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Second Collapse
Fronts:	• Dwindler's Ridge, Earth • Antumbral Chasm, Deimos • Moon • The Leviathan • European Dead Zone, Earth • The Tower, The Last City
Outcome:	• Enshroudment of the Solar System • Kirito and Asuna succeed in destroying the Last City and the Traveler • Beginning of the Age of Darkness
Belligerents Vanguard The Reef House of Light Imperial Cabal Loyalists The Black Fleet Cabal Hive Vex Commanders Commander Zavala Ikora Rey Osiris Eris Morn The Crow Elisabeth Bray Mithrax, Kell of Light Empress Caiatl Commander Roudak The Black Swordsman The White Angel Strength Thousands of Guardians House of Light Splicers Caiatl's Emissaries Emperor Calus's final proxy Royal Awoken Guards Rasputin Uncounted Avatars Uncounted Nightmares Uncounted Pyramid Scales The Dark Guardians Mallory Bertha The Shadowkeepers House of Shadows Shadow Brood Shadow Divisive Shadow Legion The Reborn Cult of the Scorned Casualties Zavala Shin Malphur Anastasia Bray Devrim Kay Near annihilation of the Guardian order Near destruction of Rasputin Complete annihilation of the Imperial Fleet Complete annihilation of the Royal Awoken Guards Many Scales lost Many Avatars Civilian casualties Complete annihilation of The Last City megapolis Complete annihilation of The Reef

"We thought we felt the true meaning of mortality when the Collapse came... and when Ghaul took our Light, but we never believed that Kirito and Asuna could actually take from us more than that."

— Hannah Ciel.

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 Avatar army and its commanders, the Shadowkeepers, a notorious crime syndicate led by the Black Swordsman and his Angel. Most of Earth's landmass was quickly claimed by the Avatar 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.

List of appearances

• Destiny 2:
  • Forsaken (First mentioned)
  • Shadowkeep (Mentioned only)
    • Season of Arrivals (Mentioned only)
  • The Witch Queen (Mentioned only)
  • Lightfall (Mentioned only)
  • Paradox (First appearance)
    • Season of the Black Swordsman (Mentioned only)
    • Season of Deception (Mentioned only)
    • Shadows' Legacy Update (Mentioned only)
    • Season of the City (Mentioned only)