| STARLIGHT
PROJECT #234
CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT
BASE FIGURE: HEROES OF CYBERTRON STARSCREAM
MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS
FIRST APPEARANCE: "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE" PART 3
"Beware, Starscream. If you dispose of
me, there will always be someone waiting to dispose of
you..."
Preamble: Starlight is the last generic
background Decepticon to appear in the three-part pilot episode, "More Than
Meets the Eye." He's one of the guys who cautiously steps out of frame
when Starscream makes yet another bid for power. (Serves Megatron right
for setting down his fusion cannon. If I were him, I'd never let that
thing out of my sight.) Starlight, as I've named him, is colored
similarly but not identically to
Twilight, so I've decided the two
characters are flying partners. Brother and sister, perhaps.
Construction: I intentionally painted Starlight
at the same time as Twilight so I could use the same batch of purple and
grey paint for both of them. (I could have done them separately, I
guess, but it was important to me that their colors matched. I'm picky
that way.)
Comments: For the character's biography,
I freely admit that I latched onto a single action and basically ballooned
it into his entire worldview. To me, at least, it's marginally better
than inventing something up out of whole cloth. (At least this way
I can point to the episode as evidence of the character traits I've given
him.)
STARLIGHT
FUNCTION: ASTRO-NAVIGATOR
"The secret to winning a war is to survive
it."
Seeks to avoid confrontation whenever
possible...dedicated to the Decepticon cause, but would rather collect energy
than fight the Autobots. Astrographic mapping circuitry can plot courses
for distances up to 10 parsecs with only .0002 percent margin for error.
Launches self-propelled sensor probes in jet mode...armed with two
spectral beacon cannons in robot mode. Withdrawal from combat hinders
overall usefulness.
STR: 6 INT: 8 SPD: 6 END: 2 RNK: 3 CRG:
2 FPW: 6 SKL: 9
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