The Tumba Senator regretfully stated his concern for fellow Party member: “We must stand by our families. And while our Party is like our family, it is based on an Ideal, an Ideal that must be defended and sometimes purified. Even if at the expense of what we think is one of the very stable foundations that the Ideal is built upon.” On a more contentious note, the Tumba Senator referred to the accused Qera, “while technologies improve and develop, they are also surpassed; and like the strength of a Qrystal pillar, sometimes a sturdier substance is needed to support a vaster weight.”