It's got some pretty good reference material -- atlases, maps, and histories. I can jot down some of the stuff I've learned that might be helpful. After all, it's not likely that we reached our current situation without some influence from the past.

[His own country was that way and learning about Struxta's history had been helpful, even if a lot of it had led to dead ends. At least this place had technology he actually understood...even if he couldn't imagine how they kept reading material down in the water.]

Have we talked to any of the people who saw her last?