Data Cube

The Data Cube is a small form-factor lightweight data storage device.

The Data Cube is used for secure data storage and sharing. The TV show prop used in these scenes resembles a memory card more than a literal "cube" per se. Both the books and the TV show refer to them as "data cubes" regardless of their actual physical form factor. The data cube doesn' t require physical contact to transfer data as it apparently incorporates wireless communication capabilities.

Events

Occurrences
Description	Book:			TV show:
	Title	Chapter & Page	Carriers	Episode	Timestamp	Carriers
Donnager battle data	Leviathan Wakes	–	Capt. Theresa Yao	"CQB"	22:56	Capt. Theresa Yao
		–	Lt. Kelly		22:59	Lt K. Lopez
		Ch.15	Naomi Nagata		22:55	Donnager Sensor & Comms Officer
		Ch.15	James Holden	"Rock Bottom"	32:57	Fred Johnson
		Ch.21	Fred Johnson	"Salvage"	7:32, 33:47	Sam Rosenberg
Protogen Phoebe reports
				"CQB"	–	Great Dane
					–	Julie Mao
				"Back to the Butcher"	42:08	Joe Miller
"Rock Bottom"	40:08	Captain Shaddid

History

Books

• Naomi recovered the data cube from Lt. Kelly body.

TV

• Fred Johnson recovered the data cube from Lieutenant Lopez's armor.
• Detective Miller finds scattered "data cubes" strewn all over the workshop of a data broker, that Julie Mao used.
• Miller recovered the data cube from a robotic rodent in Julie Mao's room.

Media

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• Where has Joe Miller seen a robot rodent before?
• Joe Miller returns to the scene of the secret stash
• Joe Miller extracts Julie Mao's data cube from within the rodent robot.
• Joe Miller hides Julie Mao's data cube inside his chapeau
• Captain Shaddid confiscates Julie Mao's data cube from Detective Miller before firing him

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Notes

• In the TV show, Fred Johnson took the data from Lopez unbeknownst to the Canterbury/Donnager survivors but in the book, the data was a bargaining chip in brokering their independence to leave Tycho Station and investigate freely.
• In the books, Miller did not use data cube from Julie Mao to uncover the Scopuli connection. He instead looked for patterns in shipping routes and flight plans.

See also

• data core