Star Knight II
STATISTICS
F: RM(30)
A: EX(20)
S: RM(30)
E: RM(30)
R: GD(10)
I: EX(20)
P: RM(30)
Health: 110
Karma: 60
Resources: Ex/20
Popularity: 20
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Maria Montoya
Occupation: Adventurer, Police Officer
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States, with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: California
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Unnamed parents
Base of Operations: Citadel; Freedom League Headquarters
Past Group Affiliations: Star Knights, Freedom League
Present Group Affiliation:
EQUIPMENT:
Star Knight Armor: Sri Montoya wears a highly advanced alien armor:
- When not suited up Sri Montoya has the following abilities:
- F: Gd A: Gd S: Ty E: Gd; Health: 36
- Protective Casing:
- Body Armor: Incredible (40) resistance to physical and energy damage.
- Life Support: Unearthly (100)
- Sensor System:
- Communication Link: Cl 1000 link to Mentor the Computer in charge of the Star Knights.
- Sensors: Star Knight Armor has various sensors built into it, Direction Sense, Low-light Vision, and Radio, all at Excellent (20) rank.
- Mechanical Communion: Star Knights can summon and send away their armor with a simple mental command.
- Stellar Flight: Incredible (40) within the atmosphere, Cl 1000 in outer space.
- Stellar Sword: Incredible (40) energy blade or Incredible (40) energy blast
- Universal Translator: Unearthly (100) ability to translate languages.
TALENTS: Law; Law Enforcement; Weapon Specialist: star knight armor
CONTACTS: Star Knights, Mentor, Freedom League
HISTORY
Maria’s parents were both children of immigrants: her father’s family from Central America, her mothers from Greece. She grew up in California, where she decided to attend the police academy and become an officer. She earned high marks in criminal procedure, shooting, and hand-to-hand combat, but also had a problem with authority. Her temper got her into trouble on occasion, but she graduated with honors and found a job with the police force.
Officer Montoya worked the streets, dealing with gangs, organized crime, and other risks on a daily basis. A routine investigation led her to evidence of corruption within the department. She was warned to mind her own business, but instead chose to dig deeper on her own. Maria discovered far more than just a few dirty cops. She uncovered infiltration by the shapeshifting alien Grue!
Hunted by the Grue, she found an ally in Pseudo, a rogue member of his race, who sought to warn Earth of the impending invasion, and was also hunted by them. Maria came to the attention of Mentor and the Star Knights. With the Grue threatening to invade, Mentor appointed Maria the new Star Knight of Earth’s sector of space. She accepted the job and got her initial training “on the job” using her Star Knight armor to help the Freedom League and Earth’s other heroes against the alien invasion.
Once the Earth was safe, Maria underwent training at the Star Citadel, and met her predecessor, A’Lan Koor. Once her formal Star Knight training was complete, Sri Montoya returned to Earth, where she serves as Earth’s resident Star Knight and a member of the Freedom League.
Star Knight served as a stalwart of both the Freedom League and the interstellar Order of Star Knights, although occasionally criticized for spending too much of her time on Earth and not the neighboring star systems. After the alien artificial intelligence Tellax unleashed the nanotech “Silver Storm” in Emerald City, and attempted to do the same on a worldwide scale, events shift-ed on an intergalactic scale. Tellax’s reawakening coincided with the reappearance of the cos-mic menace Collapsar the Devourer, and the destruction of Magna-Lor, the throneworld of the Lor Republic, throwing interstellar civilization into chaos. Tellax, exiled from Earth, created its own corps of “Argents” intended to impose order on the cosmos and defend against the threat of Collapsar. Rogue Star Knight Blackstar gained possession of the Nightstone and used its power to create his Blackguard, equal and opposite force to the hated Star Knights.
Facing a war on multiple fronts, the Star Knights recalled many of their members from across the galaxy, including Sri Montoya from Earth. They gathered on Citadel to defend their Order from attack, and to coordinate efforts against threats on a cosmic scale. Where she was previously a peace officers, Maria found herself serving as a soldier in an interstellar war. The eventual defeat of Collapsar quelled some of the interstellar conflict, and the new Stellar Imperium settled in to consolidate its hold over the former Republic, dealing with rebel forces struggling against the rule of the Star Khan, with the Star Knights officially neutral in such internal political matters.
With the forces of the Order need-ed more than ever out among the stars, Star Knight has been spending less time back on Earth, shifting to reservist status with the Freedom League, and only rarely making appearances in Earth’s solar system to check-in, leaving her homeworld in the capable hands of its other heroes. How long her “exile” from Earth will last, no one can say, but for the time being at least, Star
Knight will continue to serve to the best of her ability.