The fabric of space was already dying, but Khan could be more terrifying, enforcing his authority on that collapse, stopping it.
Of course, the collapse was unavoidable. Khan wasn't the kind of being capable of fixing it. He might have been able to if he had opted for godhood, but that option was gone now.
Nevertheless, Khan was far from powerless. The current stillness in the collapse proved as much. His authority could prompt the cracked fabric of space to hold itself together, but that solution was far from permanent.
At some point, the collapsing momentum would become too unavoidable for Khan to stop. The trend would go beyond what his authority could affect. Space itself would become too brittle to hold together, but Khan could do much during that delay.
A red light flashed amid Khan's obscuring gaze, revealing his disappearance when it subsided. Still, despite Khan's absence, his suffocating authority remained, continuing to delay the universe's collapse.
