Board Thread:Planning/@comment-1743498-20131214024110/@comment-5135903-20131214135346

I think a single 'present day' would be better, though it might be too simplistic to mark this with a date, as there is no universal frame of reference.

There wouldn't be the problem of the whole setting being stuck at the same technological level, as the idea that technological progress is fixed to a date is worse than human chauvinism, as even on Earth we have a wide range of levels of technological advancement in any one year of history.

Effectively, choosing a set date in the Gregorian calendar would be meaningless.