Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-24891101-20150513001224

They're still providing security for the event. They have jurisdiction over any attacks upon it. An attack which compromises their forces will be the larger thing, and Penny will be much more of a minor note, from the standpoint of examining fallout. And you can bet that no one is seriously going to consider Atlas launching a surprise attack. Not with that little strength.

Much of their military? Hardly. Perhaps several battalions. Only several thousand living soldiers, with much more in the way of combat/security robots. Nothing significant. Nothing enough to even remotely pose a threat to Vale, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed in.

And this is even granting that such cyber-warfare can actually suborn Atlesian assets at all, which I contest. Granted Cinder somehow has contacts within the military, but she doesn't have access to their C3I system. The CCT thing is completely distinct from any sanely-designed military command network.

Here is where we part ways. What dirty secrets that went into Penny? I contend she is merely the apex of neural net construction, and the first of sufficient complexity to generate a soul. All clean science.