MANTIS

Project MANTIS (Massively Augmented Neo-Tech Integrated Soldiers) was one of the many projects undertaken by MOTH to defeat the Honkai. The project involved extracting the DNA of powerful Honkai Beasts found in the Previous Era and inserting them into human soldiers using ICHOR (Intra-Chromosomal Honkai Gene Repeats), in order to grant them superhuman abilities and innate Honkai resistance. The project was successful and was able to produce at least 16 known MANTISes by name, as well as many more unknown MANTISes who would perish in the battle against the Herrscher of Binding. The thirteen survivors of the "Tragedy of Binding" would join together to form an unsanctioned group of MANTISes known as the Thirteen Flame-Chasers under the guidance of Elysia, the group's founder and second-in-command.Chapter XXIX
AHR (Active Honkai Reaction) is the after-effect condition that comes as a result of the surgery, which is also the final form of the MANTISes that can be manually activated. It turns them into a beast-like form, partially resembling the Honkai beast their genes are infused with, which most of the MANTISes cannot control.
Similar technology to the MOTH's MANTIS project would later be used in the Current Era.Elysian Realm, Raven, About Mobius 3 World Serpent, a shadowy organization founded by the MANTIS scientist Mobius,Elysian Realm, Raven, About World Serpent 1 had a long tradition of using a different technology with similar effects to the MANTIS operation. Though it did not transform humans into a different species and had a much lower risk of side effects, the awakening of a stigma would cause a transformation similar to Active Honkai Reaction in individuals who underwent this procedure. Raven was among the World Serpent personnel who the technology was used on. Comparable technology was also used by Schicksal. Theresa Apocalypse, a synthetic human being created by Schicksal's Otto Apocalypse through the combined DNA of the powerful human Valkyrie Kallen Kaslana and the Honkai Beast Vishnu,Everlasting Memory was sometimes described as a MANTIS.Chapter XXVIII
==Known Members==
===The Flame-Chasers===
Serial Number 	Name 	Honkai Beast 	Consequences
CM-001Elysian Realm, Sakura, About MANTIS 1	Kevin 	Parvati, 	Freezing cold body temperatureElysian Realm, Hero's Memory, Rumor: Coldness
CM-002 	Elysia 	MaheśvaraElysian Realm, Pristine Memory, Maheśvara 	No side-effects except pointy elf-like ears.Elysian Realm, Elysia, About MANTIS 2
CM-003 	Mobius 	ŚeṣaElysian Realm, Serpent Master's Memory, Śeṣa 	Reverse aging upon death.
CM-004 	Sakura 	YakshaElysian Realm, Sakura's Memory, Yaksha 	Inhuman ears
Unknown 	Aponia 	MidoroFlame-Chaser Aponia (Memorial Arena), boss description	Unknown
Unknown 	Eden 	VarunaElysian Realm, Singer's Memory 9 	Unknown
Unknown 	Vill-V 	Unknown 	Unknown
Unknown 	Kalpas 	AsuraElysian Realm, Pristine Memory, Asura 	Slow loss of the mind.
Unknown 	Su 	MahāmāyūrīElysian Realm, Buddha's Memory, Rumor: Dharmakāya 	Unknown
Unknown 	Kosma 	VishnuElysian Realm, Youth's Memory, A Dinner for One 	Nothing at first. But later inhuman ears, horns, wings, fangs after devouring Honkai beasts, which is done to prevent his slow loss of the mind.
Unknown 	Griseo 	Unknown 	Unknown
CM-014 	Hua 	GarudaChapter XXVII 	Immortality, perfect memoryChapter XXVI Side Mission, Where Hua Lived
Unknown 	Pardofelis	Unknown 	Inhuman ears and tail
===Other MANTIS soldiers===
*Joana - comrade of Pardofelis who joined the MANTISes at the same time as her and Vill-V. Perished during the Tragedy of Binding.Elysian Realm, Mortal's Memory, After Sundown
*Mira - friend of Pardofelis who she met after joining the MANTISes. Perished during the Tragedy of Binding.
*Ato - a MANTIS soldierChapter XXIX from the same unit as Kosma. The father of Griseo.Elysian Realm, Youth's Memory 6
*Dystopia - a MANTIS Psychic soldier and friend of Kosma. She dies by saving Kosma from the attack of the 8th Herrscher.
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