Prof. Kobi's Archivist ('78 Gulbarin/Tapzin Quest)

The Archivist is a remodelled '78 Tapzin Quest, specified by Professor Harlan Kobi, Talician Imperial Archeologist. The innovative artificers of luxury coach-maker Gulbarin combined life-support and storage, with many walls serving as thin water tanks which regulate temperature as well. Its mission is to gather and interpret anthropological and archeological data from the Portan System and throughout the Shred, in order to determine the history of the area prior to the 3000 years of known history. Prof. Kobi suspects the CuyDang version of events before then are cursory at best, and entirely fabricated at worst.

In gratitude for his advice at the beginning of the space-flight era to make Portus economically indispensable to the region, the Portan Manufacturer's Board foot the bill for the Archivist, as eager to uncover history's mysteries as Kobi.