Mantis

The mantis are a high-tech race of small blob-like beings.

Verkus Nora

Mantis (Terrorist)

Mantis Clones

Octoid

Gevron

787

Wear mechanical bodysuits constantly

## Anatomy

The mantis are reptilian, and are green-brown scaled. The body of a mantis is close in description to some blob-like beings. They are about one metre tall, have one large eye, and four tentacle-like limbs, two which end in claws. They stand on one blobby foot, like a snail, and have scales roughly one centimetre across each. They spend all of their time in large mechanical bodysuits, that give them a triangular form, with four sharp triangular limbs, two branching from the top of the head and two from their leg-area. Said bodysuits increase their height to roughly one point eight metres.

## History

The mantis lived on the planet E’seraki up until roughly the third eternity war, when the mantis scientist Volt nora built the first mantis bodysuit. Using the power of these cybernetic enhancements, the mantis used their starships to conquer a neighbouring planet, the planet of serrus-x. At this point the son of the Volt nora, Verkus nora, took over control of the mantis. Exploiting the natural resources of serrus-x to create a massive army of heavily militarised starships and new bodysuits. After taking control of the entire serrus system, Verkus realised he couldn’t control the systems much longer. Him and his council created an AI to serve as the mantis king, thinking the people wouldn’t realise. And they didn’t. At least, not until the time of the fifth eternity war, almost sixty years later.

A young mantis named Osuk aster was wrongly accused of mocking the ”king” and given a life jail sentence. He demanded to see the king which Verkus denied him the right to, and he was locked up. While in prison, he received a coded from Volt nora Explaining how to hack the security system, as Verkus no longer trusted volt and was hunting him down to accuse him of rebellion. Osuk managed to steal data proving the king was an AI, and escaped the following day with the help of Volt. Volt and osuk started a rebellion to overthrow the current government, but the first protest was brutally put down when Verkus sent armed gaurds to arrest the protestors. In the end, 6 mantis were killed and 29 injured.

After a few months, another protest began, however hundreds of mantis were killed when Verkus gave orders to smash a fighter jet into the crowd. After hearing of the conflict, the Isokian Military Association ordered a direct attack on the government’s main base. Verkus revealed, during the battle, that the king was in fact an AI. In the end Osuk shot the main database of the AI with a blaster, and the AI was destroyed. Verkus and his few remaining troops evacuated to the planet Wertush, In the outskirts of pait, and weren’t seen again until much later.

"Mantis" is also the known alias of a terrorist who worked for Drotion. He had a mercenary army that was full of androids and was known for it's power. Eventually, after being killed by Nuclear Sally he was cloned 6 times. These Clones also became terrorists who worked for Nuclear sally and became close allies of the Iok Galaxy.