Those aren’t really comparable.

Buddy...

If you don't think science chops phrases up as much as the military invents acronyms...

You're going to be very confused with realistic sci-fi

but the narration uses it like it’s scientific nomenclature.

Right, but it explains lots of things as if the reader is familiar, right?

When they say "ship" do you picture a boat instead of a "spaceship"?

It's all the same thing. This is like if you argued that "get to the ship" is bad writing because in your head your picturing something different. That's fine, everyone does that.

But you're insisting your interpretation is right, and refusing any of interpretation that solves your issues with your own.