The columns
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Appears in: Descent
The columns are eight tall, perfectly octagonal black columns standing in a perfect octagon around The island of the columns of Calima: the first sign of non-human intelligence the mission finds.
In Descent (2258)
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Spoilers for Descent
Thousands of crew members watch live as the instruments, among them the lidar and the bound particle quantifier, are turned on them. To Kurt, studying the records after the crash, they feel synthetic: a pattern too perfect and systematic to be the work of living beings. Seconds after the analysis begins, an electromagnetic wave leaves the columns and travels through the The atmospheric particles to the ship. With the mission in crisis, few reports have studied them since.
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The engineer stopped the simulation and counted 8 spaced columns forming another perfect octagon around the examined island.[1]
Several annotations made later indicated the readings of various instruments: in a schematic visual context, Kurt watched as an electromagnetic wave emanated from the columns when they were analyzed and propagated almost instantaneously through the suspended particles of the atmosphere to the low orbit of the spacecraft.[2]
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