PRISMSTAR
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PRISMSTAR

THE BASIC PREMISE

Ten [*] years ago, humanity was under attack by an evil empire from a
dimension next to our own, let in by a human traitor with dreams of
power.  Thankfully, there were saviors -- Red Point, Blue Point, Black
Point, Green Point, and White Point, the heroes of the Prismstar Team.
Advised by the mysterious alien Dr. Elenchos [*], who also provided
the amazing Star Jets they piloted, they fought the evil invading
empire and eventually drove them back, never to return.

And then they fell apart.

With the loss of an enemy to unite them, and the loss of Black Point,
who had died in battle, they gradually fell apart in painful
dissension, and ended up going their separate ways, and none of them
have ever found since what they had as part of Prismstar.

Now, it looks as though there may be a new enemy threatening the peace
of Earth again.  The heroes of Prismstar must see if they can somehow
recapture what made them Earth's defenders.

CAST

Red Point -- A Japanese man named Kenichi Takada [*], between 29-33
[*], the leader of Prismstar in the "Glory Days", and the only one who
is still officially a Prismstar member in the present day.  He has
spent the years since the break-up trying to recruit the finest
individuals from Earth's armed forces to replace the other Star
Pilots, but even when these attempts have temporarily created a team
calling itself Prismstar, it's been clearly not the real thing, and
such attempts have never lasted much over a year.

If Kenichi ever unbent enough to indulge in something so frivolous as
a bumper sticker, it would probably be the one that reads, "I mustn't
be a perfectionist; that would be a character flaw."  Kenichi had
enormous responsibility thrust upon him from the earliest ages, and he
reacted to this pressure by becoming very rigid and rule-following,
pushing himself hard and holding himself to near-impossible standards.
Intellectually, he realizes that this rigidity is not appropriate for
every occasion, and secretly, he was always amazed and delighted when
his team members (especially Black Point) would deviate from his rigid
orders and seize victory through some plan that he could never have
approved.  But even knowing this intellectually, he can't seem to
change himself.

Kenichi is not very forthcoming with his emotions (except
disapproval), but during the Glory Days, he quite clearly had feelings
for White Point.  His intense personality struggles with Black Point
were nearly legendary, but underneath it was always mixed with
admiration for all that the "Wild Boy" achieved by being so
unpredictable.

White Point -- A Japanese woman named Jun [*] Misaki [*], around 26-30
[*].  Always very cosmopolitan and sophisticated, Jun is now the
hostess of an immensely popular television talk program, and generally
leads a life of glamour.  This doesn't mean, necessarily, that she's
happy...

During the Glory Days, Jun was in many ways the heart of the team;
it's known that at least Red Point and Black Point were in love with
her, and it's very possible that Green and Blue were as well.  Well
aware of this affection, Jun never discouraged these attentions, but
never settled on one of her suitors as they all hoped she would.
After Black Point's death in battle, Jun withdrew emotionally, unable
to shake her irrational suspicions that managing her affairs better
would have somehow prevented the death.

Black Point (original) -- Now deceased, Black Point was the famous
"Wild Boy" of the team, who took risks no one else on the team would
take and often brought back victory.  Uncontrolled, unpredictable, the
"Wild Boy" became a posthumous icon for rebellious teenagers, many of
whom missed the point that Wild Boy's death in battle occurred because
he was fighting for something greater than himself.

Black Point (new) -- (something) [*] Castile, an American who was
recruited for Prismstar after serving with high honors in both
American and UN armed services.  Originally being groomed as a new
Green Point, Castile rejected the whole process, telling Red Point
that the attempt to replace the original Star Pilots was failing
because Red Point was picking only those pilots who would never
question his authority, and walked out, only to become Black Point
later.

Castile is not as wild as the famous "Wild Boy", but he is a
risk-taker; he actually holds the record for most flights survived in
the Interceptors, which were a disastrous attempt by the UN to build
crafts that duplicated the alien technology of the Star Jets.  He is
also not as rebellious as the original "Wild Boy", but all through his
military career, his high honors were punctuated with incidents where
he caused trouble by refusing to bow to authority when authority was
clearly wrong.

Blue Point -- Johann [*] something [*].  During the Glory Days, the
team's technological wizard.  Highly intelligent, and quite
gregarious, Blue Point's habit of remaining quiet tended to mask his
keen observation, which he could sometimes put to good use with a
single well-timed dry comment.  Unfortunately, this led to trouble
when Blue Point published his honest -- many said, brutally honest --
account of life inside Prismstar; by his own lights, he had only told
the truth as he saw it, both the good and the bad, but his team-mates
felt that he had aired troubles that should have remained private to
the world.

Blue Point has mostly retired to private life by now, his post-Glory
Days association with Green Point having been one of the casualties of
the book.

Green Point -- The only member of the original team besides Red Point
who continues "heroing", Green Point originally partnered with Blue
Point after the break-up of Prismstar.  Their teamwork was quite
successful for a time, with Green Point providing some dramatic and
much-needed rescues with vehicles and equipment created by Blue
Point's technological genius.  After the publication of Blue Point's
memoir, however, this association fell apart.  Green Point still uses
the equipment provided by Blue Point despite the fact that the two no
longer speak to each other.  Green Point does his rescue work under a
name that makes it clear that he no longer considers himself a member
of Prismstar.

Green Point is not actually stupid, but compared to his teammates, he
appears...  uncomplex.  He tends to form simple opinions and
loyalties, and once he forms them, he holds them strongly. Part of why
his relationship with Blue Point fractured when Blue's book came out
was that he'd been working so closely with Blue and yet had no idea
that Blue's feelings about all of them, including himself, were so
mixed.

Dr. Elenchos [*] -- The mysterious alien who provided the Star Jets,
Dr.  Elenchos comes from the alternate dimension from which the
attempted invasion came, and apparently disappeared when the "antenna"
that was holding open a gate between the worlds was finally destroyed.
Dr.  Elenchos was never seen in any physical form, and claimed to
actually be a being of pure energy.

EQUIPMENT

The Star Jets -- These sleek, arrow-head-shaped jets are each the
color of the pilot's uniforms; they possess not only great speed and
manueverability, but they also have a strange teleportation ability,
still not fully understood by Earth scientists.  They can teleport
while in flight, or, if they stand still (they have a "hovering"
mode), they can teleport the wearer of the Point uniform to any spot
within a certain radius of the Jet.

The Jets have sophisticated auto-combat systems which means that, even
unpiloted, they can perform incredible feats of evasion.  This, along
with their ability to teleport the pilots, means that quite often a
mission would involve teleporting the pilots aboard one of the enemy's
floating bases, where they would infiltrate, defeat enemy soldiers in
combat, then sabotage the base, perhaps rescue prisoners, and make
their escape when the Jets returned for them and teleported them back
aboard.

The greatest power of the Jets demonstrated so far is the
Constellation [*], where all five Jets join at the bases to form a
five-pointed star; this star formation then spins at incredible speed,
and is nearly impervious to damage while in this formation.