What is the initial part of the story behind System Shock?
It is the the year 2072. You’re a hacker, caught breaking into the computer system of a huge corporation called TriOptimum. You are apprehended and transported to the TriOptimum space station Citadel, orbiting Saturn. A high-ranking TriOptimum executive, Edward Diego, says he will dismiss the charges against you and give you a military grade neural interface, if you hack him into Citadel station’s highly advanced AI computer, SHODAN, and give him full control over the station. You decide to do what Diego asks, and keeping his word, Diego allows you to be fitted with the neural interface, so you can jack into cyberspace whenever you want. This requires extensive surgery, and an artificial healing coma which lasts 6 months. When you wake up, the hospital ward seems deserted, so you get up and look around. After a few minutes, you realise that something has gone horribly wrong on board the station while you were asleep. It turns out that in giving Diego full access, you removed all ethica
