Koriand'r

Starfire

Kori Anders

## Biography

### Background

Tamaran lies in Sector 2828 of Green Lantern patrolled space. This sector was once under the patrol of the Orange Lantern Corps, however, after Larfleeze murdered the other members of the Corps, the GLC took over patrol. Warlords conquered Okaara, and Larfleeze allowed them use of his planet so long as he held residency on its moons and they paid him handsomely each year.

The Okaaran Warlords then visited all the worlds in Sector 2828, demanding one child from each royal house to be bestowed upon them. Upon visiting Tamaran, they were informed that the current reigning King and Queen, Myand’r and Luand’r, were without child. The Warlords announced they would return to claim their tribute.

Shortly after they left, the King and Queen learned they would soon have their first child, Komand’r. Her birth was kept secret from the public, and she lived sheltered within the castle. When the Warlords would visit, she disguised herself as a servant girl and was often left at the behest of the Warlords.

When Komand’r was thirteen, her parents learned they were pregnant with their second child.

### Early Life

Koriand’r remembers little of her early life spent in the Tamaranean Citadel, although she is told she spent her first three years there, she remembers mostly living with her uncle, Galfore, on one of Tamaran’s moons. She believed Galfore to be her father and knew nothing of her royal heritage.

When Kori was ten, her sister showed up on Galfore’s doorstep - announcing that the Warlords had been defeated and Kori was to be returned home. Galfore was hesitant, but Komand’r convinced him to let her return. However, upon returning to the Citadel, it was in ruins, and Okaaran warships hovered over the wreckage.

In actuality, the Warlords had launched a kamikaze attack and killed the King and Queen. To save the planet, a truce was reached, and the Warlords agreed to eternal peace with Tamaran so long as Komand’r turned over her younger sister to them. So, Kori was shipped off to Okaara.

There, she discovered that the Warlords were turning a profit selling off young alien species to the highest bidder - whether it be intergalactic genetic companies, dictators, gladiator pits, crime bosses, or slave traders. Kori was unlucky enough to be sold to a band of slave-traders called the Gordanians.

The Gordanians spent over a year torturing and abusing her, eventually auctioning her off to the Reach for their own special experiments. Believing all Tamaraneans to be descendants of one of their own genetic experiments, X’Hal, they decided to see how much energy absorption Kori could take before it killed her. Kori got lucky, when the fleet she was within was attacked by a Thanagarean patrol unit.

She broke free from her confines, finding that the experiments had actually granted her the ability to manipulate the very energy that the Reach tried to kill her with, generating starbolts out of solar energy. She disintegrated the scientists that experimented on her, and on the way out, freed the other genetic lifeforms, including a specimen named Larva M319, who she nicknamed Syl’khee, after a stuffed animal Galfore had given her.

She and the other alien lifeforms boarded an escape pod on the ship, which was automatically programmed for Earth, as the Reach had been planning to begin a covert invasion of the planet. So, Kori was jetted off into space. Unbeknownst to the princess, the Reach had sent out an alert on the pod, and the alert was intercepted by Lord Trogaar of the Gordanians, who began trailing the pod from a far enough distance that Kori didn’t detect it.

She crash landed in the bay harbor of Jump City and instantly attracted the attention of the Titans. Robin was first on the scene so Kori grabbed him and kissed him. The Tamaraneans possess the unique ability to fully learn any language through lip-to-lip contact, making Kori an instant master of English, while rendering the Boy Wonder a stuttering mess.

This meet-cute was interrupted by the Gordanians following her trail. She helped the Titans ward off the aliens and save the genetic lifeforms from the pod. Robin asked for her name and she replied with its English translation: Starfire.

### Starfire

Kori quickly found a home and purpose in the Titans. In the backyard of the new Titans Tower, she created an animal sanctuary in a secluded grotto for the aliens she had rescued from the Reach, and slowly the flora around it became truly ethereal.

She also proved to be an absolute powerhouse when it came to combat - able to withstand a punch from Mammoth and an energy blast from Photon without so much as a scratch. She also fell into a romance with Dick Grayson - one that was fast and furious, as Dick quickly dropped her and began making his way through the female members of the Titans.

Kori didn’t let it get her down - her Tamaranean ways did not detect the passive-aggressiveness of Dick’s actions. She became best friends with Donna Troy, Kara Zor-El, and Rachel Roth. She and Kara got along particularly well due to their shared memories of space and similar origins.

She remained a mainstay on the team until around New Years of 2010, when she and Dick rebounded and slept together, before Dick brushed her off and skipped town. In the weeks that followed, Kori was acting weird. Then, randomly, she hijacked M’gann’s Bio-Ship and disappeared off world.

Kori was gone for about three years. It is now known that she left Earth when she realized she was pregnant with her daughter Mar’iandr. After giving birth, she got wrapped up fighting her sister on Tamaran and reuniting with her uncle and sister, eventually teaming up with her younger brother to overthrow Komand’r. This did not work, and both were forced to retreat and part ways.

She returned to Earth and moved back to Jump City and moved in with Donna Troy. Donna was the only Titan who knew about her daughter. Upon her return, Kori was invited to join the Justice League. She accepted, and at the ceremony decided it was time to tell fellow inductee, Dick, about his daughter. A few days later, she showed up with Mar’i on his doorstep only to open the door and find his then girlfriend, Lori Elton, standing there. Kori and Mar’i left and went back to Jump City, where Kori drowned her sorrows in her favorite Earth drink, mustard. For her Earth job, Kori became a bestselling swimsuit model, letting her upgrade her digs to a bayside home for her and her daughter.

Since then, Kori’s been learning how to be an Earth mom. In 2017, Donna returned and the two shared some mom-tips together. Later, she had to leave Mar’i behind with Dick for a few months while she went to help with the Rann-Thanagar War. Upon her return, she and Dick have been able to smooth things over, while Dick is now engaged to Barbara Gordon.

Kori has since been helping J’onn with his United Planets initiative - and has appealed to the Guardians of the Universe to help them overthrow her sister’s cruel reign on Tamaran in order to welcome the planet into the fold of the U.P. She has an uphill battle to fight, but she is ready to take it on.

## Trivia

* Kori mistook mustard for a drink upon arrival, it has since become her favorite delicacy.
* Kori does not understand sarcasm or passive-aggression, she is very direct and matter-of-fact, which sometimes comes off as condescending.
* According to the Titans, Kori is also a bit of a nudist and finds clothes "restrictive".
* Bumgorf was Galfore's childhood nickname for her.

## Notes

* Her drinking mustard is a nod to *Teen Titans Go!*
* Her adult costume is inspired by *Justice League: Odyssey*.
* Galfore is a character from the *Teen Titans* TV Show.
* Mar'iandr is an adaptation of Mar'i Grayson from *Kingdom Come*.
* Syl'khee was a character popularized by the *Teen Titans* TV show, where he was created by Killer Moth and designated Larva M319.