The irony.. Alan have the technology, means, reason and manpower to take the throne by force, but he chose not to, instead he is avoiding bloodshed to spare the humans numbers so they can fight an Alien civilization of man-eating ants.
I imagine he explaining that to the people he is recruiting later on, also i got my expectations way too high since the chapter in which the twins showed up and said that they printed this country currency, that implies that they have "3D printers" capable of building and assemble with a large range of materials, so i was like the entire time "PRINT A ROBOT ARMY!! PRINT GUNS!! PRINT DROPSHIPS!!"
Also Alan have a point with his claims about Martial Court, the Imperial army is quite technologically advanced capable of mass colonization of space so, they probably took a LONG time to achieve it and build their ethical point of view, even banning clones while in dire need of them.
Yet, here we have Alan planning to hire children for indoctrination so they can become imperial soldiers... yeah, if the imperial army show up first before the bugs, the worst threat will be the martial court.
Thank you for the chapter.