Major AI cannot re-open its core shield after closing

[Zamujasa]

Poking in to say that you can sort of get around it by maneuvering an AI shell to the core, since those count as "cameras".

One other very strange and likely related effect is that, as an AI shell (/borg?), going near your core will show the same "static" overlay you would see if you were using the AI eye. It's weird.

however you still can't reopen the core shield at any point as that is inside the core (at least on most maps i think) so you can't easily put an AI shell in there. telesci i guess but that takes time

You can and I have, at least on Clarion. I'm not sure why or how it works but it does manage to reveal everything.