Make rogue AIs more threatening

[BaneOfGiygas]

An all seeing entity with decent knowledge of telesci and the ability to track your location is like having a sniper paint a crosshair on you.

I have a very solid idea on how to do telesci, but this is more complicated than you seem to give it credit for. It requires having a scientist who's willing to move the GPSes around for you and share the readouts, which I've never in my entire career as an AI been able to arrange. Not only that, but given the rather notoriously iffy camera-switching mechanisms and the lightning-fast calculations you need to be able to make, trying to efficiently use telesci as an AI, rogue or otherwise, is really damn hard unless you have a helper of some sort.

Shells are already pretty robust as is with their immunity to flashes and conventional stuns.

Immunity to stuns does nothing to help their cripplingly fragile nature, lack of effective combat tools, (the most damaging thing they can use is probably a crowbar) and perplexing lack of ability to recharge as far as I'm aware.

Have you seen someone like Herr Spy Guy play a rogue AI? It's terrifying.

I have not, but I'm willing to rule this example out as an exception because he's goddamn Spy Guy. That man is on another level of terror.