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I don't know what is metagaming or what it should be, but what you describe sounds more like role playing to me.
Affinities are reactions to a hostile alien environment. You don't choose how you are going to react before you get there because there is no analog in human experience.
In true role-playing you are a weary, scared astronaut, placed in a situation no other human has ever been in. there is nothing else you should determine about your actions ahead of time.