Starfleet had succeeded in their goal, after a fashion, or maybe exactly in the way they’d intended. We hadn’t ceased contact with humanity, but it would be through a much more narrow interface in the future. We no longer owned or controlled any comms stations and had very few autofactories anywhere in human-controlled space. This left the Bob-controlled systems, naturally, but there was precious little of that, Epsilon Eridani and Alpha Centauri being the biggest examples.