[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by alarikf:
nah... Spaceports are a representation of a large investment in economic infrastructure, much like a much grander Version of the port of Charleston, Shanghai, etc...probably involving things like space elevators, lots of ship to space shuttles, and the associated facilities for quarantining, money exchange, and transport of people/things...and I say that becuase those races that are "natural merchants" are so good at trading that they don't need the investment to create such an infrastructure. They just do it on a micro-scale.

But must say that it was joke Alarikf! A bad one but a joke anyway!
Really don't have an opinion about what are (or should be) the Spaceports in terms of CF!
Think they're a very good element to add some twists into the Game without add so much micromanagement, and this is enough to me.

Anyway, I liked your theory.