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Originally Posted by Deacon Blues

I don't know why we are using spoilers in a thread that shouldn't need them, so I'm posting this in the open...

It was my understanding that the Tachikoma's backup was used for the Uchikoma's in the end... so even if the Major used their backup in hers, the presence of their "ghost" is still rather strange...

Spoiler:

The redcoat tech and Batou discussed their difficulty in training the Uchikoma AIs to match the Tachikoma's level of sentience. They are not using the All Tachikoma Memories archive, the Uchikomas are brand new machines with basic AIs and no ghost.

Originally Posted by Aidan

Ah I see.

Spoiler:

Tachikoma's coming back was a big surprise, an explanation would have been nice, but it's not unexpected or impossible, they did put all their memories in the piece of cyberspace they secured at the end of SAC 2.

Spoiler:

In fact, I believe the Major says in a throwaway line about having dredged their memory unit from cyberspace when Batou first encounters them, something the english translation misses.

Originally Posted by Aidan

Ah I see.

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But than again an explanation like "leaving because of a man" would have been too sappy and it would have destroyed her image. I though she found him at the start of the movie, to tell you the truth.

Spoiler for Kugutsu Mawashi theory and MAJOR SPOILERS!:

Maybe she actually did. Remember that supercomputer she keeps around, and how she was not the least surprised that the generic Koshiki lookalike body apparently went and took a walk by itself when she passed it by in the lift? She remarked that she could only do two bodies at the same time (Chroma+Young Motoko->Virus Delivery Guy+Young Motoko->Virus Delivery Guy+Original body), so she was not controlling it. Maybe she was really sharing the stable of bodies with Kuze while shacking up with him the past two years. Of course, that would means that he was really the one who impersonated Koshiki's identity, did everything behind her back, and actually dumped her in that one scene when he makes his getaway. (The "the collective subconscious dunn'ed it" line is the one he wants Section 9 to buy).That could also explain her sudden change of heart to return to Section 9, and her uncharacteristic melancholy at the ending.