I'm thinking of my old Star Frontier days and imagining a group of planetary explorers running around identifying new food fads (shoot them fry them up and eat them), investigating mex city sites, investigating possible sites with humans abandoned habitation (learning cool things about some of the history of different movements that still exist or finding abandoned tech, or maybe locations of contemporary settlements and seeing which ones might not be on current starcharts)
What do you think these guys would need?