Just Copy the Holocron?

[Rocket]

I'm assuming holocrons are like USB sticks here, but what prevents the empire from just copying the data inside the holocron across a billion high-security computers? Attacking a fortress for it doesn't seem smart.

[AK_Snowbat]

the entire store doesn't make sense. Why bust your butt to get a holocron out of a secure hiding place just to destroy it? If another jedi was there a few years prior why is everything locked tight with ancient puzzles? ... no sense at all.

[TheRandomGuy]

Holocrons aren't like USB sticks on a computer. Computers can't read them. Only Force-Users can even open the darn things, and they display data as a hologram.

Originally posted by AK_Snowbat:

the entire store doesn't make sense. Why bust your butt to get a holocron out of a secure hiding place just to destroy it? If another jedi was there a few years prior why is everything locked tight with ancient puzzles? ... no sense at all.

SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T BEATEN THE GAME

Cal originally DOES want to use the Holocron, which contains a list of force-sensitive kids across the galaxy, to restore the Jedi Order by training them in the ways of the Jedi. However, closer to the end of the game, he has a vision showing his "Padawans" getting attacked and killed by Imperials, with both them, and him, ending up as Future Inquisitors. Upon seeing this, he begins to not want to use the Holocron, but to destroy it. Merrin also reinforces this idea by discussing whether or not they should interfere in those kid's lives. Ultimately, Cal chooses to just destroy the holocron so that nobody knows who the children are or can interfere with them.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by TheRandomGuy:

Holocrons aren't like USB sticks on a computer. Computers can't read them. Only Force-Users can even open the darn things, and they display data as a hologram.

What kind of data is it then?

[TheRandomGuy]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Originally posted by TheRandomGuy:

Holocrons aren't like USB sticks on a computer. Computers can't read them. Only Force-Users can even open the darn things, and they display data as a hologram.

What kind of data is it then?

Depending on what's stored in the holocron, many things. In the movies for example many Holocrons Pre-Order 66 contained Jedi History and teachings of the Force.

They were designed to be opened and closed with the Force, and as far as we've seen in the films and TV shows, they don't have a way of copying data from them to other devices.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by TheRandomGuy:

Originally posted by Rocket:

What kind of data is it then?

Depending on what's stored in the holocron, many things. In the movies for example many Holocrons Pre-Order 66 contained Jedi History and teachings of the Force.

They were designed to be opened and closed with the Force, and as far as we've seen in the films and TV shows, they don't have a way of copying data from them to other devices.

That's pretty cool. Guess that explains it.

[Xios]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Originally posted by TheRandomGuy:

Depending on what's stored in the holocron, many things. In the movies for example many Holocrons Pre-Order 66 contained Jedi History and teachings of the Force.

They were designed to be opened and closed with the Force, and as far as we've seen in the films and TV shows, they don't have a way of copying data from them to other devices.

That's pretty cool. Guess that explains it.

It's a maguffin and has plot armor. It's a lame excuse.