Weird Harold wrote:
The writ doesn't say, "no electricity or the Rakuri will strike you." iow, Being #1 on the Prohibition hit parade isn't evidence that the OBS can act autonomously.
There is a very strong implication that nobody in the CoGA had discretionary control of the OBS. Clyntahn would definitely have used it if he could have. A corollary of that implication is that the OBS won't act unless it does act autonomously -- aka unpredictably.
If the OBS can't act autonomously when it detects and offending electricity source, then the alternative is possibly even worse: waking up some "angel" that's sapient enough to make rational (or irrational) decisions that can play on the same technological level as the Inner Circle and has far less restrictions on doing so.
Having an "angel" return to Safehold and tell everyone to stop what they're doing before the Inner Circle has everyone primed to tell him no? That's basically the worst case scenario just shy of the Gbaba showing up.