Boötes

The Botez Void is a roughly spherical region of space, approximately 330 million light-years in diameter.

It sits about 700 million light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Boötes.

Inside this enormous volume, astronomers have found approximately 60 galaxies.

60.

In a region where the cosmic average would predict roughly 2,000.

The Boötes void is so empty that if the Milky Way sat at its centre, humans would not have discovered the existence of other galaxies until the 1960s.

When telescope technology finally became powerful enough to detect objects at the distances required to see beyond the void's boundaries, for most of human history, looking out from the centre of the boat as void, the sky would have appeared to contain nothing but our own stars.

The universe beyond would have been invisible.

Yeah.

I think the checkered piping on the colonial uniforms here is the same as on the Black Babylon 5 Army of Light uniforms, but then again, I could have been terribly drunk when I typed that, so who knows? The character names Vela, Puppus, Bootes, and Lacerda are taken from the names of constellations, as is the name Cassiopeia.

Likewise, Lupus, that they were hunting... is the name of a constellation.

The planet's name, Equilis, closely resembles Equilis, the little horse, the name of yet another constellation, and