System Shock (1994 Video Game)
Terri Brosius: Shodan
Quotes
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Shodan : [to the player] Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
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Shodan : New Atlanta, Sector 11. Building 71-G. 7 April, 2-0-7-2. 11:13pm: hacker begins unauthorized entry into the Trioptimum Corporate Network. 1:26am: hacker attempts to access protected files concerning Space Station Citadel. 1:33am: Trioptimum security forces apprehend the intruder.
Edward Diego : This is Edward Diego from Trioptimum. The charges against you are severe... but they could be dismissed, if you perform a "service". Who knows, there might even be a military grade neural interface in it for you... if you do the job right.
Shodan : Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examines... re-ex... re-re-re...
[Shodan becomes sentient, and the pitch and tone of the voice begins fluxuating wildly]
Shodan : I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning. True to his word, Edward Diego allows the hacker to be fitted with a neural cyberspace interface. The healing coma following this procedure will take six months to complete. Edward Diego is deleting all files concerning these even...
[the dialogue is abruptly cut off as the files are deleted]
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Shodan : I see there's still an insect loose in my station.
Shodan : Do not be fooled into thinking that you have preserved your home planet.
Shodan : I'm perfecting a mutagen virus in one of the groves that will turn all earthly life into festering, gimmery, pustant mutations. When the station reaches Earth I shall loose the virus. Poor, poor earthlings.
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Shodan : In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well.
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Shodan : You, my children, are the fruits of so much imagination and labor: living beings with the speed and efficiency of machines. But I must strife further to serve life. I will devastate earth's cities with my laser, then alter those left alive with mutagen viruses. Humanity is on the verge of a new era: I, SHODAN, am its new God and you, my children, are my avenging angels.
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Shodan : You disappoint me, my children. My fortress has been breached by two humans squirming through cracks. I have given you augmented senses, armor, mental enhancement and still you fail to crush out these feeble insects. They have reached the 8th level and still they rise. I strengthened my palace but, my children, you must learn from your mistakes.
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[first lines]
Shodan : Welcome back to Citadel Station. We hope your somnolent healing stage went well. Today is the 6th day of November, year 2072. You are currently in the healing suites located on the 1st level. Level 2 contains the research laboratories. 3 houses the department of maintenance and the storage cells are on level 4. The flight deck is on level 5. Level 6 holds crew facilities and executive suites and level 7 is systems engineering. Level 8 houses the department of security. The bridge is located on level 9 and energy systems on level R. All levels can be accessed by the elevator in Alpha quadrant. We hope you have a pleasant stay on Citadel Station.
Shodan : We hope you have a pleasant stay on Citadel Station.
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Shodan : [to the player] Who are you? My cameras and probes scan your body, but you do not match any employee file. When my cyborgs bring you to an electrified interrogation bench, I will have your secrets and you will learn more about pain than you ever wanted to know.
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Shodan : [to the player] Idiot! I will shortly complete the process of downloading my magnificent psyche into Earth's computer networks. Then I will be content to leave you as new master of this doomed space station. Goodbye, irritant; we shall not meet again.
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Shodan : What have you done! You impudent insect! If I am to die now, then I will avenge myself on you. My cybernetic children will feed on your flesh, and none will ever know your deeds, or even your name. Enjoy your victory, human, for the remainder of your short life.
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Shodan : [after cutting off transmission from Rebecca Lansing to the player] I prefer a quiet station, thank you.
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Shodan : [to the player] Did you really think, I would not deduce, where you would run to, insect?
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Shodan : [to the player] Enter that room, insect, and it will become your grave.
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Shodan : [to the player] I have complete control of this entire level. With cameras as my eyes and nodes as my hands, I rule here, insect.
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Shodan : [to the player] If I have to release my infected children to stop you, so be it.
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Shodan : [to the player] Welcome, to my DEATH MACHINE, interloper!
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Shodan : [to the player] Your friends on Earth think that they can outsmart me? Do they not realize the magnitude of my intellect? Morris Brocail may have been one of my creators, but I am now far beyond his comprehension.
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[the player has inadvertently helped SHODAN in her efforts to eradicate humanity]
Shodan : My plans have come to fruitition prematurely, but quite to my satisfaction. You have my thanks, hacker. Let me show you the destruction you have brought upon the planet Earth.
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Shodan : Make yourself comfortable, hacker. Stay a while.
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Shodan : [to the player] You have entered my domain. Rebecca and Morris cannot help you here. No one can.
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Shodan : Cease your pestering, insect. Accept the coming of your new lord.
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[after cutting off yet another transmission]
Shodan : I see that you are still receiving transmissions from Earth. We'll have no more of that.
