I changed up the way of the system to allow the story to progress.
the novel will be based off tech and they can increase the ships technology level to make it stronger.
the orbs are the cores of the ships and they determine how strong of technology they can support.
the orbs can be changed out through a process.
I think this will make it a lot easier to go off of from now.
equalizers are humans
they are connected to the core
they can control the advanced technology better than anyone can
and can instantly understand new knowledge and technology added to the ship so no need to adjust for them.