My problem as a writer is that I tend to get too caught up in the technical side of things, which is where this question came from to start with - if you guys have cracked it to the point of being able to create UF, after all, I could do worse things than pose the question to you. But it turns out you do a lot of it with the equivalent of smoke and mirrors, and that's a good thing, because like you said, making something overly technical is going to piss off the non-hard-scifi-nerd readerbase. The point I'm taking from this is basically 'Loosen up, don't let yourself get buried, and just write it.' Even if that isn't the point you intended, it's kind of what I needed.