That's a great way to put it. Your personal device probably can't show a map without network because it doesn't have that map downloaded, but it does know your coordinates. I doubt that's a problem S&R has, though.

Armed means the arms are ready to give a reassuring hug.

Look, I agree that there's a vanishingly small reasonable use for this. No argument there. I'm just saying that communications being down is not exactly a bizarre circumstance for S&R.

ahh yes, for those search and rescue scenarios where someone is running away from you in a dense forest in a cave, in case you end up needing to perform rescues on the Terraria planet

Yeah, but honestly, whether you have the AI model on the drone itself or on the controller is really an immaterial difference to either a legitimate use case (such as S&R) or warfare use cases. Something like 40km is about the best range you can hope for with a drone, so for all intents and purposes the drone and its controller are going to be in the same place.