The Star Alliance evidently lacked the energy to accomplish many tasks, otherwise exploration outside the Local Interstellar Cloud would have been completed long ago.
If the overall development and the quality of citizens within the Star Alliance were on par with Iridium Star, even without so many warships, dealing with the Teizene civilization would have been much easier. However, the current situation in the Star Alliance was that they possessed powerful technology, but the majority of its citizens were simply coping with a new civilizational model, Bai Zhongqi, despite having billions of people, could not swiftly transform them into a force for the Star Alliance.
After just over a week, Bai Zhongqi received intelligence from the Tianshui Escort Ship operating beyond the Danlu Interstellar Cloud—approximately nine light-years away in a galaxy, they discovered an interstellar civilization.