While the dessandrites and the aquadites forged a secret alliance in order to team up against the arakai, human civilization continued on.
The air, politically speaking, had grown tense. Word of a seemingly inevitable war had spread across the top brass and even to some layers below. More than anything, it manifested in ways that were visible even to regular people.
Across human civilization, people observed more and more mechs and MECHAs on active duty, more patrols, more oversight, more surveillance, more of just about everything that could increase security.
It was hard to miss frontier states immediately investing in long-range and wide-scale detection technology. They also put money into strengthening their battle-readiness. Although all frontier states were battle-ready, they were the most fragile interstellar states.
