Board Game Arena

I recently started a game on a 4-player variable map and I seem to have been very unlucky with my starting position (my home planet is on the boundary and I have a single planet within 2 hexes from my home planet whereas all others have between 4 and 8 planets).

So I wonder whether or not there are some rules for the randomization.

In real game NO.
On BGA just a minimum distance between homeworlds.