Chee Lan's home planet, Lifehome-under-Sky/Cynthia, is O2 Eridani A II. I think that "Eridani A II" would mean "the second planet of the first star in the constellation, Eridanus" but I do not know what the "O2" means. (That is meant to be a small 2 to the lower right of the O.)
Googling "Eridanus," I learned that:
there is an Eridanus supervoid;
filaments of gravitationally bound galaxies are the largest known structures in the universe and form the boundaries of voids.
I did not know any of that.
Poul Anderson speculated about trans-galactic cosmic structures in Tau Zero and World Without Stars. See here. But he did not know about filaments or voids.
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