<div class="floatright">(https://cdn.rpgcrossing.com/cache.php?img=http%3A%2F%2Fthefwoosh.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F09%2Fjacketsymbol.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Starman</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>Jacob Myers<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>USA, Opal City<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Astrophysics Grad Student / Inventor<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>190 lbs<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Alan Tudyk<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>A bit more tan then you'd expect from an Astrophyicist thanks to his experiments.<br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Hints at his playful and adventurous side with a taste for casual clothing, probably too into Hawaiian shirts. His hero costume is basically to put a leather jacket over his clothes and welder's goggles over his eyes. Since his powers often generate bright lights this is usually all he needs. The jacket is a gift from Jack Knight - his 90's predecessor and it has this symbol on its back.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Personality and History</span></strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Personality</span></strong> </div>Jacob is obviously a green horn at this hero thing, still getting his footing. Good at heart but not entirely sure of himself. He is proud of have been chosen to be the next Star Man if not entirely sure it was the right choice. He is more confident in his intellectual abilities and is working on a PhD in Physics with a specialty in Astrophysics. The staff's power intimidates him but it would be much worse in the wrong hands. He does appreciate the mentoring the Shade is giving him, suggesting an anti-authoritarian streak. A bit playful, when he's comfortable with his surroundings.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Biography</span></strong></div><em>Excerpts from the Journals of The Shade</em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">...It is a strange fate and mixing, me and my beloved Opal. Ever since my unique event and permanent excursion from in normalcy in 1838 I dare not say I have been this city's protector - indeed I'd say my relationship with my fair Opal has been a mixed blessing at best for her skyline but I do have a soft place for my Opal in my heart and I pray she does for me.<br/><br/>So I have no doubt it amuses young Mr. Knight and my beloved wife of 15 years Hope O'Dare that when Jack asked for my help picking a successor I agreed, but I acknowledge that finding the next bearer of the Cosmic Staff has taken longer then even I thought it would. Jack and my beloved Hope have stated in the past that they wonder if I hold the staff to keep Opal free of the bright light of Star Man but they only say it in jest.<br/><br/>It is amusing, I admit - the Shadow Walker holding onto the Brightest Light to pass the torch but truth be told I only hold it because the Knight men have left large shoes to fill as it were, if one will excuse the common vernacular. In truth I have considered simply waiting a few more years then handing it to Jack's son but when I look into his eyes I see a confused boy who may yet bear the mantle of heroism but he is most certainly not ready for it now.<br/><br/>Besides, my methods of finding a worthy successor for the name of Star Man I keep vague when I speak of them because I doubt my bride and my friend would approve. I am a bit of a blackguard after all...<br/><br/>...While Jack Knight certainly proved that having a genius level intellect is not required, only a brave and true heart beating in their breasts, a keen scientific mind being involved is greatly desired and so I concentrate my search for the Star Man upon the men and women of Science in Opal City. The Cosmic Staff will require maintenance after all and there is none I have found that fully understand its workings, let alone can repair it if need be. The good heart though, that is key. I need someone with the mind of a scholar with a good heart that can withstand the corruptions of power - the rest I will have to mold myself it seems...<br/><br/>...Yes, Jack and Hope would certainly not approve of the methods I have begun to use this most unique mission. The Darkness has begun to whisper to me in my sleep, not even leaving me alone when I rest beside my bride. A policewoman would most certainly not approve of this. Forgive me my Hope but I had to make arrangements to find the Shining Knight of Opal City quicker. Something is coming, something I fear that even my much vaulted immortality may not be up to the task.<br/><br/>Finding the minds of the caliber needed isn't the hard part. A simple perusal of scientific institutions and universities gives me at least a list to start from. The hard part is finding the caliber of the Heart inside. So I have begun bringing forth minions and servants from the Darkness to test the mettle of the list of minds. Simple morality tests, the first round simple test to test good or evil and then working up from there to tests of perceived mortal peril. I didn't actually risk anyone's lives, all shadow plays and illusions, but my poor victims didn't know that and I would damn me if it weren't for the greater good. Hope refuses to leave Opal and neither do I, I will do whatever it takes to keep her alive as long as I can...<br/><br/>...Three promising candidates, and I speak not in damnation of my fellow residents of the precious Opal - the standards I used in my judgement were as high as I could reasonably test. I have to hold them in the darkness and test them individually. I do not expect any of them to pass. I will try to keep them alive but the extreme nature of these tests - I do suspect there is some unavoidable trauma. I would pray for forgiveness if I thought there was a point...<br/><br/>...As to the one named Jacob Myers, he is the one I hold the least hope for. I ponder if I should feel this way, he certainly has a kind heart and he is no doubt the most intelligent of the three - but the Shining Knight must have a boldness that he seems to lack entirely. He is, dare I say it, not so much superheroic as reminding of the innocents they vow to protect. I considered it carefully and decided to not spare him the horror of what I have planned, I confess that despite my experience with the minds of others Hope shows me every day that I know little about the heart. There may be a Lion in that Mouse if he is pushed. He'll be last, and God have Mercy on my Soul if the other two fail.<br/><br/>...The other two proved to be too vengeful and concerned with their own safety, Mr. Myers may be our only hope for the Opal. So I put him in the dark room and give him the same test of the others. A dark cavern, trapped in a room with a "wounded, helpless hostage" that is actually one of my constructs, with 24 hours to fix the "broken" Cosmic Staff and free himself. Ms. Tanaka actually blasted the hostage because she was slowing her down, such horror. And Mr. Thompson couldn't fix the staff at all.<br/><br/>I'll release them as soon as Mr. Myers test is done - without them the wiser of course. I confess uncertainty - he seems the least heroic of them and yet I pray he either gives up or sails above the others. I let the test continue and watch through his "wounded cellmate" eyes. He might surprise me...<br/><br/>...And surprise me he has. It was incredible to watch actually. Mr. Myers fixed the Staff a full 4 hours before Ms. Tanaka managed, and not only that but I believe he may of improved the Staff! And he didn't let my hostage go. Not to speed his own return to safety, even after I released a horde of Imps to harry him. He even rescued Ms. Tanaka and Mr. Thompson.<br/><br/>My Dark Heart flutters a beat as he escapes even as I write this. I have found my Shining Knight for the Opal. For My Opal. I can't help but think about how much brighter the skies look from the Shadows knowing there is a Light in the Skies.<br/><br/>None of them know that I was the ultimate mastermind behind their horror, and neither Thompson nor Tanaka has said anything out of shame. Upon the 'morrow I will approach Mr. Myers and begin formal training for use of the Cosmic Staff. In time I may let him read my journals, all but this one. This will be the one secret I will keep from him, the one thing he must never know.<br/><br/>I ask not for forgiveness from God, such a thing would be too base and hypocritical even for me. I will ask for forgiveness from whoever reads this, and from my beloved Hope. In my mind I know I have done the right thing, time will tell if I can convince my heart. For now though, I drink in my lounge and enjoy the end of my mission.</span><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/></div>Astrophysics Grad Student Jacob Myers has no inherent powers save for a genius level intellect. One of the few people on the planet that was able to understand the theories and work of Dr. Theodore Knight - the first Starman - at first reading suggests a bright future. As such Myers is considered brilliant even by the standards of his fellow scientists. His hand-to-hand skills are considered poor on the other hand and for that he's undergoing training.<br/><br/>The source of Jacob's powers come from being the bearer of the Cosmic Staff.<br/><br/><strong>The Cosmic Staff:</strong>The signature weapon and tool of all Star Men since the 1930's, perfected and harnessed by a legacy of adventurers and inventors. Using advanced scientific principles, the Cosmic Staff harness deep space radiation and leftover energies from the Big Bang to achieve incredible feats.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Flight</strong> - While grasping the staff, Jacob can Fly at great speeds.</li><li><strong>Space Flight</strong> - With a few adjustments, Jacob can surrond himself with a force shield bubble filled with air and use that to travel and survive in Space for short periods.</li><li><strong>Force Shields</strong> - The Staff can generate force fields to protect Jacob and others around him.</li><li><strong>Constructs</strong> - The force fields can be shaped into simple constructs.</li><li><strong>Gravity Manipulation</strong> - The staff can create pockets of 'polarized gravity', allowing for the movement of heavy objects and large groups.</li><li><strong>Starlight</strong> - The staff can project bright bursts of light to blind enemies.</li><li><strong>Steller Blast</strong> - The staff can also fire powerful blasts of energy at foes.</li><li><strong>Brainwave Attunement</strong> - Attuned to his brainwaves, the Cosmic Staff can at least in theory be controlled only by Jacob and can be through his willpower alone. The staff can also be instructed to fly into Jacobs hands from a relatively short distance away.</li></ul><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/></div><strong>The Cosmic Staff:</strong>Jacob Myers, like most Starmen, has no internal powers and relies on the use of the Cosmic Staff. As such if seperated from the device he's stripped of most of his powers, especially if there's some distance involved. The Cosmic Staff also requires occasional recharging of it's stellar energies, which can only occur at Night.<br/><strong>Greenhorn:</strong>While Jacob Myers is a good guy at heart, he's considered very inexperienced for a superhero. Sometimes dangerously so. His hand-to-hand or melee combat skills are almost non-existant for example.<br/><strong>Legacy:</strong>Opal City has had a Star Man protecting it off and on since the 1930's. As such there's a reputation to maintain, and a rogue's gallery of villains ready to take a piece of Jacob just for daring to use the name Star Man. Some of them extremely dangerous.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Other</strong></span></span><br/></div>(https://cdn.rpgcrossing.com/cache.php?img=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWYZMLfO.gif)<br/><br/><strong>Motivations:</strong>Jacob Myers is essentually experiencing the superhero equivalent of being shoved int othe deep end of the pool without knowing how to swim. He has a good heart though and ultimately is just trying to do the right thing. He accepts the responsibility of being Star Man because someone has too, and he's in a unique position to do so.<br/><br/>He also has a more practical reason for becoming Star Man. Jacob hopes to refine Cosmic Staff technology to the point that it can be used as a clean power source. Unfortunately Cosmic Generators work a little too well at this point, unrefined Big Bang Energy gets into the grids they're hooked up too which frequently causes devices to explode.<br/><br/><strong>Rogues:</strong>As the inheritor of the mantle of Star Man he also inherited his enemies. Some are legacy villains out to make a name for themselves, others are old villains wanting to beat a Star Man before they retire - either way, Opal City has some other names it remembers as well.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Dr. Phosphorus</strong> - A nuclear physicist caught in an accident that had his body subjected to a large quality of radioactive sand, the silicon of the sand put up one element on the periodic table to Phosphorus. Now a man of living nuclear fire, Dr. Phosphorus usually commits crimes to get revenge on the people who he feels are responsible for his horrible fate though he is willing to act for money instead. Admits Star Man isn't on that particular list but claims the cancer that eventually killed Theodore Knight came from him as a paid hit.</li><li><strong>The Infernal Dr. Pip</strong> - A mad explosives genius who's been acting as a bomber/arsonist for hire since the 70's. The Shade was thought to have trapped him in a shadow dimension with one of his own bombs to kill him but apparently he's still alive - if he now requires extensive life support systems. Crazier then ever.</li><li><strong>The Light</strong> - A mysterious genius that appears to have not aged a day since the 30's. An enemy of the original Theodore Knight, he claims to be the same man who put himself into temporal stasis with his research. Specializing in the then budding field of Quantum Mechanics, The Light's trademark is the use of bright ray beams of various effects.</li><li><strong>The Mist</strong> - A legacy of super-villains that's been around longer then Star Man who've become intertwined. The first Mist was a scientist who worked for the Germans in WW1 who after an accident gained the ability to turn his body into a gaseous vapor and back again, an accident that his descendants would learn to duplicate. The family feud between the Mists and the Starmen seemed to have ended in the 90's when the Mist mantle was passed onto the original Mist's youngest daughter who was eventually murdered by her own father when she confessed to having used the then Star Man Jack Knight's sperm to conceive her son. The idea of the bloodlines of the Star Man and the Mist mingling drove the then decrepit, senile, and suicidal previous Mist to commit a couple last murders before the end.<br/>Jack Knight managed to save his biological son from the boy's deranged super-villain grandfather, but the realization that his female arch-nemesis had drugged and raped him to conceive a son eventually led to his retirement from superheroics. Now it seems unlikely that Jack and Mist's son is the new Mist, but someone has picked up the Mist mantle - someone fixated on Star Man, the boy, and being a worthy successor to the mantle.</li><li><strong>The Ragdoll</strong> - The latest triple-jointed thief to take the name the Ragdoll is a master contortionist who uses his skills mostly to steal. With advanced stealth abilities from his knack for hiding in places most people couldn't fit inside, let alone hide so far he seems satisfied with just theft though Ragdolls have turned murderous before.</li><li><strong>The Shade</strong> - The relationship between the Star Man and the Shade is complicted. The Shade is an immortal shadow-and-darkness user who usually acts a gentleman thief and adventurer, a known super-criminal. However, the Shade has fallen in love with Opal City, in fact despite his criminal ways he's been happily married for 15 years to Captain Hope O'Dare of the Opal City Police. Like I said, it's Complicated.<br/>While technically a villain, the Shade has always had a soft spot for Opal City and it's protectors. Considering the previous Star Man Jack Knight and his immediate successor Courntey Whitmore the Star-Spangled Woman to be two of his closest friends, the Shade was trusted to help find the newest successor the legacy. Currently Jacob's self-appointed mentor, if anyone else ever finds out what he did to find Jacob Myers there's going to be a high price to pay.</li><li><strong>The Witch</strong> - A legacy of villainesses that have been operating in and around Opal City since before WW2, these women are often seen as balances for the Star Men as Star Man has so far always been male and heavily Science oriented while the Witch has always been female and heavily Magic oriented. In fact time travellers and procognitives have claimed that the Star Man and the Witch actually represent the balance of opposing forces in the universe. Whenever there's a Star Man, there's also a Witch. Which one is male and which is female sometimes switches, which one is considered a hero and which a villain sometimes switches, but the two legacies somehow seem to always be in balance.<br/>It's also worth pointing out that the Witches usually style themselves as Robin-Hood-esque theives who often use their crimes to stand up for feminist causes. The original 30's Witch often gave all the money she'd steal to women's shelters, and the 70's Witch targetted and murdered men she felt were guilty of crimes against women. The current Witch has returned to the MO of the original 30's Witch, of usually stealing money and using it to fund women's rights organizations or support structures. She's even claimed to be the original 30's Witch whose made herself young again with her Magic. [Actually she's the original Witch's great-granddaughter, learning her craft from the older Witches, but nobody's figured that out yet.]<br/></li></ul>