| STAR SAPPHIRE (Marlys Cornier) | BIOGRAPHY |
| Created by Dan Jurgens and Sean Chen |
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Marlys Cornier
Homeworld: Earth-9 (planet) (52 Multiverse)
Group Affiliation(s): Doom Patrol
Gender: Female
Eyes: White
Hair: Blue crystal
First Appearance: Tangent Comics/Doom Patrol #1 (December 1997): "Saving Time"
Creators: Dan Jurgens and Sean Chen
HISTORY
In the 1960s, Marlys Cornier was a social climber among New York's upper crust. She was romantically linked with numerous rich and powerful men, including, the original Atom.
- Tangent Comics/Doom Patrol #1, Tangent Comics / The Atom #1
Cornier died in 1992 under yet to be revealed circumstances. She was cryogenically frozen with her beloved sapphires. Scientists reviving her in the early 21st Century made an error in the procedure and Cornier was fused with her gemstones.
Cornier now had crystalline hair and blue skin, another unforeseen side effect was her superhuman powers. Cornier had the ability to fly and generate protective force fields or devastating force blasts. To keep her identity a secret, she adopted the codename Star Sapphire. At some point, she came into contact with Dr. Diedre Dey.
On October 1, 2030, Star Sapphire gathered with Dey, her daughter Lourdes "Firehawk" Dey and the android R192 known as Rampage in Deylight Theoretical Labs in New Atlantis. They were engaging in outlawed chronal experiments which the elder Dey believed would enable them to save the Earth from destruction.
The computer activity caught the attention of law enforcement officials and the Atom was dispatched with a police team to halt Dey's attempt to change the past. Star Sapphire was able to fight off the Atom, even though he had altered his molecular density, and enable them to escape in the Kitty Hawk, the time vehicle. They left the Earth of 2030 as it destroyed itself in a massive blast.
Crash landing in New York City's Times Square on October 1, 1997, Diedre Dey took advantage of the attention their arrival had generated. The quartet soon had a news conference sponsored by the ROM-Zine World's Finest. Though the majority of the press dismissed the team they nicked named the Doom Patrol as a joke, one reporter asked pointed questions of Diedre Dey's team. Unbeknownst to the Doom Patrol, this was a Nightwing agent.
To hide the fact they were from the future, Dey claimed Star Sapphire was precognitive and had seen three signs which led to the end of the world. First, a Soviet flight to Mars would explode on the launch pad and wipe out the Soviets' entire space facility. Second, a US government official from the National Security Agency would be assassinated by the Soviets and finally, a storm would strike New York City, causing a power surge that would short-out an in-progress experiment and warp and destabilize the Earth's core.
The Doom Patrol returned to the Kitty Hawk just in time to prevent it from being towed away. Their next stop was the Soviet Union where they tried to stop the launch of the next part of the Soviet Space Program's Mars mission. Star Sapphire put a forcefield around the rocket to keep it from lifting off but she overextended herself and could not shield the rocket's base from a rocket propelled grenade which was meant to kill her teammates. The rocket exploded, destroying the Soviet space facility.
Nightwing had correctly surmised the Doom Patrol was from the future. The secret organization did not want the Doom Patrol to shape the future as they saw fit and so their deaths were ordered by Nightwing Director Moore.
Agent Jake Wiley was sent to terminate the Doom Patrol. Posing as a member of the National Security Bureau, Wiley explained he had been sent by President Sam Schwartz to move them into seclusion for debriefing. The synthetic being called Rampage detected Wiley held a powerful explosive carried in an ordinary fountain pen. Though Wiley had planned to leave the pen behind after he left, once he had been found out he had no choice but to detonate it at that moment. Star Sapphire shielded the Doom Patrol just in time.
Their problems were far from over. On the roof of their hotel, Nightwing was taking the Kitty Hawk away by helicopter. Under orders of Diedre Dey, Star Sapphire tried to stop them but was too weak to focus her powers and hit the Kitty Hawk's chronal pod instead, ripping a hole in the fabric of reality and time itself.
The Atom helped Rampage and Star Sapphire to use the Kitty Hawk to help fuse shut the rift in time while Diedre Dey and her daughter made their way to Deylight Laboratories where the elder Dey remembered her father had been working on the experiment that shorted out and destabilized the Earth's core. Using the batteries of a security robot, Diedre Dey was able to keep her father's experiment under control while the others in the Doom Patrol closed the time/space fissure.
Nightwing would claim the Soviets had been responsible for the death of Agent Jake Wiley while denying any existence of the Doom Patrol. The Atom, blasted by chronal energies, would hardly remember any of the events he had been involved in so he could not warn the Doom Patrol of their actions in the future as Diedre Dey had hoped. The Doom Patrol faced an uncertain future. - Tangent Comics / Doom Patrol #1
Hunted by Nightwing, the Doom Patrol was finally cornered in Czechoslovakia. Five Nightwing operatives were able to absorb Star Sapphire's energy while devices called "batwings" ensnared her. The rest of the Doom Patrol was sure to follow if not for the arrival of Obsidian and Jade, operatives working for Nightwing's opposite number, Meridian.
The Doom Patrol was brought to Lubyanak prison in Moscow where they were told they were to meet the true head of the Soviet State. Decades after his death, Josef Stalin still ruled in secret. He had become a vampire so that he might exist forever as of the undead. The Doom Patrol was quick to oppose him but found he held Lourdes' life in his hands.
Beneath Lenin's tomb, Stalin planned to extract the souls of the Doom Patrol and feed it to the KGBeast. Their knowledge of the future would then serve Stalin. Jade and Obsidian joined with the Night Force, a rogue team of Nightwing operatives in an attempt to slay Stalin.
The mission went awry and instead of saving the Doom Patrol, Night Force operative Black Orchid melded the Patrol into one and connected them to the Earth. The new entity that was formed gained sentience, remaking itself into the form of the Ultra-Humanite. - Tangent Comics / Nightwing: Night Force #1
The rise of the Ultra-Humanite can only be seen as a threat to the Tangent Universe. How this situation will resolve itself has yet to be seen. - - Tangent Comics / JLA' #1
CHRONOLOGY
For a definitive list of appearances of Star Sapphire in chronological order click here