S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator

The S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, nicknamed The Pipeline, is a device that was created by S.T.A.R. Labs. Following its destruction, it was eventually used as a prison to house numerous meta-humans that it had created.

History


It was designed by S.T.A.R. Labs to power all of Central City with clean energy, however when they turned it on, something went horribly wrong, and the particle accelerator exploded, sending a huge shock-wave in to the clouds and through the entire city. It also created a lightning storm above the Central City Police Department, electrocuting Barry Allen and sending him in to a coma.

Eventually, after Barry Allen's team concluded that they couldn't keep killing meta-humans, they realized that the particle accelerator's core chamber could contain the meta-humans' powers, and converted it into a makeshift meta-human prison. The team now calls the particle accelerator "The Pipeline" when referring to it in this capacity.

After The Flash defeated Kyle Nimbus, he was imprisoned in the Pipeline. Shortly afterwards, the entire Central City Circus were imprisoned after their defeat by Barry. Tony Woodward followed, only to be released by Harrison Wells shortly after his initial imprisonment to combat Farooq Gibran when he broke into S.T.A.R. Labs to find Wells. Gibran killed Woodward, but after Gibran himself was killed, his corpse was put into a cell, where Wells extracted some of his blood to find out how he took Barry's powers. After making his presence known in Central City, Roy Bivolo was defeated by the combined forces of The Flash and The Arrow and imprisoned in the Pipeline as well. Hartley Rathaway was briefly imprisoned here before breaking out. Shawna Baez was imprisoned in a special cell made with mirrored glass to prevent her from teleporting out.

Current inmates

 * Kyle Nimbus
 * Nathan Bliss
 * Joey Rose
 * Rajeet
 * Roy Bivolo
 * Shawna Baez
 * Farooq Gibran (corpse)

Former inmates

 * Tony Woodward (deceased)
 * Hartley Rathaway (escaped)

The Flash: Season Zero

 * "The Big Finale"

Trivia

 * The entrance to the particle accelerator's core chamber is marked as Entrance 52, a reference to DC's ongoing use of the number 52.
 * The design on the particle accelerator's door looks similar to Firestorm's logo from the DC comics.