Religion

Religion
Various religions and beliefs exist throughout the galaxy, each of them as diverse and different as the cultures they originate from. Below are a list of known religions that are practiced as of AY 3000.

Abyssal Truth
The Abyssal Truth is a set of beliefs that originated on Decarro, the homeworld of the Signon. An aquatic race by nature, the Signon shaped their views of deities around 'the abyss', a term used to describe the concept of deep waters and the unknown which are almost interchangeable in Signon culture. It is believed that from the deep, life began, and it is to the deep that life returns when someone dies. All living beings exist in a constant state of swimming, of trying to stay afloat and keep from sinking into the deep all their lives, but eventually, all energy that is borrowed must be returned for new live to bubble up.

Primitive assessments of depression and other mental illnesses that affected the Signon were attributed as someone's soul and energy returning to the deep, but leaving their body behind as an almost empty husk.

Flow Logic
Flow-Logic is the term for the Teregrine's primary worldview. As a race, the Teregrine are unique in that they did not master their planet before being contacted by other races, and so they never developed more than one set of beliefs as their regional occupancy was never large or fragmented enough on the planet to lead to the creation of differing beliefs.

Using Flow-Logic, Teregrines believe that every aspect of the universe has an avatar associated with it, a spirit that is partially responsible for keeping the world in balance. Known spirits include Ineris, the avatar of destruction, and Kay'Tee, the avatar of rebirth. Wildfires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are attributed to Ineris as a means to allow Kay'Tee to restore the land and allow life to blossom anew. Neither are seen as evil or good, they are simply seen as one crucial component of a never-ending cycle.

The Church of the Binary Moons
One of the oldest Nox religions to date, it's one of the few that still maintains an active presence in the galaxy. The religion's core belief stems from the two moons that orbit in tandem with the Delta Plane, Lani and Petra. They are seen as sacred celestial objects, representations of a god and goddess whose guidance is said to explain the thriving nocturnal nature of the Nox.

Among the most important values of the Binary Moons faith is kindness to one's neighbors, selflessness, and productivity throughout one's life. There is unfortunately also a strong discouragement of interspecies relationships and a general condemnation of any unions that aren't strictly heterosexual, both of which are rationalized and justified by the Church now more than ever due to necessary breeding programs after the Nox's near genocide.

Exodeism
Exodeism is a faith almost exclusively followed by exodeists. Many of the inorganic race hold the belief that all exodeists were created by an entity or group of entities beyond the galaxy. It is not usually treated as a religion, however, so much as it is treated as the most prevailing theory the exodeists have to explain their origin. Whatever values may be held by this entity or group of entities are unknown, and the exodeists do not presume to know what they might be or what purpose there may have been for creating the exodeists in the first place. The closest example of following a religious instruction of exodeism would be for them to apply the logic of their own origin to justify the creation of the vett'iri as a natural succession of creators and created.