Liza, I've made a 1st pass through chapter one and will continue on to 2 & 3 later today. You should be able to see the annotated file in your dropbox folder. (This is a test to see if I finally started to figure this out.) I did see some canon issues, but all of them can be fixed with minor changes. I did some minor proofing as well. There are inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, etc. I'm sure I didn't catch them all.
You should know that so far, the story will fit the Swarm Cycle just fine. I'll do more later this morning. Mike