All in all, I could see less diversity/more uniformity in the worlds of the interior, like Core Sector, as they'd've been part of the 3I since 'forever' and the region was very, very stable.
Even out on the SolRim I think there'd be, in general but w/ the exception of the Vega Autonomous Region, a high degree of uniformity.
It's the border areas along the Vargr Extents or distant, semi-isolated regions like the 'Marches where I'd expect to find more variability.

Speaking of random number generators, the first mainframe I learned  BASIC on defaulted, purportedly for testing/debugging purposes, to a fixed list of random numbers unless an override cmd, RANDOMIZE, was inserted at the beginning of the program!

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On Mon, 1/9/17, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, January 9, 2017, 11:31 AM

 > On
 Jan 9, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > But
 starting from the very beginning there always were
 'weird' systems that made me think, "Huh,
 wonder how that system came to be that way?”

 There’s an article on system
 generation in “Challenge” where (iirc) Dave Nilsen
 described most of the systems in the First and Second
 Surveys as ‘generated by a computer with its random number
 generator stuck in a groove’ or something like that.

 The data bears this out,
 there’s an amazing lack of variability in the official 3I,
 except for the Spinward Marches which was heavily
 hand-edited.

 There’s been
 a lot of handwavium alloy welded on to these systems over
 the years to explain away the weirder ones..

 --
 Bruce
 Johnson
 University of Arizona
 College of Pharmacy
 Information
 Technology Group

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