Dataplaque

Dataplaques were ancient information storage devices. Made up of storage rods built into a capacitance board made of precious metal, they were notably used to contain astrogational data, in which case they were called navigational dataplaques.

The gangster Dryden Vos kept three finely adorned dataplaques in his personal museum onboard the star yacht First Light. At least two of them were navigational dataplaques. One allegedly pinpointed the location of the long-lost Queen of Ranroon ship. The other navigational dataplaque, which he had stolen from the Bureau of Ships and Services Heritage Museum on Coruscant and replaced with a forgery, was thought to have come from an old Jedi scout ship, the Permondiri Explorer.

One form of dataplaque was used as records of sentencing on the planet Niamos during the Imperial Era.

Around 34 ABY, the Ithorian collector Dok-Ondar kept four dataplaques on display at his store on Batuu, three of which appeared nearly identical to those that had belonged to Dryden Vos.

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