kupocake
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Because the voice was for the later CD version, Looking Glass hadn't really finallised SHODAN's gender. If you listen to the audio log of this text in game (or the other one, i'm not entirely sure), the character speaking actually corrects themselves "he... err, it".Krabjuice said:"I think we've underestimated SHODAN. I discovered this morning that he's reprogrammed the regeneration rooms all over the station into cyborg conversion chambers. Now, if anyone is badly wounded, they get turned into cyborgs instead of being healed. I think I've managed to disconnect the medical CPU's from SHODAN's main databank, so all of SHODAN's cyborg converters can be easily reset to their normal healing functions without SHODAN noticing. I'm on my way right now to reset the one on the hospital level."
What is very clear by the time that System Shock 2 is released, is that Shodan is female, or considers itself to female. It refers to itself as a "Godess", takes on a female persona and digital form and talks in an unequivocally female voice (as it did pre hacking anyway). All crew members in Shock 2 consider it a she, something that had me very confused when I looked up the original and found the equivocation over Shodan's gender. I think that it's probably safest to call Shodan "she" now.