Heartwarming / Beyond The Chiron Gate

• Each game, your first landing on an exoplanet prompts you to select which crew member is the first to step onto the alien world (a la Neil Armstrong). At the end of the game, with the Gate Nexus, there's a special achievement if the crew member you select to fix the nexus (and secure humanity's interstellar future) is the same one who got to be your Neil Armstrong.
• When visiting the home world of an alien race who aren't yet extinct, it's possible for them to challenge your crew to a "friendly" fight. However, if you have a Xenologist crew member, you can have them attempt to explain that your crew came to their world not for violence, but for the more important goal of discovery. If you make the die roll for this, the aliens will concede defeat and congratulate you for winning the war of words.