BLOCKED BY SHODAN LEVEL SECURITY.

"WHAT THE HELL AM I LOOKING AT?"

This drawing depicts VARIK's character's being connected to some cables and having a neutral facial expression a la _System Shock_'s SHODAN.

TIMING.

December apparently has at least one (1) drawing, as well.

HISTORY.

Approximately fifteen (15) quintillion years ago, VARIK reveals a sketch which features VUNC hooked up to some cables a la _System Shock_'s SHODAN.

In early 2021, VARIK begins to convert this sketch into a "proper" drawing. However, before VARIK backs up the drawing, VARIK accidentally deletes the master boot record of the hard disk drive of VARIK's terminal. As a result of this mistake, the original version of the "proper" drawing is probably lost forever.

On 20210411, VARIK begins the process of converting the sketch into a "proper" drawing by adding the un-furred outlines of VUNC to a Scalable Vector Graphics file. This process is finished with minimal "hiccups".

Circa 20210602, VARIK converts the aforementioned SVG file into an XCF file and begins to add some detail. For some reason, such detail is added before the cables are added.

Although few "real" problems are encountered, VARIK does not particularly care for the end result of the addition of such detail and pauses the creation of the drawing.

On 20211127, VARIK resumes the creation of the drawing.  VARIK encounters few "real" problems but again concludes that GIMP can be a real turd... figuratively.

On 20211201, VARIK declares that this drawing is finished.

ON THIS DRAWING'S NATURE AS AN AMALGAMATION.

_System Shock_'s SHODAN serves as the direct inspiration of the creation of the SHODAN-"inspired" parts of this drawing. However, VARIK uses no particular SHODAN design as a reference whilst creating this drawing; VARIK bases this drawing upon a mental combination of SHODAN's _System Shock_ and _System Shock 2_ designs.

CRITICISM.

As ever, criticism is welcomed.

LICENCE.

This drawing is released in accordance with the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. The full text of this licence is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. 

TOOLS USED.

This drawing is created using GIMP. GIMP is terrible but at least beats Krita.

This description is written using ed(1).

Both GIMP and ed(1) are run on OpenBSD.