Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Alrighty, I made a Stratos render. Not sure if you still wanted the desert scene, but I couldn't be bothered to make a new one. I don't think this one turned out as well as the Montreal one... I had to try about 3 times to get the Stratos to work properly, and in the end had to edit some things in Macromedia Fireworks.