I have played two games in 1.13 and have found Rakhas within three jumps of Sol both times - I had never encountered them before and it was a smaller force of about 50K that I could see so I landed 500K of armor/infantry, a couple of bombardment cruisers in orbit, and 60 ground support fighters.  Lost the entire force and just about all the fighters were shot down.  I'm not even going to think about going after Rakhas on the ground until mid-game tech levels.

Still no luck for me in 1.13, since the release of Aurora I never met the Rakhas.

The ground support fighters seem to be very vulnerable in general. I used them few times against Precursors, but they always die very quickly.

So I play pretty intensively since the release, switching to new versions when released. I got some pretty long games with lot of exploration and plenty of Swarm and Precursors. But I never encountered Rakhas.

In my current game I have 15+ systems with Precursors and several systems infested with Swarm. Quite a lot of 0 cost or less than 1 cost planets. But still no Rakhas. Are they rare or did I miss info about them not being in game?

I've found them on my home planet the minute i decided to spawn my new nation there. It was a bloodbath in wich case, i did lost, i simply had no means of making any ships and was being bombarded by orbit. It pissed me off.

Now I have a second population on that planet with the Rogar aliens, which I am not sure what to do with.  Apparently they require policing / suppressing.  So I shuttled all the 250k tons of army from "my" population over to the alien population.  I would have assumed they could just walk over, since its the same planet.

You can drag and drop ground forces formations between colonies on the same body in the Ground Forces window.

Hi,

I am very inexperienced in this game (played years ago and now picked it up again a few weeks ago).  But I think I found them?
Basically I stumbled over a ~1b population on a perfectly human-suited world.

This is my first encounter with Aliens in C#, so I was quite excited.
But then was lost about what to do.  Communication was not happening.  No ships.
So eventually I decied to land around 25k tons of infantry, which gave me an instant victory ( I don't think they had any units) and then the message that the population refuses to surrender, requiring a lot more military forces.
So eventually managed to shuttle over 250k tons of troops (which, if I read another of Steve's posts correctly, will increase in 1. 12 by a factor of 100???) and that made them surrender.
Now I have a second population on that planet with the Rogar aliens, which I am not sure what to do with.  Apparently they require policing / suppressing.  So I shuttled all the 250k tons of army from "my" population over to the alien population.  I would have assumed they could just walk over, since its the same planet.

How can I use the aliens? Forced labor? Or will they eventually integrate into my civilisation? Can I merge the two populations on the same planet?

Thanks
Thomas

Also never found them.

They seem to be really rare, but I have found them.