i'm going to be pedantic here but generally speaking one doesn't work on the internal computer hardware while it's on to begin with. so shouldn't she have turned the satellite off before messing with it to start with?

Montgomery said she couldn't disrupt Oasis' brain for more than 5 minutes without endangering what Schlock needed. So she had to work on the satellite "hot."

Apparently now though, with a few things going majorly south on them, she's decided disabling Oasis is more important than following Schlock's (aborted?) plan.

KiKi's been only a minor irritant. Montgomery's animosity seems transferred.

I don't know. Kiki made a mess of the lab... and also, she smells *really* bad.

Also, I love the two speculative plot lines in this thread.

You can do a lot of hot swapping memory these days in data centers.