"Because you can move her on into the UCAS. I’m betting the UCAS would love to get their hands on software that would let them beat the megacorps’ own raiding headhunters searching through exec talent. The chance to spy on the megacorps would be worth the price of keeping her alive and happy in case someone finds a way to beat her programming. Frag, the racketeering divisions alone would probably geek their own mothers for the chance to put an agent deep inside Aztechnology or any of the others, knowing they could pull the agent out at any time without worrying about a cortex bomb or something equally nasty taking out the covert operator when they brought him or her in."