Elpeo Ple is a bit... weird. She's partly unshielded, so all her internal cabling is acting as an antenna, interacting with various electromagnetic fields in funny ways while her mind tries to interpret them. That includes radio transmissions, wifi signals and whatever's going through the powerlines.
Elpeo predates Shinji. The body was found to be faulty when it was placed in a hardware test mode before being waved - so it was shelved and put aside as a dummy. Minnie May was the spare set aside incase Shinji or Anika get really messed up. There's also enough spare parts set aside to rebuild both of them near from scratch if needed - which is both good practice when one is a Security Officer and the other an occasional hardsuit-wearing vigilante, and there were minimum order amounts on most of the parts required anyway.
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Elpeo predates Shinji. The body was found to be faulty when it was placed in a hardware test mode before being waved - so it was shelved and put aside as a dummy. Minnie May was the spare set aside incase Shinji or Anika get really messed up. There's also enough spare parts set aside to rebuild both of them near from scratch if needed - which is both good practice when one is a Security Officer and the other an occasional hardsuit-wearing vigilante, and there were minimum order amounts on most of the parts required anyway.
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