From Central's logs, John will be able to discover that the ship landed roughly 150 years ago — after Magda's group of refugees had been sent to El Nysa. As Central is now in use as Nadril's main hub, it has been scrubbed free of most of Darma's programming, but he'll be able to find a historical archive with a few messages from her that are along a similar vein to what the current crop of refugees have received: the Natha asking refugees to help guide the Nysans and with help in dealing with the Storm. However, as Central is very much in use, too much poking around will be noticed by the people of Nadril, and particularly Magda.
The crashed ship that makes up the junk heap is largely inoperational, its systems too badly damaged for much to be retrieved. However, he'll be able to learn that the ship crashed in an unexpected meteor shower but that the full complement of its refugee crew survived the crash the landing.
For the pets, there's no need to technopath one into following Magda — John merely needs to program it to do so! Whether he can is up to his ability to tweak its personality parameters and his programming skill (or his ability to find a friend with programming skill...) but the pets are capable of learning to do tasks such as this on their own.
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The crashed ship that makes up the junk heap is largely inoperational, its systems too badly damaged for much to be retrieved. However, he'll be able to learn that the ship crashed in an unexpected meteor shower but that the full complement of its refugee crew survived the crash the landing.
For the pets, there's no need to technopath one into following Magda — John merely needs to program it to do so! Whether he can is up to his ability to tweak its personality parameters and his programming skill (or his ability to find a friend with programming skill...) but the pets are capable of learning to do tasks such as this on their own.