Well - Hawk has been trying valiantly to get this last, best hope up and running for 8 months now but it doesn't look like it's going to get off the ground.   I'm thinking it's time for me to clean all the VGAP related stuff off my laptop and accept that the glory days are gone.  It's kind of sad...

Is there not a game version, where each player have two races and then being xenophobic to the rest?

I have no experience in such a game and what is a fair combination of races, but perhaps some the the veterans have