Would this be an instant aftermath or a gradual one? I know Galactus is integral to the Marvel Universe's continued existence, but what exactly happens if he dies?
A few light years would be decimated and then the MU would collapse. No matter if Abraxas succeeds or not, Galactus MUST survive for he keeps the balance between Death and Eternity.
The power cosmic is like the science version o magic...
Basically you just said if all science hence all reality fails what would happen...
The universe Ends
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."
In surfer the End his power cosmic was said to be based upon science. That tiny nano tehnology acted as the silver coating to his body and the power cosmic was really just advanced science beyond the Ken of others.
That it was beyond even reeds knowledge to repair and that only galactus could save the surfer
hence power cosmic is nothing but science and stripping away the basics that make up the power cosmic is the same as stripping science itself from the universe
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."
Any way you cut it galan merged with a universe to become galactus.
Removing something like the power cosmic is like removing an element of the universe
And take a look at everything galactus has done prior to and leading up to prior to surfer. tyrant a bio technical creation. Airwalker a cyborg/android creation
his worldship taa... The universal nullifier...
Galan a top scientist from a world that had mastered science.
Korvac became a god that forced lt to step in because he absorbed all the knowledge from galactuses worldship...
So yah... Surfer the end makes complete sense that genus galans finest scientific achievement
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."