Talk:Leesti/@comment-217.71.46.34-20170105150144/@comment-2A02:C7F:605E:9B00:DDF3:E306:8BE7:8F56-20180907155655
Names and the entire economy was generated by a pseudo random generator.. the original elite didn't have a 'database' of planets and systems, instead they were procedurally generated
Source code is around and various ports to every language you can think of
And the principle still live on - in fact i'm using simillar techniques for simulating trading activity in my day job at an investment bank ... we have a 'virtual' counterpaty called Lave Industries in our test data generation