Data-Con

Frampton Comes Alive?! What the hell?

Data-Cons are data storage devices used by the Mini-Cons. They are flat, slate-gray discs that bear the Mini-Con emblem, and can give off a glowing emergency beacon that can be seen from great distances. (This glow is virtually identical to the glow of a Mini-Con storage panel.)

Upon activation, Data-Cons emit a series of bright holographic images while relaying their data to the one who activated them.

Data-Cons are used not only to contain data, but can also store life-sustaining energon. During the search for the Mini-Cons on Earth, the discovery of a Data-Con's energon supplies helped the Autobots pull through some tough missions.

Fiction

Classics

Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

In the wake of the Transformers' exodus from Cybertron Exodus! and the Mini-Cons' creation and reconstruction of the planet, the Dirt Digger Team used a Data-Con in an attempt to disrupt and alter a beacon signal meant to call the scattered Autobots back home. The New World

Theft of the Golden Disk

Cryotek warned Megatron not to access the information archive they are stealing, because only he could decode the Data-Con. Theft of the Golden Disk

Force of Habit

While exploring a long-dead Cybertronian colony world, Checkpoint found a data-con with information about the planet, named Combatron, that detailed its history and what led to the extinction of the colonist population. Force of Habit

Games

Transformers

Autobots tried to find Data-Con, that would tell them how to find the long-lost race of Mini-Cons.They supplied them with records of primitive human art, comics, music and even development shots of miniature figures made in their honer. Transformers

Notes

• Data-Cons first appeared in the Sony PlayStation 2 game, Transformers. The data they contain is "bonus" content for the player's amusement, like renders, development art, comics, toy pictures, music, and even some (at the time) never-before-released Generation 1 cartoon public service announcements in the same vein as ones from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon.