Funny enough, the tech that they're setting up right now will allow them to do just that. All of their work to the cry engine has set them up to so that expanding will be much much easier in the future. They've reworked a big chunk of that thing so it can handle what they want to do..... of course that was no small task.

Once we see the 3.0 release things will appear to move a lot quicker, we'll start seeing more planets and professions being introduced.