UWP Distribution in the Imperium

[robject]

As an exercise, I generated one million UWPs using the Book 3 system (ah, except I'm also using Malenfant's stellar gen system for stars).

I found that the general distribution of world types is different from that of the Spinward Marches, and is bound to be different for the more populated/settled parts of the Imperium as well.

I'm going to focus in on a subset of worlds: those whose assets outweigh their liabilities. Here's my metric:

1 point each: Starport[A,B], TL[A+], Trade Codes[Ag,In,Ri,Hi]
-1 point each: Starport[E,X], TL[5-], Trade Codes[Lo,Po]

I'm calling the sum value "importance", and I'll consider all worlds with importance > 3.

</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Source Important Worlds
Spinward Marches 25/5%
* Zarushagar 23/4%
100,000 Random UWPs 3258/3%
* Core 19/3%
* Dagudashaag 12/2%
* Deneb 7/1%
* Vland 2/0%</pre>[/QUOTE]If anything, the Spinward Marches is too industrialized.

* These charts are probably rebellion-era?

 

[Golan2072]

Strange; I always got the impression that the Marches had many low-TL, low-pop worlds such as Raschev or Victoria...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

There are interesting stats here: http://maps.travellercentral.com/map.html

 

[Plankowner]

So, maybe this is a stupid question, but given that we only have one method to generate UWP's, why would anyone expect ANY differences between CORE and the SM statistically? Unless someone sits down and changes the UWPs or employs DMs that they don't tell us about, everything should be pretty even everywhere. This is obviously not right, but we don't have anything in CANON that says, for example: "Use this alternate SP table in the core regions of the Imperium and use 1d3+3 for the TL roll"

I would say the reason that there are differences is that someone, somewhere tweeked the UWP rolls. Not that I am complaining, IMTU I do that all the time, but I try to justify it, at least to myself, so that when I want to roll a frontier, I use my frontier tables, not the "standard" rolls. Takes longer, but I get the trends that I want.

 

[robject]

Large chunks of the Marches were primarily engineered; in fact, a lot of the Marches (and a lot of ships designed in the CT days) were generated before the revised and/or official generation systems were published.

Hence, incongruities.

And it gets worse. Some of the generation logic used for the rest of the TU were occasionally... buggy.