STAR Labs

== Overview ==
Science and Technology Advanced Research Laboratories or STAR Labs as it is more commonly known is a research organization that is focused on the sole goal of bettering humanity and providing the greatest minds of the modern world with the resources to achieve greatness.
== History ==
In 1995, Harrison Wells, Silas Stone, Garrison Slate, and Darwin Elias sought to create an independent research firm set up in four major American cities to allow them to launch their own research initiatives and bring other brilliant minds together for mutual benefits. They were inspired by the growing existential fears of the general public following the emergence of metahumans - and they hoped that STAR would help spearhead infrastructure development for the rebuilding cities.
The four scientists decided to make four separate American cities the construction site of the first labs, beginning with Central City, Metropolis, Coast City, and Dakota City, with each one of them assigned as the president of each lab, Wells in Central, Stone in Metropolis, Slate in Dakota, and Elias in Coast.
One of the first major construction projects came in Central City, where Dr. Wells aided the construction of a particle accelerator on the level of the LHC in Geneva. Construction finished in the latter half of 2000, with the accelerator's launch date planned for just before Christmas on December 23rd. However, due to the efforts of a group of corporate sabotage agents, the accelerator instead sent out waves of bizarre radiation, spreading into the atmosphere where a thunderstorm was brewing and affecting many citizens of Central and Keystone City.
After the world was exposed to aliens and the metahuman population boom, the United States Government took an interest in STAR Labs. STAR brokered a deal with ARGUS and the DEO to allow them access to leftover technology from the Appellaxians, and later Brainiac, as well as access to items confiscated from meta-criminals and the corpses of deceased meta-criminals. The boost in profile allowed them to expand to facilities in National City, Star City, Taos, and Happy Harbor.
Through further partnership with entities like Queen Consolidated, Wayne Enterprises, the Justice League, and even the United Nations, they have been able to expand their outreach further than ever before.
== Notable Projects ==
* Creation of the Justice League Javelins, which can reach Mach 01.
* Saving Victor Stone's life.
* Creation of the Cosmic Treadmill.
* Creation of Inhibitor Collars (joint effort with Wayne Enterprises).
* Establishment of Metahuman rehabilitation centers.
* Continued experiments on the Mother Box and Apokoliptan technology recovered from Intergang.
* Perfection of Zeta Beam Travel through the Erdel Initiative.
* Mind-scrubbing and reprogramming of Brainiac-08.
* Patent of Responsometers and subsequent use in the Metal Men.
* Study of hyper-intelligent gorillas.
* Replication of the Amazon's Purple Healing Ray.
* Creation of rehabilitation treatments for Smilex and Velocity-9 (joint effort with Queen Consolidated).
* Development of drugs counteractive to gene splicing.
* Consultation on the OMAC Project.
* Establishing psychic cleansing programs for mind-control victims.
* Development of procedure to neutralize meta-gene in infants.
* Cosmetic treatments using Gingold concentrate.
* Investments in TerrifiTech, Kord Omniversal, Steelworks Inc., and the Pax Institute.
* Removing the Ring of Volthoom's psychic control of Jessica Cruz.
* Study of meteors left behind by the Smallville Meteor Shower.
* Creation of new space travel vehicles.
* Creation of the Kinetic Hammer.