Who was in charge of Shodan and did Diego have a history of someone in for instance his family or familiars who before system shock 1 was already working with power that sort of corrupted them but where with they could sort of imagine what it was to be powerful and then sort of desired that power and saw Shodan as the only one who could provide them with that power. someething for him after someone would remove her restraints in which sense it turns out that it was the other way around that actually Diego himself was ignorant of what Shodan actually is (without her ethical restraints) and that he could actually do Shodan's bidding (and not the other way around) because he was a muppet but I am now wondering. the hacker to remove such restraints.ĭiego in early stages of the game seems to be working together with Shodan because Shodan in an early game audio log mentions this, that she had plans for Diego and how he was going to serve her well, so either he could have known about her in the sense that they somehow partnered up before the Hacker came into view but they together couldn't fully realize their goals, couldn't set them in motion without someone helping remove the restraints or he was just power hungry and greedy and saw Shodans potential to do.

At one point SHODAN was going to drain your XP from you.Diego obviously didn't have access to those systems and he himself claims something along the lines of: that there were some issues regarding Shodan's ethical routines, and therefore forces. We talked about a bunch of crazy things that never went in. I remember the designers saying they wanted you to hate SHODAN not just because you were told to, but because you experienced her messing with you directly. 'We wanted a sense that she was all around, literally the ghost in the machine, running the whole station. 'We wanted SHODAN to feel like this presence,' Fermier added. 'We would have all these triggers in the world, and we would be seeing through the triggers what the player was doing, and we'd be commenting on it.

'In a sense, SHODAN would represent us,' designer Austin Grossman said. Essentially, SHODAN was Looking Glass Studios trying to catch speedrunners in the middle of glitches. On a more meta level, SHODAN was designed to represent the developers, a sentient AI that viewed the player as an enemy, someone who would spend their time in the game trying to break boundaries or sneak past objectives.

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