User blog comment:JoshQuest1/What AI's are which?/@comment-1900300-20100611024135

because the fact that AI's are cheaper to recover then delete is a critical plot point in both the reason Recovery exists and the fact that episilon, who wash believed deleted, is stored in Command. That's it. They never meant to imply that the AI's survived the EMP. If the EMP was ineffective in destroying the AIs what would be the point in setting it up? The EMP was designed as a last resort measure in case of a Freelancer revolt, or should they need to destory all evdence of their actions quickly. This, while they never intended to use it, to was considered a nessicary too delete all the AI to ensure no one knew of their illegal acts. There we're willing to live with the cost of that. Besides, the writers found a loop-hole to bring them back in the memories of epsilon. So they don't really need the orginal AIs anymore.