Editing Justice Lords/Sapphire (section)

===Background===
Esperanza Navarro y Cortez became the new Sentinel while trying to get her pregnant sister to the only medical care to be found in her neighborhood of post-apocalyptic New York—The Justice Society brownstone.

After the rock of Eternity was shattered, the Starheart was extinguished. When the Rock was restored, the Starheart reignited, but it was blue instead of green, and for some reason Alan Scot could no longer use it. He still helped the Society as much as he could, but without his ring, and with numerous injuries and an aging body, he’d taken to guarding the brownstone.

Esperanza and Rosa Maria arrived at the brownstone while it was otherwise empty. The remaining Society members were away at a mission, pushing the Purge back out of their territory. Alan almost shot them, but when he realized the intruders were just girls (Esperanza only sixteen, and her sister just four years older), he let them in to wait for the return of Mr. Terrific.

Of course, baby Esteban didn’t want to wait. A few weeks premature, Rosa Maria went into labor.

Thirty minutes into the emergency delivery, the Purge attacked the brownstone. The raids that had drawn off the rest of the Society had been a feint. Alan called in an alert immediately, and help would come, but not quickly enough.

Then his ring reacted, flying out of its display case and onto Esperanza’s finger. With her suddenly acquired powers, she was able to hold off the Purge until Stargirl could arrive.

Since then, she has trained with the Justice Society, becoming close friends with Josh Carter, who arrived just before she did. Esperanza prefers to use her powers to protect people, rather than to harm them. She’s more likely to create shields for her allies and cages to hold her enemies than to wade in blasting. But she can be moved to considerable rage when she’s pushed to the edge.

Esteban is a precocious boy. He and his mother are doing well.

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