They have a pretty big card in their hands with this. He'd known that the AI were probably supposed to survive the death of a Freelancer but he's never put it to the test, but here Delta is.

There's been network access, which is t a definite signal, but it's the best they've got now so they head in that direction. "You know York," he says, the speakers across the base crackling to life, "the thing about AIs, even fragments, is that they're really expensive. Valuable enough that do you really believe the Director would let them die alongside a human that could be replaced?"