Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20140808014446/@comment-24891101-20140815064100

Well, yes, but she's a prototype, a neural net sufficiently complex to actually generate an aura, a definitive sign of consciousness. Once they sort out the kinks, Penny's younger siblings will be actually trained for combat, filling a battlefield oversight/control role, as well as being heavy hitters, for the Atlesian military. She's probably technically a classified test article, as well as a major breakthrough, which will win her creators eternal fame, as well as prizes in the field of artificial intelligence as the first confirmed synthetic intelligence.

She is, in principle, easy to replicate structurally, but probably part of her development is being raised and learning and interacting in the real world, so new examples will be limited by the facilities to raise newly-incepted SIs. Only in the past year or so has Remnant achieved this scientific breakthrough. Not long ago. Now, as a product of decades of research, and billions, if not trillions, of lien, and countless manhours.