It's surprising, I know. [Artie gives him a sympathetic look. he can only imagine how bizarre all of this must be for someone from centuries in his relative past ... or a world similar to it]

It holds information - several books' worth, called a database. You can access that by touching this point, here, and use certain words to search for the information you want. It will mostly tell you about this world, what's available to us, and the missions that everyone else has run in the past.