When two genuinely gigantic "biological space motherships" were discovered one after another by the freshly deployed synchronous orbit satellites, everyone with the relevant insider knowledge realized that the real interstellar war between civilizations might be about to kick off.
Of course, the so-called interstellar war might just be a wishful thought of the Blue Star Civilization, which is only beginning to venture into the cosmos. There's a real possibility it will spiral into a one-sided extinction of the civilization.