I belive the best way to show what SHODAN from
System Shock
thinks of itself is the following quote:
'In my
talons I shape clay, crafting
lifeforms as I please. Around me is a
burgeoning empire of steel. from my throneroom lines of power curine in to 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!'
The
hacker you play in the
game is also
the one who freed Shodan from it's constraints, And while
you are in a
healing coma , it develops
mutagen viruses
,
Cyborgs and plan to
destroy the cities of earth with
the
spacestation's
tachyon-
beam, use the virus on those
left
alive, and take over as the new God of earth.