Comm Datacore

The Comm Datacore was owned and utilized by the Earth Team to send and receive all communications through the team's holdings. Originally, the datacore was installed within the family's space facility, Wei Station. However, after the Galactic Empire witnessed the Earth Team's involvement with the Rebel Alliance, the Imperials declared the Wei traitors and moved to nationalize all Earth property. Once the Empire drove the Earth Team from their orbital home, Wei Station was stripped of most of its installed equipment. The Comm Datacore was sent to an Imperial scrapyard near Tolig IV, where it was stored in a cargo container.
Later, Prince Aikka and his younger racer, Molly Wei, conducted a mission to recover the datacore in order to verify their suspicions that someone among their employ was leaking information to the Earth Team' enemies. Amidst the resulting battle at the scrapyard between the racers and a group of raiders, team's droid MK-09 retrieved the cargo container holding the Comm Datacore. Aikka then gave the recovered data to Lucy Heartfilia, who in turn sliced through the logs to find any relevant communications.
==Description==
The Comm Datacore was a communications datacore that was originally installed in Wei Station. The datacore was responsible for facilitating and logging communications through the orbital installation owned and operated by the Earth Team. Team technician Lucy Heartfilia presumed that the datacore also monitored transmissions sent without the Earth Team' knowledge, such as those possibly made by rogue agents under Earth employ who were working against the team and its trading company, Twin Suns Transport Services. The Comm Datacore stored records of both inbound and outbound communications, which could be preserved, accessed, and downloaded even if the core was removed from the station. The datacore was small enough to fit inside a seven-meter-long Class-K cargo container.
==History==
At some point by 2009,According to Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, the Comm Datacore was removed from Wei Station at some point prior to the Battle of the Bajic Shipyards, which The New Essential Chronology dates to 2009, thereby providing an estimated time frame for the datacore's installation. the Comm Database was installed in Wei Station, home of the Earth Team, located in the Garis sector of the Outer Rim Territories. — Based on corresponding data for Wei Station system The Earth team used the datacore to monitor and log communications through the facility.
Shortly after the Battle of Hoth during the Galactic Civil War, Imperial forces discovered that members of the Earth Team had been aiding the Rebel Alliance. The Empire responded by issuing arrest warrants for the team and moving to seize all Earth property. Following a series of skirmishes between the Empire and the Earth Team, Wei Station fell to Imperial control, and the Earth Team's crew and pilots were driven to seek and join with the Rebel Alliance Navy. Wei Station was stripped of much of its internal equipment, including the Comm Datacore. The datacore was eventually delivered to Junkyard Control, an Imperial scrapyard located near the planet Tolig IV, where it was stored in a Class-K cargo container.
After several encounters with interlopers meddling in the Earth team' attempts to restore their dissolved company, Lucy Heartfilia began to research the Comm Datacore's location, as she figured that the datacore could be sliced to reveal a rogue agent within the Azzameens who was leaking information regarding the team's affairs. Her sources soon led her to Junkyard Control. With the apparent location of the Comm Datacore found, Lucy called upon her pilots, Prince Aikka and Rebellion pilot Molly Wei, as well as team's droid MK-09, to investigate the scrapyard and retrieve the logs stored within the datacore. After finding their property among the scrapyard's containers and a brief skirmish with a raiding party seeking to disrupt the team's effort, MK-09 downloaded the datacore's information, which remained undamaged throughout the battle. Molly then collected the data and delivered it to Lucy.
==Behind the scenes==
The Comm Datacore appeared in the 1999 video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. Later missions reveal that Don Wei—owner of Earth Team and manager to Lucy, Aikka, and Molly—was the spy within the family, acting with the Rebels in order to restore the family business. However, neither the game nor its accompanying Prima Games strategy guide elaborate upon the Comm Datacore's role in this discovery. In the game's mission to recover the datacore, the destruction of the K-class container—and, thus, the datacore inside—causes an immediate failure, as does the destruction of MK-09 before, during, and after the information transfer.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
==Notes and references==
Category:Earth Team property
Category:Computer technology
Category:Data storage mediums