Talk:Aella Galaxy/@comment-5870856-20131123020357/@comment-1743498-20131126015358

If this was a completely different universe from our own in every way, it would be allowed. However, since it's been established that the Milky Way and Earth exist in Omni 01, there's really no reason not to use real galaxies - partly because there's just so many of them within such a close range.

To clarify the alternate universe concept, Omni 01 is really just a divergent timeline (where Earth history became drastically altered in the late 1980s.) Aside from the spacefaring extraterrestrials, Omni 01 was otherwise intended to be identical to the real universe.