>>96307671
I don't think Autochton is particularly much of a power gamer like that desu. Consider how he favored humans, a race known for having absolutely no capacity to break the laws of physics that rule Creation, and whom were among the weakest most feeble species even in terms of creating magitech, simply because they were so reliant on their cultural rituals and meager tools.

A mecha base suddenly discovers their combat AI have been sabotaged,

The now enemy mecha killed their pilots, destroyed anti-air defences, and are now waiting for the enemies to arrive and take over.
One remaining mecha was in maintenance at the time,
The pilot erase the corrupted AI but need to load new AI, preferably one that value the PILOT more than anything, so it's not taken over the same way as others.

OBVIOUSLY the answer is to load a cute-girl companion AI meant for video game,

Yes, their pilots have to retake the base,
The cute-girl AI are clumsy as hell, but that OK because the enemy-AI was coded to forgive everything from other mecha (even if they still defend against attack)

Also the cute-girl AI require their user to be nice to them and take them on date! Or they won't do anything.
So the pilot has to negotiate with his cute girl mecha

at the end they discover the cute-girl AI was also built to be a forever-AI and refuse normal deletion order.
Since she saved the day she's kept on service.