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Please excuse the mess while this article is being cleaned up. It will soon be split between three types of events: seasonal, GM and major events.

Event is the generalized name given to a period of time in which at least one limited-availability event occurs. Events can typically be split into three categories:

• Seasonal events, such as Christmas or Halloween. These events are usually predictable in nature and have prepared festivities such as town decorations and/or themed monsters.
• GM events. These are non-seasonal, often one-off, events or promotions.
• Major events. These events usually last for a period of multiple weeks and include many event-exclusive missions and items.

Seasonal events

Pardon the mess while this list is being reorganized. Please see this article for the new list which will replace this one.

Halloween

The Halloween event is well known as it occurred on the Japanese Phantasy Star Universe servers from October 20th and lasted until November 9th.

Known festivities included:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Halloween decorations and music.
  • A video of these has been made and posted on YouTube.
• Rare Rappy Latan enemies that drop a Halloween-themed Rod called Pumpkin Head.
• A complete room theme for 5000 meseta.

This event was not run in 2006 for the NA/EU/360 servers. The first and only maintenance before Halloween itself passed and the event was not added. Some users believe that it did not occur for various reasons:

1. Unfairness to non-American regions, as due to release date differences the event would be exclusively available to North America and importers.
2. The game was set up and released too soon before Halloween for there to be time to set it up.
3. Sega America are likely more interested in game and network stability among other issues than running a non-essential event.

The Halloween lobby theme is included on the For Brighter Day soundtrack, on Disc 2 (the "Neudaiz Side").

Christmas

Christmas: GUARDIANS Colony and Parum.

The first event to hit both the English PC/PS2 and Xbox 360 versions, but the second for the Japanese PC/PS2 version. It was introduced alongside Update 002 in the maintenance on December 8th 2006, and was concluded during Update 005 in the maintenance on December 26th 2006.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Christmas decorations and music in the GUARDIANS Colony, Parum and Moatoob.
  • Apparently the Communion of Gurhal as Neudaiz' primary faith does not celebrate Christmas as there was no change.
• The rare Rappy enemies are celebrating, becoming Rappy Noel. Their sightings are still rare, but alongside the usual Rappy Feathers they can drop the room decoration Christmas Tree.
• The reform ticket Christmas, buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City 2F for 5,000 meseta and was available only during this event.
• The room decoration Wreath buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City for 10,000 meseta was available only during this event.

The Christmas theme heard most notably in the cities of Clyez, Holtes and Dagora is found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 3 (the "Moatoob Side").

Winter

Winter: GUARDIANS Colony and Parum.

A somewhat unexpected event, this is the third consecutive event on the English Phantasy Star Universe servers (both PC/PS2 and Xbox 360). It was introduced alongside Update 006 in the maintenance on January 11th 2007, and was concluded during Update 009 in the maintenance on February 1st 2007.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special New Year's decorations and music in the GUARDIANS Colony and Parum.
  • Evidently one event over the last few weeks was too much for both Neudaiz and Moatoob - they're not participating in this one either.
• The room decoration Snowman buyable in the Room Decorations shop in Clyez City for 2,000 meseta is available only during this event.

This event makes extra use of the theme named "Christmas" found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 3 (the "Moatoob Side").

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day: GUARDIANS Colony.

This event was introduced alongside Update 009 in the maintenance on January 11th 2007, and was concluded during Update 011 in the maintenance on February 16th 2007.

The components of this event were:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Valentine's decorations and music in GUARDIANS Colony.
  • And none of the other planets, making this the first event which none of the three planets have partaken in.
• The Rappies are at it again. This time they're Rappy Amure, sporting a pink "heart" getup.
  • These foes drop a room decoration called "BT Lovers".
  • Starting in the Lv.40-50 range, they also dropped Love Letter, a synthesis material.
  • Lv.80 and above, they also drop [B] Kohibumiteri, the board for a female-only 10* bow which requires their Love Letter to synth.
• For the first time, no event-specific Room Goods - neither reform tickets nor decorations - were found in the Variety Shop.

The theme - sharing the event's name - is found on the Phantasy Star Universe soundtrack For Brighter Day, on Disc 2 (the "Neudaiz Side").

Cherry Blossom

Cherry Blossom: Neudaiz.

This event was introduced alongside Update 015 in the maintenance on April 12th 2007, and concluded during Update 016 in the maintenance on April 26th 2007.

The festivities include:

• Modification of lobbies to include special "Cherry Blossom" decorations and music in GUARDIANS Colony and Neudaiz.
• ...and that appears to be it! Rappies and Jaggo are of the regular variety and there's no seasonal decorations sold in the variety shop.

The lobby theme heard in Clyez and Ohtoku cities is included on the For Brighter Day soundtrack sharing the event name of "Cherry Blossom". It's found - not particularly fittingly - on Disc 2 (the "Moatoob Side").

Wedding Event

The Wedding Event was introduced in Update 018 during the maintenance on May 24th, 2007, and concluded in Update 019 on June 7th, 2007.

This event included:

• New wedding-themed decorations and music across all three planets and the GUARDIANS Colony.
• The Wedding Cake room decoration went on sale at the Clyez City Variety Shop.

GM events

The contents of this section will be cleaned up and moved to this article in the near future.
The English PC/PS2 version of Phantasy Star Universe has seen three Promotional Events. The XBox 360 servers have shared one of the PC/PS2 events and had two completely separate ones, and there have also been noteworthy events on the Japanese PC/PS2 servers.

St. Patrick's Day "Green" Event (PC)

(insert details about GMs scouting out people wearing green to give them Rappy Feathers and reportedly Love Letters rarely. Probably detail similar hysteria when hundreds of people would horde a GM that would remain in one area for over an hour.)

Easter Hunt (PC)

(insert details about an event essentially the same as "Green" only with blue/pink/green/white clothing instead of just green. GMs give out the Easter Egg decoration in this event, though.)

Sonic (XBox 360)

The XBox 360 version ran a "Phantasy Star Universe Demo Weekend Promotion" which commenced Saturday, February 3rd, at midnight PST and concluding Monday, February 4th at midnight PST.

Users who played this demo and joined the PSU Xbox Live community received the Sonic decoration. In the run-up to this event it was believed that this meant an entirely new GUARDIANS License would need purchasing to receive the decoration, due to "official" response to the customer support form stating that much (see: here). However this was found to be wrong an in practise users who'd played the demo received the figure even on accounts created back in October.

The statue was added to shared bank of the accounts of demo participants, as was the case with the JP Sonic event (below). There were no known cases of players having full shared banks on the moment of delivery so it is unsure what would have happened had the player had a full shared bank when it was delivered to demo participants.

More details on this event can be found here.

Tails (XBox 360)

This event's introduction was interesting - After a maintenance period, Tails room decorations were found in some players' shared banks. Shortly afterwards it was announced that the XBox 360 demo servers would return for another weekend - much like the Sonic promotion - only participants would receive a Tails room decoration this time around.

The cause of the initial wave of Tails decorations randomly appearing for some players was never fully explained or discovered. Many theories including owning or not owning Sonic, having participating or not in the previous demo events, wearing green clothing on St. Patrick's day or having empty/nonempty shared boxes have all been challenged by players claiming they did/did not get the statue under the opposite/same conditions. As Sega representatives have refused to comment it is possible that their apparently random distribution was a mistake.

(insert details of the demo weekend's date.)

More details on this event can be found here.