Newbie: Which races to start ?

[liga]

3, probably silly, questions:

1. It's possible during the setting up of the games to have access to the description of the different races or is possible only to see the two pictures (race and ship).

2. It's possible to start with all the settings of a races (just luike loading the emp file) but changing something like the name ?

3. I'm playng a game and I have met races that I'm not able to found in the races directory (there isn't any directory with that race name ... it's possible ?)

thank you anyway and good luck
Liga