I am very happy to see this. I was always a very vocal hater of Starbarians 1 and 2. I thought Starbarians was the worst of the worst from HappyHarry, and I would joke about how the more incredible the animation quality would get, the shittier the writing would get. There was never any character development or conflict, just going from one crude joke to the next, and for some reason thinking that a lame joke deserves to be animated with breath-taking disney style smoothness.
Here on the other hand, I LOVED that we finally started to actually learn something about these characters, and that you created a situation where there is some real tension and something at stake. I hope you can continue to impress me with your evolved storytelling, and continue to convince me that you actually care about the story you're telling, not just coming up with whatever dumb idea and spending like 5 years animating it perfectly.