Heh, I guess I shoulda explained it in more detail. But what I guess would have been going through the scientists' head was "We have droids, we have mechs. How well could the former pilot the latter?"
Also, I apologize if I'm being difficult or anything, I really don't mean to. This is your RP after all
Again, that sounds kind of unnecessary, such an experiment could've been done without putting the AI into a field state with humans. If you wanted to test an droid's effectiveness in combat, just put it in a simulation, and have it fight off human pilots until it fails, rinse, repeat.
On the other hand, if you are testing the effectiveness of the AI along the interactions it has with its human counterparts and how they react to the AI,
then there would be a reason to put Alice into a field test with other pilots. So thats how I'm going to rule it.
I don't mean to sound mean, and I'm sorry if it feels like I am nit-picking, but I had been under the impression that this had been sorted out before the RP started. Being an AI is different than being a human, so its going to play differently than a human. - thats supposed to be part of Alice's whole existential crisis isnt it?