A data tape, also information tape, was a recording device that could be read by a holoprojector, such as the one standard in R2 units, or a computer terminal.

Contents 1 Significant datatapes in the history 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 See also 6 Notes and references 6.1 In other languages

Significant datatapes in the historyEdit

The Jedi training ship Chu'unthor had many datatapes about the Jedi training. When it crashed in 340 BBY, Jedi Master Yoda lead a rescue team to the wreck. He left the datatapes and reader discs about the Jedi, and prophesied a Jedi to defeat the Nightsisters. In 8 ABY, Luke Skywalker fulfilled the prophecy and took the records. In 40 ABY, these were the majority in the collection of Jedi datatapes of the New Jedi Order.^[1]

The plans for the first Death Star were recorded on data tapes, which were stolen by Princess Leia Organa and uploaded into R2-D2. Later, the tapes came into the possession of the Rebellion, and helped in the Battle of Yavin.

Behind the scenesEdit

The use of the word "tapes", in A New Hope was in 1977. In the 1970s, tapes were a modern way of recording audio, video, and computer data.

AppearancesEdit

• Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization (First mentioned)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars 1 (First appearance)
• Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Mentioned only)
• The Courtship of Princess Leia
• Omen

SourcesEdit

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji
• Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
• Xim Week: The Despotica (Part IV: Evocar) on Hyperspace (article) (content now obsolete; backup links 1 2 on Archive.org)

See alsoEdit

• Holodisc

Notes and referencesEdit