Alright. I can provide no screenshots but it has 'lock' or 'knot' in the title. I played a demo of it ages ago and I found it to be great fun. It has four or five or something like that different races in it and you settled on a planet and began building and expanding.
Any help?

Starcraft is my first thought

Real time? Turn based?

Oh no, it wasn't Starcraft. I am pretty sure of that. It was a minor game, don't think it ever got very big.
It was a mixture of real time and turn based, I think. Planet management and whatnot was real time and space combat might have been turn based but for the life of me, I cannot remember. It has been like ten or eleven years since I last played it.

Master of Orion.

Sorry, no. As mentioned it has either 'lock' or 'knot' in the title itself. As in [something]knot or [something]lock.

Yes! Awesome. Thank you.

Cool, hehe :)
I've never actually played these games. I knew the name and do vaguely recall an advert/promo for them in a gaming magazine from years back though. Been years since I looked it up, they look quite interesting.

Well, as far as I remember, they were fun. They were tough but then I was only about nine or ten when I played Deadlock the first time so yeah.

You have no freaking idea
I've only been playing PC since 2003, and when the title something lock came into my head, I immediately thought Deadlock