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Re:Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time by scrumper on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:23PM (#4784641)
> hideaway for a fleeing civilization

Larry Niven's Known Space books deal with this. They put a civilization of herbivorous creatures called Puppeteers on a group of sunless planets accelerating away from a catastrophe in the galactic center. One enjoyable aspect comes from the creatures' herd-like, risk-averse nature, a hold over from their distant past as prey animals. They dream of fleeing forever, enjoying a nomadic existence in the voids between galaxies.

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Re:Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:44PM (#4784769)
Actually, I think their plan is to go to the Magellanic clouds, following the rest of the Known Space species who would get there before them via Hyperdrive.

It's been awhile since I've read the series, the Ringworld novels bored me.

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Re:Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time by scrumper on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:47PM (#4784787)
That was the direction they were heading in, but a pretty decent chunk of them didn't ever want to go back to living inside a galaxy.
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