Items in the mod are integrated into a number of high value locations, including: Labs, libraries bank vaults, mansions, new unique map extras with new enemies.
Get creative, find stuff, if it has no purpose yet it will later.
Wondering how to start magic? Maybe XEDRA knows more. Too bad XEDRA are all zombies now, I bet they left the notes lying around.
Well if you're this far down, you want a more direct hint. You need 100 pages of the Kolibri project notes to make the journal now. The Shi will have a full copy, and I bet the Imperials will somewhere but they won't just let you walk in and ask.