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Here's a complicated answer.

a:

Your book strikes closer to Star Trek in tech and terminology (eg tractor beams, shields, beaming (which you renamed but follow the same rules), food dispensers (which you also renamed but are similarly infinite)). Do i recall correctly that Tlaan even has a positronic brain?. As such, you can benefit from renaming to help you escape established principles. The more "Common" your terms, the closer you will land to Star Trek, and once you land there, you won't be able to escape.

b:

In Rachel's stories I would suggest the opposite. She has so much meta-data within her stories (eg Goblin Fire) that maybe a tractor beam really is just a tractor beam so that there's more room for other terms to shine. In my own stories, I'm careful to avoid common terms like "mind trick" or "lightsword" for the same reasons I suggest to Bobbie.

c:

I'm halfway through book 2 and can confidently say you 100% do not need tractor beams. You could just have the aggressor ship disable the weaker ship and space-dock it for a boarding party. Remember Star Wars I (or IV or whatever number it is now) when Vader does this and capture Leia? This scene is just as cool as a tractor beam and a lot of fun

@Mlle Gacelle: "Fan service" is a (frowned upon) activity where the author adjusts the story to please the fans rather than be faithful to the original artistic vision.

We see Lucas do so in toning down Jar Jar. In anime it's usually related to sexualization of female characters. Sonic the Hedgehog movie fan serviced the character design.

Personally, I don't mind it (If Lucas was fully on board, Darth Maul would have found a way to survive). I do it all the time within the limits of the greater plot. For example, my world originally had no trains, but readers found that unrealistic, so I added them (Personally, I don't see how such a place of tyrants and greedy powered people would be able to support rail between their regions, but whatever)

Same model, same character

Yep. Fast. J3nna was 7 yrs

Ravens is kinda Norse, no?

terrible to hear! Get well

Edit: Were you seeking print? I have some physical copies sitting around I can send

Correct. I wrote project L up to chapter 26 (posted upto 11). At that point I started exploring the antagonist and realized I had a better story there. Will return to the original later tho.

Perfection is an interesting problem, and it much plagues Superman, though DC has been trying to write him flawed for the past 15 years.

It's hard to solve! For Laine, since this is technically book 7, there's not much I can do to keep her imperfect. I added that she's become a bit greedy from losing all her money. But that's now a flaw per se (given that they really took all her money). It's a reaction to stimulus, not a character flaw