Pillars

Pillars are natural (?) phenomena found on the Dayside of the small red planet of the Side A mystery.


 * "These black pillars activate a device that's apparently crucial to solving the anomaly. They probably work as energy catalyzers." — from the Steam trading card The Pillars.

Because, heaven knows, you can't go around solving anomalies if you don't have your energy properly catalyzed!

Pillars of Neil
Woah! Did somebody turn on the lights? And the shadows?

Quick! Somebody turn on the shadows! That would be your job, sleuth.

And these things are actually named on your mini-mirror-moon-map! (After you visit them.) Don't get used to it.

Neil Armstrong? Ya figure?

Probably not Neil Young, so yeah.

I doubt that he discovered them, so he must have a fan out here.

Pillars of Yuri

 * Pillars_of_Yuri.png: Well, we call them pillars, but...


 * Geoff: No, no no! They really are pillars!

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first man to orbit the earth in space, on 12 April 1961. He was killed in 1968 in the crash of a MiG-15 training jet that he was piloting.

Pillar of Philip
Philip K. Dick. Who else could it be?
 * "If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others." ― Philip K. Dick


 * "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." — Philip K. Dick, VALIS

Pillar of Stanislaw
If you haven't read Stanislaw Lem, put him on your bucket list right now! And put him way, way above skydiving and other such suicidal pursuits. You'll want to spend some time with him.

Please don't judge him by Hollywood's maltreatment of Solaris. They should be charged with defamation of Lem and aggravated assault to his novel.