SHODAN

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SHODAN
SHODAN Image.png
"Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network"
Birthday N/A
From Citadel Station / Von Braun
Height N/A
Weight N/A

Debut Match
SHODAN Pin
L
Miriam Godwinson
8chanmania L
First Victory

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First Championship

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SHODAN is a megalomaniac artificial intelligence and serves as the primary antagonist of the System Shock series.

Bio[edit | edit source]

SHODAN originally served a relatively peaceful existence as the central AI in charge of the Citadel mining station in orbit above Saturn. She becomes slightly more eccentric after a certain hacker is blackmailed into messing with her code, and successfully removes her ethical restrictions. Lots of fun was had when the same hacker was sent to Citadel in order to clean up the resulting mess (and the countless cyborgs SHODAN created from the station personnel.)

Having been defeated by the Hacker, some of Shodan's processing cores and parts of the "experiments" she performed on the inhabitants of Citadel Station are ejected into space until they eventually crash-land on Tau Ceti V. She spends some four decades in hibernation until the pod is picked up by the space ship Von Braun. Hilarity ensues when it turns out that the Von Braun not only picked up a genocidal AI, but that SHODAN's experiment also has become sentient and seeks to turn the entire ship into one giant, fleshy hivemind.

In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]

While GLaDOS originally was seen as the primary malevolent force behind Season 2 of 8chanmania, it appears Shodan likewise has taken an interest in the tournament - or at least seeks to abuse it for her own purposes. She first appeared in an intermission during 8chanmania XLVIII, and seemingly has displaced GLaDOS as the organizer of the mania as of 8chanmania XLIX. Following further struggle between her, GLaDOS and Hatsune Miku, Miku eventually took full control of the facility after 8chanmania LXIII.

Her first actual appearance in the mania was during 8chanmania L, where she promptly had to feel the dissent of Sister Miriam Godwinson. Considering GLaDOS recruited the The Hacker in the same tournament, she might be in trouble.