Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-26018514-20150512061133

Shadow at Morning wrote:

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. Even if the program is shut down, she'd be scuttled, and there's no way she'd be able to prevent it. Again, this assumes Atlas is given choice in the matter, Human rights were the spark of their last World war, and in the end Atlas lost, if it becomes an HR issue, would they fight it and risk losing again for a single android? or would they let her become a hunter, a title that already appears to be a neutral warrior class like the jedi, which then means she belongs to no nation, and is constantly in a perfect test environment, which actually helps their cause of the continuation of the android program as much as disassembly, without the complications penny then represents, or the errors she may have.

Essentially it would be like releasing your prototype into the field, knowing it would be used by someone else directed only at specific foes that do not include you, where progress could still be monitored, knowing that you cannot retrieve it unless you want to start a war... a war you "might" lose. However much the other nations might want to reverse engineer her they would be unable to do so for the same reasons, and while they may also find design flaws... you could easily fix them in the next gen models, which are likely the only assets to gain from her retrieval anyways as the likely hood is disassembly = death of her soul/Aura, making outdated hardware her only salvage.