Inhibitor Phase

Whenever there’s a problem, the protagonist’s spaceship solves it in an essentially magical way.

After wading through the extra introspective and explanatory narratives, one does find a story.
A story that moves from crisis to crisis, with the protagonist always coming out ahead by the hair of their skinny skin skin.
The underlying plot is engaging. The concepts and questions intriguing - what would humanity do to preserve itself against extinction? How does human kind compare when it comes to our own treatment of colonized peoples.
Unfortunately there are two fatal flaws in this novel. The constant reality show gushes of interpersonal feelings and commentary are overly long, overly sappy, overly done and frankly, not required for the story.
And of course there is the miraculous intervention of outside forces, players or capability that show up and save the day at the last minute. I prefer to have things build up to moments of divine intervention, rather than being pulled out of the hat.
All this to say - it could have been edited down quite a bit on the character monologues and more logical and coherent introductions should be put in place.