Cybertronian data cylinder



Several dozen Cybertronian data cylinders were created in the Golden Age of Cybertron to store the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian society. The cylinders house the information in the form of living data stored as energy. The cylinders are organized by topic. The cylinders are equipped with a self defense mechanism designed to prevent non-Cybertronians from accessing the knowledge. However, since they were created before the Great War, they do not distinguish between Autobots and Decepticons.

Known data cylinder topics:
 * Stellar cartography
 * Medicine
 * Ancient mythology
 * Synthetic Energon

History
In the distant past, the Autobots dispersed the data cylinders across the galaxies in order to keep the information from the Decepticons.