Dutiful Passage
In Jump
In which the Passage is welcomed to Lytaxin.
Another chapter where much happens, but all I can find to talk about is minor details like this:
The message signed by Grandmother Cantra establishes that Plan B is very old. It’s even older than the Council of Clans, which wasn’t chartered until the sixth year after Planetfall.
Dutiful Passage
Jump
In which the crew of the Passage investigate the capabilities of the new weapon pods.
Okay, that settles it: the Passage has been in orbit around Krisko all this time.
There are several possibilities for the author of the message with the chess-based code, but I lean toward the Krisko Portmaster, whom the authors made a point of describing near the beginning of the chapter as an old chess partner of Shan’s.