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* The world begins much like this in ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' - various lands were ripped up and turned into artifacts, which it falls upon the protagonist to piece back together however they prefer. (Of course, they say from the beginning that it's [[All Just a Dream]], so...)
* ''[[Bastion]]'', full stop. As you traverse through the assorted levels, the ground underneath the Kid's feet comes together and falls apart at the slightest whim, even disregarding his habit of wantonly smashing everything he sees into bite-sized chunks.
* ''[[Ar
* In ''[[The Tone Rebellion]]'' the goal is to reassemble your broken planet.
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** A now-discredited theory held that the Earth spun so fast in its early days that a globule fissioned off, forming the Moon.
** Currently the [[wikipedia:Giant impact hypothesis|Giant Impact Hypothesis]] is the big one. It's oddly not all that different from the fission theory. A Mars-sized object hit the Earth about 4.4 billion years ago and threw out enough material to form the Moon.
* In a previous theory of the formation of [[
* Some of the chunkier rings of the Solar System's Gas Giants may have once been fragile moons, torn apart by impacts or tidal forces. Some of the stranger moons appear to have formed from some of these large fragments colliding and having enough mutual gravitational attraction to stick.
* Early space-probe images of Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus, depicted such a patchwork of terrain that it's been theorized that this small moon was once shattered, then re-coalesced from its scattered pieces.
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