oleg - your right about organics, thats exactly what they associate with in my mind, thats the reason ive been playing organic races, with few exceptions, in almost all of my games, beginning with the first demo game.
racial combos are too powerful, i dont like 'em. temporal+crystalline is, however, quite evil.
to all those who are talking about OA - there is ab****ely nothing to talk about. While your destroyers might suffer a little, my cruisers are often loaded with 8+ OA which makes the ships very cheap (mid-tech DN builds in 2 turns) AND extremly difficult to kill. And there is the wonder called organic ramming...