Mathematical question: procedural generation of a galaxy

Question

I\'m going to make a space/trading/combat game that is completely procedurally generated. But, I know that storing all of the details of the whole galaxy in memory is unfeas

Answer 1

I suspect the biggest problem you're going to face is having a naming system to name all these objects in a way that's consistent and meaningful to the player -- although we do have schemes for naming real objects systematically. I forget whether Elite's naming convention broke down after a certain point ...