> > > 0xY /2211 CE: First Galactic Contact.  Human explorers contact
> > > Tymbrimi colonists.  This was 87 paktaars ago by Galactic measure.
> >
> > Nope.
>
> So it needs to be 2212 CE.  BTW, what was the date the first Cosmonaut went
> into space.

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space on 12 April 1961.  So the date for 
Contact is stuck at 2211 because it makes Contact happen 250 years after we 
went into space.  2212 just won't do.  

Math logic looses to literary logic.
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