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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[MU/MCU] What are the interstellar nations or empires closest to Earth? Does Earth lie within the borders (disputed or otherwise) of any interstellar nation or empire?
gpt
The Badoon are a gender-segregated pair of nations of a reptilian species. The Sisterhood are based in Capella, a real star about 40 light years from here, but they're not the interstellar empire. The Brotherhood is, and rules a third of our galaxy. Despite this, they're *small time*; but the Guardians have been warned to take them seriously. They have attempted to invade Earth several times.

They're probably the closest too. Xandar and the Skrulls in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Kree are part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Shi'ar are in a galaxy somewhere in the local group that isn't identified (Triangulum?).