David Braben said "the story starts on Dec 16th"
He also said all backers would have gamma access, that the game would release in March 2014, and that gamma would be feature complete when it still lacks most of what was promised.
I just wish they actually communicated on this. I still can't believe so much time was wasted on this offline problem, when it was announced at the same time that not all features would make it, and apparently no one cares about that nor does Frontier seems to communicate on this.
We still don't know what to expect for release, many are still expecting more features to magically appear out of nowhere, and all issues of the game to be solved, and if it doesn't, the disappointment is sure to be a lot bigger than that of the offline problem, because it concerns everyone, not just a small category like those people who argue on internet forums but can't play online.