This was a great game. I did not manage to play it through and was confused by the level progression. 3/4 resets to 1/4 on alert? or did the difficulty increase (3/4 was it in the end)?
I am astouned that conceptualising took you only 2 hours. I could not come up with a single scenario in that time I guess.
While you nailed the theme - one minor caveat: my brain is wired to wanting to connect something, not disconnect something. couldn't you somehow used the same/similar gameplay for making connections?