History Main / WhatOtherGalaxies

* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy (and, in the Expanded Universe, seems not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of its one.) This may be excusable, however. Hyperdrive technology is shown as taking a while to get you anywhere. Expanded Universe materials establish that it takes months to get from one side of the galaxy to the other, gravity wells can pull you out and wreck you, and finding safe hyperroutes is both very dangerous and very random. The Empire may just not want to take the risks or spend the logistics of traveling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead.

* This was the view held by scientists until TheTwenties, when it was clear that a lot of objects considered as "nebulae" were actually galaxies (more or less) like our Milky Way. Conversely, in the ''very'' distant future if the Universe keeps increasing the acceleration of its expansion observers who existed by them will see just the galaxy where they're located and at best those nearby ones, returning to the view mentioned at first[[note]]Some astronomers have fantasized that in those very distant ages, cosmology could become a sort of religion, as pretty much the only way to know how the Universe was born and what's out there in the distance would be records that somehow survived to that epoch[[/note]].

* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy (and, in the Expanded Universe, seems not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of its one.) This may be excusable, however. Hyperdrive technology is shown as taking a while to get you anywhere. Expanded Universe materials establish that it takes months to get from one side of the galaxy to the other, gravity wells can pull you out and wreck you, and finding safe hyperroutes is both very dangerous and very random. The Empire may just not want to take the risks or spend the logistics of travelling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead.

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** ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is almost always found looking for food in the Milky Way galaxy, despite the billions of other edible planets elsewhere.

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* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy (and, in the Expanded Universe, seems not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of its one.) This may be excusable, however. Hyperdrive technology is shown as taking a while to get you anywhere. Expanded Universe materials establish that it takes months to get from one side of the galaxy to the other, gravity wells can pull you out and wreck you, and finding safe hyperroutes is both very dangerous and very random. The Empire may just not want to take the risks or spend the logistics of travelling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead.

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* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'', the [[EldritchAbomination Gods]] of the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]] live in the "immaterium", a sort of Spiritual counterpart to the Milky Way and want to merge the two. Whether or not this extends to the rest of the Universe is up for debate, in and out of story.
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* In WarHammer40K, the [[EldritchAbomination Gods]] of the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]] live in the "immaterium", a sort of Spiritual counterpart to the Milky Way and want to merge the two. Whether or not this extends to the rest of the Universe is up for debate, in and out of story.

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is almost always found looking for food in the Milky Way galaxy, despite the billions of other edible planets elsewhere.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' sometimes gets these mixed up, but averts it in that the Doctor does occasionally visit other galaxies besides ours (although HumansAreSpecial and Earth is his favourite).

* The Reapers of ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' are sentient cyborg spaceships which reside just outside the rim of our galaxy and return every 50,000 years to forcefully convert sentient species that achieved space travel into more Reapers, presumably in an effort to avoid a catastrophic war between organic races and the artificial intelligence they would otherwise create. For some reason, the Reapers never expand the scope of their mission to galaxies beyond Milky Way, despite having FTL technology capable of travelling there in mere hundreds of years while they themselves are billions of years old.

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* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy (and, in the Expanded Universe, seems not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of its one.) This may be excusable, however. Hyperdrive technology is shown as taking a while to get you anywhere. Expanded Universe materials establish that it takes months to get from one side of the galaxy to the other, gravity wells can pull you out and wreck you, and finding safe hyperroutes is both very dangerous and very random. The Empire may just not want to take the risks or spend the logistics of travelling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead.

* This was the view held by scientists until TheTwenties, when it was clear that a lot of objects considered as "nebulae" were actually galaxies (more or less) like our Milky Way. Conversely, in the ''very'' distant future if the Universe keeps increasing the acceleration of its expansion observers who existed by them will see just the galaxy where they're located and at best those nearby ones, returning to the view mentioned at first[[note]]Some astronomers have fantasized that cosmology could become in those very distant ages a sort of religion, as pretty much the only way to know how the Universe was born and is actually would be records that somehow survived to that epoch[[/note]].

* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy (and, in the Expanded Universe, seems not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of its one.)

* Despite having access to light speed, the Empire from ''Film/StarWars'' acts like there's nothing to control beyond one single galaxy.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' marketing, the Didact was [[http://www.ign.com/wikis/halo-4/Plot portrayed]] as a threat to the universe.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' seems to avert this, but it seems to actually be an [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] example. Rosalind claims Earth's sun is the center of the 'mwhole universe'', conflating the Universe not with a galaxy, but with one solar system!

* ComicBook/Galactus is almost always found looking for food in the Milky Way galaxy, despite the billions of other edible planets elsewhere.

* Galactus is almost always found in the Milky Way despite their being countless other galaxies to consume from.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' seems to avert this, but it seems to actually be an [[ExaggerratedTrope Exaggerated]] example. Rosalind claims Earth's sun is the center of the 'mwhole universe'', conflating the Universe not with a galaxy, but with one solar system!

** In a non-marketing example from ''VideoGame/HaloSilentium'', the Precursors claim to be [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss hundreds of billions years old]], far older than the universe]]. Then what were they all doing in the same galaxy, [[spoiler:to be wiped out by the Forerunner]]?

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' marketing, the Didact was [[http://www.ign.com/wikis/halo-4/Plot portrayed]] as a threat to the universe.
** In a non-marketing example from ''VideoGame/HaloSilentium'', the Precursors claim to be [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss hundreds of billions years old]], far older than the universe]]. Then what were they all doing in the same galaxy, [[spoiler:to be wiped out by the Forerunner]]?
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* The Ellimist and Crayak in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books are embedded into the fabric of spacetime, and know that they could destroy the universe. But they only play their Great Game in the Milky Way.

* In the Halo4 marketing, the Didact was [[http://www.ign.com/wikis/halo-4/Plot portrayed]] as a threat to the universe.
** In a non-marketing example from HaloSilentium, the Precursors claim to be [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss hundreds of billions years old]], far older than the universe.]] Then what were they all doing in the same galaxy, [[spoiler:to be wiped out by the Forerunner]]?

* In the TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, they Universe is mentioned several times (the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, TheRestarauntAtTheEndOfTheUniverse), yet no other galaxy is ever acknowledged.
* Asimov's [[Foundation Foundation trilogy]]. The books themselves don't have this problem. [[http://geekdaily7.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/foundationtrilogypb.jpg The covers, on the other hand]]...
* The Ellimist and Crayak in the [[Animorphs]] are embedded into the fabric of spacetime, and know that they could destroy the universe. But they only play their Great Game in the Milky Way.
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