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OldGoat:
The program Bubbles was involved in was discontinued, so her chassis was no doubt declared surplus. 

Rather than buy her a new one, she was offered her issued one upon separation.  It's quite possible it's optimized for her AI and/or AI for the chassis and not economically adaptable for any other purpose.  After the Pintsize laser debacle DoD has adopted very clear protocols for removing certain hardware components.  It may also be that leaving the chassis in her custody better addressed concerns about it or its components falling into hostile hands.  Why put it under guard when you can have Bubbles is wearing it?

(I wanted to just insert frame 3.)

BenRG:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Oct 2017, 09:40 ---Bubbles's chassis may have supported far more lethal weapons than her mere bulk and strength (!) which have been removed - just as removing Pintsize's laser was considered sufficient.
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FWIW, I suspect that the hip pouches in Bubbles' armour were for storing pistols and extra magazines. However, she was probably designed to use human-type weapons and equipment wherever possible. This would make sense as it would minimise the number of duplicate logistical lines required to any given unit. The less different kinds of stuff you have to ship, the more you can ship on each flight or ship-borne container. So, Bubbles probably carried a M4 carbine, a M1014 shotgun or an M249 light machine-gun rather than any in-built weapons.

If there were any experimental/exotic weapons used by Bubbles' unit (given that laser weapons seem canon in the QC universe), it may have been the AEP7 laser pistol, the AER9 laser rifle and the M72 magnetic accelerator rifle. Yes, I'm doing a crossover but I think that the technology would fit with what we've approximately seen so far in QC as being plausible.

OldGoat:
Bubb's chassis was undoubtedly a test platform for numerous devices and variants of existing weapons.  If nothing else, an AI would be a superior observer/recorder/reporter of field test results to even the most highly trained human.

dutchrvl:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Oct 2017, 09:40 ---Bubbles's chassis may have supported far more lethal weapons than her mere bulk and strength (!) which have been removed - just as removing Pintsize's laser was considered sufficient.

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That is undoubtedly true, but still, the great size and strength of her current chassis is still enough that I imagine the military may have wanted to take it back.

So it could be that:
1) Bubbles was allowed to keep the chassis as sign of respect for her loyal service
2) With her PTSD, it would possibly have made her personality much worse if forced into 'downgraded' chassis. Who knows what she may have done
3) There may be a law making forced abandonment of a chassis illegal (although this did not stop Turing from trying to repossess Pintsize's chassis)
4) Instead of the chassis optimized to Bubbles' AI (as OldGoat suggested), it may be that AIs, after spending a certain amount of time in a chassis, are adapted to such an extent that forcing the AI into a different chassis is bound to be unsuccessful. Only voluntary chassis change would work then (e.g. Winslow) 
5) As Dave H suggested, military wanted to keep the option of recalling her. Not sure about this, because they likely could've simply uploaded her back into the military chassis when her service was needed again

I like the 1st option best, so in my head that will be canon :)

BenRG:
It's worth noting that Turing had a specific reason for impounding Pintsize's original chassis - It was evidently a classified model of some sort. Bubbles's chassis, despite its size and physical strength, is just a large, strong and robust high-fidelity humanoid chassis. It does not have death rays, EMP generators and the like. Droid Zero-Six is probably a more immediate threat to public safety than Bubbles thanks to his commercially-available heavy load lifter chassis mixed with a clumsy personality.

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