S.T.A.R. Labs (Earth-1)

"How about, Scientific, and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories. Or S.T.A.R. Labs, for short"

- Tess Morgan to Harrison Wells

S.T.A.R. Labs (Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories), is a former research company primarily located in Central City. It is currently the base of operations of Barry Allen's team.

History
In 2000, Harrison Wells and his fiancee, Tess Morgan, prepared to open a lab; Harrison sketched out the exterior he wanted, and Tess suggested the name, replacing what Harrison originally pitched (Technological Engineering Scientific Studies, or T.E.S.S.). Unfortunately, before the couple could see their dream come true, Eobard Thawne orchestrated their car accident. Although the couple did not live to see the lab at its prime, the lab did in fact inherit both the name and architectural structure they wanted.

S.T.A.R. Labs was responsible for building the particle accelerator, It opened on the 11th December 2013. It was heavily anticipated by many people. forty-five minutes after it was turned on, it became unstable. It resulted in the particle accelrator exploding. This caused the deaths of seventeen people and injuring many more.It has also created many humans with special abilities. Such as Plastique and Firestorm. These people ar classified as "meta-humans" by Cisco Ramon. In the aftermath of the explosion, the lab was categorized as a class four hazardous location and has not been operational since. Eobard Thawne (As Harrison Wells) had lost his reputation after the particle accelarator incident. Many "meta-humans" and people blame him for what happened. Not only did Thawne lose his reputation, He also pretended that he had lost the ability to walk. The company was in bad shape after the incident, unable to compete with other companies.

S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator was used as a meta-human prison, known as the Pipeline, before the meta-humans were relocated for their safety due to the reactivation of the particle accelerator.

After Eobard revealed himself as the Reverse-Flash, the company's future remains unclear.

Current employees

 * Caitlin Snow (bioengineer)
 * Cisco Ramon (mechanical engineer)

Former employees

 * Arthur Light (fired due to apparent insanity)
 * Ronnie Raymond (structural engineer)
 * Hartley Rathaway ( physicist)
 * Eobard Thawne (impersonating Harrison Wells, physicist; director)

S.T.A.R. Labs basement
S.T.A.R. Labs has a basement. In it, there's a force-field generator, which the team used to trap the Reverse Flash with the Tachyon Prototype as the lure. In the field, Wells made it look like the hologram was beating him up. Then, as the Reverse Flash, Wells grabs the device, also speeding back and forth to his original position repeatedly to generate a speed-mirage of Wells, and speeds it to his secret room, and reappears in the basement. He kills all the soldiers before they have time to move. He's whooshed out by the Flash, and while fighting him, is still bouncing back and forth from that position inside to make it look like Wells is still there while he fights Barry outside.

Later, Cisco actives the Reverse Flash hologram. Wells catches Cisco and reveals himself as really being Eobard Thawne, a person from the future. He plows his arm through Cisco's chest, killing him, but Barry reversed time, altering this event. Cisco and Wells share similar experience here in the altered timeline, but this time, he doesn't kill Cisco. Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, Eddie and Joe set a trap for Eobard, with Cisco volunteering himself up as the bait. Cisco reverses the function of field to keep a speedster out. Eobard approaches Hannibal Bates and tells him that he will free him if he helps Eobard in tricking the team which involves him by playing Eobard. Bates accepts, Eobard gives him certain lines to rehearse, and lends him his wheelchair for the act, which Bates will use in the form of Eobard. Bates, acting as Eobard, comes in and speaks with Caitlin in the wheelchair who tells him that Cisco is in the basement trying to figure out what happened that night when the field malfunctioned. Bates confronts Cisco.

As instructed by Eobard, Bates tells Cisco that he's always thought he was "incredibly clever." Cisco says that Joe was right this whole time about him, and Bates says that from the very start, Joe sensed something was not right with him. Cisco says that he killed Barry's mother, and Bates, still acting as Eobard, states it was never his intent but that she was already dead from his perspective anyway and that her death didn't matter. As instructed by Eobard, Bates raises his hand in the same way Eobard did when he killed Cisco with it in his dream. Bates backs Cisco up into the field generator. Cisco activates the field, and Bates laughs and chortles, and as instructed by Eobard, says, "You're smart. You're smart, Cisco. ...But you're not that smart." As he says this, he, to Cisco's surprise, walks through the field. And before he can do anything to Cisco, Joe shots him in the heart, killing him. But, to everyone's surprise, he was actually Hannibal Bates. And Eobard speaks to the team over the intercom.

The Flash
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The Flash: Season Zero

 * "The Strongman Cometh"
 * "Who Let the Chimps Out?"
 * "A Goodnight Hiss"
 * "Big Top Brawl"
 * "A Captive Audience"
 * "Showtime"
 * "The Big Finale"
 * Smoak Signals part 1

Trivia

 * S.T.A.R. Labs owns at least one van with the license plate that says "STAR 52."
 * It was revealed by Eobard Thawne that the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator originally opened (and presumably exploded) in the year 2020, and that Tess Morgan lived to see this event.