Data-Con
A Data-Con (also spelled data-con) is a data storage devices used by the Mini-Cons. It is a flat, slate-gray disc which bears 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
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. These Data-Cons appeared to consist of two components: a thin, circuitry-like 'key' that could be stored along with others in an archive, and the disc that it is interted into.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
Ask Vector Prime
The Courier Mini-Con Team transported data-cons too sensitive for regular channels between Earth and Velocitron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/20
Games
Transformers
The Autobots tried to find Data-Cons that would tell them how to find the long-lost race of Mini-Cons. The Data-Cons supplied them with records of primitive human art, comics, music, and even development shots of miniature figures made in their honor. 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.
