[Tomgs]

If you choose the religious racial trait they have a facility that reduces the chance that bad things will happen in that system its called a fate shrine. And as someone said long ago the good events are when the bad events happen to your opponents. I have had my home planet blow up once and twice got plagued within the first 20 turns so it does happen but its fairly rare to get that bad of a start. To me it adds a bit of chance to the game but if you don't want it to happen just turn it off a lot of people do that.