Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-24891101-20150512211512

So we leap straight to international sanctions? For a person who probably doesn't want to leave? For a country that has done nothing wrong? Penny is to all appearances happy and well-treated, merely a ward of the military. There is nothing to complain about.

If they need to, they can whip out the paperwork that has her as a citizen, and on the payroll, then demand that their citizen be allowed to serve. Penny's new ground: She either falls into laws governing combat robotics, so she's property, or she's a person, and so a foreign power cannot demand she not serve her nation. There's no law on the matter.

Nor do the other nations care. This is evident in Ironwood bringing her to another country. If his command had even the slightest concern that their new miracle weapon system would cause an international uproar sufficient for even the barest hint of the threat of sanctions, then she'd have been left at home for her field tests.