The Supreme Admiral breathed a sigh of relief as his spacecraft was halted. The Aeternals did so as to order another flagship in orbit to open up a wormhole just below the Deadlink, catch it and return it back into orbit. Deroe listened closely as the two made their debate. While he seemed interested in their way of thinking, this was unsurprising to him; it was a fairly common occurrence in the personal meetings of the Council. When the Triarii had finished speaking, he stood up, and laid his hands on the table like a strategist getting an idea for a battle tactic. "What even is religion to you, AIF? Is it a cultural habit? Is it a necessary ingredient of unity in a sentient species? Or, a nuisance to scientific progress? Maybe even the proper advancement of a civilization?" 
He then turned toward the Triarian representative, giving off a slight, blue fire-like glow in one eye. 
"I find it humiliating to a nation to act under such a foolish belief, and more so when they slowly turn themselves into the laughingstocks of the galaxy after they have faced the larger, more scientifically advanced civilizations-- and have failed. [i]Religion is only good while a race still shoots with gunpowder ammunition, but once they have grown to be able to explore the cosmos, they should leave it behind-- and embrace the reality of scientific thinking and independent social progression. It's like a child-- they have an imaginary friend to play with, and once they grow up into a juvenile, they accept its nonexistence, and mature into a capable man ready to live a full life. Continue having such a friend influence your living way past that point of development, and you are regarded as mentally ill, perhaps, schizophrenic.[/i] This is the reality of reality itself."

The civil sector representatives then reported. "Our scholars are almost done with the paperwork."

[i]Somewhere in the corner of a room, a watchful, magical eye overlooks upon the commotion. Who knows who did this belong to. Maybe that same person that almost crashed down the huge vessel.[/i]