ALIAS: Chamber
REAL NAME: Jonothon Evan Starsmore
NATIONALITY: British
TEAM AFFILIATION: Generation X
AGE: 18
POWER: Is composed of Psionic energy, ability to fire blasts of psionic energy and capable of psionic speech
FIRST APPEARANCE: Generation X #1

Eighteen year old Jonothon Starsmore, AKA Chamber, of Generation X was first introduced to the X-world in Generation X #1. As the other GenXer's were settling down into the Massacheusetts Acadamy, Chamber was on a flight from Britain with an invitation from Professor X to join their acadamy. Surely he wondered what Xavier would want with a "freak" like him, but his curiosity to learn to control his "curse" overpowered him and he decided to accept the challenge. He had enjoyed his time as a guitarist with his good looks, great music, adoring fans and of course, his girlfriend Gayle Edgerton. As usual to his bad luck, this was not meant to be. Chamber's power literaly erupted out of him one night which resulted in half his face and chest destroyed to his psionic energy that spewed from within. Unfortunately his girlfriend Gayle had received part of his blast as well which resulted in her being partialy paralysed and burned. To this day the only way he can contain the energy is to wrap his chest and face with a special material (comments are similar to a scarf) which causes many problems in itself with people thinking he is a burn victim or even a "movie star" trying to hide.

Chamber never forgave himself for what had happened to Gayle. Now he faces the fact that his looks are gone, his fans gone and his singing gone...perhaps even his family gone since it we have never heard mention of one word from home. Without a mouth to sing, eat or even breathe with, he lives off of his psionic energy and is lucky to at least have telepathic speech which enables him to either talk to everyone with a hollow, echo voice or even choose who can hear his speech by talking directly into their heads. It hasn't been easy for the black clothed, depressed Chamber who constantly looks at the dark side of things and even stays away from the rest of the team by living in the basement of the Acadamy. He is afraid to ever let anyone be close to him again in fear that he might hurt more friends. Gayle echos his past as Paige keeps trying to prove to him that it's not looks but what's inside that counts. Although Chamber wants to talk to Paige, he refuses to accept that she loves him for what he is, not what he looks like. He constantly teeters on the edge of trying to talk to Paige, but his mind keeps replaying on what had happened to Gayle and he ends up pushing Paige farther away with his behavior and insults.

This isn't to say that all he does is wander through the school spreading his gloom around. He is distracting to have around but he does join in on the fun every once in awhile. He doesn't participate in the sports but if you need popcorn nuked for some horror movies than look no further! It's not easy for him to accept that the others don't fear him or are repulsed by his looks, he's slowly learning that the others care about him but he refuses to come out of his shell. He may be the oldest member of the team but he does not want any part of becoming a leader. The team doesn't have any defined leader since each member contributes with their individual skills. Chamber does have many skills that assist the team and which have taken out a number of enemies with them, but ultimatly he will have to learn to trust the others and believe in himself if he is to survive in this world that hates and fears him.