Human Colony Rebellion-ever seen one?

[laughingman]

So the title pretty much speaks for itself. I've been playing with Human Colony Rebellions on for several games now, but have yet to actually see one happen. I usually play 80 planet maps, Vanilla AI at 7.3/7.3. I've never gotten a message that says they are rebelling, and I can't remember actually finding a colony while exploring. Of course, my games usually end before the 8 hour mark. Maybe I need to get better at fighting the AI so the colonies feel comfortable rebelling? 

[Hearteater]

I had one appear on an 80 planet map around the 10-11 hour mark.  Very inconvenient because I was preparing to push a homeworld and it was way off in the middle of nowhere, 3 hops from the nearest friendly system.  Then a CPA triggered.  Fun times.

[NickAragua]

Yep. I rescued the colony, and even had it build a couple of their fighter bombers or whatever. Then we all died.

[Hearteater]

I had to stop mid-rescue because I didn't want the CPA to trigger while I held a remote planet 3 hops away.  So I had to wait for the CPA, then go take the planet...THEN resume clearing to the homeworld, by which time the Mark IV neighbor to the homeworld was very reinforced .

[laughingman]

Hearteater, that sounds just like most of my endgames. In case you can't tell, they always end badly for me.
I suppose I just have to survive long enough for the colony to decide it wants to be rescued. Thanks for the replies!

[Hearteater]

Well, if it weren't for the AI Eye slowing me down, I'd have had the homeworld before all that happened.

[superking]

I havn't tested this, but would parking a cloaker starship next to a rebel colony cloak it when it rebels/becomes visible?

[Commiesalami]

A trick to use when the Rebel Colony rebellion is far away is to take the planet and then self-destruct your command station at the planet, this resets the 2-hour timer and you don't control the planet for the incoming waves/CPA's

[Coppermantis]

I've encountered them twice, both times sending in a few transports with spire starships, some viral shredders/other ships and then putting a warp jammer command stationon the planet. I did get a CPA after getting the colony once, but it consisted of one ship, so no problem. I'm not sure what caused that.