[Invincible] what was Allen’s understanding of the war and how it was even remotely possible that the viltrumites hadn’t won

We now know that the viltrumites only have 40 members but if Allen and the Coalition of Planets (excluding thaedus) was under the impression that there was a planet full of them how did it remotely make sense to him that talescria and other Coalition planets were still free from Viltrumite rule