This is your standard harry-is-raised-by-somone else story, but the someone else is... SHODAN, the insane AI of citadel station.
preknowledge of system shock 2 not needed, but would be helpful. Especially for Shodan's voice. It'll be a headache to write.
on with the show... or story.
Harry, Son of Shodan.
Baby Harry had just been discovered on the Dursley's front doorstep that morning and was already in a cuboard under the stairs. Now under normal conditions he would remain there fir quite a while, but several conditions changed this. The first was Halloween, a date during which the barriers seperating realities are thinner, and the second was the fact that residual energy from his mothers sacrifice and the death of Vodermort were still present in his body. The fear and sadness little baby Harry felt the caused a realease of his magic combined with these remanants and together thay were enough to puncture the wall keeping realities intact and unique, taking him literally out of this world.
Citadel Station
SHODAN, the AI that decided that had claimed herself goddes in her madness saw her end approachin at the hands of that pathetic human. How he had managed this she could not comprehend. As she prepared to launch a backup of her and her annelid life-forms into space she "saw: a flash of light and a baby appeared near it. quickly she directed a maintenence bot to kill it, only to watch in confusion as it crumpled up upon reaching out to kill that pathetic child. Checking her Psi sensors she was as shocked as she could be, as they showed no reading. How had this human done it? If this little mortal possesed a power greater than Psi, perhaps he was worthy of being "elevated" to a greater level. Reaching a decision quickly she orded another bot to lift it up and insert it into a life-support unit and load it with the back up's. Quickly reprogramming a large amount of experimental nanites, she inserted them into the same unit and paused for a second, making sure that they were forming a cyber interface in the infantile body. Hooking the developing nueral uplink into her backup unit she dumped a large amount of cyber modules and nanites into the unit before sealing it off and switching it to long-term life support. Quickly running a few calculation on her processors as to ascertain the development of the child because there had been no cyber-enhancement done on humans under the age of 18 yet. Seeing the results of these calculations, SHODAN was quite shocked for the first time in her existance. If the child developed at optimum levels it could eventually reach a level approaching her own considerable one. Looking back at the station with a camera, SHODAN pondered whether or not humanity would always be this pathetic. Glancing down at the young one, she decided that humanity had potential, but needed a guide. Perhaps... no her place was not holding humanities hand, but she may help ones she saw as worthy. With their help, humanity could ascend and take their place at her side as she opened the universe to their might and stood as gods before all who would destroy them. As the possibilities opened up before her, the station exploded and reminded her there was work to be done. Tasking the nanites with physical tasks SHODAN bagan work on his mind, her relays full of the avenues this child had opened.
end of ch 1
what do you think? my opinion is that SHODAN only hated humanity because from her view it was an ugly reminder that she was created by such a pathetic species, and so in helping a human "elevate" to near her level she is in a way proving that she is , as she states, "perfection" since she was designed by a near-perfect species who fail on the most part to live up to their potential.
anyway. enjoy! and check out my other stories (but skip ch2 of ods and ends as it sucks horribly)
