A question for the developer; What status is the unfinished game presently in relative to what you initially envisioned?
What's there right now are basic 2D graphics, a user interface based on an in-game console (designed as a prototyping tool; we planned to replace it with a proper UI), some buggy beginnings of a mouse-based interface, networking code (client/server; the clients can see each other in the game), and some basic physics.
When you connect to the game, you start in orbit above a planet and can use the in-game console to execute commands that change your orbit. You can't really do much else other than fly around. So there's not really any game play or anything interesting to do, really.
If we had continued development from there, we could have started adding some real game play pretty much right away, but to get the basics right would have required a lot of iteration, and we would have been weighed down by all the technical infrastructure that was already there. Plus, none of that technical infrastructure was very polished, so it would have required a lot of updating and rework along the way.
So yeah, still years of work ahead, I suppose.