Terrans shafted?

It seems to me that playing as humans is more difficult than the other races. I'm slower getting colonies and I always seem to get less colonies than nearly everyone else. By reading the manual, and the history of the game I felt that humans would get an advantage in diplomacy and economics, but I only see a boost in economy. So my (lacking diplomacy skills here) and less technology than the other races leaves me in a big hole. Stellar Cartography, humans don't even start with knowledge of planets, which is fine by me, but the fact that humanity discovered hyperdrive, why don't they get that advantage?

If I'm right here don't the Yor start with Ion Drive? How is that possible? They just received Hyperdrive?

I'd appreciate any comments on humanity, or some starting strats for them. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but I'm a bit partial to humanity surviving....
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