Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-25936766-20180527134051

1) I assume they wouldn't do something completely and utterly pointless and unnecesary like making Ilia join JNR and "replace Pyrrha", at least not before showing multiple scenes where she interacts with them so the idea doesn't come out of nowhere.

2) Penny was sliced to pieces, and said pieces were left on a flying stadium that was soon attacked by Grimm, with the only people on it (including Ironwood) caring more about evacuating everyone than trying to pick up any of her leftovers.

We don't know anything about her design so for all we know the damage she took could've messed up her memory core or equivalent, if not just damaged it completely, meaning there would be little-to-nothing to actually salvage.

We could assume that her memory maybe was streamed into the Atlesian Network, but that's just an assumption + said Atlesian Network was infested with a virus. And considering they didn't have the brains to, say, run an Anti-virus of some sort on the CCT to make sure nothing bad happens, I doubt they have the brains to stream Penny's memories to some database somewhere else.

And finally: While Penny could be rebuilt, with or without the original Penny's parts, the result would just be another Penny, a different entity, with potentially different personality and design (assuming they improve upon Penny's design and not just make something from scratch).