User blog comment:Sindri Myr/It is the fifty-first millennium.../@comment-1657156-20130419025841/@comment-7232811-20130421101702

You know, I hadn't really thought of that to be honest. But now I think about it, here's a possible solution: we don't know exactly how far away the 'nids are from the galaxy, so there's the chance that they are quite close to it. If that was the case, then it wouldn't really matter if there was an Astronomican or not, as the 'nids would be able to detect the life in the galaxy anyway. How else did the 'nids find all the other galaxies that they ate? & I bet that not many of them had their own Astronomican (or something like it either).