starkatt - It's still kind of blowing my mind that the playable area of Elite Dangerous is the entire Milky Way.
Not just "select locations in the Milky Way". All of them. 150,000 real-world surveyed stars and 400 billion procedural ones. And, yeah, most of them have accompanying planets and moons.
Only the local bubble is actually /inhabited/ but that's still a huge number of locations. If you want to hop all the way to the center of the galaxy 20ly at a time, there's nothing to stop you.