I think maybe the way he was intending it to read was that you could attack a non-special hex adjacent to the space port, then in the next turn you could attack a special one next to the space port, assuming you had won the first one previously.
That still leaves a bit of a conflict, but makes the most sense to me, as it doesn't run into the problem with needing to hold an adjacent space to attack a special hex.
Last edited by morella888; 07-01-2015 at 05:06 PM.