His boss tells the MC that what he talks about makes no sense, especially the timeframes and isn't part of the simulation.
The MC didn't wake up, from the look of it a military unit used a charge to blow up the door, the MC is shortly stunned and shoked to see his family were just robots...and who cares if the synthetic blood of the robots is red, blue or whatever.
The MC got fired because his boss believes he had a mental breakdown.
He points out that the timeframe the MC talks about makes no sense, he clearly shouldn't have killed the passengers, that there is no AI, the MC talks about things which shouldn't be in the simulation (probably trying to save his ass) and the MC fucked a robot...in a military emergency simulation, beliving it was his family.
So yeah, big surprise his boss kicked him out, no way they give him command of such a operation after this stunt.
To me it seems someone messed with the MC's memory, manipulate the simulation and had a interest to see the MC/human interaction in whatever situation was created...probably said AI, which shouldn't exist.
As for the catgirl, who knows. Do we get back into space, i hope so.
We didn't have any worldbuilding so far, the game is just about 1.5 months old so give the dev time to tell a story before screaming it makes no sense, or all was just a dream.
I doubt the simulation was meaningles or that the dev is leaving things as they are.