Xenophobic will be working as of next patch, it's not quite functioning at the minute. Cybernetic unlocks a citizen type that gives +1 moves to all ships, that's it - does not unlock techs or improvements.
Thanks! As suspected concerning the Iconians then. Too bad cause they were one of my fave races lore wise but currently they become very underwhelming with only one trait - and a bad one at that... They used to have really cool and unique improvements before 
Especially when the tech trees are a complete mess at the moment; lots of missing (or just plain wrong) tool tip info and descriptions. Hopefully when they release the update at the end of this week, the tech tree descriptions will at least be a little bit more accurate and informative than they are currently.
Too true... Hope they make a bunch of clarifications and changes with the next patch. Additionally they need to fix some tech costs being really huge, change the amphian morale improvement to not need a nonexistent building to upgrade from, and fix research building so it doesnt give 75% research to name a few..
All in all though its a great game, just require some extra effort from players to edit ini files, and avoid exploiting some bugs 