The Rarest Ships in Stellaris

[@A_Spec]

How often do you run into these? Should paradox use these models more often?

[@dominien6487]

howdy

[@markvt22]

i recently had the option to buy the caravan distroyer 2 times in one save , talking about rare the distant star event with the wurm is so bloody rare that i havent seen it spawn in over a year or was it 2 , well doesnt mater time it is

[@dominien6487]

the original starfang fleet was super cool

[@АлексейПетров-ш3э]

Nomad civilian ship is now being used as a neutral unit that creates new mining drone stations. Also I remember nomad cruisers being used together with some other ugly oversized model to represent the fleet of people who show up to bomb some hidden colony of symbiotic parasites. I think you have to colonize tomb worlds to get a Grand Herald dig site. There is an AI advanced corvet with unique model that can be rescued from toxic planet

[@yehiahuzayyin7972]

Yes. Yes they should.

[@snailorgy]

there should be an option to take unique ships apart to reverse engineer them, to give you a small chance of being able to replicate the model. would love more aesthetic ship variety in games, especially if it reflects the events you do and how your species science progresses

[@rockyroads8802]

Yes, this right here!

[@priersackh]

Yeah, rather than I keep deleting them or not even bother sending my scientist to investigate it. I would definitely like this idea more, where you can reverse engineering it and able to build it through event or something

[@christianwest6635]

I swear astetics are everything for me and I love unique ships they need to hurry up and add hive mind organic ships

[@Heifer_Zephyr]

Starfang is still in the game. I saw it last week. It comes from an event were you find a destroyed science ship and somehow through a time paradox you establish communication with the crew before they die. You can either warn them or not. The model for that destroyed science ship was Starfang.

[@TheNightOwl565]

just had this happen yesterday aswell on the beta branch

[@A_Spec]

That's so strange since there's no reference to it in the event script. Do you remember the event name?

[@nicholasvogel9783]

Yes it the event named after a snake eating itself ouroboros

[@Patrickf5087]

That event happens all the in my games to the point I pretty much ignore it, wish there was other outcomes, I know its the point

[@Fish_Priest]

@@A_Spec find out about Ktohlo, it's anomaly giving a bunch of physics reaserch deposit on some neutron star. I get it pretty often

[@fainyance11]

The sunken cruiser looks unique enough that I'd love to see a whole shipset based off of it. In fact a lot of these unique ship models make me which for shipsets based off ethics. Spiritualist ships, Materialist ships, Egalitarian ships etc

[@Kasaaz]

It looks like an Ion Cannon but fancier and a ship.

[@commandertoastcz6256]

Materialist - something like the UNSC, really practical. Spiritualist - something fish-y with a bit of Covenant

[@theaveragegamer7221]

I believe the Judgement was going to be the main capital ship of the faction called the "Hunters" by the Scorge who were fleeing them. They were replaced by the Sentinels some time in development.

[@A_Spec]

Except the model is specifically referenced as "generic event ship" in the art book.

[@cobaltfox1294]

The Starfang does appear in an event, where a destroyed ship from another galaxy is found, and later a not destroyed version, though you cannot obtain the ship yourself

[@Cybersharky_]

Degenerate

[@snowcraft-d3d]

I believe it also has ended up being the ship model just about every mod uses when it wants a unique looking ship. Which kinda kills the uniqueness factor.

[@captainthedragon9555]

Cool pfp

[@ReapersMadhouse]

I believe the ship in reference here is the Kohatlo, I think thats how its spelt...

[@bitbucketcynic]

I can't remember the last time I *didn't* get the Unbidden science ship from beyond in a playthrough. It doesn't seem rare at all, but then again I usually have 10-20 science ships out exploring...

[@vangelisvasilakis9639]

I also get it all the time , I’m exploring the galaxy with a minimum of 6 to 8 science ships as fast as I can

[@flazzorb]

Back when leaders cost energy yeah I did that, but my guy do you ever get traditions?

[@Spitfire66906]

Same with the prototype for me.

[@bitbucketcynic]

@@flazzorb Two words: Feudal Society.

[@flazzorb]

@@bitbucketcynic Still costs unity to hire them.

[@JamilLynch]

I'd love a mammalian-styled model with rotating sections.

[@Ian501st]

@@Scyldcynn Dont know what that is so I'll look it up

[@housewilma4904]

@@Scyldcynn there actually is one called the USS astro unfornatly all the models are super tiny so if you file illiterate its a issue which sucks cause the Dyson cyclinder habitats and ship deigns are great nasapunk theme.

[@nicholasvogel9783]

I swear event ship 3 came from an event with a cracked world, you could either restore the planet to a random planet type (more likely to be a Gaia world) or save the ship and it would give bonus to the transformation rare resources, which I think was a teraforming gasses and liquids but it been so long since transformation resources were a thing

[@A_Spec]

Originally it was part of the Sentinel home fleet. But it has been replaced there as well.

[@alterranlongbow5067]

The starfang can actually be encountered in current stellaris, just not useable by the player. I don't remember the name of the event but it spawns in the pulsar anomaly where you encounter the debris of the Kotahlo, and then encounter a ship of the same name and design. whether or not you tell them about their death, they will die, creating a second instance of the ship in the pulsar system and adding i think it was 10 physics research to the star

[@A_Spec]

I'm going to need to check the files on this again, are you sure you're not running any mods?

[@TheKonkaman]

Pretty sure its from expanded event mod

[@ax_quadratic]

@@TheKonkaman I have 100% seen this event in vanilla. Seems pretty rare though.

[@lukefreeman828]

It also pops up as a useable ship - I've had it in the last week and still have the save file now

[@francoisvercruysse4934]

@@A_Spec i can confirm it's 100% vanilla because there is no mod on console edition and i have encontered this event multiple times

[@alistairgrey5089]

The starfang ship style looks awesome. Something like that would be great as a unique ship from specific events. Hell, I wouldn't mind an entire shipset based on that design. A ship museum megastructure would be great. I've come across so many ships that I just store in a system because they look cool. The reward for each could be variable based on how rare and difficult it is to get.

[@13g0man]

Or make the Megastructure accept ships that are only not part of a currently used shipset. Find a mammalian cruiser with no mammals in the galaxy? Build a glass box around it and put it in the museum. Find a mammalian cruiser with a mammalian empire in the game? Fill it with explosives and send it into the sun, no museum wants anything that common.

[@alistairgrey5089]

@@13g0man I think that might complicate the megastructure, especially if you don't know all of the different empires yet. I'm thinking just the ships that can be received from quests, archeology, etc. Nothing normal, just the special ones.

[@jamieconnor3505]

It is, you get it from an event, j can't remember which though

[@jaymorrison2419]

Sounds like a cool mod to me. Adds a decision to each of the events that spawn a unique ship to 'Add to Museum' for a small permanent unity boost?

[@Drag0nk1ngmark]

Honestly i kinda wish there was a option with these ships to figure out how they are made and be able to change certain ship types into the looks of the event ships. Like the sunken cruiser for example, you figure out how to make it and then you can make more of them or change the designs of your ships to match it.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Transmog for ships would be neat, yeah

[@Mitchz95]

Fun fact about the Science Ship From Beyond, if you choose to attack it rather than welcome the crew back, it has a generic Mammalian-style model rather than the Unbidden look. No idea why.

[@mot.schutzen9079]

probably because the mammalian is the "default" type of ship ingame?

[@jakedude236]

I love collecting as many of these as I can and putting them into a collection fleet

[@antonycharnock2993]

Trazyn the Infinite is most impressed by your dedication.

[@AlphaNumericKey]

I do the same thing. I build "Museum Systems", usually with insanely heavy defense platforms and a Gateway or Network in the same system, off to one side of my main systems so that no one has any reason to attack there.

[@danielgloyd4529]

I do the same thing, but I keep all my randomly collected ships in orbit around my home planet. Bubbles gets to hang out with the nanite interdictor and the 3 automated shipyard ships.

[@michaelparker6907]

The Judgement looks like a Vorlon ship from Babylon-5.

[@gdray82]

I came to comment this. A LOT like one, as in maybe to a copyright infringing degree which would explain why it isn't in game anymore.

[@DCdabest]

A Planet Killer at that. Could have been an early Colossus type model that they ultimately folded into a DLC instead of the base game?

[@Twizamber]

I miss the old Herald, it was quite common, it was an event you did a B line to get to, but these days, I have not seen it for who knows how many years. Also I love the sunken ship, the model is just perfect. I always keep the rare/unique ships at my capital, for safe guarding.

[@AdmiralTails]

I believe it was bugged, the Fornax patch notes mention that some sites were being prevented from spawning, and I've seen it twice since then, albeit out of reach one time.

[@timothyhiggins8934]

I remember that nomad cruiser. The very first game i played, i was doing so bad that the AI decided to throw me a bone and sold me 5 of those cruisers. Saved me from imminent destruction

[@Lizzardar]

Grand Herald was once a real pain to deal with in multiplayer due to it giving a TONN of power in early game. So the devs nerfed excavation chance for it.

[@PaintSanctuary]

I know I used to get it about every fourth playthrough in single player

[@CalamitasCalliope]

An official feature to turn unique event ships into little memorials would be great. Give it a button like what you can use to create mercenary enclaves. Have them generate a bit of unity and diplomatic weight based on the rarity of the ship. Then they could even act as megastructures and be given to an enemy if the system is captured

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

I just put them all in my capital system or use them in regular fleets if they can be added to them

[@Zebiekistis]

Did you know you can get your own personal asteroid? Exactly as the ones that sometimes try to smush primitives, it doesn't exactly do much, but you can get it. All you need to do is the following: - Find the rock brain/migraine event - Be any lithoid species - Be reanimators civic while normally you get the choice to try to talk to it or just watch it for some research, as lithoids you get to actually talk to it, find out it has the intelligence of "special" child, then it dies, but as reanimators you can resurrect it. After spending an absurt amount of society research/month you can finally have your own personal pet space rock. Perhaps it has some use I have not found yet, or perhaps it is the leftovers of some scrapped event chain, but it feels unfinished. Still, it is there and you can get your own pet rock.

[@Zebiekistis]

There is also another type - The Paradise world anomaly event ships. Normally the anomaly, if you mange to get it, gives you a size 25gaia world in a new system that has some primitives on it, BUT if you colonize the system you get contacted by some space monkies telling you that they want to purge the primitives. While normally there is no reason to refuse them, if you DO refuse, it spawns a 19k hostile fleet in the paradise system that use unique models.

[@kelwinsandeman8242]

I remember getting an anomaly or event on a toxic world which when completed will open a communication interface with an AI ship that will grant you the ship. I for sure thought that it would be in this video for it's unique design, and that it is also rare at least for me as I have not gotten it in a very long time. I think the event/anomaly was called "AI ship on toxic world", that might be wrong though.

[@darkbeetlebot]

That would be the S875.1 Warform corvette. Despite being a corvette, it's pretty powerful in the early game, with the only downside being you can't merge it. The admiral, the warform itself, is also pretty good. The event name is the Corroding Warship, I think.

[@kelwinsandeman8242]

@@darkbeetlebot Yes that is it I believe, thank you. I find it weird that it was not in the video.

[@darkbeetlebot]

@@kelwinsandeman8242 Probably because it's a pretty common event for a lot of people. Hell, I get it once every couple games.

[@jessblues848]

@@darkbeetlebot i agree on this reason

[@CarameltheMoo]

The Divine class is also used for random wreckage that involve events. The event with the space brain parasites spawns on a split open model of the Divine class

[@A_Spec]

Ye, it's used all over the place as wreckage

[@Cybersharky_]

Degenerate

[@peterknutsen3070]

I love the idea of a Ship Museum mini-megastructure. Not a real Megastructure, but a “Kilostructure” similar in cost/size/time to an Orbital Ring or Habitat. It requires 1 unique ship to build, but after building it you can permanently add more unique ships to its exhibit, maybe getting a 5% increase in whatever the Museum gives for each additional unique ship.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

I think the unique ships from events have two possible endgame results. Once you own a science Nexus, and either a Art Hub or a Diplo Hub, you get a prompt asking if your unique ships should be placed on show at either establishment while copies of the original (with ability to refit) become available for design and construction in the late game. Stuff like the Nanite Cruiser might seem overpowered until you realise it can only take items you have researched and will cost Nanites for their hull construction. And thus I would also like to be able to replace the Numa and Ratitie trade fleets should they be wiped out of the Galaxy by fanatic Purifiers (should I have some of their pops in my empire thanks to events). In return they pay you back small rewards of rare or exotic materials each year, and offer you the various offerings of their original group. Or perhaps let me build my own Caravan fleet with any Nomadic pops for the sake of interest.

[@ariphaos]

The Starfang model is still in the game, in two events, and you can still get it. Others have mentioned the visitors from another galaxy event with the Kohtalo. You can also get it if you get the space racer anomaly. If you don't choose to make your entire fleet faster (for whatever reason) and choose to repurpose it as a science vessel, you get the craft.

[@AdmiralTails]

Okay, so this has lead me down a rabbit hole of looking at files, which lead me to one very interesting event chain that I have almost never seen, the Drifting Battlefield as the wiki calls it, which starts with an anomaly that can only happen on continental and gaia worlds. Looking through the event files, if you get the right outcome from it, it will give you a fleet consisting of one "Persistent" (an event only ship not mentioned here, that is also very rare), one "Starfang" (as discussed in video), two "Voidstalker" (the Nomad Cruiser discussed here), one "seeker" (another event ship not discussed, which shares its model with the S.8751 Warform), and one "Sword" (the sunken cruiser in the video). I have, at best, encountered this once, and got pirates instead of this fleet. The Paridayda event chain also involves two of these ship types, with a fleet using the designs of the Persistent and Voidstalker coming to purge the mardak vol. The Starfang model is also used for the Kohtalo in the event of finding a wreck next to a pulsar, and then later finding that same ship. As well as if you decide to get a science ship instead of the engine upgrade from the Adrift anowmaly. The Sword model is also used as the Wenkwort Enforcers. eventship_03 - Judgement does in fact appear to be completely unreferenced outside of its own definitions as an ambient object, ship size, and section template (not even a design, basically just means you can make a design with the model, but). There are also models for an eventship_08 and eventship_09 that are not referenced at all, and thus truly unused. Aside from these, and eventship_04 (which is AH4B from the Tiyenki Matriarch), all other eventships can be found in the Drifting Battlefield event: 01 is Sword, 02 is Seeker, 05 is Voidstalker, 06 is Starfang, and 07 is Persistent. Edit: decided to actually do some in-game testing with console commands, and apparently I missed that the Vol fleet includes the Sword model as well. Also, the Persistent model is grossly oversized. In both cases, it's labeled as a destroyer, but is significantly larger than the cruisers it's found alongside. Also the fleet only shows up if you refuse to let them purge the Mardak as they request.

[@Cybersharky_]

Degenerate

[@jessblues848]

great work dude

[@tomisabum]

Nomad Cruiser's design is rad as hell. Paradox should make an entire fleet ship design based on off-center/side-heavy ships.

[@Azzaciel]

For the Grey Disciples, I tend to find you need to position your fleet/army/Science ships manually closer than the automated command does when you right click the projects. It's pretty much the only event that happens to, but I've never had any problems with triggering the next stages.

[@concidius]

The Starfang is in the anomaly of transmissions past. There are several very rare ships with it. I am surprised they were not mentioned.

[@cstains5543]

The first time I played after they added the Grand Herald it spawned alright. It spawned in the middle of an advanced start driven exterminator machine empire. Sort of went down hill from there as they slaughtered everyone else in the galaxy as they already had a significantly bigger fleet, more tech and add on a titan when the best anyone else had was a destroyer.

[@aleverettes2789]

Surprised to see aspec still remembers starfang and nomad even it seems paradox themselves already forgot about it Also there one more unqiue shipmodel aspec forgot to mention: warform s875. It is basically a random anomaly event you could encounter on toxic worlds where you dig up and reactivate a unique around 400 fleet power ship with onboard AI admiral The ship itself it's rather useless after super early game but you get an immortal synthetic (doesn't even breakdown like regular synthetic) admiral

[@A_Spec]

I had to go back to one of my 1.1 videos to double check. Apparently Starfang was replaced with normal hulls somewhere during the 1.0 era.

[@TheDoomLordd]

Another rare ship that we missed is that one short quest chain that you end up finding a damaged Machine AI ship with cool animated pulsating rings

[@IAmTanker]

I run into the science ship from beyond way too regularly. I used to get it almost every single time i played singleplayer and around a third of the time playing multiplayer. It has been a while since I've encountered it it, before toxoids released I think. Also, just started a new game an hour or two ago and found the Grand Herald, sorry ASpec.

[@WulfgarOpenthroat]

The Starfang ship model is - or atleast used to be, I haven't played in an age - obtainable as a science ship from one branch of the Adrift anomaly. The other option gives you an empire-wide sublight speed boost.

[@refreshingryan]

I think the sentinel star fang can be found as a science ship, I can’t remember the event though, I’m talking about the sleek gold looking one you see in the video in case anyone was confused.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

I love buying ships from the merchants I think one of them even occasionally sells you cruisers - VERY nice to keep enemies at bay in early game

[@redtsun67]

I got a weird ship three or four playthroughs back. I got a random event which I can't even remember, something about having to repair or salvage some ships or something, and when it was finished I got a few random ships. One of these ships had a unique model that was quite large compared to the other ships, but the weirdest part was that the ship had no name. Unfortunately didn't see it on this list.

[@vaniellys]

I love these models. I wish we could see them more often, but that would make them less rare.

[@TheTruepanther]

There's a event where a bunch of different empires turned against each other in the past, you can repair them and get a dozen different models ranging from the starfang to the model from that one ai ship that's melting away. I also remember a event where you can either get a 10 sublight speed bonus or a advanced science ship, and the ship had the starfang model.

[@jedhaury7600]

I’ve gotten starfang within the last few months. You get it as a special science ship after some kind of an event and I always park it in orbit around my capitol to assist research and act as a museum/active lab.

[@thechazz3230]

One of my favorites is the Tiny Mega Ship built by the small rodent sized people or whatever that according to the event is "more advanced then we could possibly imagine." And you have to upgrade and retrofit it to even be usable. And can even upgrade it later on. I just wish there was more than one event to upgrade it. I think it would be awesome to be able to make it bigger and better again and again over the course of the game until it's like the size of a Titan. It's corvette sized yet even before the first upgrade after retrofitting it, it's equal to greater than a cruiser in strength.

[@homefront1999]

I remember getting an event where it was an alien ship from another galaxy. There is some weird time stuff where they always end up dying.

[@mot.schutzen9079]

As for the grand herald, I sort of remembered that when it first came out it was pretty common and a viable strategy back then was to rush to get it by the time players would only have cruiser level tech, and you will have a titan to play around. I don't remember if they fixed it but it seemed they did turn down the rate a bit. Also the Starfang is cool, pls add it into the base game paradox

[@lukefreeman828]

Starfang and the nomad cruiser also pop up together with a streamlined-fish design and a big ugly corvette in some weird fleet that you can find - I've got screenshots of it but no idea what the event was called. I've had the event twice, maybe three times, in about 3000 hours of gameplay.

[@codexaeterna]

I had no idea the Grand Herald was so rare! I played a game a while back and got it and it was such a massive power boost for my early-game!

[@spider5584]

I don’t know whether it’s been mentioned, but the “Drifting Battlefield” event chain has an outcome where you get a fleet of 6 ships. One of them has the starving style, another has the sea born style, and there’s 3 more styles, one that was mentioned in this video, and 2 that weren’t

[@ben04peters72]

The starfang is still in the game. I cannot for the life of me remember how I got it but there was an event where I got a fleet of like 5 ships. I remember some of the models were bugged but Starfang and the Nomad cruiser were both in it as well as 3 other unique models as I recall. Those are ships are not on your list but I specifically remember one was bugged such that it was several times larger than it should have been and part of the rest of the fleet would end up inside it.

[@LtShadowKitsune]

Yes, on they should have a feature that let's us create a museum that gets us diplo weight or some other useful thing out of it. Would be nice to have a place to dumb all the cool looking event ships and even the less cool looking ones that removes them as a drain on naval capacity. Like even let us place bubbles there. Grand Herald seems like it suffers from balance issues. It started out as way OP and common and sadly has been made pretty inaccessible. If there is a digsite that would benefit from being a slider, this would be the one. Have three options: -Doesn't spawn, could be the default for MP -Spawns only for players after a colony event and this could be the default for single player -Will spawn as a randomly spawned digsite for any empire Then they could make it appear at a decent rate because if people feel it's too OP, they can just not have it spawn. Also a wild card for potentially making the game harder, if the AI gets it. Heck, could even add a fourth option that makes it spawn only for AI empires. Granted, sometimes the AI getting it can make things easier if you blow it up and scan the debris. Anyways, they need to bring some of these models back. The salvagers and the caravanners could be a option. Salvagers could have an event that pops up once you max out your rep with them, where they offer to sell you a neat ancient ships they've found in random places. As for the caravanners. could add prize tickets tot he reliquaries that can be exchanged for ancient ships that the caravanners have come across. Also would help if caravanner fleets were smarter, as in stopped trying to navigate through known hostile systems and if their system is left untouched, they would respawn after a set amount of time (obviously, it would be the faction that was destroyed and never any of the factions that weren't already present).

[@StuffIHaveSeen]

I remember finding the Grand Harald in a multiply game once. It was epic as we didn't even have cruisers yet.

[@paulthenotsogreat8118]

Came here from rewatching old GTU videos. Would be crazy if AH4B and Gray are in this because the GTU got both of these (and possibly 3 if the Sunken cruiser line they had didn't go boom) in their playthrough

[@ShardtheWolf]

I got grey in one of my games from opening the l-cluster. At the point I had a 90k fleet, he was 45k on his own. He was nice for map painting, but I swear his fleet power is inflated. Maybe because he's alone, and get focus fired, but the supposed 45k was more like 30k. He does regenerate if he dies, so I kept throwing him at the contingency to slowly whittle them down.

[@Chickencow11]

New megastructure idea: The Exibitorium. Gain 1% happiness empire wide for each artifact you own plus you can donate event ships which give science output. Or they could even have unique bonuses depending on the ship.

[@rowandunning5693]

The Sunken Cruiser also makes an appearance in the Zol fleet alongside some other odd ships that I don't think I've seen anywhere else,

[@xianderthest8014]

I have seen the Starfang model used a lot as a science ship that you bring up from a gas giant. I have never seen the combat version of it before, I think that is really neat.

[@rampagesun]

I like the museum idea, but would extended it to be a non-combat patrol fleet that boosts unity in systems it passes through plus one jump away and sucks influence from you neighbors if it is on your boarder.

[@jaymorrison2419]

Yeah, your right. The Judgement does have some pretty big Ammarian energy. Very cool.

[@gabriserra1484]

I also found a drone ship (it was like a smaller scavanger drone with like 3-4k power) that had an unique admiral that i couldn’t remove (a robot that was the ship itself) and once a grey tempest flagship found on a planet i colonized (that bad boy had like 7k)

[@griffihn]

i don't remember the exact conditions for judgement to spawn, nor was i ever able to get one myself but i do remember it spawned with one of the end-game crisis back in 1.2.2 and was the original planet cracker. well, the name fits, i guess. it would simply go into a system and within a year, make all planets uninhabitable as it didn't actually destroy them. add to that the fact that you need 300k+ to kill it and it was a terror to fight against.

[@disillusioned8686]

Thanks for this video. I was wanting a video to cover all the unique quest ships 👍

[@cookiemuffin3208]

Starfang is still in the game, its used in 2 events. The ourpbouros one where you find a destroyed science ship around a neutron star and then find a same ship and you can either warn them of the star's danger or not. Both options lead to their destruction. Their ship is the starfang model. The second event is a derelict ship anomaly where you find the anomaly, investigate it and can choose from getting the ship as a science ship or tear it apart for a + 10% ship speed boost.

[@A_Spec]

Why would you ever pick the ship option over a permanent boost.

[@jimmcneal5292]

​​​@@A_Spec only out of aesthetic preferences, to add it to the exhibition fleet of rare ships(maybe with bubbles in it too, lol) and keep it safe in your capital system as collection

[@svartrbrisingr6141]

on the point of ships i really wish there was more variety in appearance. like i wish that if i was part of a federation or any group that you could purchase or take ships from the other empires in the group thatd have their tech on them. not only would it be fitting to how those would work but itd also let a tall empire get a steady source of income or defense by relying on others for combat power. plus itd make fleets look so much prettier with the mass variety of ships.

[@IndustrialFaith]

I always make a museum fleet with the weird/ odd ships I find or I buy. I either park it in my main system or a secondary spacedock system. Does nothing, but it's pretty fun to have. I pretend it's a tourist attraction for the kids living on the planet below.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

The Starfang strongly reminds me of the Normandy from Mass effect. I would really love to see some models like it in a ship set!

[@louiscresswell5436]

I once got the grand herald without realizing how significant it was. The first order I gave was for it to return to my home system but because it wasn't on an evasive fleet stance it jumped into the tiyanki matriarch system and was obliterated :(

[@gemtownMANCHURIA]

They nerfed the grand heralds event rate to the ground after the first month it was added, which sucks tbh

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

I remember getting the sunken cruiser a while ago alongside several science ships from the great beyond among others, haven’t gotten the ancient dreadnought yet or anything like that

[@jemal999]

I literally can't remember ever NOT getting offered the caravaneer destroyer multiple times per playthorugh, and my friends and I see the Sunken cruiser pretty much every game.

[@SingletonD]

Wasn't there a event chain for xenophile/egalitarian empires where you would get a battleship class ship that had a titan laser? I remember something about meeting the last member of a egalitarian species. That event chain gifted a ship, but I can't remember what it looked like. It might have been judgment. I know for certain that it had a titan laser for sure.

[@cosmicwolf5575]

I have a starfang model science ship got it last night from an anomaly that was extremely challenging and had to send a construction ship to do a research project in the system as well

[@DrewPowell]

I do not know if this ship was added by mods or not as I have only ever found it once. But there was an event that spawned a ship that could fit inside a player empire pop's hand. At first you think that it is a model of the ship but later you discover that the race that built it was just so small that in comparison the ship discovered could fit an unimaginable amount of pops and travel through the void. *Talk about efficiency in engineering* Hopefully someone else can provide more details as this is about all I can remember. In addition there is a rare event chain in the same vein as an Unbidden style science ship where your science crew is trapped in the shroud and they eventually return in science ship as a concept. In general the concept ship is pretty much the same as a normal science ship except it being fixed. I believe it occurs only when a empire has Mind over Matter or possibly Transcendence why they are still mapping the galaxy.

[@tonymack]

11:20 I'm commander shepherd and Aspec is my favorite stellaris youtuber on the citadel

[@ATHFShakeZulah]

I was Toxoids and got a great ship through an archeological chain of events. I think the strength was around 10k-20k but I was medicinally high at the time.

[@acadiano10]

A lot of these are like reanimated leviathans useful mostly for fleet strength against AI opponents. No one is going to attack you early on when you have the Herald, if you could find it! I miss that one too. I would like to be able to unlock ship skins (like you can in EVE) if you find certain unique ships.

[@nothung2145]

In regards to the grand herald. When it was first added to the game it was stupidly op and it spawned in nearly every game. whatever empire found it would faceroll the early game. You had better hope a devouring swarm or a fanatical purifier didnt find it or it was game over. They nerfed its spawn rate as well as its fleet strength but even so its a considerable boon to any empire in early to mid game.

[@Delphineas]

What if the first Megastructure you could build was the Orbital Drydock Museum? Not sure how it would work for Ringworlds, but you could only build it around an uninhabitable planet. You'd assign ships to it like a fleet, and they'd show up in drydock, providing naval capacity equal to what they take, and maybe unity and/or trade value from tours to see all the ships of yore. Probably wouldn't be too expensive in tech or resources since it is more an RP building, like whatever Star Treks Mars shipyard was that I'm blanking on the name.

[@tauiattwood6566]

The rarest ship I have ever gotten is the asteroid, it's not a rare ship but having control of one I have only ever had happen once, lithoid + necromancer let's the rock brain event end in having a pet rock. I also thought of the corvette with a lil ai leader that you rescue from a toxic planet but maybe that's fairly common.

[@A_Spec]

Really? This is a thing?

[@tauiattwood6566]

@@A_Spec Yeah! 1st and last time i went necroid necromancer lithoid (pop growth and management was... yeah), you get the rock brain event. and rather than just die you even get a conversation with it, sort of, dies, but necromancer comes in and revives it just like its bubbles, not quite sure you can do it repeatedly, tried scrapping it at the salvagers but the game pretty much was over BEFORE IT REACHED THEM. Has a bio drive or t1 cant really remember and basic thrusters. Thats all i know/remember xd

[@ronb7618]

An uncommon event of adrift(construction ship to research) does give a scientific ship if you don't take the flat sunlight speed boost

[@cp1cupcake]

I think they made the Grand Herald really rare because the overcompensated when making it less common after it was showing up in basically every game.

[@lt-ganymed]

I'm really looking forward to an overhaul of the fallen empire ships/fleets, especially their compositions. Because even since the last combat rebalance they made no sense anymore. Now would be the time to change this and I would like to see fallen empire cruisers with the sunken cruiser model and the sentinel starfang as their corvettes/frigates.

[@wildesanity]

I got Grand Herald a few times in a row, Huge galaxy, 8 AI and max habitable planets. It's currently leading my pure titan fleet as a flagship

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

10:23 I'm almost positive I had that ship spawn from an event where I discovered it and it had an AI and I could let the AI join me or scrap the ship. I obvs let it join me and it was that ship, with a robot as the admiral and I couldn't remove it or merge it with any other fleets. Worldmender! That's what it was called. It was a terraforming ship that you can let join your navy. It was probably from a mod.

[@UnnamedEmperor]

I know why they took the Starfang out. Once the scourge has 50% of the galaxy, the sentinel order tells you that they got a new place set up with the help of a fallen empire so they end up with the FE shipset.

[@jacksonletts3724]

I’ve done a ton of these events, but never realized they have unique ship models. Usually dismantled the ship without ever looking. I’m totally bummed now.

[@A_Spec]

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[@kw9613]

The nomad cruiser event spawned for me on my first playthrough, right at the start of the , i kinda panicked when they came into my system out of nowhere , i was like "WTF , AM I BEING ATTACKED??" a bird lady then offered me a deal , in exchange for a few resources she gave me the cruisers , and at the time i only had destroyers available so i was happy to get ships described as "heavily armed and heavily armored" I looked at them and i thought "well... they look ugly af but at least they might be powerful" I lost them on a border dispute :v

[@gotboredlmao]

Found Grand Herald, its basically just a mammalian titan with pretty decent armaments you'd expect mid to late game.

[@zetarhythm3503]

I saw the Grand Herald this year, but one thing I have not seen in literal years is the Paridayda event/Ancient Hulk anomaly.

[@Asuroh]

i've had the grand herald once in a multiplayer match, it was amazing, very quickly crushed all threats around me

[@melandus2501]

The adrift anomaly chain gives a ship that looks like the starfang design as a science ship

[@ghfdt368]

Kinda doesn't count as a ship but since it acts like one got to add the juvenile ameoba. I know it isnt that rare but if you are lucky you can encounter her early in the game (which is far more unlikely), and after about 100 years which is id say about the start of the mid game she can have around 5k strength which is very nice to have. Yes she is slow and i wish she gave a buff such as ship build speed 5% when she is near a dockyard or 10% happiness in a colonised system or habitat. However, if you are an empire who doesn't put much emphasis on war and combat she can be a really nice defensive boost to have late early-mid game. Plus she is just fun to have around.

[@peterknutsen3070]

9:16 Everybody were mad at Paradox, because the Grand Herald would show up for the human player in almost every game, right after the release of Ancient Relics. So there was a lot of pressure on the devs to make the Herald rarer, but they might have overcompensated. And yes, that last ship has a somewhat Amarr-style gold-plated look.

[@captainsinclair7954]

The Starfang model is beautiful. It’s a shame we don’t get to see it anymore

[@Minewald]

I had the science ship from beyond, caravaneer destroyer, grey disciples cruiser and the scourge mothership. Never got the starfang which makes me sad, I like to have some of these golden batwings in my fleet. Knowing paradox maybe they'll scrap some of those models to repurpose them for new species packs.

[@Kasaaz]

I do kinda wish that there were some ships you could find that would allow you to change to rare/unique ship models overall. I guess that's just about art and then how often it would be useful so it would probably have to be a mod...

[@chunkblaster]

8:29 I've gotten the grand herald once in a game! Only seen it that one time, was a really interesting event

[@TrippaMazing87]

There was an event I just recently experienced that I have never seen anyone else ever have. There was this unique system with a primitive planet called Paridayda. after a month or two of occupying the system, this fleet of unique models jumped in, glassed the planet, and jumped out, never saw them again.

[@marciusnhasty]

ASpec made a video about that event chain while planets still had tiles. It used to be possible to save the planet without fighting that fleet. Last time I've got it was few weeks after Megacorp came out.

[@p4hagen197]

Judgement looks like what I would expect the Toxic colossus to look like

[@bravalloy]

We need actuall civilian ships like 5th Element vacation cruise (providing amenities, for example). Then all sort of freighters, from space trucks to massive platforms that would be disrupted in war time.

[@red8056]

I got the grand herald in a multiplayer game, to bad most stellaris multiplayer games always never finish

[@commandershepard4235]

As far as the grand herald goes, right before the update to Herbert, a friend of mine and I were playing a game. He had gotten the dig site. He completed the dig site. He was given three, count them THREE GRAND HERALDS. Fastest dub I've ever had 😂🤣😂🤣