Preparation against The Qu
The 'Outer Reaches' of the Martian Empire, roughly 59 Lightyears away from Yata, reported sightings of the 'Pyramid Ships' sighted during the Battle near Skantos Passage, leading to Mars and Polsk militarizing rapidly as Polsk began making a 'Solarite Superweapon' called Cybros, a spacestation using the energy of a star to house millions of soldiers designed to counter The Qu, though Mars was uncertain if this would be effective due to how old the Qu's civilization was based on what they could figure out. Mars enacted one of the clauses it had in its protectorate treaty with Humans signed after the Goo-Yatan War, starting conscription of Yatan/Theian soldiers into the Martian defence forces. Polsk decided to try to find the Qu's homeworld, only for Mars to reveal that they were seemingly nomadic and that they were currently unaware of where any outposts, space stations, or even refuelling stations were currently located. Polsk thus decided to track them down with the Cybros space-station due to how effective its 'subspace scanning' technology was, which Mars wasn't sure would work as they couldn't scan the entire galaxy just to hunt down where some scout ships were refuelling, instead recommending that they stay within Martian territory and build up as well as they could until the enemy revealed themselves. Polsk thus only really scanned the area around the Empire's borders, which appeared to be largely vacant of threats. Polsk tested the Cybros by scanning thru asteroids in the Alpha Sol System's Asteroid Belt until it found one that the Empire of Yata wasn't inhabiting, firing the Cybros' Solarite beam onto the asteroid which obliterated it in a giant firey explosion where most debris was incinerated.