species and planet stuff species description: they are about a meter tall, meter long, praying mantises. their abdomen's are a bit shorter, their forelimbs are wider, with the little spikes being a bit longer and also wider, making it a bit easier to grab stuff. while they all only really have the biology of a common mantis, they do come is different colors and slight differences that resemble other types of mantises. abilities: they like praying mantises are very good at camouflage, they mostly camouflage into leaves or trees. they are also ambush predators. they eat smaller insects or small mammals. they have very good eyesight, and are faster than you'd expect. they can't stick to surfaces like regular praying mantises, but they are still good climbers. planet description: about the same maybe more water to planet ratio as earth. most of the landmass is jungle, the two poles are filled with large snow and ice covered cliffs and rocks. it is a smaller, hot and humid planet, it has high oxygen levels leading to a large of large insect-like species, there is also smaller rodent-like species. there are a lot of different kinds of plants, some with very interesting capabilities. the mantoid usually live in trees, or in burrows, or just roam the jungle. due to the chaos of the jungle there are a lot of tiny governments and settlements all over the planet.
government and relationships with other species stuff primtangle goverment stuff: the current most prominent government is this sort of cult like one that is trying to take over all the other governments. their leader uses this plant thing that can make people basically see him as a god so hes getting people to basically join a cult. the cult will also just kidnap young children as soon as they hatch and aren't being protected by their mother anymore. relationships with other species: they have no planetwide trades or services with other planets except for being a high area of study for the blooboowoobos because of the planets interesting and diverse plants, animals, and ecosystems. the blooboowoobos have done experimenting on all these organisms, including some unethical ones done on the mantoids. they have also brought the mantoids, animals, and plants to other planets. also some of the cult members and their weird plant stuff has also been transported to other planets, so that could be cool lore stuff.
