A week passed since Varian called Enigma. What followed was a rapid military deployment of Human Armed Forces across the federation.
Even if he was living under a rock, Varian would know about the status quo.
At an unprecedented level, armies of humanity and abyssals were beefing up their deployments.
Uranus' planetoids were in a rather precarious position, but due to the reinforcements given by Sovereigns, they were confident in reaching a stalemate.
But even they acknowledged that should the Sequoia arrive in estimated quantities, they'd suffer significantly higher losses than Abyssals.
Soldiers were barred from relaying the ground reality to their loved ones. The general public was kept under the impression that this was a 'normal' deployment match up.
The talks were already underway and soon, both sides would withdraw their forces and things would return to normal.
