Sagittarius And The Magellanic Clouds

In Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, the colonized planet, Nerthus, is on the Sagittarian border of the Stellar Union and, many millennia later, human civilization moves beyond Sagittarius to the Galactic centre.

In After Doomsday, the USS Benjamin Franklin went through Sagittarius to galactic centre (sometimes capital "G," sometimes small) and returned to Earth in three years. The later all-male European expedition had:

"'...planned on at least three years in the Magellanic Clouds.'" (4, p. 40)

- which means that I was mistaken when I stated here that there was no mention of any extragalactic travel.

The Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. In Anderson's last future history, members of the galactic brain have spread through the galactic halo:

"...as far as the Magellanic Clouds."

-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), PART TWO, I, p. 101.

- and some have reached the Andromeda galaxy.

World Without Stars, Tau Zero and The Avatar present three different kinds of extragalactic travel.

I did not expect to survey all that when I started this post.