Dutiful Passage
Lytaxin Orbit

In which Tactical Defense Pod 77 has a plan.

A couple of things come to mind about this chapter, but they would be better said later, after it has been revealed what is going on.

I’ve been idly speculating, between chapters, about whether it would have done them any good if one of the people on the surface had known about Pod 77 and been able to get it going sooner. Would it have been able to do anything for them that they haven’t done anyway? The strike it’s about to take will be pretty impressive, but it depends a lot on various factors, including timing and the unknowing co-operation of the Yxtrang. It probably couldn’t have done it any earlier, and it’s going to work now only because the Yxtrang have no idea the Pod exists; if it had been active earlier, they might have been able to take measures against it.