I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen or not, but I found a blue star sector with an upgrade port, so I populated it. I used 5 genesis torps, and then built up the planets like normal, putting approx 500mil colonists on each planet, etc.
Well, I log in today, and now it's an ore port
And not even a very well priced ore port, either
I don't know what other information you would need that I could get. I can email the admin and ask him though, if you tell me what other info you need, if any.
Nope that is not supposed to happen. Was it one of our games or another sites? Sometimes the database may have corupted itself and caused that to happen, but under normal circumstances.... no