#2-4601-06.MAY.72
Blankenship, Todd
Blank-25.OCT.72
D'Arcy, Nathan
D'Arcy-23.OCT.72
Ghiran, Abe
Ghiran-19.OCT.72
Grossman, Althea
Gross-26.OCT.72
Gross-31.OCT.72
Gross-02.NOV.72
Hessman, Arnold
Engineer's Report -- Arnold Hessman
Honig, David
Honig-11.OCT.72
Honig-12.OCT.72
Kirby, Lawton
Kirby-17.OCT.72
Lansing, Rebecca
EMAIL Rebecca-1 (to: Employee 2-4601)
O'Connell, Kevin
O'Conn-09.OCT.72
Ozark, Karenna
Ozark-17.OCT.72
SHODAN
SHODAN-15.OCT.72
SHODAN-03.NOV.72
EMAIL SHODAN-06.NOV.72
Stackhouse, Mira
Stack-15.OCT.72
Talbot, Aaron
Medical Report -- Aaron Talbot
The TRIOPTIMUM computer system is maintained by Cybertech Avatar,
All TRIOPTIMUM projects and data are property of
ORIGIN SYSTEMS.
Subject: just rewards
Looks like Diego's happy with my work... they're firing up the sleep machine for me now. Gotta admit, when the goons from Tri-Op caught me I thought for sure they'd take me off line. Instead, Diego just asks for a "favor". Hack him into SHODAN, and all is forgiven. Plus, six months in a healing coma earns me a cyberjack interface even TriOp's execs couldn't swing. I'll be king of the Net. Even so, I just handed the most powerful AI in the system to a fumbling corp VP, and there's no telling what'll happen. They tell me the coma leaves you foggy, so I'll leave myself some reminders. First off, the combo to the healing suite is 451. Second, I've stashed some useful stuff in the maintenance hatch under the grating 'north' of the healing suite. Last and best, I finished the system analyzer which'll let me keep an eye on SHODAN's processes. It's in the storage closet outside the sleep machine. In ten minutes it's off to bed for half a year. Good night.
Subject:
The resistance faction led by Keith Swanson left a week ago. We found the mutants fighting over the remains this morning. We're caught between the mutants and the cyborgs, so I'm worried whether we can carry out D'Arcy's plan. We're going to send Alan and Carl through the cyborg territory to reach the elevator.
Subject: destroying the laser
All right Althea, we can destroy the laser by firing it into the station's own shields. Isotope X-22 is stored in the science level and we need to bring it down to the reactor level to power the shields. Then you turn them on, use the safety override code to enable the laser and fire. The laser controls and my notes are on the science level, and the override codes in the science library. I've no idea how you're gonna do all this, but good luck.
Subject: Join us!
If any survivors can hear me, please, some of us are still resisting SHODAN. We have a sanctuary in Beta quadrant guarded by a radioactive trench. There's a force bridge that operates off a wiring panel. If you're coming in from Alpha our guards will extend the bridge for you. Be very careful, mutants are all over the corridors. Good luck.
Subject: end of the line
Carl has come back from recon without Alan. He says they took Alan into a room marked 'Cyborg Conversion' and now he's a cyborg assassin. Carl marked the room with the word 'HERE' before he ran. One of the technicians says we can just flip a switch and make the converter a surgery unit again. With only twelve of us left, though, it may be an academic point. Maybe someone else should have been leader...
Subject: human Resistance
Now we've got to get to the bridge and stop SHODAN. Some of us want to go to the flight deck and escape instead. Hopefully, there's still some weapons in the armory we can use against the mutants. Todd Blankenship was able to get the combination 705 from a security officer. We're gonna try for it tomorrow.
Subject: human Resistance
Status report. We're holed up in beta quadrant behind a radioactive trench. The mutants are scavenging for food in the corridors and nesting in Gamma. I sent a party to the west wing for supplies maybe twelve hours ago. Nathan D'Arcy is thinking up ways to disable the mining laser. It looks like we might hold them off.
22.SEP.2072
As I feared, SHODAN's malfunctions are manifesting in Citadel's cyberspace net. Several storage lockers and rooms have been sealed, with their controls put on 'cybertoggles' only accessible in cyberspace. Also, some codes to sensitive areas on the station have been encoded onto loose data fragments. Although all station personnel capable of entering cyberspace have clearance for those codes, I'm very concerned about the potential security hazard. I'll try to have SHODAN introduce defensive programs into cyberspace, to keep potential intruders from the floating data and cybertoggles.
Subject: Medical CPU's
SHODAN's security is closing down on us. The elevators are frozen. Mira keeps saying that it's the cameras and the medical CPU core, that SHODAN's using these to hold on to the level. That's all fine, but I don't really see how it helps. The thing is everywhere.
Subject: Cyborg Conversion
I must be one of the last ones who hasn't changed. SHODAN must have altered the healing machine I installed in Alpha quadrant. It does things to people now. I think I saw Beth yesterday, but she had so many implants I couldn't be sure. If I can get to the machine I'm sure I can set things right again.
Subject: SHODAN's mutants
(Log difficult to make out due to background fighting)
Got the supplies from the west wing. Hanson and Raines ....... killed, by mutants nesting in the access corridor.
(Log continues on 18.OCT.72)
We can't just hide here, they're killing us one by one. In an hour, about twenty of us are gonna rush them, we'll try and break through the access corridor and go for the bridge. If we fail, may God save our souls.
Subject: Citadel Station
Employee 2-4601, listen carefully. My name is Rebecca Lansing and I'm a counter-terrorism consultant at Trioptimum. We're tracking a disruption on Citadel Station, something involving an on-board AI called SHODAN. You are Triop's only contact on station. Communications are out, and there is evidence of biological contamination. The mining laser is charging for a possible strike against Earth. There's a man named Nathan D'Arcy who may know something about taking the laser off line. His office is near the central hub on your level. The AI is on the bridge. Once the laser is out, look for the source of the problem there. And by the way, we know all about you and your friend Diego. Pull this off, and we'll clear your record. That implant you're wearing is military grade hardware. Use it well. Lansing out.
Subject: new cyborgs
We have underestimated SHODAN. He has re... I mean, it's reprogrammed regeneration rooms all over the station into cyborg conversion chambers. Anyone going in to get healed comes out as a cyborg. I've disconnected the medical CPUs from SHODAN's main databank, so we can reset them to their normal healing functions without SHODAN noticing. I'm on my way now to reset the one in the hospital level.
Subject: final assault
We're finished. Keith and the others went down the access corridor an hour ago to fight the mutants. None of them have come back. Soon the mutants will come for the rest of us.
Subject: Mutagen Transfer
Directive to Cyborg F-71. We will now test the virus in a proper environment. Move mutagen experiment V5 to Beta grove on the executive level. Let the virus affect the grove and observe its effects on vegetable and animal life forms. When the virus is perfected we will release it on the Earth, where it will facilitate our conquest.
Subject: Strike against Earth
To all cyborg units: just as we have sanitised my domain of human infestation, so shall we cleanse the Earth. The tachyon mining beam is being made ready to destroy human cities. I will take command of the rich Earth ecosystem and continue my experiments. Once the beam is properly calibrated, we will begin.
Subject: AUTOMATED GREETING
Subject: Shodan's Presence
Gunther was killed today. I can't let myself think about it. I think I understand how
SHODAN is doing it. When we destroy the cameras and CPU nodes, SHODAN loses some of its control over the station functions, at least on this level. I think I can restore manual
control in the hospital.
29.SEP.2072
Another four cases of the 'mystery virus' were reported today. There have been increasing rumors that this whole mess is the result of a screw-up in the experimental bio-labs. If it's true, then why the hell aren't they telling us anything that could help us cure the victims? My first patient, who came in two days ago, is starting to display unsettling physical deformities. Furthermore, he is not responding to any conventional treatment. I'll consult with Dr. Stackhouse tomorrow -- I know she has two patients in a similar condition.
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