Once the relevant messages were sent out, and their allies understood that the Terminus Fleet was returning to their home Galaxy to work on the next generation of Mecha and ships, the rest of the Anomaly Fleet was completely fine with holding the line and helping with the cleanup on their own.
[Good luck, and say hello to the rest of the research team for me.] Was the last message that they received from Celia's Love, the Command Ship for the Anomaly fleet.
Max didn't take them directly back to Absolution. Instead, he had the Board of Directors bring Absolution to them so that they could combine the research and development teams with the local ones at their destination.
For a project this big, he wasn't going to work alone. Instead, and not entirely because Mary Tarith had demanded they come back on occasion, he was going to enlist the help of Uncle Lu and the research team at the Rae 5 Moon Base.