Whenever a fellow guardian uses their super, either on activation, or kills, or both, it generates orbs. These orbs go to filling up our super bars. This video shows things more in depth: https://youtu.be/keLz-Rb3fDw We cannot see the orbs that we generate from our own supers, which our fellow guardians can pick up. Any orbs that you can see, have been generated by other guardians, not you. Your super bar can be filled in various ways. Picking up the orbs from someone's Telesto multikills, or orbs from some buff that drops them on some specific kill type (melee/ grenade/ precision kills), you getting kills in any way, or picking up orbs from someone else's super, or just sitting on your butt and waiting for the super bar to fill as you do nothing. There are two sizes of orbs from supers. The size is determined by how your super bar is maxed out. The most important thing is how your super bar maxes out! If you max it out with kills, or by just waiting, you will generate big orbs for everyone else. If you max out by picking up any kind of orb, you'll generate only little orbs. Pathetic, don't do it! Unless you had to to survive, of course. The first 99% ~75% does not matter (I've not tested this, going by the post linked at the top). Filling your super bar by orbs or kills or waiting, it makes no difference how you do it, until that final fraction. Again, the key is to max the bar with kills, or just waiting. So if you see a bunch of orbs, only pick up enough to get your super close, then max it with a kill, or time. Use your super to drop big juicy orbs for everyone else, go back to get the orbs you didn't collect earlier, plus the big juicy orbs that your teammates drop (hopefully being as smart as you), and your super will be well on its way to being ready to cause some space magic damage again! Why is this a thing? Because if we only ever dropped big orbs it would be way too easy in a Fireteam of 3 to constantly cycle supers, and imagine the Fireteam of 6 in a Raid. But when we hungrily run over all orbs to max our super bar, we then only drop little orbs.