OOC: History notes etc for my own convience.

[playboy_philanthropist]

Parents:
Howard Anthony Walter Stark - founder of Stark Industries (1940-1991), worked on Manhattan Project, Project: Rebirth, and Project Pegasus, worked for Strategic Scientific Reserve throughout WWII, founder of SHIELD, alcoholic (b. August 15, 1917 d. Dec 16, 1991)
Maria Collins Carbonell Stark (d. Dec 16, 1991)

General Timeline:
'1970' May 29 - born in Long Island, grew up at Stark Mansion in Manhattan at 721 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY
1973 Nov 15 (age 3) - filming of Howard's Stark Expo intro reels
summer of 1974 (age 4) - last Stark Expo run by his father in Flushing Meadows, NY (previous in 1954 and 1964)
(age 4) - built first circuit board
(age 6) - built first engine
(age 10 - age 14) - Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (Cum Laude Society and Faculty Prize for Outstanding Scholarship)
Fall '1987' - Spring '1990' (age 14 - age 17) - undergrad at MIT (BS Electrical Engineering & Computer science - course VI)
---Lived in MacGregor House
---MIT Hacks: TBD
---Pirate Badge: rifle, archery, fencing, and sailing classes
---attempted to be on rifle and sailing teams, but was kicked out early for 'cheating'
---January = Independent Activities Period (IAP)
---IHTFP
---"All Tech men carry batteries."
---"Getting an Education from MIT is like trying to drink from a fire hose."
---Tunnel and Roof hacking
---Spring Break 1987 with Rhodey
Fall '1990' - Spring '1992' (age 17 - age 19) - grad at MIT (MS Physics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science - course VIII & VI)
1991 December 16 (age 18) - parents die in car crash
'1994' May 29 (age 21) - Tony takes over as CEO of Stark Industries. Purchases the car company that made the car his parents' car under false pretenses. Fixes the engineering issues in all their cars. Pepper promoted sometime afterward to personal assistant.

Movies - in which year dates get wibble wobbly
Iron Man:
2008 Feb - 2008 May 4 (age 36) - events in Afganistan
2008 May - 2008 Nov (age 37) - developing Iron Man suit, battle with Stane, etc., etc., 'I am Iron Man, bitches'.

6 months interlude:
-helped put out California wild fires
-saved submarine
-stopped helicopter crash
-party at Hugh Hefner's mansion
-Gala event at Guggenheim
-Blue Angels show to benefit VA Hospital Fund (during which he had to help land a Blue Angels plane with engine trouble)
-destroyed Ten Rings/rogue Russian nationalist depot in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
-stopped attack on Al Kut air base
-took out Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden
-unleashing Magna-Drone to clear Afghani desert outside of Kabul of landmines at military's request (was really to save the K9 units and their Afghani handlers)
-rescued pilot from Congo after a failed secret Hammer tech mission

Iron Man 2:
'2010' May 7 aka six months later (age 37) - opening of Stark Expo '2010'
'2010' May 16 - Monaco Grand Prix fiasco
'2010' May 29 - horrible horrible HORRIBLE birthday party, NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN
'2010' May 31ish - big bad fight at the Stark Expo. Oops, guess it's not going to run a full year then, is it?

Movie Arcticles:
Tony Stark poses with the prize winning robot in his father's workshop at Stark Industries
...the MIT junior is doing work that is leaving seasoned professors scratching their heads. Stark, going off of a radically simple theorem that artificial intelligence can be imbibed with personality through alternative programming, is currently putting the finishing touches on two robotic prototypes that he believes will listen to him and learn from his behaviors. Stark, the son of pioneering weapons designer Howard Stark, comes from a family of big ideas. During WWII, Howard Stark worked closely with a team of engineers to help deliver the atom bomb, despite cries that it was an impossible feat.

Tony Stark is no stranger to science. He has been building circuit boards and getting his hands dirty since the tender age of four. Tony Stark, currently attending MIT, has been getting a lot of attention lately for his creations.

"It's a lot of fun to create something new," says Stark. This month he has won the fourth annual MIT Robot Design Award. "I really wanted to win this one. So I did," says Stark.

Tony Stark built his first engine at the age of six. He thinks about new ways to change...

...father, Howard Stark, who is largely responsible for turning America's military into the most powerful military in the world. Perhaps the jump from robots to fighter jets will not...

...crowd. It is a quality rarely found among adults, let alone in someone so young. But whether you are a critic or a skeptic or a fan, no one can say that Tony's accomplish-...


Friday, December 17, 1991
Howard and Maria Stark Die in Car Accident on Long Island
Thousands to Attend Funeral in Manhattan for founded and president of Stark Industries
Nation Mourns Passing of Husband and Wife
by Michaela Alex Gabriel

HOWARD STARK - An icon of America's strength around the globe, and the head of Stark Industries, is credited with being the leading force behind the transformation of America's military from a third rate power to the greatest Army in history.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt declared that the United States would build fifty thousand planes to fight the armies of Hirohito and Hitler. Howard Stark answered the call of duty and----

---leaving behind his son, Tony Stark, who graduated summa cum laude from MIT at the age of seventeen.

From an earaly age it was clear that Tony had a special gift, but whether he will follow in his father's footsteps as the new CEO of Stark Industries is a question still up for debate.

There has been a great deal of speculation about the future of Stark Industries, and although the future leadership of the company is still undetermined, one thing is certain: Stark Industries will live on.


Possessions:
Howard's mancrush collection:
-prototype Captain America shield
-old Captain America comics
-Captain America's WWII Motorcycle

Cars:
-1932 Ford Flathead Roadster (restored with father)
-1967 Shelby Cobra (destroyed)
-Saleen S7 (in Malibu)
-2008 Audi R8
--replaced by Audi R8 Spyder (in Malibu)
-Tesla Roadster (all-electric) (in Malibu)
-Rolls Royce Phantom
-F1 race car (wrecked)
-1936 Ford Coupe (in Malibu)
-Acura NSX Roadster - with Stark Industries palladium-powered engine

Motorcycles:
-Type 6 Samurai Chopper from Zero Engineering
-Junkyard Phantom Shinya from Zero Engineering

Random:
-expresso machine
-beverage fridge
-jet
-old jukebox
-Bluthner piano
-guitars
-Bulgari watch
-Vonzipper Fulton sunglasses
-Initium 'London Calling' sunglasses
-Initium All-In sunglasses
-Ray-Ban RB 3320 sunglasses
-Robert Marc 719 sunglasses

Tech:
-6 Iron Man suits (7 including Rhodey's)

Current Projects:
-nanotech Iron Man suit: attempting to make the suit so it can be carried around all the time, quick to put on, and yet still as strong
-Project 'Out of the Kitchen': secret project of making Pepper a suit for emergency situations - COMPLETE
-Project Data: figuring out the best way to make JARVIS mobile.

-Avengers laser tag range
-nanopants for Bruce
-Avengers weapons and tech

-Yinsen Scholarship: full-ride to technology/science college for underprivileged youth. Based on application and practical experiment on clean energy theme. One guaranteed scholarship to MIT.
-Building of three other Stark Towers in Los Angeles, Chicago, and ____.

Soundtrack:
Playboy
Razzle Dazzle from Chicago
Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit from How I Met Your Mother
Live in Living Color from Catch Me If You Can
The Pinstripes Are All That They See from Catch Me If You Can
Dancing Through Life from Wicked
Out Tonight from RENT
Bad Influence by Pink

Angst
Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine
Someone Else's Skin from Catch Me If You Can
Little Boy, Be a Man from Catch Me If You Can
Goodbye from Catch Me If You Can
Genius by Pitchshifter
Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
One Song Glory from RENT

Pepperony
Seven Wonders from Catch Me If You Can


Now I just need to find a pretty template.