Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-8094461-20141219033544/@comment-24891101-20141219064743

I'm not sure she doesn't have a killswitch. Certainly she did at one point. That's just good design in prototypes. And her being misplaced isn't actually that much of a crisis. Her first outing, she was, in her own words, "not to venture out too far", suggesting she's trusted to some extent. There's no reason to alienate a sentient being, whose cooperation is important to the future development of your military, by activating a motor interlock. The soldiers notice her, and are a bit concerned, but do not chase her until she runs. Moreover, when they catch up to her, the first question is not "Where were you?", but "Why were you running?". Hardly characteristic of a search for a missing prototype. Obviously, things aren't all rosy within the Special Projects Division, but she's allowed out, and they're attempting a soft touch, treating her mostly as a person, rather than a piece of hardware. Plus, there's chain of command latency, depending on how many layers that information had to go up. That's not mentioning the ethical, nevermind religious, implications of the whole project, which is also suggestive of treating her like a person and not activating an interlock. She could very well have been tracked all day long.