.

Events include:

• Dread Lords Return: A dormant Dread Lord colony awakens. Stop them before they become too powerful and wipe out all life in the galaxy.
  
• Peacekeepers: A large force of time-travelling robots appear and declare that they have been sent back to stop the conflicts that endanger the future.
  
• Assassination: A beloved leader is assassinated, the new leader vows revenge plunging the galaxy into war.
  
• Space Monster: Dangerous space faring creatures, the distant relatives to the Living ships of the Dread Lords, begin to appear in the galaxy again. They will continue to spread until exterminated.
  
• The Artifact: A mysterious precursor Artifact appears and starts boosting the power of a previously weak race. Their power begins to grow each turn. The only way to stop them from becoming gods is to kill them first.