Drakador_Chaos
the information the Pillar got was more than enough. Just enough so it can guage what kind of potential threats it's dealing with. But your transmission finally get answered, by a voice. It is not known if its speaking from the titanic object in front of you, from within you, a transmission or all around. A voice is just heard
"a bystander? And your compound, its not recognisable from this sector, this part of space. Quite far from home, aren't you? Much like us. But what are you doing, watching, observing as a bystander? Are you waiting for a moment to pounce? Or does it simply entertain you? But maybe there's a less cynical approach to this. Maybe your taking notes, based on what you've shown my...messenger. Perhaps you wish to know us before we've made an advancement? What is your purpose?"
seams and accents on the pillar begin to glow white, a prismatic colour which appears unstable as it shimmers through the colours of the rainbow around the edges. But you can't tell if the lights are just really bright, or the space around the great object just got a bit more darker.
TheRainmaker
the captain is caught in a trance as the vessel glows a strange white colour. He drops his flask and his body stiffens.
"I-... That's a pillar, piloted by a singular proxy. It shouldn't be glowing white. They've never shun white, only colours. Purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo and magenta. Magenta being the rarer and more formidable of the dawn. Purple being common like fodder... But white. I was hoping not to see a pillar..."
the captain turns to face the suited man.
"we need to get every ship we can see out of here, now. Get whatever firepower you've got and destroy that planet, but we give it time, lest you want the pillar to attack you before you can destroy the planet before its infection grows. - the pillars they have a specific role. Crowd control and to continue the life cycle of the dawn. It will plant a shard of sorts, corresponding to the... Colour it shines."
the captain's voice shakes as he says colour, looking back at the whitened pillar
"when it has planted its shard, it'll begin to corrupt the planet or area it was placed in. Turning its surroundings into anomalous spaces that represent nothing it was originally, a perfect nesting spot for the dawn and its abominations."
you can sense the hate and malice in the captain' s voice when he describes this part of what seems to be a life cycle... Though being void of life.