Currently, Alex's ship was in a bad state, and it would take a while for the automated systems to repair what they could.
Unfortunately, amongst the long list of things that were broken were the long-range scanning and communications capabilities.
Alex wouldn't be able to contact the rest of the Federation fleet, and especially the Jewel where Althea and the rest of the main forces were situated, so he had no other choice but to wait for the communication systems of his ship to be fixed before he gave any attempt at that.
But he wasn't going to spend all his time sitting idly and waiting for something that might never come.
No!
Captain Venn had already very bravely made it clear to him that there were still some remnants of the Lux still lingering in what was left of the New Dawn system.
It wasn't a surprise for him either, since there was a war going on between them and the Federation forces at the time.
