Quote:This makes a lotta sense to me. I was wondering why they'd not bother exploring their own universe when they have spaceships.
My working model at this point is trying to reconcile a lot of different things, so bear with me. The first WAG I'm taking is that the TSAB's 'dimensions' are not, in fact, seperate pocket universes, but the coordinates in 'real' spacetime - the one Terran astronomers have been staring at for centuries - that one arrives at after feeding certain energy characteristics into an indefinitely small universally adjacent 'other space'... IOW, if a Terran researcher independantly replicated the principles behind their interdimensional planar travel, he'd call it 'hyperspace'.
Not to mention, if they're hopping dimensions, they never seem to run into alternate realities of their own civilization/planet.