I feel like this could be an interesting device for a novel. It could tell the stories of all the people involved along the journey from its home to the palace of Frederick II.
Or a computer game. I have fond memories of Sid Meier's "Pirates" on the Amiga. It taught me some stuff I wouldn't have known otherwise about the colonization of the Caribbean. I've always felt there was scope for a much richer world with modern computers. Probably it already exists, I don't follow computer games much these days.
