He can't help but be curious. Things like that in his own world, the relics of a past era, inspire his curiosity and yet too often they're taboo. Dangerous subjects. Discoveries of those old technologies "accidentally" get unwritten; their discoverers disappear. And it's that fact, plus his own kin's fascination with the truly ancient stories of descent from the stars, that keeps him from digging too hard despite his own tendency to seek the sort of knowledge that's hard to find and hoard it.
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He can't help but be curious. Things like that in his own world, the relics of a past era, inspire his curiosity and yet too often they're taboo. Dangerous subjects. Discoveries of those old technologies "accidentally" get unwritten; their discoverers disappear. And it's that fact, plus his own kin's fascination with the truly ancient stories of descent from the stars, that keeps him from digging too hard despite his own tendency to seek the sort of knowledge that's hard to find and hoard it.