Yes. Someone or something else took control of it several years ago, but... Sumeragi had Chris and I create a stand-alone operating system not long before then. If she hadn't forecasted that Veda might be cut off from us....

[She cuts off, shaking her head. She doesn't want to think about what would have happened if the Gundams had just been left immobilized. But of course, as soon as she tries not to think about it, she does. All her comrades would have been captured or even killed. The Ptolemaios crew would most likely have been captured too, unless they managed to escape. But to leave the Meisters behind... no they wouldn't have done such a thing.]