I was playing the campaign, on the mission where you need to stop the Drengen from using the artifact to summon the Dreadlords, and I'd just finished building a technological capital on one of my two planets (Ya, I stink). The current tech I was researching changed to 1 week to complete. Cool, I figured. Then it completes, and EVERYTHING is 1 week. even the disgustingly high stuff. I coulda researched Technological Victory in like 6 weeks if I had wanted to! Eventually the game crashed due to me running too much other stuff in the background and when I loaded the autosave, tech research was back to normal.