Star City

Official Name: Star City
Nicknames: No known nicknames
Former Aliases: Fort Plymouth
Other Current Aliases: No other known current aliases

Location Details

Universe: Multiverse
Galaxy: Milky Way Galaxy
Star System: Sol system
Planet: Earth
Country: United States of America
State: California (Northern)
Identity: The existance of this location is known to the general populace of Earth.

History

History: Colonel Jeb Star founded the territory of Fort Plymouth in the year 1797. In the early half of the 19th century, Fort Plymouth grew into a prosperous trading community luring prospectors all the way from Canada to ply their trades. With the establishment of the continental railroad system in the 1860s, Fort Plymouth developed into a thriving cattle town with large ranches, slaughterhouses and stockyards.

1897 was the year of the "Great Fire". It earned this appelation when a stockyard smokehouse was set ablaze, burning most of Fort Plymouth to the ground. Developlers and architects rebuilt the city into a living symbol of modernism, and named it after it's founding father, Jeb Star.

In the modern era, Star City has become known as the base of operations of the Emerald Archer, Green Arrow. As Green Arrow, Oliver Queen worked out of Star City for many years, struggling to disable a network of corrupt corporate bureaucrats. He intially worked alongside his teen partner, Speedy, and again later with his paramour, Black Canary. Approximately ten years ago, Ollie left Star City with his friend, Hal Jordan, to travel across country and explores the American heartland. He later relocated for an extended period of time in Seattle, Washington, but ultimately found himself returning home to Star City.

In recent years, Star City has become the scene of two major upheavels. The first took place when an amateur occultist named Albert Davis inadvertently summoned a legion of demonic entities that swept across the city. The neighborhoods erupted into chaos, and Green Arrow (along with his new partners, son Connor Hawke and ward Mia Dearden) managed to unite the criminal underworld and the embattered Star City police department in a coordinated effort to stop the demons. In the end, it was Mia Dearden who saved the city, by firing a fatal shot into Albert Davis' chest. With Davis' death, all of his mystical effects reversed themselves, and the demons returned to their native dimension.

More recently, Star City became the setting for a game of cat and mouse between Green Arrow and the archer known as Merlyn. Merlyn himself, was merely the pawn of latter day Green Arrow foe, Dr. Arthur Light. The feud resulted with Merlyn setting off multiple bombs across the city. Ollie and Mia were critically injured during the catastrophe and the city nearly collapsed.

In the wake of devastation, a wall was built around several surviving neighborhoods cutting the midtown district off from the more densely populated ghettos. Oliver Queen recuperated and returned to Star City, where he used his vast fortune and influence to become the city's mayor.

Currently, Star City exists as a volatile demilitarized zone. When not fulfilling his duties in public office, Oliver Queen continues to function in the guise of Green Arrow, and has forged an uneasy alliance with his adversary, Brick, in an effort to save his beloved city from ruination.

Characteristics

Area/Dimensions: Area or Dimensions unknown
Population: 1,500,000 (1990 census)

Points of Interest

Neighborhoods

Adams Heights
Aurora
Avalon Park
Blumebury
Brainerd
City Core
Clarenden Hills
Daleyville
Damen Hills
East Gary
Elgin
Glaberton
Hyde Park
Jackson Park
Lombard
Marquette
Near South
Oak Forest
Oldtown
Plesa Park
Saulk Village
Seaview
South Shore
Tesserville
Villa Park
Westchester
Wriggleyville

People

Heroes

Villains

While many of these characters do not necessarily reside in Star City, they have been known to conduct their criminal affairs in the city on more than one occasion.

Brick
Deathstroke
Onomatopoeia
Riddler
Star-City Slayer

Others

Notes

No special notes.

Trivia

None

External Links

Star City article at Wikipedia

References

Kupperberg, Paul; The Atlas of the DC Universe, Mayfair Games, 1990
Winick, Judd; "City Walls", Green Arrow (Volume 3) #36-39, 2004
Winick, Judd; "Crawling Through the Wreckage", Green Arrow (Volume 3) #60-65, 2006