User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-134.10.122.182-20141121174747/@comment-4616231-20141123055158

^this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard.

The Chairman already had the Meta's helmet when he arrested Maine after Reconstruction. If he wanted the AI, he would've restored them then. Wash was arrested for the destruction of the AI, and the whole reason the Chairman released him in the first place was to find another AI (Epsilon), since the rest were destroyed. Epsilon-Tex came from Epsilon, who was not caught in the EMP (you know, the whole plot of Reconstruction's last episode?). Since then, Epsilon-Tex has been erased by Epsilon. Epsilon is the only AI left, the rest are - and have been - long gone.