[Alneyan]

Spaceports do not affect your construction abilities. You can build anything in a system without a spaceport, as long as other systems produce resources. Only resource facilities do not work when there is no spaceport. Resource storage facilities work fine as well.

Two intelligence projects destroy/steal a part of your resources, but you should get a message if it does happen. They are level III projects, whose names I have forgotten.

Resources are used in the following order during a turn:
- Gifts and trades and scrapping. These should happen before the rest, but I am not too sure.
- Converting resources
- Retrofitting
- Income (either positive or negative), as shown in the Empire status window. Be warned there may be Last-minute changes in this field; for example, if you lose planets, treaties, and so on.
- Maintenance is paid for. If not enough resources are available in storage, a few ships will be destroyed during the turn.
- Construction queues are paid for. Since this happens at the end, you may have less resources than when you ended your turn. Common problems are retrofits, resource conVersion (beware of Repeat Orders on planets with resource converters) and treaty severance.

Edit: I should borrow Jack Simth's signature for this post. "Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie."