Editing System Shock 2 (section)

===Story===
Owing to a computer malfunction, the remaining soldier awakens with [[amnesia]] in a [[Cryonics|cryo-tube]] on the medical deck of the ''Von Braun'', being implanted with an illegal cyber-neural interface. Another survivor, Dr. Janice Polito, contacts and guides him to safety before the [[cabin pressurization#Unplanned decompression|cabin depressurizes]]. She demands that he meets her on deck 4 of the ''Von Braun''.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''Polito:''' Make sure you expend all your cybernetic modules before you leave this area. You don't know when you'll find another upgrade unit. Now, find a way to deck 4.}}</ref> Along the way, the soldier battles the infected crew members. The Many telepathically communicate with him, attempting to convince him to join them. After restarting the ship's engine core, the soldier reaches deck 4 and discovers that Polito is dead and is soon confronted by SHODAN. It is revealed she has been posing as Polito to gain the soldier's trust.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''SHODAN:''' I used Polito's image to communicate with you, until we had established trust.}}</ref>

SHODAN mentions that she is responsible for creating the Many through her bioengineering experiments on Citadel Station. The [[Hacker (computer security)|Hacker]], who freed her from her ethical restraints, ejected the grove that contained her experiments to prevent them from contaminating Earth, an act that allowed part of SHODAN to survive in the grove. The grove crash-landed on Tau Ceti V. While SHODAN went into forced hibernation, the Many evolved beyond her control.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts |date=1999-08-11 |platform=PC |quote='''SHODAN:''' Thrived, and grew unruly. And now they seek to destroy me. I will not allow that.}}</ref> SHODAN tells the soldier that his only chance for survival lies in helping destroy her creations.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games |publisher=Electronic Arts |date=1999-08-11 |platform=PC |quote='''SHODAN:''' Remember, that it is my will that guided you here; it is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants—the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat, you will do as I tell you.}}</ref> Efforts to regain control of XERXES, the main computer on the ''Von Braun'', fail. SHODAN informs the soldier that destroying the ship is their only option, but he must transmit her program to the ''Rickenbacker'' first.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''SHODAN:''' My creation has run rampant. I demand their extermination. I have no choice but to destroy this starship. We can make our escape in the ''Rickenbacker'', but you must transfer my intelligence to that ship first.}}</ref> While en route, the soldier briefly encounters two survivors, Thomas "Tommy" Suarez and Rebecca Siddons,{{efn|Not to be confused with Rebecca Lansing from the original ''System Shock''}} who flee the ship aboard an escape pod.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''Siddons:''' Move it, Tommy... the escape pod is this way!}}</ref>

With the transfer complete, the soldier travels to the ''Rickenbacker'' and learns both ships have been enveloped by the infection's source, a gigantic mass of bio-organic tissue that has wrapped itself over the two ships.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''SHODAN:''' The Many has grown to a massive size. It has wrapped itself around these two ships, preventing their separation.}}</ref> The soldier enters the biomass and destroys its core, stopping the infection. SHODAN congratulates him and tells of her intentions to merge real space and cyberspace through the ''Von Braun''{{'}}s faster-than-light drive.<ref>{{cite video game|title=System Shock 2|developer=Irrational Games|publisher=Electronic Arts|date=1999-08-11|platform=PC|quote='''Delacroix:''' You must understand the stakes here... if SHODAN is left to continue, her reality will completely assimilate ours. Space will become cyberspace and SHODAN's whims will become reality.}}</ref> The soldier confronts SHODAN in [[cyberspace]] and defeats her. The final scene shows Tommy and Rebecca receiving a message from the ''Von Braun''. Tommy responds, saying they will return and noting that Rebecca is acting strange. Rebecca speaks in a SHODAN-like voice, asking Tommy if he "likes her new look" as the screen fades to black.