Milky Way Reported to Exist in Cosmic Void

    I read in the news the other day that the Milky Way galaxy resides in a void inside the Cosmic Web.  That means our galaxy is a long way from the densely populated "filaments" of galaxies that create the shape of our universe.  It got me thinking:  what would the night sky look like if we were living in a filament instead, like 99% of the other galaxies?  In my estimation, these filaments would either hold a lot more life than our local group, or no life at all, simply because there is so much more light (and therefore radiation).  From a distance, the filaments connect each supercluster of galaxies in a network of light.  We can't even see these networks because they're so far away.  All we can see are the sporadic stars of our galaxy, hanging in the great void, far from what may be a more civilized neighborhood.  To put it in perspective, we might be on the barbarian outskirts of a great intergalactic empire, like Ireland was to Rome.  We may be the barbarians roaming the dark wilderness in the barrens of space, when all along we thought we were the light at the center of it all.