Could the Star Wars galaxy possibly be a void galaxy?

[Maximum7]

A void galaxy is a galaxy that exists in a cosmological void like the Bootes void. Most galaxies are clustered into filaments. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page for a void galaxy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_galaxy

Anyway, in Star Wars Legends, the Star Wars galaxy has 7 companion galaxies and in new canon, at least 1 companion galaxy. The Wikipedia page isn’t detailed on whether void galaxies can have companions but it says that there are galaxy groups in the void. I was thinking the Star Wars galaxy could be a void galaxy because it doesn’t have any contact with other galaxies. Is this feasible or is the Star Wars galaxy likely located in a supercluster.

 

[.Scott]

It would not be normal to have "contact" with other galaxies. Not unless you follow your "Hello" with a lot of patience.

 

[Maximum7]

It would not be normal to have "contact" with other galaxies. Not unless you follow your "Hello" with a lot of patience.

They have FTL communications on a magnitude of 4,750,000c. It would still take a bit of time to reach across the void. Communication lag depends on story writers but it seems that getting a message across the galaxy is somewhat challenging until 5 ABY.

 

[DaveC426913]

I was thinking the Star Wars galaxy could be a void galaxy because it doesn’t have any contact with other galaxies.

I am confused. The very creation of the thread seems premised on the above claim (otherwise, why speculate about voidness at all?)

So, where does this premise come from? Is it canon that "...the Star Wars galaxy doesn’t have any contact with other galaxies* ..."?

 

[DaveC426913]

You know ... in 41 years I have never once doubted that this was a galaxy that the Millennium Falcon was headed for, and always thought "My, that's quite a side quest".

It isn't until I went to use it in this thread that it occurred to me this is more plausibly a proto-solar system.

My whole life is a lie.

 

[Maximum7]

You know ... in 41 years I have never once doubted that this was a galaxy that the Millennium Falcon was headed for, and always thought "My, that's quite a side quest".

It isn't until I went to use it in this thread that it occurred to me this is more plausibly a proto-solar system.

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My whole life is a lie.

In Legends it was the main galaxy. In canon; I have no clue. I am an aspiring writer and if I ever get a chance to write for Star Wars; I have many MANY ideas I’d like to implement

 

[DaveC426913]

Do you have a response to my post #4?

 

[Maximum7]

Do you have a response to my post #4?

It is canon that the Star Wars galaxy doesn’t really have the capability to travel intergalactic and I am merely trying to speculate that if there astronomy is as good as ours if not better; do you think they know all there is to know about all the galaxies in the universe.

 

[Maximum7]

It is canon that the Star Wars galaxy doesn’t really have the capability to travel intergalactic and I am merely trying to speculate that if there astronomy is as good as ours if not better; do you think they know all there is to know about all the galaxies in the universe based on telescopes and observations.

 

[.Scott]

They have FTL communications on a magnitude of 4,750,000c. It would still take a bit of time to reach across the void. Communication lag depends on story writers but it seems that getting a message across the galaxy is somewhat challenging until 5 ABY.

Well, there's your answer.
It's not just a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It's also in a portion of the universe with different limitations. We may have the Higgs field, but we're missing that Force field (as in "may the Force be with you). I would guess that attempting to use that FTL communications technology into regions that are beyond the bounds of that Force field would be impossible.

 

[Rive]

I was thinking the Star Wars galaxy could be a void galaxy because it doesn’t have any contact with other galaxies.

According to Legends, a species from outside of the main galaxy (and not from the companion galaxies) could cross the void and stage an invasion. And at the end they were proven to be inferior to the army of the Force-guided main galaxy.

So it's not really that they couldn't. They just didn't.

 

[DaveC426913]

... at the end they were proven to be inferior to the army of the Force-guided main galaxy.

Hm. Sounds familiar.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Astrophysics in Star Wars is totally different than in reality.

The probability of successfully navigating an asteroid field is not approximately 3,720 to one.