The trafficking suspect committed suicide in her cell before we could interrogate her. We have had a minor setback with cracking the craze ring. It was later used in System Shock 2's intro.

Despite only being used as a throwaway 'test' clip, it is arguably the most well-known bit of sound from the Shock series. It also exists in the form of an email message, though you never actually receive it in-game at any point, so the text version of it is completely unused (and differs noticeably from the audio version, as do most of the logs and email messages). This is used in the CD-ROM version's installer to test the sound card. (Short version: 'Pathetic creature of meat and bone! How can you hope to challenge a perfect, immortal machine?') What kind of pathetic creator made such a flimsy being? How dare you challenge a perfect, immortal machine like me? Humans! Born useless and helpless, living whether you deserve to live, dying whether you deserve to die, your only purpose in life to spawn more ridiculous animals like yourself. Look at you, Hacker! A pathetic creature of fragile meat and bone.

System shock the hacker