I hope this comes out on impulse. It sounds great.

I like these  4X space games,so I will send a mail and see.

I did an interview with Bob Smith, the guy behind Armada 2526.  You can read it here.

Thanks for the heads up! Just signed up. Use to play the old Armada 2525 back in the day.

... Looks good. Im looking at videos and the forum... I probably will sign up though.

*sniff*

I think I finally found a worthy successor to Master of Orion 2 !

The game is in early beta and despite everything you'd expect in a game at that stage I have so much fun!

Definite must-buy for me.

it looks like imperium galactica. With about the same game system and premise and the graphics arent that much better. Is it entirely turn based? Or is it rts like homeworld and sins in the space battles?

Yes!

I'm definitely going to check this out, since I am a big fan of MOO 1&2.

Both.  The campaign (colony management, diplomacy, research, etc.) is turn-based, while the combat is in real-time.  Think "Total War in space". 

Signed up, not enough decent 4x games out after Space Empires 5 and Lost Empires dropped the ball for the market.

Next beta version is announced to be released soon ... maybe a week or so. My guess is that new beta testers get admitted once it's out, so go and queue up.