The Great Universe, the Great Void

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Yes, if your astronomy is any good, you had probably already guessed it. The place we were talking about was the Boötes Void, seven hundred million light-years from our Milky Way Galaxy.

At first, we believed the Local Void near our Milky Way Galaxy could achieve our objective, but it seemed we were wrong. After our scientists calculated the Dark Matter structure, the Local Void appeared to be too small and was highly unlikely to eliminate the experiment's effects...

We trusted our scientists' calculations, so we did not choose the Local Void near our Milky Way Galaxy. Yes, it was regrettable that such a nearby Local Void could not be chosen, but there was no helping it... The Local Void was only 150 million light-years in diameter. It truly did not meet the requirements.

Our scientists had calculated that, on the immense cosmic scale centered on our Milky Way Galaxy, perhaps only the Boötes Void was likely to work. Its diameter was 250 million light-years, making it the largest of the many voids. If even it was unsuitable, then extinction was probably our only path...

Seeing this, every human aboard the First Fleet frowned deeply. Of course, they knew of the Boötes Void. It was an extraordinarily vast region of the universe, almost entirely devoid of galaxies, and one of the largest voids currently known to humanity.

Its diameter was approximately 250 million light-years. Humanity had discovered it and roughly measured it as early as 1981. Located in the direction of Boötes, it lay about seven hundred million light-years from Earth, with only one galaxy on average every ten million light-years.

From Earth, it appeared to lie roughly in the region of the Boötes constellation, which was where its name came from.

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