New Martim Vaz

New Martim Vaz registers as an aquatic city on Earth whose municipal registries mark the Uxbridges as native-born and record their professions. The city's bureaucratic imprint—birth certificates, colony registries, occupational listings—provides the forensic vocabulary Data retrieves to convert a hopeful rescue into an investigation. Salt-tinged civic memory and layered harbor architecture imply a maritime civic identity; narratively, New Martim Vaz operates as the couple's origin, an archival anchor that supplies provenance, motive, and emotional context for the crew's inquiry.