Hello Travellers. Long time, no see.
So the other day I was curious about the distribution of a bunch of things in the official Imperial survey data so I pulled the raw data from
travellermap.com, tweaked it a bit by hand and then pulled it into a google spreadsheet to do some analysis.
Feel free to make a copy and tweak the pivot tables yourself if you like that sort of thing.
For example 93% of the population of the Marches is on the 42 pop 9 & A worlds. There are 397 other inhabited worlds that make up the remaining 7% of the population of the Marches. So there's a lot of concentration of population and a lot - A
LOT - of empty space to hide if you want to.
92B of the 375B of the sophonts in the Marches live on a TL 8 or lower world. 50B live at TL 8. That's like 6.7 Earth's at today's TL.
There are 14 TL 5 Agricultural worlds. There's one extremely high-tech Ag world, Tenalphi, that's TL E, size 7 and has 60M inhabitants. It's a nearly Earth-like planet that basically only has New York state and California, or a country between
the size of France & Italy. Quite possibly the population is distributed over the entire planet so it ends up being endless Kansas.
Anyway, if you also like spreadsheets, have a look.