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Dave H:

--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 31 Oct 2017, 07:57 ---So it could be that:
1) Bubbles was allowed to keep the chassis as sign of respect for her loyal service
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I like the 1st option best, so in my head that will be canon :)

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Having worked on a bit of military gear in my career, I can offer a slightly darker reason why they'd allow Bubbles to keep her chassis. It may be keyed to her specifically, to keep the enemy from capturing it and replacing her with their own AI. Removing her from it may turn it into useless scrap. In that case it would have been cheaper to let her keep it rather than destroy the expensive chassis and buy her a civilian one.

OldGoat:

--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 31 Oct 2017, 07:57 ---So it could be that:
1) Bubbles was allowed to keep the chassis as sign of respect for her loyal service

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The gubbermint wouldn't do that without lots of falderal, flapdoodle, and photo-ops.  Bubbles represents a failed program to someone in the web of multiple bureaucracies, and they wanted her out the door, out of sight, and out of mind.  Bureaucracy does, however, imply lots and lots of layers.  People closer to Bubbles, her techs and their immediate supervisors, may have indeed wanted to "do her a solid" while the brass over them wanted plausible deniability of her existence.

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