[SHODAN clearly has no idea that the video is on; she's sitting on a rock at the beach, staring blankly into the waves, and there are tears dripping down her face. Her expression has no match to said tears; it is frozen, blank, and stony. She isn't sobbing; once in a while, she'll sniffle, but most of the time her breathing is forced and even, ( Read more... )

[A video plays: an immense circuit-patterned cone in blue, glassy and enormous, shattering into a hundred thousand pieces and falling to its death in endless darkness, little lines all round, cyberspace, reddish bullets flying here and there, shattering against the nonexistent walls, combat--

Electronic panels exploding, screens shattering, sparks ( Read more... )

[A video plays: an immense circuit-patterned cone in blue, glassy and enormous, shattering into a hundred thousand pieces and falling to its death in endless darkness.

Electronic panels exploding, screens shattering, sparks flying about and spilling across the floor.

Huge computer mainframes bursting into flame, shrapnel tearing into the walls from ( Read more... )