I've just finished the game (sent a spaceship to the stars) for the first time.
♥♥♥♥, where do I start?

This game is great, and I'm not saying that lightly; each chunk of gameplay, each music, the simple yet nice graphics, everything: is amazing.
You get attached to your pawns (game's term for your colonists), sometimes even your livestock; I shall tell you the story of One-Eye the Brave:

One-Eye was a bison. Bought off some traders at the very beginning of my save.
What made him so special to me, you may ask?
Each time the colony was fighting a difficult battle, he and his wife Ferala (she died on the battlefield, God bless her soul) would put themselves between the colonists and harm, tanking so the pawns could keep shooting.
One of these instances is how One-Eye earned his name; we were hunting Thrumbos; they got close to us, the courageous bisons won us that fight, but at a price : he had become one-eyed.
Much later, an infestation occured in the stockpile. Four bisons (including One-Eye) got involved.
Victory was achieved, at a bitter cost :
One-Eye and another bison bled out.
He was gone, but shall never be forgotten. His legacy, the colony and his offsprings, lived on.
A jade sarcophagus was built to honour him. He was the hero we needed, but didn't deserve.
May he rest in peace.