Discovering Biomes for Data Bank Entries

NewAgeRevolution

A simple idea, if you are to scan all of the flora, fauna, geology, etc. in a given biome, you would get a data bank entry for the entire biome, giving you a synopsis of what the biome is, its complexities, and generally a little extra information about it.

Also, you could have discovering each biome add to a map of the world which the player could slowly uncover.

Jamezorg

This could be a good way of adding the mapping features as well; whenever you scan everything in a biome it adds that biome (or every one of those biomes) to the map.