I do think it’s kind of iconic for Volescu to immediately disappear after the first Murderbot book. He plays a vital part in setting everything in motion, gets traumatized as fuck, and then goes “well actually I’m not dealing with this again” and leaves. And he’s real for that
So much of this first novella is just the humans going “hey isn’t it kinda fucked up that our Security Robot isn’t a robot at all and is like a person with a human face and emotions” and Murderbot going “they better cut this shit out stop being nice to me I’m literally Murderbot”

