Celestial Pillars: Meaning of their names

[Mebybemn]

I just realized that the celestial pillars represent the life cycle of a star!

Heres a quick diagram I made showing it:

Stellar Nebula >>> Star (nebula condenses into a star) >>> Supernova (star dies) >>> Black Hole (when the star is big enough to collapse infinitely in on its self) or Nebula (when the mass of the star is scattered, aka stardust, to create a new nebula)

Nebula Pillar >>> Solar Pillar >>> Stardust Pillar >>> Vortex Pillar

This also explains why the solar pillar is the hardest

 

[6359_]

Huh. That's moderately interesting.

 

[Rhajat]

That really cool

 

[warlordjones]

Science! Yeah!

This actually seems somewhat probable. Or a happy coincidence.

 

[leroy_jenkins]

I just realized that the celestial pillars represent the life cycle of a star!

Heres a quick diagram I made showing it:

Stellar Nebula >>> Star (nebula condenses into a star) >>> Supernova (star dies) >>> Black Hole (when the star is big enough to collapse infinitely in on its self) or Nebula (when the mass of the star is scattered, aka stardust, to create a new nebula)

Nebula Pillar >>> Solar Pillar >>> Stardust Pillar >>> Vortex Pillar

This also explains why the solar pillar is the hardest

the one that always gets me is nebula, :/ if you're on the ground spamming razorblade typhoon solar is pretty easy, but the sheer number of mobs nebula spawns makes it so hard, but yhea, that makes alot of sense

 

[Samrux]

I'm still wondering why the vortex enemies are all insectoid aliens, the vortex background has an alien-looking jungle planet, and the vortex armor is alien technology.

I continue to question the exact meaning of "vortex" in Terraria's context. Nevertheless, this is very interesting, and I feel like I should have probably figured it out myself (I gave the pillars much thought a while ago, thinking about their meaning and relations). Congrats

 

[Ezel]

Interesting concept. i didn't even think about this. Maybe it was somehow based off this.