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Not quite seeing the applicability as a rationality quote; but in "it's bed" you should drop the apostrophe.
I imagine there's an implied "and then the Reapers came" or something.
I'd say it's highlighting the human fallacy to try to ignore and escape from bad news. Instead of facing this prophecy, they just destroyed the ship that delivered it to them and told themselves they were safe.
Actually, prophesy was about the ship; the spaceship crashed into Aragena, their planet, and then curious inhabitants looked inside (and found nothing dangerous). After that came the messenger of their King and told them that they all are doomed.
And they indeed were.
Probably I'm incredible late with that, but:
a) thank you, embarrassing mistake fixed
b) I was fascinated with the "volatile atoms" bit. It feels like a line taken from a poem on reductionism. I'm not sure that I managed to convey it because I'm not so much versed in English fiction and poetry.
Also, I liked their safety measures, it's a pity they hadn't worked in the end.