I'll just get down to it:

1. Xenophobic (new Iconian ability): Does anyone know exactly what this ability does? I believe I've heard that it's supposed to increase social manufacturing at the cost of military manufacturing, but after trying to confirm this as the Iconian race, I saw no abnormality in either type of manufacturing. Any insight would be appreciated.

2. Amphibious: This is for the Torians, like before, but it's now a life type (like Carbon Based, Silicon Based, etc.) and not a racial ability. My question is, when designing a civilization why would I ever want to choose Carbon Based over Amphibious? So far, Amphibious seems to be mostly the same as Carbon Based except that it also grants the ability to colonize aquatic worlds and to terraform a water tile in each age. Again, any insight would be appreciated.