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

I'm starting to speculate that the AIs may still be active. After all, why else would the Chairman want the Meta's helmet? I'm sure if he just wanted the technology, there were probably spare helmets sitting around in a warehouse somewhere, and getting a helmet from there would surely have been more efficient than spending months and probably millions of dollars digging the Meta out of that avalanche. No, there's only one reason Hargrove would want the Meta's helmet: the AIs survived the EMP, but were heavily damaged and he's having them repaired and are going to be given to Locus and Felix along with new armor upgrades.