From Mr. Bohne:

3. They do not come from any nearby
star ...
4. instead they leave you for a short
step-over =A0 in your next galaxy.

Yeah, and their sole means of transport is hitching rides on capricious
superluminal "gas streams".
Darla could be a lot more convincing to say something
like this - "Well, we've been doing shakedown runs with our
new-generation Level 6 Hyperdrive, which has intergalactic capability.
The old generation Drives were capable of intra-galactic travel only.
Now the rallying cry is "To Andromeda and Beyond!". oc