Starkey

Starkey was a rebellious fourteen-year-old orphan, who operated under the pseudonym "Stark Reality" and later became the master of K-9.

Biography
Starkey was an orphan and a troubled youngster who was also a notorious criminal called "Stark Reality". He also had followers who wanted to be his accomplices, like Jorjie. One night, he and Jorjie escaped Police robots and stumbled into Alistair Gryffen's house. There, he accidentally unplugged his Space-Time Manipulator and brought through three Jixen warriors and K-9. A Jixen sprayed him with its enemy-fluid whilst K-9 self-destructed, killing three Jixen. Starkey retrieved K-9's regeneration circuit and he rebuilt himself. Darius Pike then informed the police robots and he was arrested and taken to a detention facility operated by The Department. There he was put into virtual reality detention though Jorjie was able to hack into his detention program and communicate with him. The surviving Jixen tried to kill him, but he escaped and K-9 gave him his dog whistle, ready for adventure. (K9TV: Regeneration) Gryffen took Starkey in soon after. During his time at the Gryffen household, Starkey tried to find out who his parents were. Following a chance encounter with an Oroborus, Gryffen discovered that Starkey was the son of two geneticists who had experimented on him as a baby, granting him an alien immune system, and that they themselves had dissapeared some time afterward. (K9TV: Oroborus)

Behind the scenes

 * Intentionally or not, Starkey's hairstyle resembles that of K-9's former master the Fourth Doctor.