She was originally hidden in a secret room at the Starlight Drive-In but was later moved to the Starlight Mansion and kept in a secret room hidden behind a holographic wall.Įmmett Benton invented Synergy to be a surrogate mentor, friend and mother figure to Jerrica and Kimber. Synergy is kept a secret from the world by Jerrica and The Holograms. Jerrica had to take the persona of Jem, as Eric had it out for her and she herself looked too ordinary for a front girl. When they found out about Synergy, they formed The Holograms to enter a music contest being held by Eric Raymond. Without any funding from Starlight Music to support the Starlight House, Jerrica, Kimber and their (foster) sisters were forced to find funds on their own. When he was diagnosed with an unknown, terminal illness, he set up Synergy to be a friend, surrogate mother and guide to his girls, and programmed Synergy to reveal herself to Jerrica if he was unable to give her the earrings in person.

He used his late wife's music and likeness to program Synergy's voice and personality, but couldn't bear to make her look too much like her, so he provided Synergy with her own image and persona.Įmmett originally kept the project a secret so he could later patent the technology however, upon completion, he decided not to obtain the patents, as her powers could be very dangerous if she fell into the wrong hands. Synergy was the life work of Emmett Benton, which he started four months after Jacqui's death, designed to link music and three-dimensional images for the ultimate audio/visual entertainment synthesizer/computer.

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