Where are the Civilians?

[Baron Munchausen]

Letting part of the resources from a blockaded planet -- or even system if it's the space part planet -- does make some sense. But allowing for individual ships carrying resources from one point to another is still going to be far too much detail in a game of this scale. The option I suggested, that some random 'freighters' appear when you attack a planet with a space port, is about as far as it can reasonably go. For remote miners, you might be able to add a space port 'component' or some other component to represent shipment facilities. Requiring the presence of one of these on the same ship or in the same sector where the mining is occuring would offer some logistics problems. Exspecially if you could 'blockade' it like a planet. Even if you have defenders strong enough to hold off the attacker, their presence could still cost you the resources.