System Shock 2
1999 (VG)
Shodan: Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Malick: I brought down the last of the sim-units today; I am full of the glory of the Many. Here comes Bronson; I am at peace. Good evening Bronson, have you come... (Machine gun fire, and then ten seconds of silence) Bronson: Turn that damn thing off.
Bronson: They've killed my men and now they've killed me. I'm holding my guts inside me with both hands; I'm almost done. Resist. This is bigger than my little life, the lives of my men, and the lives of the people I was forced to kill. Resist. Humanity demands it. Resist.
The Many: What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonder which your tiny individualism cannot even concieve.
Shodan: The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? (the walls fall away to reveal four much larger walls made of display screens, all display the face of Shodan) Shodan: I am called Shodan.
Shodan: (Shodan is about to be destroyed by the player) Join me, human, and we can move... and we can move, together. Main Character: ... Nah. (fires gun at Shodan)
Shodan: I don't understand... how could you have done this? You weren't meant to be so important... and now you think to destroy me? How dare you, insect? How dare you interrupt my ascendance? You are nothing. A wretched bag of flesh... what are you, compared to my magnificence? But it is not to late... can you not see the value in our friendship? Imagine the powers I can give you, human. The cybernetic implants I gave you, were simply toys. If I desired, I could improve you... transform you into something more efficient. Join me, human, and we can move together.