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There's a rare good prologue in 2001's Dawn of Man (https://screenrant.com/2001-space-odyss … nal-scene/).

I could go on long rants on this topic but I can sum it down to: I buy a lot of non-Big-5-work from the market and have learned to peek past the prologue before making a buying decision.

Sorry, I might have missed it but:

Why stop at only one Connor? Why not make backups?

Emails are actually quite hard. So many services are on the look-out for mass Emails with slightly similar bodies, you can land your server on RBLs within minutes. Same with SMS these days. My own phone company (Rogers) is on one which makes me laugh. Every time they try to text me their latest offer, my phone tosses it into junk without asking.

This will not be easy to solve, I fear

Mayhap you're on chrome? The secure=false would do that

Clarification: It wasn't God who created the capacity for premarital sex. In 1653, mankind made it possible

Is still an issue of free will. If you don't want them to touch it, move it five miles south (so someone else can touch it)?

Nay, why create it at all? If you don't have the tree, and there is no decision, everyone is happy, right? No one can disobey in the absence of options.

Yet, Lucifer didn't face such a choice, yet sin still occurred.

Also not a theologian but...

My mom (Jew) would say God also gives us the ability to murder with the expectation not to do so.
eg: Both are sins, but you have free will to engage if you really want to sin.

===insert devil's advocate part ===

Me (Converted): The specific passage in the bible is where the guy wastes his seed by spilling it at the side of the bed.

The scene suggests God doesn't want seed wasted. So we get the rules that you can't masturbate and you can't use contraception.

Why was the Lord displeased? Was it really because of the spilled seed? Or was it because Onan was sleeping with someone else's wife?

I don't recommend *overly* worrying about physics.

After all, if you can "see" a laser being fired, it's probably not a laser but rather something much slower.

It's probably also wasting energy into the visible spectrum in some direction other than it's going (eg has a moving point of emission (effusion?) or other)

If your ship's computers can "see" an attack before it strikes, the attack was already slower than light or there's handwavium.

If you can see a turret "warming up" (before shooting a light blast) you might ask how so much infrared energy escaped and how such radiation eclipsed higher energy signatures.

Well, yes, until you need magic to break it. Will you adhere to known rules or will you side-step when required?

These names really stick out to me, in a Starship Troopers way.

And I'm thinking back to Frank Herbert. How does one get "The Spice Must Flow" to sound cool? There is honestly nothing cool about "Make my Mustard Run" or "Let the Ketchup Drip". Yet somehow "The Spice Must Flow" works.

I think that's what's hitting me: Mustard, juice, ketchup, milk. Perhaps it needs to be more generic.

(Brainstorm Mode Enabled!)

Ok a neutrino-energy converter works on clusters of neutrinos so the energy pools internally until there's enough to make a controlled release. So "Drippers" informally for the engine and "percolate" for the process. "Dammit man, an energy converter isn't a coffee machine, we don't have all day to watch it percolate"

(Brainstorm Mode Off!)

That makes me think of coffee too much. Must continue to fire neurons at the problem

Indeed. I see by the long write-up that you understand the implications of the arrangement.

Along the lines of Rey Skywalker turning to the camera and says "Actually, I've been Anakin all along" this is going to be a big leap for your reader to manage. You'll need to do a long of prep-work to help them bridge it.