The real question that Dr. Minsky needs to answer is, can space vampirism be transmitted to a ship's computer by railgun and some sort of space burial, much like real-world vampirism could be transmitted via bite in the 21st century?
Does "CMDR" show as a subtarget in SAI-4's left panel, allowing him to module snipe the human pilot but leave the ship's systems and computer intact?
That could leave dozens, even hundreds of AI vampiric space drones plaguing systems like kini.