Considering the debate about Mara Sov currently going on, and a certain post bringing up our friends on the Moon, I wanted to make a quick post and get some discussion going. Why did Oryx's Throne World collapse in the wake of his death? Seriously. We see this from Mara's perspective in the Reverie Dawn armour. [quote]She feels Oryx's true death in both halves of her soul, a full imagined exhale before the aftershock reaches his throne world. It crumbles around her like stone, like ash, like veils in a breeze. Eris Morn's friends have succeeded. The Guardians have slain a god. She steps through the ruins. In the end, there is nothing. Nothing but Mara Sov and the howling of rampant, untamed logics. Her great and terrible gamble has paid off. The rest is up to her now.[/quote] Yet in the Taken King we see that Crota's has remained intact. [quote]You fools! You disastrous, bumbling squanderers! It's not right! Who now shall be First Navigator, Lord of Shapes, harrowed god, Taken King? Not you! You might have been Kings and Queens of the Deep! But you have toppled Oryx and you have not replaced him! There must be a strongest one. It is the architecture of these spaces.[/quote] The implication from Toland is that Throne Worlds require a 'strongest one' to, well, to be. Oryx had just suffered a true death, and his throne world collapsed. [b]Now the question becomes, why did Crota's remain intact?[/b] Was it because of his use of an Oversoul, was it Bungie just forgetting a detail they added in the same expansion? Or was something holding it together? Did [i]something[/i] mantle Crota? Discuss.