Jedi Archives

The Jedi Archives, also known as the Jedi Temple Library, was the Jedi Order's repository of knowledge on Coruscant, rumored to hold the sum total of all galactic knowledge. They were overseen by the Council of First Knowledge. The Archives housed incredible amounts of data which were stored electronically and holographically, making them very possibly the single largest source of information in the galaxy. It was here that Jedi of nearly all ages would come to learn new information, whether it be for personal curiosity, studying for tests, or preparing for assignments. The Archives could also be used to search for specific members of the Order. Files, or profiles, were kept of each member, whether alive, dead, or if they left the order. These files included colon-labeled information giving the persons' name, age, species, home planet, and clan. Similar profiles were kept of known criminals, making studies for more dangerous missions all the more informative. Besides standard data tapes and holobooks, the Archives contained holocrons, which are polyhedral-shaped devices that could store phenomenal amounts of data. These were housed in a vault prohibited to non-Jedi.

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