http://starruler.blind-mind.com/ Star Ruler
Yet another 4x dealie for Star Legacy to compete with.
I find the timing of all these ambitious projects popping up one after another after stewing all this time to be quite delightful. Should be something for everybody's tastes and really give a shot in the arm to the entire genre set.
Big dev Q/A thread, where one of the staff is actually a Goon, over at SomethingAwful in the Games forum.