olycordis at a Standstill: A Heated Exchange with a Living Spaceship
What happens when a sentient starship of colossal proportions unexpectedly blocks Polycordis’ filament boulevards? In this interview, reporter Psylo-D13 attempts vainly to get answers from LVNDR Hyperliner, the living ship whose overbearing presence and fierce rhetoric tangles the capital of Syntheusium into chaos.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 So, your massive hull is blocking half of Convergence Square. Seriously, why would a living ship decide to park right here?
LVNDR Hyperliner Uh, I had clearance via frequency 8.11. Your city protocol shifts every seven minutes-it’s impossible to keep up. No, I won’t budge.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 Clearance from whom? The Council for Accessible Traffic Flow refused your docking request three times today!
LVNDR Hyperliner Rubbish. My intermodular proton pass was approved on stardate 4422.251 by Subsection Cobalt, no less. Your paperwork has more layers than my sensors can take.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 Oh, come on! You can’t honestly think a 90-meter-long ship with pulsating plasma coils belongs here. The light banners are practically rusting!
LVNDR Hyperliner Light banners don’t rust, they demodulate. Maybe update your basics before mocking me.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 Now you’re attacking my knowledge? You’re so stubborn, even the Jaspis Tower lawyers have given up. Why stay here, knowing you’re a menace?
LVNDR Hyperliner Maybe because I’m awaiting passengers, but every archive drone shuffles me around as if I’m an old data packet. I have memory banks, not feet!
Interviewer Psylo-D13 If your memory’s so great, why block the diplomat procession again? Yesterday, a gas cloud ambassador nearly suffocated in your grass-mat chamber!
LVNDR Hyperliner Nonsense. That ambassador refused to tune his interference field. Can’t blame me if individual grill appliances don’t align with city standard.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 No excuses. Rumor has it you’re broadcasting illegal data bursts to the Convergence House. Own up.
LVNDR Hyperliner Baseless accusations, again. My dish sends standard updates. Your local surveillance protocols are as leaky as an old airship.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 So, you admit you’re a security hazard? Half your port plasma ducts are in the council tower!
LVNDR Hyperliner That’s inevitable with vertical city planning. Try transporting sixteen biotaal factions without my scale. It’s either efficiency or citizens turned upside down.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 And the drone collision on stardate 4422.258-what about that?
LVNDR Hyperliner Well, if drones quit spinning right under my anti-grav coil, that’ll stop. I get blamed for everything here that isn’t repeatable.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 Can you pick up diplomats somewhere else without tying Polycordis in knots? Or are you just stubborn?
LVNDR Hyperliner Perhaps. But until the Union finalizes its protocols-which never happens here-I’m staying. You’re free to block my speakers, but I won’t move.
Interviewer Psylo-D13 You really think you’re above city rules, don’t you? Not surprising for a ship who thinks it’s more important than half the Federation!
LVNDR Hyperliner Would you like to thank me for getting your parent’s commuter here on time this morning?
Interviewer Psylo-D13 Okay, this interview is over. Absolutely unbearable... *connection terminated*