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Second Collapse
Fronts:	The Last City European Dead Zone
Outcome:	Enshroudment of the Solar System
Belligerents Humanity The Vanguard The Reef Imperial Cabal House of Flame Castris's Criminal Empire The Black Fleet The Black Fleet The Shadowkeepers Commanders The Last City The Guardian Osiris The Crow Ikora Rey Shiro-4 Luther Hargreeves Ezra Knightwalker Jotaro Kujo Kakashi Hatake Eris Morn Elisabeth Bray Hannah Ciel Mallory Bertha The Cabal Empress Caiatl House of Flame Koriks, Flame Kell Venth Nagihiko Castris's Criminal Empire Castris The Guardian The Black Swordsman The White Angel Strength The Last City Millions of Guardians The Awoken Royal Armada The Cabal Imperial Fleet The Fallen Armada The Black Fleet Uncounted Pyramid Scales Uncounted Nightmares Uncounted Shadowkeepers Shadow Forces House of Shadows Shadow Legion Casualties The Last City Near annihilation of the Guardian order Zavala The Cabal Complete annihilation of the Imperial Fleet House of Flame Near annihilation of Olympus Mons Castris's Criminal Empire Most of the associates The Black Fleet Many Scales lost The Shadowkeepers Numberless Civilian casualties Complete annihilation of The Last City megapolis Complete annihilation of The Reef

The Second Collapse (also known as the Shadowkeeper's Apocalypse) was a massively cataclysmic system-wide conflict fought between the unified forces of the Solar System and The Black Fleet. The conflict began after Pyramidic fleet-elements started arriving en mass into the system. After the Outer System was taken without any meaningful resistance, the Fleet moved into the Inner System, shrouding world after world until only Earth and its Moon remained.

There, in orbit around the dyad worlds, the Fleet deployed the Shadowkeepers and its commanders, the Black Swordsman and its Angel. Most of Earth's landmass was quickly claimed by the Shadowkeeper armies except for the entirety of the southern American continent, where the Last City has grown into a megapolis of unimaginable proportions. Here the enemy forces were stalemated until The Guardian was lured away to the EDZ and subsequently corrupted. The Black Fleet claimed victory, broke the Traveler, and slew most of the Solar System combatants, with few survivors fleeing into new worlds. The enshroudment of Sol complete, the Black Fleet withdrew its forces into its home dimension, where secretly a hidden fortress had been constructed.

Aftermath

After the Sanctuary dwellers forged an alliance with the inhabitants, they decisively repelled an exploratory arm of the Black Fleet, reacting to a reinvigorated Traveler which had forsaken its spherical body for that of a human, and the entrapped inhabitants of Aincrad. Together, with Sanctuary and their allies launching a physical assault on the Solar System and Mallory infiltrating Aincrad to unmake the Black Fleet's interference, the system was freed and Aincrad locked away. Fusion was liberated from Aincrad.

The High Orbit

Remnants of the Shadowkeepers still lurked within the wilds of the freed birthplace of humanity. The Swordsman and the Angel were hunted to destruction by resurgent Guardian forces, with Cabal and Eliksni Lightbearers among them. Only their "son", Tatsuyi Kirigaya, remained strong enough to rally a number of Shadowkeepers and Nightmares, resurrecting his parents as Nightmares along the way, and attempted a direct assault on Mallory. They were defeated by The Guardian.

List of appearances

• Destiny 2:
  • Paradox (First appearance)