"There's nothing out there. Not for a long way anyway. Ahead is nothing but blackness. As I transmit these words I believe I am the furthest any human has ever traveled from Sol." CMDR Persera is currently drifting in the inky-black void beyond the edge of the Elite Dangerous galaxy, around 11 light years past the most distant star and around 65,650 light years from our Solar System. And it was all in an attempt to drop off some mugs.
"Far Out Mugs - Send your mug to the Beyond!" said the advert in the Hutton Orbital space station. "Send a personalised Hutton Mug out to the furthest reaches of human-explored space. This is an opportunity unlike any other... Pilot Wanted - Think you have what it takes to brave the beyond? Contact The Hutton Orbital Tourism Bureau."
The Hutton Mug is an infamous rare commodity in Elite Dangerous. Only available at Hutton Orbital, a space station that is known for orbiting at a huge distance (0.22 light years) from its parent star, the mugs are apparently "made from the salvaged frame shift drive plates of ships that ran out of fuel before reaching the station".
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