Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-24891101-20150512052957

Yes, her mind itself is inviolable; you can't really hack a neural net. But the monitoring/diagnostic/interlock AI? Or the C3I system? Hell, I've mentioned it before, but she's naive enough that someone with spoofed credentials could just tell her to attack, and she'd do it.

More than that, the program doesn't just shut down because the officer in command steps in political shit. It's an important program, central to Atlesian doctrine. The SDC has little to do with it; it's a military project, plain and simple. If he falls, he'll be replaced, and eveything will spin on.

Penny constitutes a military secret. She's never going to be let free. Not until they can reliably, economically replicate the process by which a soul was incepted into steel and polymer, rather than flesh and blood.