I meant to reply to the original post and what I said does not pertain to anything in your post. RIP.

The Deep cannot die because it is a concept. The Darkness seems to be a cosmic force that values and emphasizes adaptation and absolute dominance. It emphasizes weeding out the weak and outlasting everything, and that is why conceptually, its powers are heat death and outright refusal of laws and dynamics, because they are restrictions. The darkness seems to emphasize evolution as well, embodying the strongest shape in nature, the triangle, and enforcing its philosophy of total dominance through the sword logic, the idea that the sharpest edge will always win. Interestingly, the Traveler's thoughts in dreams of alpha lupi described the its enemy as having a "thousand knives" which "pinned its godly flesh." This could be taken to mean the horde of dark triangular constructs. The light is the anti-thesis to the Darkness because, to sum it up in one statement, not everything has to die and life can co-exist and draw strength from one another. More recently, Mara Sov has been talking about the Bomb logic as a weapon that would beat the sword logic, because it is made by many components, people, and ideas. In the case of the Traveler and humanity, You have technology, the light, a warmind, and very slowly, whatever allies they make. Even the queen understands strength in numbers. It's not coincidence that she likes to keep Guardians around and weaponizes the light using the blind well. Here is a quote from the Darkness itself, when Oryx communed with it: [quote]This is how the world changes. One way meets a second way and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go being something instead of nothing. This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end. And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself. And it is what I am.[/quote] And: [quote]And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not through the smile, but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of an artificial paradise, but in the cold hard self-varifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the ultimate, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source--existence at any cost.[/quote] So the darkness is literally and metaphorically, entropy and adaptation itself. It sees the universe as rotting and dying and because it draws power from the natural course of heat death, it believes it is majestic, should and WILL win, and because it will outlast heat death, it is uncontested, absolute, and the only power that will be left. So long as the idea of total conquest or aggressive survival exists, the darkness will never die. Remember how the Speaker said the Light was in all things? Well, one could argue that all of the wars and conflicts in humanity were the result of the darkness, because the light values working together for the good and survival of multiple species. It's really interesting to look at how the views of the light and darkness could play out on a smaller scale. From a scientific standpoint, the light and darkness both make sense. Life depends on diversity, but a species or being (or force in this case) forsees the inevitable heat death and makes changes and adapts to overcome them, is not wrong. If the Traveler never found humanity, and many years into the future when our sun began to die, the darkness came and offered us power to survive heat death and leave our system to find new homes, would we view it as evil? That's the story of the Hive, just replace the sun with living on an unstable gas giant. TL;DR: The Deep does not need to be revived. It is a concept with aspects just like the light. The light represents diversity and coexistence in life, while the darkness represents aggressive survival and adaptation that will outlast heat death to be an absolute power. Both work through different races and factions to carry out their ideas.

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To be fair, my wife has a degree in theology and pointed out a lot of this after I wouldn't shut up about the story. I didn't even see the reddit post until directed to it by a youtube video.