Some scientists beleive that in a near future we will have the computer power to simulate the world (Edit: Actually as Master pointed out they have a Thesis about this and may not believe in it... But for the fun of it ignore this parantesis :D). A few years after that the computer power will be even bigger and by then the computer power to simulate a world will be common..and most likely used in the game industry. So if CR lives in the future and decide to make SC during development he will have 2 000 000 backers and on release there will be likely at laest 10 000 000+ copies of the game. Now if you are spawned inside the game you will not be able to tell if you are a real human or just a simulation but the chances you are a real human would be 1 in 10 000 001 so the odds are against you. This will probably be true by the year say 2947... So what if the citcon date is actually the true date and we are all CR sims spawned on a god forsaken planet in the outskirts of the SC universe.. We are those players to bad / poor to even own our own starship stuck doing planetary tasks/grinds to earn money to get of the planet. In 2947 the players protested to game inbalances that once you were stuck with planetary grinding your spacepiloting skills deteriorated and since it is a twitch like game and not rpg you need a mean to keep your flying skills trained while grinding so then CR comes up with the idea to create SC within SC as a simulator so the players can maintain their skills while grinding (working). Just to mock us he use the correct date 2947 as the date for SC... Ok sry I need to do something while waiting for 3.0 :smile: