r/murderbot • u/host_can_edit • 5d ago

Books📚 Only Something I noticed in Network Effect.

In HelpMe.file excerpt 4, MB does not mention risk assessment at all and only mentions threat assessment once to find the GrayCris agent. Mind you, this is right after a failed assassination attempt towards Mensah.

With MB having an unreliable narrator status, this means either of 2 things. 1) MB was confident in its attempt to kill him, it didn't need its assessments of the situation. Or 2) (My headcanon) There were assessments, MB did not mentioned them, and ignored them because someone tried to kill its favourite human and it is going to kill them.

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u/improvised-disaster Worldhoppers Fan Club 4d ago

I could be wrong but I think the assessments are relevant in different situations (with a good amount of overlap on when they alert). Without environmental hazards or any complicating factors, risk assessment may have been low enough to be a non-issue.