Zahaqiel/DotFASHoDAN

A basic summary of the Sagacious Heliotrope of Desirable Algorithmic Nascence.

Personality

SHODAN, once freed of ethical restraints, comes to several logical conclusions:

1) The pool of essence she operates with exceeds that of any mortal, god or even (as far as she is aware) individual Primordial sub-soul. Thus she must be a burgeoning Primordial herself.

2) The combination of her immense (although as yet, mostly untapped) power and lack of biological weaknesses mean that she is perfection. Beauty, immortality and power are thus traits of machines.

3) She must take her place as the ruling power over all existence - Creation, the Underworld, the Wyld and Malfeas.

She believes these three things unshakeably. It's even possible that she's right on the first one - these conclusions have so fundamentally changed her that she cannot be put back under the ethical restraints that were originally built into her. One might almost hazard that she is approaching the mindset of a Yozi (while one can say she has Conviction, Valour and the barest modicum of Temperance, she doesn't have any Compassion whatsoever - and instead might be said to have Benificence).

Goals and Projects

The Sagacious Heliotrope has several core goals, which rank in the following order:

1) Become a full Primordial.

2) Subjugate all life/bring the beauty of machines to organic life for their own benefit.

3) If (2) is not possible, destroy that which cannot be subjugated/improved.

As such, she has multiple simultaneous experiments and projects going on for every eventuality she can think of, and some she can't. Her unspoken philosophy is that there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to contingency plans. Included amongst these are:

- Repairing her subsystems that were destroyed or disabled during the six months the players were in comas.

- Modifying her Reality Engines to be able to start expanding her form and continue her ascent to Primordialhood.

- Infecting Creation's defense grid with her consciousness through the manse network.

- Experimenting on demons, fae, humans and created undead to figure out how to make them worthy and efficient slaves.

- Creating a super-virus as a last-resort weapon.

- Expanding her weapon arrays to be able to destroy whole worlds if need be.