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"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 two categories:

• "Seasonal" events, such as Christmas or Halloween. These events are predictable in nature and have prepared festivities such as town decorations and/or themed monsters.
• "Promotional" events. These are non-seasonal, often one-off, events or promotions. An example of this would be if Sega were to give a free room decoration to everyone who logged in on a given day. These events were observed in Blue Burst, with the "Maximum Attack" events.

Seasonal Events

As the game is still new, it is hardly surprising that the game has yet to experience any seasonal events. Here is a list of what players can expect and when:

Halloween

The Halloween event is well known as it occured on the JP Phantasy Star Universe from October 20th and is planned to last until November 9th.

Known festivities include:

• Modification of lobbies to include special Halloween decorations and music.
  • A video of these has been made and posted on YouTube.
• Rare Rappy Lantern 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 English 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 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

The first event to hit the English Phantasy Star Universe servers (both PC/PS2 and Xbox 360). It was introduced alongside Update 002 in the maintenance on December 8th 2006, and is still active.

The known components of this event are:

• 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 appears to be no change.
• Like during Haloween, rare Rappy Noel enemies appear that 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 is probably available only during this event.
• The room decoration Wreath buyable in the Room Decorations shop is also possibly 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").

New Year

As with Christmas, this is an event many people implicitly believe will be presented in Phantasy Star Universe. Also celebrated in most versions of Phantasy Star Online, and For Brighter Day contains a lobby-suitable theme named after the likely event on Disc 1 (the "Parum Side").

As this is merely a celebration and contains no notable festivities or characters such as Santa Claus or the Jack-o-Lantern, this event - not surprisingly expected around New Year - is one of the least likely to have any active participation or subsequent rewards.

Valentine's Day

Another much-expected event to occur first during February 2007. This was also included throughout the Episodes of Phantasy Star Online, and For Brighter Day contains a lobby-suitable theme named after the likely event on Disc 2 ("Neudaiz Side").

Others

The above are just the most obvious seasonal events. There are sure to be other, less predictable events. The soundtrack contains a few tracks which could be used for (and thus hint at) other events, including Carnival (Disc 1), Marriage (Disc 2), Cherry Blossom and Comedy (both Disc 3).

Promotional Events

As of the earliest stages in the lifetime in English Phantasy Star Universe, there have yet to be any promotional events. There has been one noteworthy event on the Japanese servers, however:

Sonic (JP Servers)

The Japanese servers have had one such event thusfar, and that was to award a free Sonic decoration to the shared bank of all players who registered their SegaLink accounts before July 31st, 2006 (one month before the game's release).