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.

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)
• Star Wars Droids 6: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book I (Mentioned only)
• Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars 74: The Iskalon Effect (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars 80: Ellie
• 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