Radiant Road

In the saloon of Dominic Flandry's private spaceship, the Hooligan, a padded bench curves around three sides of the table, on the bulkhead is a picture by Hiroshige and Mozart plays whereas, in Targovi's Moonjumper, the saloon is a dingy cabin where Axor coils on the floor while Diana sits on the table.

However, Targovi and his passengers dim the lights and look at a viewscreen which shows:

"...the receding globe, luminous white and blue-green; three ashy-silver moons; crystalline blackness aswarm with fire-gems that were stars; the radiant road of the Milky Way."
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER FIVE, p. 255.

Needless to say, this post, written over breakfast in our kitchen, is occasioned by yet another Andersonian description of the Milky Way.