Strengths and Weaknesses - a search for opinions

[Alneyan]

I'd pick Crystalline and Religious any day. Religious is the most cost efficient of the traits (lessening the effect of dropping Aggressiveness, and giving a resource boost in the early game), with by far the lowest amount of research required. Crystalline takes a longer while to get up and running, but the results are well worth it.

Of course, this sort of setup takes a good deal of research to be truly useful, but the Shrines might be able to give a boost in the early game (until more galaxy-shattering techs can be researched). This specific combination has the unfortunate side-effect of making your neighbours uneasy, though, so you'd better have a golden tongue or a very strong early game.