Okay, last MOO2 thing for now. Here is my current favorite racial picks. This race is designed to compete aggressively with even the Sakkra (who have 100% population growth). I may fall behind on the population growth side, but the 50% boost to industrial output from Unification makes it possible to build up worlds and colonies faster then they can. I also set aside small worlds that have Automated Factories and Robo Miners as housing colonies (strip the colony down to 1 population, set the build queue to Housing). These housing colonies can produce 1 unit of population every 2-2.5 turns which I then ship off to my frontier colonies.

Population: +50% (+3)
Farm: -0.5 (-3)
Industry: 0 (0)
Science: 0 (0)
Money: 0 (0)
Ship Defense: -20 (-2)
Ship Attack: 0 (0)
Ground Combat: -10 (-2)
Spying: -10 (-3)
Government: Unification (+6)
Specials: Aquatic (+5), Subterranean (+6)