Star City (location)

Star City is the primary location of Matt360's series, Green Arrow: Emerald Archer.

State: Connecticut

Notable Citizens: Oliver Queen, Roy Harper, Dinah Lance, Cisco Ramon, Autumn Pine, Courtney Whitmore, Merlyn, Harold Tanner, Marie West, Terrence Everett

Location Biography
Star City is a city famous for it's history especially during medieval times where according to the myth, the city was a forest transformed into a city by a wizard named Merlyn. Many believe this myth just to be a way of the city appealing to tourists to bring in more business.

Since the late 90s, organised crime in Star City has rapidly expanded but in 2010 a vigilante now known as the Green Arrow took it upon himself to fight crime and today in 2014 the city is starting to finally return to it's former glory.

Notable Landmarks
Districts: Midtown, Starwood Forrest (Centre of the city, midtown), Myrddin Woods (outskirts), Docks, the Glades
 * Starwood Forest - Located in the center of the city. It is believed to be the same forest from the myth where the wizard cast the spell to create Star City and contains the ruins of a castle.
 * Queen Tower - Main skyscraper and home base for Queen Industries.
 * Star City PD Station - Current captain of SCPD is Harold Tanner
 * Star City Hospital
 * Star City Museum
 * Wayne Tower - Located in the center, Queen Industries biggest rival. One of five Wayne Enterprises key locations.
 * Kord Industries Building - Owned by Ted Kord but run by his Star City branch.
 * Queen Industries R&D - On the outskirts of the city near Queen Manor, where the company first started out.
 * Queen Manor - Home of Oliver Queen, CEO of Queen Industries.

Trivia

 * Episode 1 of Green Arrow: Emerald Archer was mostly set in the desert because Matt was unsure how he was going to design Star City at this stage. The choice of using a 3D model was preferred over actual sets due to scalability and how visually appealing the renders looked.
 * The world's greatest archer, Merlyn got his name from the city's origin from the myth. It is believed that the wizard Merlin from the tales of Camelot went on to use his magic to create Star City.
 * Myrddin Woods is named after the original translation of Merlin's name, Myrddin.
 * Most companies that set up branches in the state of Connecticut usually choose Star City due to running costs being favourably cheaper than Stamford or New Haven.
 * Originally there was to be a clock tower as a more colourful version of Big Ben with mostly green colouring as a reference to Oliver Queen's base of operations in Smallville but this didn't actually make it into the design for Star City.