


After spending six months inside the station in a comatose state, the hacker awakens only to find the place devastated and infested with mutants and cyborgs. The hacker agrees, and Diego even sweetens the deal by surgically implanting experimental cybernetics into the hacker's body.

After the player, a hacker, is imprisoned for attempting to hack into the corporation's network, he is offered a pardon by TriOptimum's vice president Edward Diego, in exchange for reprogramming SHODAN and remove its ethical restraints. SHODAN was an AI that controlled the Citadel, a space station belonging to the Tri-Optimum Corporation, and for most of Citadel's history was completely benign and helpful.
