History Webcomic / Cosmoknights

Book One is complete and Book Two started posting on June 4th, 2021.

* DramaticUnmasking: Pan and [[spoiler:Tara]] have a drawn-out swordfight without knowing who the other is. [[spoiler:Tara removes her mask upon beating Pan, who, realizing her identity, removes her own mask in turn.]]

** Bee likes having more people on board while Cass wishes it were back to the two of them.
** Both Cass and Kate have some dislike of Scotty; Kate as an anarchist against a princess, and Cass as a response to Scotty being angry about getting out of a system she'd had to fight to leave.

* MadeOfExplodium: Bronco Batteries violently explode at high temperatures. Fortunately, the explosion isn't enough to kill an armored cosmoknight, but it will heavily damage their suit to the point of uselessness.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Pan helps helps her best friend flee to space so she won't be married off by her family. This leads to the royal family leaving the planet which tanks the economy and Pan ends up widely despised on Viridian due to her highly publicized part in the incident.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Every main character seems to have a few different outfits geared towards their preferences but Kate takes the cake. All three times she shows up in Book One she has a wildly different outfit down to the style and color of her hair. While her outfits since then have been more understated she still has a lot of variation.

* SequelHook: A couple. Book One ends when [[spoiler:Cass and Bee decide to work with Kate in bringing down the monarchy in a more efficient way than their princess-by-princess strategy. Shortly afterwards, Pan gets a five year old message from Tara telling her something went wrong and begging her for help.]]

* TrophyRoom: Cass and Bee have display for the favors they've won hidden behind a retractable wall.

* AbsentAliens: Paintings show one that looks like kind of a space-tiger, but there don't seem to be any sapient aliens so far.

* SpacePirates: The crew has to fly through pirate territory towards the beginning of Book Two. Bee thinks they're too small a target to concern them, though.

Book One is complete and Book Two is set to launch on June 4th, 2021.

Book One is complete and work on Book Two is underway.

* AbsentAliens: Concept illustrations of Book Two show one that looks like kind of a tiger cub, but there don't seem to be any sapient aliens so far.

** Bars in the setting seem to have at least aspects of old-fashion brick-and-wood taverns... regardless of how futuristic the cityscape outside is.

** Bars in the setting seem to have at least aspects of old-fashion brick-and-wood taverns... regardless of how neon-drenched the cityscape outside is.

* BlackKnight: To contrast Bull's bright armor with red accents, Jaws wears dark armor with green accents.

* ChekhovsGun: The royal medallion that Pan received from Tara is called a royal favor and [[spoiler:all of them are, among other things, connected to tournament databases. Kate unlocks Tara's, providing insider information.]]

* DyingTown: After Pan helped Tara escape Viridian, the royal family left the planet to go look for her. As a result the economy went downhill fast. A strip of lit-up buildings seen in the prologue is run-down and abandoned five years later.

** In-universe, Cass does this during the Slone games. [[spoiler:Her parents realize it's her but the crowd is unaware until she wins and pulls off her helmet.]]

* CastFullOfGay: The blurb quite literally refers to the protagonists as a 'rag-tag band of space gays'.

* SequelHook: A couple. Book One ends when [[spoiler:Cass and Bee decide to work with Kate in bringing down the monarchy in a more efficient way than their match-by-match strategy. Shortly afterwards, Pan gets a five year old message from Tara telling her something went wrong and begging her for help.]]

* TimeSkip: The prologue ends with Pan being arrested. The story picks up five years later.

* EngagementChallenge: Played with. The cosmoknight matches decide the fate of the host family's princess, but not necessarily to the winner; rather, their sponsor will gain the princess.
** It's this specific system that Cass and Bee are subverting; they don't have actual sponsors, so when they win matches they help the princesses go free.

Five years after helping Princess Tara escape from Viridian, Pan works as a mechanic in her father's shop. When two Cosmoknights, Cass and Bee, come to their door looking for medical aid, she learns they have been liberating princesses from the patriarchal monarchy one by one and stows away on their ship to escape Viridian herself. What follows is a spacefaring adventure to topple the patriarchy with powered armor and rocket-propelled jousting.

Book One is complete (and available in physical form) and work on Book Two is underway.

* SequelHook: A couple. [[spoiler:Cass and Bee decide to work with Kate in bringing down the monarchy in a more efficient way than their match-by-match strategy. Shortly afterwards, Pan gets a five year old message from Tara telling her something went wrong and begging her for help.]]

!!Tropes

Five years after helping Princess Tara escape from Viridian, Pan works as a mechanic in her father's shop. When two Cosmoknights, Cass and Bee, come to their door looking for medical aid, she learns they have been liberating princesses from the patriarchal monarchy one by one and stows away on their ship to escape Viridian herself. What follows is a spacefaring adventure to topple the patriarchy with powered armor and low-gravity jousting.

* ChekhovsGun: The royal medallion that Pan received from Tara is called a royal favor, and [[spoiler:all of them are, among other things, connected to tournament databases. Kate unlocks Tara's, providing insider information.]]

Book one is complete (and available in physical form) and work on book two is underway.

* BattleCouple: Cass and Bee work in tandem during the matches. Cass uses her lance for melee combat while Bee uses her rifle to cover her.

* DyingTown: After Pan helped Tara escape Viridian, the royal family left the planet. As a result the economy went downhill fast. A strip of lit-up buildings seen in the prologue is run-down and abandoned five years later.

* KnightInShiningArmor: The cosmoknights. How much shine is variable but this is the intended effect. Cass is probably the most direct example of this trope; she wears bright armor that was designed for royalty.

* SequelHook: A couple. [[spoiler:Cass and Bee decide to work with Kate in bringing down the monarchy in a more efficient way than their match-by-match strategy. Shortly afterwards, Pan gets a five year old message from Tara telling her something went wrong and begging her for help.]]

Five years after helping Princess Tara escape from Viridian, Pan works as a mechanic in her father's shop. When two Cosmoknights come to their door looking for medical aid, she learns they have been liberating princesses from the patriarchal monarchy one by one and stows away on their ship to escape Viridian herself. What follows is a spacefaring adventure to topple the patriarchy with powered armor and low-gravity jousting.