Holy crap!!
Congratulations, my very first post on this forum is to tell you my jaw about hit the keyboard this morning when after getting an update on the SpaceX Dragon capsule's trip to the ISS, I come here and see this incredible tech demo for "Freelancer 2" start up.....I have to admit I was hoping like hell there had been some kind of Digital Anvil deal I never heard about tucked away and revealing itself now, but considering how excellent Crossfire is already, I am just as happy to hear it's a (early) WIP that I really hope you can make something out of it OP!
If it gets to the point where you could seriously have a commercial product on your hands, now is the perfect time to launch a Kickstarter as was already mentioned, interest in indie games that can fill niches the big devs are ignoring (and Space Trading and Combat sims is probablly the biggest) is huge right now, and you can easily raise a bundle to hire veteran coders and writers to flesh your project out.
Best of luck!