Thinking in 3 Dimentions...

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I am not sure just how many light years high the galaxy is, we all know that Voyager is/was 75,000 LY from the Sol sector. However, I have never been able to find out how far Voyager is from climbing above the galactic plane, and avoiding all the hazards that come with flying through all the nebulas, voids, Nekrit expanses...ect.

Could they in theory, stay between 3-5 LY above the "fray" and decend back into galatic space when they need food, energy, medical or special needed supplies.

I have read about the Galactic Barrier that surrounds our galaxy and that it has unpredictable nurogenic properties, is there any way that this would be logical course of action and/or route back to the AQ...

 

[Timo]

In the real galaxy, there is no sharp edge where stars would cease to shine and dark matter would start to cling to the sides of the ship. In order to stay "outside" yet remain close enough for those foraging forays, the ship would have to twist and turn like crazy, probably doubling or tripling the distance she needs to travel...

And who's to say that it's more dangerous in the thicker parts? For all we know, those parts are "civilized", while the areas where there are fewer main sequence stars are "wilderness" where dark forces skulk and roam.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Finn]

^Yeah, in the edges of the galaxy, resources probably would be more scare, with star systems further apart and all so it would be far more hostile, I would imagine.

 

[ria 75]

A "3-D" reconstitution of the Milky Way by Hubble


http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/hst15_milky_way.html

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