User blog comment:Bluegear93/What ending did you choose?/@comment-4826433-20120427225725/@comment-197.156.86.44-20150522174548

True that. The Destroy option didn't make sense anymore after the conversation with the Starchild.

@RayShepp654 (spoiler alert) in the EC his body disintegrates, but his consciousness transcends and he replaces the Starchild as the new controller of the Reapers.