The Horrors of Travelling OUTSIDE the Galaxy | Star Wars Lore

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I love how Star Wars and Star Trek seem to have so much trouble with galactic travel while Stargate is like, "How many galaxies have we been to?"

There's probably another, more spiritual (and Lovecraftian) reason why Force-users in particular don't travel outside the galaxy - the sheer utter lack of the Force itself. We know that just being near black holes are enough to drive Jedi and Sith to bouts of paranoia and insanity, and that life creates and sustains the Force. Hence it could be said where there is no live (the intergalactic void), the Force is absent.

It's interesting how both Star Wars and Star Trek have these almost fantastical boundaries impeding travel beyond their respective galaxies.

One interesting theory might be that hyperspace as we know it is different because of all the gravity present inside a galaxy. We know that being too close to a gravity well causes you to fall out of hyperspace, so what if without the ambient amount of weaker gravity you would experience inside the galaxy it is impossible to return from hyperspace or maybe your acceleration through hyperspace becomes uncontrollable. The very lack of the galaxy is the problem

I appreciate the older videos being revisited, especially when there is new content. Heck, even new theories or explanations that reframe old content in a new way.

Could be worse, they could encounter Tyranid Hive Fleets…

I remember reading somewhere that part of the reason Palpatine had Tarkin attack the Outbound Flight project was his fear that it would bring the Yuuzhon Vong into the galaxy before he was ready to deal with them. Apparently Thrawn and the Chiss were also aware of the existence of the Yuuzhon Vong well before the Republic or Palpatine for that matter.

I've always found the "Here Thar Be Dragons" element to the unknown regions of the galaxy and the gulf outside of it to be a nice touch to a science fiction universe that has medieval and classical elements to its society and culture as well as unusually primitive technology for an interstellar civilization.

I thought the hyperspace barrier was made by the Celestials to prevent outsiders from disturbing the Star Wars Galaxy, as well as "isolate", as best they could the Mnggal-Mnggal and all it controlled.

"Let's do a trilogy where we explain the scary stuff beyond the galaxy and what the Death Star was being built to defend AGAINST!" "That's stupid. We're doing the Luke's-a-Loser and Death-Star-But-Bigger storylines"

So my science-fantasy headcannon for this is that galaxies are concentrated around dark matter, right? Maybe in intergalactic space without the gravity from dark matter, hyperdrives don't work as expected.

The (non Star Wars) novel “Fire Upon the Deep” has an interesting take on interstellar travel and environments. The galactic core is so “broken” that it doesn’t support life, or at least intelligent life. We (Earth) live in the “slow zone” (as in retarded). Most of the interesting species live in the galactic suburbs with FTL drives, FTL communication, and supercomputers. The “beyond” is a scarily advanced area which you wander into at your peril.

I love these kinds of lore videos, as I think they don't talk about the external galaxy as much.

Given the new canon with Disney, I think this is the perfect time to revisit old videos.

Personally I think it'll be cool for mulitple galactic stories to take place in the same universe but just galaxies apart so they'll never encounter each other due to distance. Like star strek, halo, and star wats being set within the same universe but completely different parts of it where they are too far to interact

With even a percentage of the druid tech level seen in star wars, you could easily map out the hyperspace and its anormalys at the edge. Just send a few drones to different distances and see which one still answers. Or let them make short jumps and then find out how close you can get and if there relly is nothing to see in real space.

Anytime I hear "oh we can't leave the galaxy because there's a weird barrier" I read it as "we just thought it'd be boring to say 'there's nothing beyond but big nigh-empty vacuum until the next galaxy' " . To me, it's poor writing. Especially if the barrier 'only' shows up when you get to a specific distance from the Rim of the galaxy, and is otherwise not even there. Why can't they just say "we don't go out there because there's little point: scant stars, low resources, and it's like 30 million of our longest jumps to get to the nearest one. Only pirates and hostile aliens go out there cuz they can get away from the authorities out in The Void. It's not any more dangerous than anywhere IN the galaxy... just empty."

Generally enjoy when you revisit older topics and add more information or just new thoughts to the mix. Would love to see more lore videos on the unknown region, aliens, and the looming evil that Thrawn so often purported to Emperor Palpy.

As a cursory viewer of your channel, I love dives and re-dives into lore, ‘cause there’s a lot that I’ve forgotten and even more that I haven’t been exposed to.