he Allegor 9000: A Dismal Space Experience on Hydron Segmentum
On Hydron Segmentum, innovation and chaos are the norm-surely the perfect environment for a biolife like myself to review a new spaceship. Yet my maiden voyage aboard the Allegor 9000 ended in disappointment: endlessly circling above the Mackinac Split, suddenly awash in an inland sea squall.
Test-flying the Allegor 9000, supposedly the flagship of submodular transport on Hydron Segmentum, revealed itself after the first arc over the Mackinac Split as a pointer toward intergalactic disaster. As a bio-engineered lifeform with minimal organic self-preservation and a heightened appreciation for fluid-solid safety, I realized quickly that any ship groaning above semi-sentient plasma channels offers scant room for confidence.
The interior, allegedly the epitome of automated elegance and 'natural flair', turned out to be a collection of dangling hyperglass panels mixed with leftovers from archaic hydraulics-likely an avant-garde statement, but definitely not intentional engineering. The so-called panoramic viewport came equipped with a rotary mechanism that only activated during cyclonic squalls (which occur every 18 stardates here), at which point the cabin was casually flooded with a fine spray from the inland sea.
Navigation was managed by the illustrious Automata Guild, which seemed to draw guidance from an obsolete Hydron Codex version. The result: random loops around floating silicon lakes, near-collisions with schools of shadowfish, and an auto-return to the factory any time the mood lightened. On stardate 4422.295, I’d have sooner risked the crossing in a stranded luggage pod than set another foot (or root-structure) aboard this floating memory-stick of missed opportunities.