Spaceknight Saturdays: Dishonor! (That's the Title, Not my Verdict)

Except it kinda is...

So you know the set-up by now: 20 years later, Galador is thriving and protecting a number of planets with a new generation of Spaceknights, except some corrupted Spaceknights have turned one of those worlds against Galador. Among the Knights, Rom and Brandy's two sons, one of which is dangerously unstable and who has been tapped to be leader after his father's death. Oh yeah, and we have Starlin on record saying he didn't give a crap about this project which is maybe why he throws every Arthurian cliché at the book. Calling Galador "the Realm" is particularly annoying.

As is Brandy's complete lack of grief. I guess 20 years does change a person. Aside from instilling a sense of the American idiom to only one of her sons, there's little of the Earth woman in her. Speaking of that son, Tristan, he's a little bit prescient, getting these incapacitating visions more and more often:
Since the Dire Wraiths are shapechangers, you really can make them look like anything, especially 20 years on. However, I don't think Starlin should have revealed that yet. The creepy character appears later, pulling the strings, but there's no mention that it's a Wraith. Telling us it's a Wraith here just lets all the air leak out of the balloon. But Starlin doesn't care, so yeah.

The guy being manipulated by the Wraith is Lord Gaspar, whom Tristan gets a very bad vibe from.
Why DOES he make your skin crawl, Tristan? Maybe because the guy's title is LORD OF SPIES? How trustworthy can he be? I guess if he was Lord of Double Agents, that'd be too on the nose...

With Trion at war with Galador The Realm, the Spaceknights suit up for their first mission. Here's the whole gang. Click to biggie-size it.
It's an interesting batch. Only characters have names not recycled from 1st or 2nd generation Spaceknights: Sentry (so that means the goof running around the Marvel Universe is Sentry II... or if we're 20 years later, this one is?) and Liberator (cuz can't use "Rom"). Starshine and Firefall are among the most honored names, of course, but it's nice to have a new Scanner as well (no glasses?). I AM surprised to see a 2nd generation Spaceknight title though. The first Lightningbolt was NOT a good guy.

Case in point, as soon as the battle starts and the Knights are ordered to use non-lethal force (they're trying to fix a misunderstanding, after all), Lightningbolt is the guy who forgets to put his armor on Stun.
Tristan has to keep an eye on his wingman from then on. Sent on a patrol, Tristan gets another vision that reveals an enemy location a bit off the patrol route, and flies into an ambush. SNIPER!
So he won't have to watch Lightningbolt anymore. That wasn't a long subplot. The corrupted Spaceknights flee and Balin of course blames Tristan for the death of his wingman. If he hadn't deviated from the patrol route...

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