Replacement player needed

A 4v4 team game that I'm running has lost a player, before the game even started! Teams and races were randomly pre-determined, so the replacement player will be playing Man, but gets to design the Pretender themselves.

The game is intended to be fast-starting, and generate contact (and combat) very quickly. So it will be played on a modded version of Aran (the mod adds five crossings over the bodies of water that otherwise tend to funnel all land-races into the middle of the map), and each player will start with four provinces. Placement of the races will be entirely random.

The other non-default settings are Indeps 6, Sites 50%, HOF 15, no score-graphs. It will be a TCP/IP game, run at 72-hour deadlines with Quickhost.

First person to claim gets the position. If there's any key information about the game I've missed, please ask.

Mark