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A Holocron is an Artifact in the Star Wars Expanded Universe . Holocrons are a Crystal lattice (often in Cube form) in which Jedi of old could insert phenomenal quantities of Data . In the era of the Rebellion , the Technology to make them is nearly lost. But the few surviving holocrons contain information on Jedi techniques, blueprints of ancient ships and histories of the universe. They are very valuable. Usually, only Force -attuned users can access a holocron. There exist Sith holocrons which are often in pyramidal form. The Great Holocron, a twelve sided holocron stored in the library of the Jedi temple is said to contain the greatest concentration of collected Jedi knowledge. It was also designed to be extremely easy to use for those sensitive to the Force, especially Jedi Padawans. Holocrons can also be used as a form of recording device for a Force user's personal thoughts. In the game '''', a character following the Dark Side of the Force could discover a Sith Holocron on Korriban containing a recording of Bastila Shan , the apprentice to the Sith Lord Darth Revan, detailing her decision to follow him into the Unknown Regions. A few depictions of holocrons seem to indicate that holocrons are sufficiently sophisticated to support an intelligence inhabiting the holocron; in Light side Jedi holocrons, these entities' personalities are patterned after a Jedi Master who added a great deal of information to the holocron, and are referred to as "Gatekeepers" (as in, "The Gatekeeper of the Holocron will refuse to divulge information to non-'', Exar Kun shattered a Sith holocron in front of a crowd of Jedi students who had followed him to his strongholds on Yavin 4 . The fragments of the holocron hit the students, and then sunk into their flesh, and apparently brainwashed them into becoming loyal Sith (or perhaps rendered them vulnerable to Dark Side mind control). Kun then was capable of ordering them to betray, hunt down, and kill their masters. Holocrons made their first appearance in the 1992 was given one, which possessed the repository of knowledge of an ancient Jedi Master named Boda Baas, with whom she could interact via a hologram of the Jedi emitted from the holocron. BEHIND THE SCENES
STAR WARS GALAXIES In the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game or MMORPG put out by Lucas Arts and Sony Online Entertainment , Holocron is the name for the Help interface, which provides players with links to:
There are also in-game Holocrons, both Jedi and Sith, similar to those mentioned above, which at one point were instrumental for a character to become Jedi. However, the rules of becoming Force Sensitive changed rendering Holocrons to be little more than interesting home decorations. REFERENCES
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