On three different occasions in EarthBound Prince Poo encounters a man known as The Star Master. This man teaches Prince Poo to use the potent PSI attack Starstorm alpha, and later gives him the ability to use Starstorm omega. Not much is known about this mysterious Star Master's past. Where exactly did he come from, where does he live, and how did he achieve such a high level of PSI ability?

A true descendant of the descendants of the spirit of mu, the star master has had a strange past. The star master's real name is: kaukkamaukamakaelameanajetyreamkaeajyouityuiopqwerkkikkikouou III of the star masters, second in the fourtieth line, and of the first clan. In the beginning of time, when the earth was barely made, the original four star masters - kauk,kamauk,kikikki,and kemytrew created the sun, the moon, and the stars. They made seven elemental guardian races to protect the elements, who were the Firemen, Airmen, Earthmen, Watermen, Moonmen, Sunmen, and - you guessed it - Starmen. Each of these races had a special PSI power unique to their race - PSI Fire, PSI Freeze, PSI Flash, PSI Thunder, PSI Rockin', PSI Hypnosis, and PSI Starstorm. Back then, these PSI abilities were many times more powerful than what Ness and his friends have. Even PSI Hypnosis could vanquish an enemy faster than you can say, "ZZZZ!" But when Gieuge, the manifestation of evil, tried to persuade these Elemental Guardians to join him, only one race were swayed - the Starmen. But by then, the Star Masters had created the Tree of Enlightment, which produced a single fruit, the Apple of Enlightment. The Apple had already predicted that the Starmen would join Gieuge, that Gieuge would recruit one of the Star Masters to help with his evil deeds, that Gieuge would try many times to take over the world, and each time four children would keep him from his evil goal, the Chosen Four. It also made many other predictions that would happen for the rest of time, the words of these predictions lost until infinite ended, until forever stopped, when time, space, and perspective had no meaning, when everything was to be destroyed, when all was to be turned to dust, beridden forever from memory and history, WHEN ALL WAS GONE. Then Gieuge unleashed an unspeakable force of destruction upon the world. Everthing was destroyed. Everyone, including the Elemental Protectors, was killed, with four exceptions - Gieuge and the Star Master who was predicted to join Gieugue, the Starmen, and the Tree of Enlightment. Gieuge, the Star Master, and the Starmen created a time portal and fled through it. However, in fleeing to the future, their powers were greatly reduced. As for the Tree of Enlightment, it and the sacred ground around it were untouched. With the knowledge stored in the tree by the Star Masters, the Tree of Enlightment managed to recreate the world and everything in it - including the sun, stars, moon, etc. When it was all finished, it only had enough power left in it to create several humans and a single Starmaster, who was Kauk, and had the PSI powers of Air and Stars. Then after this, even slowly dying, the Tree of Enlightment made seven Sanctuaries for the Elemental Protectors: Lava Spring for Fire, Pink Cloud for Air, Lumine Hall for Sun, Big Step for Earth, Lilliput Steps for Moon, Rainy Circle for Water, and Magnet Hill for Star, for the Chosen Four to use to gather the three true Star Masters' powers' with. Then, the Tree of Enlighment died. The destruction power of Gieuge was discovered by the pharoahs of Scaraba and sealed in a tomb. Over time the destruction power lost power and eventually just created darkness - hence, the Deep Darkness in the Tenda Jungle. As for Gieuge, the Star Master, and the Starmen, the Star Master goes by different forms and names wherever he goes, and in Ness's time, went by Pokey. The Star Master that teaches Poo is the final Star Master created by the Tree of Enlightment. And the rest is history.

-wills

I have many, many theories on this one. This will probably be long, I don't know. For each theory, certain things will have to be understood or accepted, and not for other theories. So here goes.

First of all, I am Agent Tenda (reference to previous topic). I submitted a theory about "The Matrix", which would easily explain the Star Master. He is a glitch in the Matrix. One of those programs that chooses exile opposed to deletion. His is partially in the world, partially not. One of those "programs hacking programs". He has limitless ability, but lacks power within the Matrix to take on Giygas alone. So he chooses to teach instead. Either that or he is, as many helpers are, a released person, devoted to helping Ness in any way possible.

Also, as you may or may not notice, at the time of Magicant, Ness has only met the Star Master once, very briefly, and at a fairly bad time. Although this is true, he seems to be a relatively important person in Ness' life for he appears in Magicant. He seems to be, the way I see it, the only one that Ness didn't ultimitely create. Although he does appear later on in Magicant as the one that Ness did create. He seems to be able to travel between the dream world and the real world quite easily. And, not only is this the dream world, but Ness' dream world, the one which he created and no one else can act within, except this mysterious Star Master and Ness himself.

Now, going back to the Matrix theory; Magicant, is Ness' mix between the Matrix, and a special loading program (you know, like where Neo says, "We need guns, lots of guns," and also where Morpheus and Neo do some Kung Fu fighting). Ness is fighting to get out of the Matrix on his own; this "War Against Giygas" just seems too unreal. Anyway, while he is fighting Ness' Nightmare, the Agents are trying to keep him contained in the Matrix. The Star Master is able to come to this place on his own will and leave at whenever he wants. Which means he was sent from the outside, as a released person, and he tries to help, but is told that Agents will come to get him if he does not leave. Or he took it upon himself to go in as an "exile" to try to help Ness, but was scared off quickly by all the potential Agents.

New theory time. The time from where Buzz Buzz is from, is where the Star Master is from. You see, without Ness doing all this, Poo never left his home. Poo stayed in Mu Training for 10 more years, finally coming to the ultimate realization of Starstorm, Teleport Omega (his tornado way of teleporting) and Time Travel. At this time, Buzz Buzz came to him, telling him, that he was one of the chosen, from the Apple of Enlightenment prophecy. All of his Mu Training was very hard on him, and seemed to add a few years to him, making have the appearance of a old man. He taught Buzz Buzz the secret of Time Travel, while convincing him that he must become a bee in order to travel in time (you know, just for laughs). Anyway, he immediately set his plan into action to teach himself in the past, Starstorm, thinking it was the only useful PSI he could teach himself in the little time he had. He is seen after you take Poo from Dalaam because it is only after you defeat Giygas that the future that he lived in was destoyed, killing him as well. Which also explains why he is gone once Giygas is dead (I think, I haven't played in a while). He is Poo. This is a confusing theory, but makes a little more sense if you have watched the Back to the Future trilogy. I guess that's all I have to say about that one.

Here's another. He is one of Giygas' minions. Having the appearance of a helpless old man would be a perfect disguise. When Poo first encounters him, that's his first attempt to kill him. But as soon as the Star Master saw Poo, he saw hope. He immediately turned against Giygas, but staying on his side. He secretly slipped away every now and again to help the one that he had first attempted to kill. He gave the most powerful PSI he knew, Starstorm. He also knew the location of all of Giygas' minions. This includes where Master Barf was when he called himself Puke. He knew that Puke had been growing stronger and stronger, and that the only way to defeat him would be Starstorm, even if it was the weaker version of it. Just one star to the face, and Puke was spread all over the Deep Darkness. He taught the stronger one right before he reported to Giygas. Once meeting face to face (if that's what you'd call it) with Giygas, Pokey told him that they knew what he had been doing, and was to be disposed of. I don't think I need to explain any more of this one.

Last one, I think, if I come up with another one as I type this one in, I'll add it. The Star Master is the embodiment of Mu. He is the all-powerful teacher, leader, etc. He was once an extremely powerful PSI master, but years and years of perfecting Mu has taken it's toll on his mind. His power diminished. He had only enough power to teleport around and teach Poo his diminished PSI powers. He couldn't help them take Giygas, because he was back in time, and he had not the PSI to travel through time. There would be no Mu without the Star Master. He created it, and could take it away easily. He was getting old (a few hundred years), and needed to pass on all the knowledge he had taken in throughout the years. He chose Poo, because he was the one who started his Mu training, and although it seemed like it, he was far from over knowing the secret of Mu. The Star Master is the embodiment of nothingness.

Okay, that's all I got, it's been a few hours, and a lot of cookies. It's late, and I need sleep. Or do I? Email me with any problems/questions you have with my many theories. Peace out.

-Phoney McRingRing

I will begin with the irreverently large task of explaining the Star Master's past. He came from a land far to the east (way farther than Dalaam.... way way farther) called Starland. As he grew, he became more and more interested in the stars and the powers they could possess. Being large balls of burning gas, he figured they'd pack quite the wallop if they were to hit... well, anything. So, he dedicated his life to intense meditation on PSI abilities so that he could one day use the stars to help all those who may, for one reason or another, want to enlist the aid of huge hunks of flaming gas. Of course, the amount of time he dedicated to meditation eventually became so great, that his friends kicked him out of their band. The name of the band? Why, it was none other than the Starland Vocal Band! A vocal band from Starland! See? It makes sense. And you said I was stupid... Anyway, The loss of his place in the band made him angry, and he soon decided to try and develop the use of stars as a weapon. Through years of meditation, and 40 or 50 failed experiences with that big head thing that rips off Poo's body parts during that training thing, Star Master developed the Starstorm. However, his experiences through meditation showed him that violence was not the answer for revenge on the Star Land vocal band - suffering was. So, he once again began meditating and used his immense PSI ability to make Starland Vocal band suck. Really suck. That's why they suck so much. Anyway, he realized after that incident that there was no reason to use his abilities to hurt others. His many, many years of meditation gave him absolutely immense PSI abilities, so he decided to go west and find a land in which his abilities could be used to help people. So he travelled West (since he was as far east as he could go) and eventually wound up in Dalaam. He would have gone farther, but his car broke down. Even in Starland, Ford Pintos suck. Of course, with all the time he took meditating, and then travelling, he was pretty friggin' old. Like 50 or something. And so, that is how he got to Dalaam, and also how his PSI abilities got so powerful.

Now, after successfully helping Poo to be able to help Ness save the world, Star Master retired, and lives where all retired old people live - Florida. He lives in an condo complex with my Grampa Louie. And he doesn't call himself Star Master anymore. He calls himself Biff. He's been Condo board president for 8 years now.

-Alexander The Great

The Starstorm is a potent psychokinetic attack, developed by Giygas's empire for the Starmen, Giygas's soldiers. One of these Starmen was sent on a scouting mission to Earth in 197X. It never returned. At the same time, a young Dalaamese man was training his PSI skills in the Dalaam caverns, when a UFO crashed in, killing the young man and the Starman. However, the man had learned how to live on in spirit form beyond his death. The starman was also able to do so. It told the man about it being sent to Earth, and about the UFO malfunction that had killed them. The man was saddened by the story, and by their unnecessary deaths. He told the starman that with their combined psychic powers, they could bring back to life one of the bodies. But only one. They decided to both inhabit the body, so both would live on. The psychic power required to acheive this had some strange side-effects. The body of the young man became weak and frail, but gained the psychic abilities of both both spirits. Also, psychic radiation caused the Pink Cloud to form around the crashed UFO. The Star Master, as he now called himself, left Dalaam to train his psychic abilities to their peak, in preparation for the coming of Giygas (which he knew about from being a Starman). After teaching Poo the Starstorm and its ultimate form, and watching the downfall of Giygas's empire, he returned to his home. He now rents a 2-room apartment with his good friend the Photoman, who taught him PSI Teleport epsilon (the Photoman's classic entrance).

-CodPor

The Star Master is hundreds of years old, a man from ancient Dalaam. When he was a young boy around Poo's age he had a vision that in 300 years a great evil will destroy the light in the universe and conquer all living beings. The vision was from the Apple of Enlightment, and spoke to him. It told him to begin his training to master PSI so that he may teach the future prince the ultimate PSI so he may survive his journey. And so the Star Master set out across the world, journeying to every nook and cranny to increase his abilities. 200 years later he finally mastered PSI and traveled into a cave upon the highest mountain top to meditate until another 100 years passed. Once Poo completed his Muu training the master sensed this and quickly teleported to him, and thus is how he came to that point.

-espeon87

I believe that the Star Master is nothing but a great entity of power. Living in the cosmos and travelling the universe, the Star Master met many life forms and learned of their sacred psychic ways. After his travelling of the universe ended, he stopped and began to dwell on his current knowledge. He spent 1000s of years mixing and combining his vast number of PSI techniques until he created the Starstorm technique. Later, he increased it's power and created the Omega version of the Starstorm. Once he completed his long work of 1000 years, he saw the crisis that was befalling Eagleland and the journey of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. Learning that Poo had the capabilities to learn such a devastating technique, he traveled to the pyramid to retrieve him. While the Star Master taught the Starstorm technique to Poo, some Starmen stumbled onto the hidden whereabouts of this training, stole the technique, and gave it to Giygas to teach to his elite. Their reward: Death of course.

That is my theory of how the Star Master came about his great power and how it ties to the game.

My other theory: The Star Master met the Master of Time and Cheese and was commanded to teach that common, powerful technique to Poo, who was the only one with a brain of Spinach, which was needed for a human to learn such things.

-Sirhic

He is Poo's father. This may sound obvious, well that is because that it is. He went away to learn about the great world out side of their city. After travaling a great distance in a tornado, the tornado spead up and sent him into Magicant. This wasn't the Ness' Magicant, it was a Eastern type Magicant, and instead of carrots and snowmen, there were bottles of water and blue elephants. But when he went to fight his nightmare, it was his son Poo eating some greasy hamburger. After beating the nightmare, he realized that he must stop this from happening. He realized that he could go from Magicant to the real world and back again at any time. Someone in Magicant told him about the west, and about his sons future. So he went to Dalaam to tell his advisor to feed him only bottles of water and brain food lunch. Meanwhile, he stayed in Magicant to learn and teach his son Starstorm, the most powerful PSI attack. After they defeated Giygas, King Poo (The Poo we know is Poo Jr.) returned to Dalaam after his long vacation. And Now Dalaam is better than before (i guess). and so my third (and not final) theory ends.

-Houyo

Well, the dull, and likely to be sent in by many people, answer is that he is that he is a master of the art of Mu, just as Poo is training to be. Quite likely Poo's father or grandfather, in fact.

Another possibility is that he is a god or demigod of some sort. A master of the stars, in fact, and is thus why he is "The Star Master." And since the Starstorm training is never actually seen, it is quite likely that The Star Master is training Poo to be the next Star Master, and is starting with manipulating the stars with Starstorm.

Either way, the guy expects Poo to be the next him somehow or another.

-masterzora

There are some secrets that need to be revealed for this to make much sense. Remember when I told you that MegaMan X became Buzz-Buzz? Well, you see, I covered a much longer story with just saying Zero met an unfortunate end, but that was the aforementioned making a long story short.

After the temperal warp threw X into the Chrono Trigger world, Zero was instead thrown into a reality show on TV. The reality show SHOULD have snapped his mind and left him a useless veggie (like a lot of humans are now) but because he was a robot of the highest order (tied only with X, and bested by none) he was able to keep it (mostly) together.

Zero then came to the highest realization of all human evolution and for the sake of editing for length it was this: "Reality Shows Really Suck". After learning this, Zero was able to literally shake the 'stars' that were created before his eyes when he was struck hard.

Then Zero left the reality show with great haste to practice these abilities. Seeing as how a video game can only truly begin when it is first put on the market, bought, and played by the very first player, Zero had plenty of time prior to the '95 release of EarthBound. After a couple of "Psychic Duels" Zero picked up the nickname "Star Master".

Later, Zero was brought on the set of the J.Lo movie "Gigli" (in case you don't know it's pronounced "Garbage") and in such, it finally put the final straw on the camel and it broke... the camel not the straw. Zero, now in a broken, confused state, stumbled maniacally into another time warp opened when Gigli was finally named Worst movie of 2003. (Sort of like a light at the end of the tunnel if you catch my drift).

Zero escaped, but his mind was badly fragged, so the only name he could recall was the one given to him after his psychic training "Star Master". So, Zero (now Star Master) began training as some new oriental cult monk and shaved his head. After a while the cult finally crossed the line by proclaiming chocolate pudding work of the devil, so Zero left and over time, grew a beard (if Reploids can bleed than they certainly can grow facial hair) and his hair began to return. However, it finally sunk in how much of a girly-bot he was before and dyed it black.

Over time, he stumbled into EarthBound and become recognized as a high-ranking PSI warrior and earned high ranking in Dalaam's army. Over time the memories of his past exploits as a robot failed him, and he began to train Poo because he thought he had a funny name. The "warp" you see him do is no different than the one from the MegaMan X series warps we've seen many times before, so don't sweat it.

Thus the moral is: Don't watch reality shows, it'll mess you up bad!!!

-Shadow The Hedgehog

He was raised by Talarhama before he was on the streets so he knew the power of Teleport. He soon grew and learned alot more PSI powers. As the monkey's didn't know that he was going to get stronger than Talarhama himself. After he was strong enough to go on his own he teleported to Ninten's house. He then used 600 of his PSI up to use Dissapear which alowed him to see Ninten from his whole Joureny and rested at Saturn Valley and went to his current Location.

He suposedly lived by himself on the streets watching "Ninten" during his adventure. He learned how to use PSI. So every year he trained and Trained so hard and he eventualy came to the level of "Ultimate Power". He learned every form of PSI. He's going to live for almost forever. He use to be a hobo until he learned the power to Teleport, Heal, Life up, and of course Starstorm. He used these to gain more power, get more respect, and to get his self off the streets.

-Ness The Hobo

The Star Master is a powerful PSI master possibly connected to Dalaam. At one point, the Star Master was probably much more powerful than he was as you saw him. He was the last hero from Dalaam and he went after giygas all by himself. He managed to win a few battles but he was ultimately captured. Giygas realized the awesome power of the Star Master and decided it would be a valuable asset if his entire army had powers like that. So he extracted some DNA and a lot of power from the starmaster and put it in a number of his robots. These were named Star Men, after the Star Master. The star men now had the ability to use PSI starstorm alpha and omega. The star master escaped in the meantime, but he was extremely weak from the power draining. He was still the only one who had the knowledge of the PSI skills but was too drained to ever use them again. So he searched for a new young hero, one who might have stood a chance against Giygas. And all the while he felt guilty for empowering the enemy army to fight against the hero he had chosen.

-Upsidedowncake

The Star Master is quite a mysterious man. No one knows much about his past...until now. The Star Master was raised in rural Japan in the year 190X by his grandfather and parents. His mother passed away a year later, so it was just his grandfather and father. The Star Master's grandfather taught him the power of PSI at a very young age in rigorous training. When The Star Master became an adult, he moved to the top of Mount Fuij to continue his training. During the EarthBound adventure, The Star Master felt that he should pass on what his grandfather taught him to Prince Poo. When The Star Master took Poo, they went up to the old sensei's home up on Mount Fuji. The Star Master taught Poo the most sacred and powerful PSI move his grandfather taught him: PSI Starstorm. Since The Star Master never married, he felt that Poo was a "grandson" to him. He treated Poo how his own grandfather treated him when he was a youth. This should shed some light on The Star Master's history.

-Mallow

First, we must realize that this guy has an INSANE ammount of psi power. Also, he's pretty old. Lastly, he seems to run around doing his own thing quite a bit. This leaves me with one person I know of: Ninten. Yes, our loveable hero from the 1980s, all grown up, helping a guy who speaks broken english contribute slightly to the team. Sounds very much like Ninten to me.

-Apple Kid

He is probably the guy who taught Poo's master (I call Poo's Master Crap) He probably spawned from the great plot hole or something. Why he knows that stuff? Well it was 50% off night at Gigas's Bar and a ghost of starman got realy drunk. So the old guy jumped the ghost and made him tell about starstorm. And how to get into the bar. Seriously were do you think he is all that time? I say the bar- er "Cafe". That serves a flavor of coffie called "Reeb".

-Salookanana

He was just a bum back in 198X... then the world was threatened by Giegue and was summoned by the Apple of Enlightenment to forsee the protection of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. He was taught the "PSI" of the apple and sought out one of the chosen four to teach his ultimate attack. He sought the one who was mentaly and physically prepared. He sought Ness who had doubt. Paula had innocence. Jeff who had no PSI capability. His last hope was Poo. So he had him tested, and he passed the test. The story is from bum to um... PSI bum?

-V. Tesla

The Star Master must live in the clouds. When he arrives and leaves, he is engulfed in a great tornado. This carries him up to the clouds where he watches Poo's every move and meditates. His origin is technically unknown, but we can guess that he was an ancient warrior from Poo's land who has long ago mastered the arts of Mu.

-Mr. McNuggets

The starmaster is really everyone on Dalaam. With such a powerful attack as starstorm, he must also be at level 500 or something. At this level, he could move so fast that he was able to train Poo all by himself while fooling him that there are people on Dalaam, helping him.

-wee-lo master

The Star Master is just an inner reflection of Poo himself. He never truly encounters him, he's merely seeing a more pure form of himself (achieved through meditatoin and drinking nothing but water and eating nothing but rice gruel).

-Flying Penguin

The Star Master (spooky name, sounds like a boss from Golden Sun) is simply Poo from the future. Because he already knows Starstorm alpha & omega, Poo can teach it to Poo. However, on the way, Poo ran into Poo and his three friends; Poo, Poo and Poo. They were trying to save the world from the evil cosmic destroyer Poo. Now, Poo taught Starstorm to Poo, Poo, Poo, Poo, and Poo, so...

I'm confused, so i'm going to go eat some sushi. See you next week!

-Da Krispymann

All right,this is gonna take alot of explaining to do. Anyway, since StarMaster is really old, I think he is a somewhat of a Master Roshi(Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, etc.) and has been battling evil doers by himself to reach new levels of PSI, then master it and teach it to others before he dies. That way, they won't have to do so much work and wait 50 years just to learn one level.

-The Runaway Five Teen