could Onyx at all remotely tie to the structure found at Coral?? just a thought. and some people seem to confuse onyx with obsidian (hinting at the glassed planets thing here) though neither are metals. both are, primarily, black i believe. no idea if that helps anyone's postulations, but i'm a-tossing it out there anyways. oh, and i'm in the minority here, but i enjoyed both deitz and nylund. deitz allowed us to see into the covy world a bit more, which is cool.