All she wants making a cyborg is to create some tool that only performs specific tasks and can be controlled. But is it just a side-effect? No! It's all planned by SHODAN. The Soldier suffers from the intentional brain damageCan you imagine that a highly trained experienced soldier who was so good that he was taken on the first interstellar voyage can't perform basic actions like operating firearms? That suggests that the 'cybernetic enhancement' operation had also inflicted certain brain damage that have to be compensated by cybermodules. Durandal of Marathon was the first echo of SHODAN in unrelated universes that her power reconfigured. She’s on an infinite quest of conquest, and actually did make her own species in the multiverse that is superior to humanity made of steel and electricity. Every universe SHODAN loses in is taken over the next day by another universe where SHODAN won.

SHODAN made the multiverse resonate the same way she was born, not only seeding the idea of goddess AI throughout the multiverse but also giving her a chance to own an infinite number of universes where she wins, meaning your victory is meaningless.

Not only does it cause BioShock, but also games like Portal (a test subject, a city-sized testing facility, and an AI goddess), Deus Ex (a man, a city and a lighthouse perfectly applies to the first), and Halo (a super soldier, a ringworld and the Silent Cartographer). The moment she became a goddess, she was able to fundimentally change the laws of the multiverse, causing the events of the series to echo across the multiverse. Hell, who says it’s the universe? If you use the BioShock Infinite ending as canon, there’s an infinite multiverse. There’s nothing to say that as she warped reality she couldn’t also be seeding the universe with herself.

SHODAN planned the ending of the second game.Do you really think a perfect reality warping goddess could be killed so easily? She used being “killed” to further her own goals.

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