The emptiness that lay before them represents not destruction, but potential. Eson looks onward at more than just the stars, but all of reality within the multiverse as it was, still in a state of healing. The Cosmos as it was had seen many a reset, and each of the Hosts had seen the birth and death through to the end, predating even the abstractum that inhabited it all know as concepts.
They were the ones who broke the First Firmament to create life as it would come to be known. It was their leader, the One Above All (The Celestial, not the Source of All Things), who lead their great rebellion against the Firmament and the Aspirants.
This was not a being who knew nostalgia, or emotion as it could be known by mankind. Cold, calculating, indifference. Yet he knew the morality of wanting to create a better reality than what had been created for them. Upon his palm sits the good doctor himself. Restored by his nemesis, living in a time of redemption now after giving all he had to save creation.
"It is noble/brave/honorable to do what you have done." Ill placed, tainted by personal bias, but the attempt was real. Below his palm, the Earth and all her curvature-- Bathed in the cool glow of the array of her billowing white clouds and the light of the sun. A marvel, restored to life despite all the suffering.
"Your attempts do not go unnoticed."