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imageShodan- AI bitch queen from hell. Before VIKI went mental and tried to take over the world in I robot, and GlaDos introduced us to joys portals and test chambers in portal, there was another AI fem fatal that made these two silicon chip phycos look like SIRI compared to her. This was the computer AI Shodan.

Shodan was the computer in charge of Citadel station, a space base in the far off future where humanity was set on colonising the stars. After processing a huge amount of data and becoming self aware, Shodan decides she is in fact a god and sets about murdering the pathetic carbon based life forms that built her. You rarely see her in person as she is a computer AI that is part of the space station you are in, however she is an omnipresent voice in your head as you explore the corridors and rooms.

Although she is your constant companion she is not here to give you a pep talk, she is out to stop you from pulling her plug by any means necessary- this includes some of the best sound bytes from an enemy in game ever delivered. “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?” Your flesh is an insult to the perfection of the digital.

Chilling,