"A couple of things, Herschel. First, your goal appears to be to place a colony far from current human space, with no attempt to maintain communications. I get why you want to do that, but I don’t think the part about severing communications is necessary. Second, your idea of sending AMI Heaven vessels ahead of you is a kludge forced on you by having a bunch of colonists in your belly. Even the original project designers on Earth were reluctant to trust AMIs with that level of executive control. Except China, of course, and look how that ended."