Quote Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack View Post
Kat's character raises a really obvious question: if technology allows for fully-functioning prosthetic limb replacement, why spend time and money raising child-soldiers, when you could just implant smart AIs in robot bodies?
Just because they can make good prostheses doesn't mean they have the capability to make a full robot. Sure, it might be a small plot hole, but you can also look at it this way: if they could have, they would have. Also, fully intelligent AIs are references as being extremely expensive in the books. I'm rereading The Fall of Reach to try to refresh my memory on the history.