Many historians and other experts predicted that the Carmine Revolution may be the crisis that may put an end to the Age of Mechs in the Milky Way.
The Big Two would definitely be the first ones to refute this theory!
The Mech Trade Association and the Common Fleet Alliance may have been caught off-guard by a crisis nobody saw coming, but they managed to stabilize the situation in the galaxy and prevent their reach and authority from crumbling even further.
When people looked at a map of the Milky Way Galaxy, they would see that the Big Two had lost a huge amount of territory.
If the galaxy was shaped like a pizza, then human space encompassed half of it. Of that half, the crust and much of the outer ring had been cut away from the direct control of the MTA and CFA!