Editing Starblaze Johnson (section)

== Background ==
'''Character Background:'''<br>
Alejandro Portillo grew up in one of the many habitats orbiting Jupiter. The Fall happened when he was thirteen and he became subject to the Jovian Junta. As a child, he had watched the adventures of the metacelebrity Starblaze Johnson, an action hero/ xeno-archaeologist in the mold of older heroes such as Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. Many children and adults followed the vids of her adventures, but Alejandro’s interest bordered on obsession. As he grew older, he was inspired to follow in the footsteps and become a xeno-archaeologist. There was little call for such talents though within the isolationist Jovian Junta. The only real need for xeno-archaeologists was among gatecrashers and the Junta did not trust the Pandora Gates or fund gatecrashing teams. Fortunately for Alejandro, a joint team of Autonomists and Argonauts running an underground railroad out of the Jovian Junta decided his natural talents were useful and, at eighteen, they arranged for him to be smuggled out to Titan, where he quickly joined the Titan Autonomous University and pursued his studies with the help of VR-accelerated learning. Despite his gratitude to the Autonomists and the fact that he considers Titan his new home, Alejandro is not very engaged with local politics.

On a recent gatecrashing mission, Alejandro made a substantial discovery, at least in terms of his potential wealth. He deduced from the ruins he was studying that a local plant was a powerful hallucinogenic to the previous inhabitants and tests showed that it had similar effects on humans. He was able to license the discovery and parlay it into a substantial financial reward. He had, however, been feeling despondent, because his exploration has not brought quite the thrill he had been looking for--subconsciously he had been measuring his actions up against those of the fictional heroine Starblaze Johnson, whose adventures he still followed. As the money for the new hallucinogen started to come in though, word came around that the current ego performing the role of the Starblaze Johnson metacelebrity was moving on and they would be auditioning for a new performer. On an impulse, Alejandro took his new fortune and made an outrageous offer to Experia, the media hypercorp owning the rights to Starblaze Johnson. Alejandro would buy the rights to the metacelebrity and bring a new twist on her actions, using her morph to engage in actual gatecrashing and making vids and XP of this available for sale to others, to be distributed by Experia; in other words, move Starblaze from having fictional adventures to a reality show-type experience. Experia had been looking to breathe new life into the Starblaze Johnson metacelebrity and took Alejandro up on the offer, creating a new Ghost morph with Starblaze’s appearance, inserting the augmentations appropriate for an action hero, and using VR-accelerated learning to teach Alejandro the necessary skills he didn’t already know. In addition to the reality-based vids and XP, Alejandro is using Starblaze’s prominence to create documentaries on science and promoting the Argonauts’ goals. Even with the big score he made from the hallucinogenic drugs, Alejandro was unable to buy the rights to the Starblaze metacelebrity outright; she owes a substantial debt to Experia that she is still paying off.

Alejandro has now been on a couple of gatecrashing missions as Starblaze. He has become deeply immersed in the persona, insisting that everyone call her Starblaze--even in private, even among people who have known the ego for a long time. In addition, she has had psychosurgery to insert Starblaze’s fictional adventures into her actual memory, as if they were real. All this has lead a number of people to wonder if Alejandro/ Starblaze has not become somewhat mentally unbalanced.

'''Starblaze Johnson metacelebrity history:'''<br>
Starblaze Johnson has been a popular metacelebrity for the past forty years. Before the Fall, Starblaze appeared in a number of movie length vids, as well as two different TV series, each lasting several years. Her adventures took her to the ancient ruins of Egypt, Meso-America and Southeast Asia, as well as to the bottom of the ocean to look for the (fictional) lost civilizations of Atlantis and Mu. She also explored other planets in the solar system, finding (entirely fictional) ruins there as well. In many of her vids, she tangled with ancient alien races, a number of whom were seeking to manipulate or destroy humanity. Drawing on what was then a popular science fiction trope, she even ventured through wormholes in some of the ruins she explored to fight aliens on their home worlds. Some of her recurring enemies included the Atlanteans, an ancient race of human appearance who had once ruled humanity through the Empire of Atlantis; the Saurians, a race of sapient dinosaurs who had abandoned Earth and now sought to re-conquer it; and the Xon, a race of parasites who sought to enslave humanity and use them as hosts.

After the fall, Starblaze’s adventures continued. In a few of them, she broke the quarantine and returned to earth, battling foes in old ruins of places such as Atlantis or in newer ruins, such as New York City. Such adventures did not go over well with many audiences though and, for the most part, she has been depicted as a gatecrasher, going through the Pandora Gates, meeting many of her old foes in the process. Indeed, the wormholes she had encountered before the Fall have been retconned as Pandora Gates. Her adventures now begin a new era, as she begins a phase of reality programming.

'''Muse: Starblaze Johnson:'''<br>
Before Alejandro secured the rights to the Starbalze Johnson metacelebrity, he had modeled his Muse on her. Now that he is Starblaze, she sees no need to alter this. Others may see this as somewhat narcissistic, but Alejandro/ Starblaze sees nothing odd about the situation. As a minor concession to others' sensibilities, Alejandro has switched the Muse's appearance to an animated version of Starblaze, from a non-canon children's series.