O'Connel's the name? Are you breton? Not that it matters, it's a pleasure to see anyone aiding the oppressed minorities wherever they can. It's also nice to see that there are individuals not just big companies who share my interests in AI-research and cybertechnology. If you have an interstellar neural broadband, feel free to hop in to Radio Free Liberty for some more intimate discussion if you feel so. And also tell me if you girls don't own one, I might just ask the Smugglers Department to bring some hardware to Aniu. Flatvid and holotain are obsolete, the future is in the direct cerebral connection.
Anyways... I'm not the one who says the final word in this matter, but I see no obstacle for you to obtain one of our gunships. Especially since it would serve research purposes, what's more you didn't request from the sophisticated weaponry we usually equip those crafts - that will ease the required paperwork.
The only thing I have to ask is if that the AI project you mentioned belongs directly to you, or it's a Chrysantemum funded and supported operation? In the first case I might just ask you to say a few nice words about us to your superiors (is that the good word to refer to the respected older leaders of yours?). The time when our organizations will require closer cooperation might be closer than we'd think and I'd feel myself better if I was prepared for any course of events. We'll might have a similar (or completely different) matter we'd have to contact your matrons soon.