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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
Credible on what time scale? A galactic passage at normal galactic velocities takes megayears to unfold. Do your characters care if the EH's threats will take 837,184 years before their world is affected?
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Charles Stross's "Palimpsest" has an utterly brilliant treatment of this, coming closer to Stapledonian sf than anything else I've seen.