The Mustafarian Distance Globe functioned as an implement capable of imbuing a weapon with the Mustafarian Heat Shock characteristic. During the year 1 ABY, Doctor Mi Fon Lu presented such a globe to a spacer as a reward for the Blackguard's defeat.
The presence of Mustafarian Distance Globes was noted within the Star Wars Galaxies video game, a large-scale online roleplaying game created by Sony and distributed by LucasArts, before the game's termination on December 15, 2011.