The S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, also known as the Pipeline, is a device that was created by S.T.A.R. Labs. When it exploded it created numerous meta-humans in Central City.
It was repurposed as a special prison when the Flash started to operate, although the team currently prefers to leave arrests to law enforcement.
History
Explosion
In 2014, the particle accelerator was activated by S.T.A.R. Labs to power all of Central City with clean energy, and to further the advancement of the science and medicine; however, when they turned it on, something went horribly wrong, and the particle accelerator exploded, sending a huge shock-wave of dark matter into the clouds and throughout the entire city.[1][2]
Pipeline
After the explosion, the Pipeline, created and named by Ronnie Raymond[3], started to be used as a prison for the Flash's enemies.
When he resurfaced after Crisis and possessed Harrison Nash Wells, Eobard Thawne was incarcerated in the Pipeline, but he escaped by tricking Cisco into placing a neural splicer onto Nash's gauntlet.[4]
Known victims of the particle accelerator's explosion
- Barry Allen/The Flash
- Hannibal Bates/Everyman
- Roy Bivolo/Rainbow Raider
- Rosa Dillon/Top
- Dinah Drake/Black Canary
- Allegra Garcia
- Esperanza Garcia/Ultraviolet
- Russell Glosson/The Turtle (deceased)
- Grodd
- Cecile Horton
- Jefferson Jackson/Firestorm (powers triggered by the Firestorm Matrix; later neutralized by a cure created by Cisco Ramon and Harry Wells)
- Leslie Jocoy/Amunet Black
- Mark Mardon/Weather Wizard
- Eva McCulloch
- Kyle Nimbus/The Mist
- Matthew Norvock
- Cisco Ramon/Vibe (powers later neutralized by the meta-human cure; briefly restored by the Monitor during the Anti-Monitor Crisis)
- Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper
- Millie Rawlins/Sunshine
- Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm (deceased)
- Sam Scudder/Mirror Master
- Martin Stein/Firestorm (powers later neutralized by a cure created by Cisco Ramon and Harry Wells; deceased)
- Tony Woodward/Girder (deceased)
Known prisoners
Former prisoners
- Barry Allen (mistaken for a Reflection; released by Cecile Horton)
- Harrison Nash Wells (possessed by Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash; escaped)
Appearances
The Flash
Season 6
- "Marathon" (on a map)
- "A Girl Named Sue" (mentioned)
- "Grodd Friended Me" (mentioned)
- "Death of the Speed Force"
- "The Exorcism of Nash Wells"
- "Liberation"
- "Pay the Piper"
- "Success Is Assured" (mentioned)
References
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