The landing pad is the general level transport hub for shuttles and landers. While not as large as the Space Port the Landing Pad is able to accommodate most aircraft and spacecraft in Diaspora.
Computers these days are fast. Really, really fast. They can store and process complex operations on huge numbers of variables at speeds which, frankly, are a little alarming when you...
Every journey has a beginning and an end. What's surprisingly difficult is persuading a computer to find an efficient way to navigate from one to the other.