History Main / WhatOtherGalaxies

When "the Galaxy" and "the Universe" are used interchangeably, either in the logic of the plot or explicitly. Since Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible, it extends to particular planetary systems and even the Earth. In a similar vein, this trope also applies if galaxies other than the main one are treated as if they were a separate universe. In other words, made to be a PlanetOfHats instead of a MulticulturalAlienPlanet like the main galaxy.

Sub-trope of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite there existing an outer universe, it's not traveled to. An extreme(often InUniverse) form of CreatorProvincialism.

Sub-trope of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite there existing an outer universe, it's not traveled to. An extreme(often InUniverse) form of CreatorProvincionalism.

Sub-trope of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite there existing an outer universe, it's not traveled to. An extreme(often InUniverse) form of CreatorProvicionalism.

Sub-trope of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite there existing an outer universe, it's not traveled to.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': The two times the universe is rewritten, its rules are bent in a way that only truly affects Earth's inhabitants. Not even the Milky Way, just our planet. The fact the universe is losing entropy remains, what changes is that it no longer needs to be harvested from [[spoiler: the magical girls, who are from Earth]].

* ''Literature/ForgesOfMars'':

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In general, most of the important activity in the universe appears to take place in the Milky Way Galaxy, even when dealing with the most ancient civilizations.
** ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': The Great Barrier was planned to be located at the center of the universe but is changed to be placed at the Milky Way Galaxy's center instead. Beyond the Great Barrier is Sha Ka Ree, where creation is said to have begun as if the center of the Milky Way Galaxy were the center of the universe.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** 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 this extends to the rest of the Universe is up for debate. One argument in favor of this trope is that the said chaos Gods are the embodiments of rage, lust, hope, and love felt by the sentient species. Since they hail only from sentients in the Milky Way, it's as if there's not much out there.
** The Tyranids are extragalactic insectoids that differentiate themselves from the main galaxy's sapient species in that they are the ultimate predators and are all variations of the [[PlanetOfHats same genetic theme]]. Essentially, an AlienInvasion of galactic scale.
** For humans, FTLTravel is only possible in the range of the psychic beacon of the Astronomican, which is on Earth and doesn't even cover the totality of the galaxy (and, as of the 8th edition, has been cut off from about half of its former range). So for all intents and purposes, there is no universe outside the Milky Way.

** The ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy do this just by name alone, both original and modern since their remit is protecting the entire universe (whenever they can). {{Enforced}} because "Guardians of the Universe" was already taken by ''Franchise/GreenLantern''.
** ComicBook/{{Gamora}} is often called the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy. Never mind there exist galaxies besides the Milky Way, galaxies with maybe their own deadliest women.

** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': {{Enforced}}. The stories originally handle the difference between the Milky Way galaxy and the universe (including multiple galaxies) correctly, but {{Tagline}}s and back cover blurbs from Panther and Avon conflate the two as if they were synonymous.

** ''VideoGame/Halo4'': [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. In the marketing campaign, the BigBad Ur-Didact is announced as a threat to the universe when, in fact, he's "only" a galactic menace.

** Despite having access to faster-than-light travel (called Hyperspace), the ''Galactic'' Republic and later the Empire act like nothing exists beyond one single galaxy. In the Expanded Universe, they seem not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of the one they inhabit. {{Justified}} seeing 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 hyper routes is both very dangerous and very random. For the ones in charge, it would appear foolish to take the risks or spend the logistics of traveling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead.
** Hyperspace travel is said to be [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightspeed/Legends 100,000 times faster than light speed.]] The diameter of the Milky Way is at least [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way 100,000 light-years,]] meaning it would take at least a year for a ship at this speed to traverse the entire galaxy. The distance between the Milky Way and the next closest galaxy, Andromeda, is approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy 2.5 million light years.]] This makes the travel time via Hyperspace at least 25 years. The galaxy we see in Star Wars is said to be [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_galaxy about the size of the Milky Way]]. However, assuming a distance to the nearest galaxy would be baseless.

* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'': {{DoubleSubverted}}. The main storyline guides the player across the vast Euclid galaxy until the Galaxy Centre is reached, which allows intergalactic traveling. Nevertheless, it's [[TheReveal discovered]] that [[spoiler: the universe is in need of resetting and that means replacing the Euclid with another kind of galaxy.]] Therefore, the countless other galaxies are just [[AlternateUniverse parallel iterations]] of the original Euclid. [[spoiler: After all, they are all simulations generated by the same AI, the Atlas]].

** ComicBook/{{Gamora}} is often called the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo4}}: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. In the marketing campaign, the BigBad Ur-Didact is announced as a threat to the universe when, in fact, he's "only" a galactic menace.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': The Great Dragon is stated to have created the whole universe, spicing it up with life and magic. Now, the universe is called Magic Dimension (or Magic Universe or Kingdom, depending on the dub), but the said dimension is composed of a number of planets, realms, embedded sub-dimensions, and unnamed stars that all [[ArtisticLicenseSpace rotate around the planet Magix]]. So, the Magic Dimension as a whole is more of a galaxy than an actual universe.

* In the ''very'' distant future (exponentially the current age of the universe), if the Universe keeps increasing the acceleration of its expansion, the light emitted from distant galaxies will have a wavelength longer than the size of the observable universe, putting them beyond the cosmological horizon and making them undetectable in any way. At that point an observer inside their own galaxy would look out and see... nothing at all. Any conclusion that they live in a larger universe with many galaxies will have to be done either by inference or from reference to truly ancient records, rather than observation. [[note]]Some astronomers have theorized 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 would be records that somehow survived to that epoch, which of course would depend on how much evidence these had, the trust people put in them, etc.[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'': {{DoubleSubverted}}. The game features countless stars in its own galaxy. That's the only galaxy there is [[spoiler: unless you get to the center of the galaxy and follow the main plot to find out, that the whole universe is a simulation that needs to be reset by you, which allows you the choice of what kind of galaxy should replace the current one. But then again, you can freely travel between galaxies (there are more than one or two), but they are treated as different iterations from the original galaxy and are basically treated as being another dimension or parallel universe from the previous one, as they are part of a different simulation of the same AI, the Atlas.]]

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* This was the view held by scientists until TheRoaringTwenties, when it was clear that a lot of objects considered as "nebulae" were actually galaxies (more or less) like our Milky Way. What finally tipped the balance was the realization and subsequent debates that what we now know to be the Andromeda Galaxy had to be farther than the "universe's" estimated size.
* In the ''very'' distant future (exponentially the current age of the universe), if the Universe keeps increasing the acceleration of its expansion, the light emitted from distant galaxies will have a wavelength longer than the size of the observable universe, putting them beyond the cosmological horizon and making them undetectable in any way. At that point an observer inside their own galaxy would look out and see... nothing at all. Any conclusion that they live in a larger universe with many galaxies will have to be done either by inference or from reference to truly ancient records, rather than observation. [[note]]Some astronomers have theorized 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 would be records that somehow survived to that epoch, which of course would depend on how much evidence these had, the trust people put in them, etc.[[/note]]
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** ''Literature/FoundationAndEarth'': Despite the Milky Way being the only galaxy in terms of plot throughout the whole Foundation saga, it's {{lampshaded}} that humankind has the narcissistic tendency to believe its home galaxy is the only important bit of the universe.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': {{Exaggerated}}. Rosalina claims Earth's sun is the center of the whole universe. So, it's not "what other galaxies?" but "what other planetary systems?".

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': The Reapers are sentient cyborg spaceships that reside just outside the rim of our galaxy and return every 50,000 years to forcefully convert sentient species into more Reapers. Sentient species that have achieved space travel, that is. Guess only the Milky Way hosts such species since the Reapers spent those 50 000 years dormant, not, you know, traveling to other galaxies.
** [[WildMassGuessing A possible explanation]] could be found at the end of Mass Effect 3. In short, the reapers were created in a failed attempt to stop a ViciousCycle that caused problems in the Milky Way a billion years ago. It's possible they don't travel to Andromeda or the Magellanic Clouds because they only care about the Milky Way's problems, not theirs.

* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' features countless of stars in its own galaxy. That's the only galaxy there is [[spoiler: unless you get to the center of the galaxy and follow the main plot to find out, that the whole universe is a simulation that needs to be reset by you, which allows you the choice of what kind of galaxy should replace the current one. But then again, you can freely travel between galaxies (there are more than one or two), but they are treated as different iterations from the original galaxy and are basically treated as being another dimension or parallel universe from the previous one, as they are part of a different simulation of the same AI, the Atlas.]]

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo4}}: {{Enforced]]. In the marketing campaign, the BigBad Ur-Didact is announced as a threat to the universe when, in fact, he's "only" a galactic menace.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': For a character with the technology to not only travel across the universe but also time, the Doctor seems to be awfully focused on the MilkyWay, the Earth, and the [[HumansAreSpecial humans]] inhabiting them. He does visit other galaxies besides ours, but just on occasion.

When "the Galaxy" and "the Universe" are used interchangeably, either in the logic of the plot or explicitly. Since Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible, it extends to particular planetary systems and even the Earth. In a similar vein, this trope also applies if galaxies other than the main one are treated as if they were a separate universe.

* The Reapers of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are sentient cyborg spaceships that 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, "honoring" them with immortality and (allegedly) preventing 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 the Milky Way, despite having FTL technology capable of travelling there in mere hundreds of years while they themselves are billions of years old.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' seems to avert this, but it is an [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] example. Rosalina claims Earth's sun is the center of the ''whole universe'', conflating the Universe not with a galaxy, but with one solar system!
* The Reapers of ''Franchise/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, "honoring" them with immortality and (allegedly) preventing 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 the Milky Way, despite having FTL technology capable of travelling there in mere hundreds of years while they themselves are billions of years old.

*** ''Literature/NewJediOrder'': The Yuuzhan Vong are from another galaxy, which earned the nickname of Far Outsiders. They act akin to how humankind sees aliens -- an invading species undetectable by common means (in this case, The Force). With an added flavor of ScaryDogmaticAliens and organically-built technology.

** For humans, FTLTravel is only possible in the range of the psychic beacon of the Astronomican, which is on Earth and doesn't even cover the totality of the galaxy (and, as of 8th edition, has been cut off from about half of its former range). So for all intents and purposes, there is no universe outside the Milky Way.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** 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 ''Literature/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]]?

When "the Galaxy" and "the Universe" are used interchangeably, either in the logic of the plot or explicitly. Extends to particular planetary systems and even the Earth.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse: {{Subverted}}. While the Milky Way is, by far, [[[[SmallUniverseAfterAll the primary setting]] to the point of the [[AlternateUniverse Multiverses]] are those born from variations of the Milky Way (the Earth, specifically), there have been multiple allusions to other galaxies.
** The big three empires ([[SpaceRomans Shi'ar]], [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Kree]], and [[SpaceJews Skrull]]) span galaxies other than ours.

*** ''Literature/NewJediOrder'': {{Subverted}}. The Yuuzhan Vong are from another galaxy, which earned the nickname of Far Outsiders. They act akin to how humankind sees aliens -- an invading species undetectable by common means (in this case, The Force). With an added flavor of ScaryDogmaticAliens and organically-built technology.

* ''TabletopGame/IsaacAsimovsRobots'': The cover of the game conflates the fate of Earth (which you can save by correctly solving the mystery) with the fate of the galaxy (which the cover claims is at stake).
* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** 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 (although as the chaos Gods are the embodiment of rage, lust, hope and love felt by sentients, it could be that there's not much out there).
** The Tyranids have been theorized to be from another galaxy entirely, and actually on the run from something even worse than them.

When "the Galaxy" and "the Universe" are used interchangeably, either in the logic of the plot or explicitly.

Sub-trope of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite acknowledging an outer universe, it's not traveled to.

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* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': The Great Barrier was planned to be located at the center of the universe but is changed to be placed at the Milky Way Galaxy's center instead. Beyond the Great Barrier is Sha Ka Ree, where creation is said to have begun as if the center of the Milky Way Galaxy were the center of the universe.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'':
** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': {{Enforced}}. The stories originally handle the difference between the Milky Way galaxy and the universe (including multiple galaxies) correctly, but {{Tagline}}s and back cover blurbs from Panther and Avon conflate the two as if they were synonymous.
** ''Literature/FoundationAndEarth'': Despite the Milky Way being the only galaxy in terms of plot throughout the whole Foundation saga, it's {{lampshaded}} that humankind has the narcissistic tendency to believe its home galaxy is the only important bit of the universe.
---> '''Golan Trevize:''' Yet we speak so much and so often of the Galaxy that it is all but impossible for us to see that this is not enough. The Galaxy is not the universe. There are other galaxies.

* ''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 their favorite planet).
* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', most of the important activity in the universe appears to take place in the Milky Way Galaxy, even when dealing with the most ancient civilizations.

Related to EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy, when the term galaxy is misused. Contrast with its opposite trope: SmallUniverseAfterAll. Compare with TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay when, despite acknowledging an outer universe, it's not traveled to.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse In the series]], the Gems' Empired is mentioned as having colonies in multiple galaxies. However, TheMovie uses "galaxy" and "universe" pretty interchangeably. For instance, the prologue states that the Diamonds "conquered many worlds across the galaxy", but a signal to all their colonies is referred to as a "message to the universe".
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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. The Ellimist alludes to there existing beings like himself and Crayak in other galaxies: Crayak himself originally fled to this galaxy to escape one!

** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': The stories originally handled the difference between the Milky Way galaxy and the universe (including multiple galaxies) correctly, but {{Tagline}}s and back cover blurbs from Panther and Avon conflate the two as if they were synonymous.
** ''Literature/FoundationAndEarth'': It's a PlotPoint during the climax that AbsentAliens only applies to the Milky Way, and just because there aren't any aliens in ''this'' galaxy ([[SequelHook Except for]] the [[{{Transhuman}} Solarians]]) doesn't mean that aliens don't exist in other galaxies.
--->"Yet we speak so much and so often of the Galaxy that it is all but impossible for us to see that this is not enough. The Galaxy is not the universe. There are other galaxies." --'''Golan Trevize'''
* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the Milky Way is the only galaxy ever specifically mentioned, even though the outlandish technology we see would presumably make intergalactic travel feasible.[[note]]Hell, the Improbability Drive makes it more feasible the more impossible it is..[[/note]] The most notable references to "the Universe" are either metaphysical ("the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything") or temporal (the titular "[[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]" is permanently located at the end of time itself). There is at least one mention of a wider physical universe, when someone speculates that the enigmatic Galactic President may in fact rule all of it.

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Compare with the unconfused tropes TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay and SmallUniverseAfterAll. As well as a similar error EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy

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** [[WildMassGuessing A possible explanation]] could be found at the end of Mass Effect 3. In short, the reapers were created in a failed attempt to stop a ViciousCycle that caused problems in the Milky Way a billion years ago. It's possible they don't travel to Andromeda or the Megellianic Clouds because they only care about the Milky Way's problems, not theirs.
* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' features countless of stars in its own galaxy. That's the only galaxy there is [[spoiler:unless you get to the center of the galaxy and follow the main plot to find out, that the whole universe is a simulation that needs to be reset by you, which allows you the choice of what kind of galaxy should replace the current one. But then again, you can freely travel between galaxies (there are more than one or two), but they are treated as different iterations from the original galaxy and are basically treated as being another dimension or parallel universe from the previous one, as they are part of a different simulation of the same AI, the Atlas.]]

** The big three empires, for example, span galaxies other than ours.

** Despite having access to faster-than-light travel (called Hyperspace), the ''Galactic'' Republic and later the Empire act like nothing exists beyond one single galaxy. In the Expanded Universe, they seem not to care very much about the satellite galaxies of the one they inhabit. {{Justified}} seeing 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 hyper routes is both very dangerous and very random. For the ones in charge, it would appear foolish to take the risks or spend the logistics of traveling to other galaxies when they have superweapons to build instead. The [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends continuity]] states that while there are other galaxies, there's a hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the main galaxy [[CorralledCosmos preventing travel in and out]] and there's only one known place where the barrier doesn't work.
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Jedi Master Jorus C'Baoth commissions an extra-galactic expedition, [[Literature/OutboundFlight the Outbound Flight Project]], in the last years of the Galactic Republic to seek out new life and civilizations beyond the galactic disk. Unfortunately, it ends disastrously thanks to [[BigBad Chancellor Palpatine]] who sees it as a [[{{Exploited}} nice way to get rid of some Jedi ahead of schedule]].
** ''Literature/NewJediOrder'': The Yuuzhan Vong explicitly hailed from another galaxy and are one of the few examples of an extragalactic civilization found in ''Legends''
** Hyperspace travel is said to be [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightspeed/Legends 100,000 times faster than light speed.]] The diameter of the Milky Way is at least [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way 100,000 light-years,]] meaning it would take at least a year for a ship at this speed to traverse the entire galaxy. The distance between the Milky Way and the next closest galaxy, Andromeda, is approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy 2.5 million light years.]] This makes the travel time via Hyperspace at least 25 years. The galaxy we see in Star Wars is said to be [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_galaxy about the size of the Milky Way,]] so it's reasonable to suppose a similar distance to the next nearest galaxy.

* Although ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' once mentioned Gems as having colonies in multiple galaxies, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' uses "galaxy" and "universe" pretty interchangeably. For instance, the prologue states that the Diamonds "conquered many worlds across the galaxy", but a signal to all their colonies is referred to as a "message to the universe".

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse: {{Subverted}}. While the Milky Way is, by far, [[[[SmallUniverseAfterAll the primary setting]] to the point of the [[AlternateRealitiy Multiverses]] are those born from variations of the Milky Way (the Earth, specifically), there have been multiple allusions to other galaxies.

* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', the Great Barrier was planned to be located at the center of the universe but was changed to be located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Beyond the Great Barrier is Sha Ka Ree, where creation is said to have begun as if the center of the Milky Way Galaxy were the center of the universe.
* Despite having access to faster-than-light travel (called Hyperspace), the Empire from ''Franchise/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 hyper routes 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. [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends continuity]] states that while there are other galaxies, there's a hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the main galaxy [[CorralledCosmos preventing travel in and out]]; there's only one known place where the barrier doesn't work.
** In ''Legends'', Jedi Master Jorus C'Baoth commissioned an extra-galactic expedition, [[Literature/OutboundFlight the Outbound Flight Project]], in the last years of the Galactic Republic to seek out new life and civilizations beyond the galactic disk. Unfortunately, it ended disastrously thanks to [[BigBad Chancellor Palpatine]] who saw it as a nice way to get rid of some Jedi ahead of schedule.