My only semi-legit gripe is Katuen might be TOO powerful as an adversary. His ship can one shot our ship. He can one shot our whole team with bio-death. He's effectively invulnerable against our combat characters due to his shield (he took an entire crews worth of weapon fire on the vid without flinching). Sadish can't even understand his technology, and she's the 'brains', her defense is pathetic, and she hasn't even managed to get copies to the rest of the crew yet. I get that's part of the story, but I dunno how can we 'stand up' to him at this point. He's engaging on the level that yeah, he should be opposed, but there's no realistic way to do that. So we just feel powerless, waiting for the plot to come and give us the One Ring we can use to banish Sauron.
Right now is not the time to stand up. Much as the first act of ME is not the time to shoot a Reaper, or how Garion doesn't get trotted out to facestab Kal-Torak in chapter one, or how Luke and Vader don't duel to the death on their first encounter.
I was actually talking this over with my partner, and part of the problem is that I write with your character in mind, not with you in mind. I know that your character has several years of experience being successful and surviving while being attacked by fungal mantids and tree abductions, and I know how my world works, and thus I reasonably know what she can and cannot do, you haven't had a nice set of easy, acclimation type missions in order to get comfortable.
I kind of gave you the Eldritch Horror introduction, where everything is terrible. Which, admittedly, is akin to giving someone their first driving lesson on black ice.
I'm sorry, I promise things will calm down a bit after the intro.
Right after I'm done hurting you more.
...Although I'm really intrigued in how someone could own a PLANETOID.
Pretty easily. Same way one can own a company, or a plantation, or be supreme leader of a country. Money, and the power to keep everyone else in line. It's all a matter of scale.
Also, Bore jumping and size: Small scale (non attack) vessels typically don't mount their own bore drives, but larger vessels can open bore's of most any size. The trouble is that the ENTER side of the bore has to be relatively close to the generating vessel, while the EXIT can be arbitrarily far away. So, tearing off a chunk of the station would not help, since the limiting factor is not the size of the ship, but the fact that no one there is generating a bore that it can use to get back to the reunion.
Now, if some ship at the station were to generate a bore pointed at the Reunion, that might make things much faster.