Hiya!

Well, that was less painful than I expected. All right so, in order:

- You can probably think of her more like a cyborg than anything else - her intelligence is, at the moment, composed of a complicated and difficult-to-replicate interconnection between an AI core and part of human brain. There was an example here but it was really bad. 

- Originally, I'd written her to be more machine than human, but our MAS pilot got there first. :) Lara/Corona/whatever is more human than machine [i]generally speaking[/i]. Most of the contents of her skull, her eyes, a considerable portion of [i]only[/i] her brain and spine along with her right arm prosthesis are, however, artificial. 

- I'm bad at following directions and I thought an AI that still had to protect itself in a meaningful way would make for some interesting narrative. I [i]think[/i] her intelligence could live on even if her "body" died, although the experience would be breathtakingly traumatic. The idea is that she's still entirely capable of doing "AI stuff," including remote-piloting equipment, electronic warfare, rapid information analysis, and all that, but [i]also[/i] has a reason to care about getting shot. I can still write her as a force multiplier both personally [i]and[/i] with the ability to control hardware with her mind, but I had thought you'd prefer for that to not be the case. Mea culpa, if so. :3

- I'm fine with her being stronger than a standard-issue human, if that's the "normal" thing. The original narrative would have been for Lara wanting to just have her body back, and at that point she very much would have cared more about being made whole rather than becoming a superhuman. Since Lara "died," changing the prosthesis to serve other purposes is fine with me.

- Like I mentioned earlier, she's still [i]mostly[/i] human.

- I'm not picky as to how she gets assigned - in my mind, I've figured that the UEE would have no real idea what to do with her, but since she's demonstrated that she still has all the "abilities" of a UEE artificial intelligence, that she's been redeployed as one, with the unit commander receiving a set of caveats prior to her arrival. I can't believe that the UEE would be trying to [i]recreate[/i] what happened, though. 

Does any of that help?