I didn't read War of Kings: Darkhawk #1, but based on #2, it seems as though this Raptor fellow showed up, with the large Hunter Drone right on his/her tail. What I'm wondering is why that Drone showed up now.
It's supposedly sent by enemies of this Fraternity of Raptors, but why didn't it find Talon (the more experienced Raptor) sooner? He/she said they'd been dormant for thousands of years, which is pretty much the definition of "sitting duck". Why didn't the drone attack Talon then? I thought perhaps it was because Talon was dormant, and so not giving off an energy signature for the drone to track, but 2 questions arise from that:
1) If the drone needs an active suit to track, then why had it never found Darkhawk? He's been a character since 1991, which is closing in on 20 years in our time, which has to be at least 3 or 4 for in Marvel-Time. So that wasn't long enough for the drone to find him, but this Talon had awoken just recently and the drone found it already?
2) Talon said it and Chris are the only two left, and no Raptor has been active in millennia. So either all the other Raptors were killed before they stopped being active, or they went into dormancy and were destroyed. In which case, it raises the question, again, of why the drone couldn't find Talon and destroy him/her before it got up and running again*.
Basically, I'm suspicious of this Talon. It's awful convenient how Talon and the drone arrive at Chris' house at the same time (or if theyw ere already fighting, that neither one was able to destroy the other before they reached the house). Talon says the Raptors are supposed to safeguard galactic culture, and that things are now badly off-course. So why did they go dormant in the first place? If they'd been active, they could have stopped things from going askew when they started, rather than trying to act now. Plus, there's the vagueness of the term 'galactic culture'. Whose culture? Everyone's? The Kree, the Shi'ar, the Badoon, Earthlings, the Xandarians?
Also, there's the solicitations for the Ascension mini-series that suggest Talon's going to do something severely morally questionable, and Chris is going to be left taking the fall, which gives me the sense the Fraternity of Raptors are a lot like the Second Foundation: Things are only OK if they're going the way the Raptors want, and if not, then everyone's expendable to get things back on the path they want. Poor Darkhawk.
* I guess I could accept the "space is really large" explanation, but then I wonder why you only use one Hunter Drone, isntead of sending massive swarms of them out.
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Actually, the implication in Darkhawk #1 is that the other Raptor is a skrull whose ship was destroyed by the Inhumans, and was "rescued" by the Raptor (at least the first few pages showed the skrull floating in space, until he suddenly saw an Amulet shaped light coming towards him).
Also, I thought at the end of Darkhawk #2 it implied that the Suit had taken over Chris just as he realized the Darkhawks weren't the good guys (there was some mention of assasinations, and coups or something).
But figuring that Talon is a villain also supports your idea that the Hunter drone was a little convienient.
seangreyson: So Talon could be a Skrull now? Hmm, interesting. It would kind of cool to see the few remaining Skrulls trying to take advantage of War of Kings to wipe out both their major rivals at once.
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