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The '''Slaver Mantoids''' are an intelligent, space-faring race of insectoid origin that are the primary antagonists in [[Ostragoth]]’s ongoing [[WIP|fic-in-progress]], [[Estrangsters]]. The Slaver Mantoids (also known as just 'Mantoids') are known to exist in at least ''three'' universes within the [[Daria Multiverse]]

The only weapon seen so far in Mantoid use is a device informally named the ‘barbell‘Barbell device’. The Barbell is a heavy, hand-held weapon in the shape of a barbell, with a baseball-sized globe on one end (the globe contains elements inside that are reminiscent of a plasma globe) and a opening on the opposite end that contains a tri-bladed spike about nine inches long. The device can be used for hand-to-hand combat, as it is reinforced and can be used to strike others for blunt damage, or stab them with the spike (designed to make victims bleed out faster). The Barbell can also fire searing pulses of white-hot plasma from the globe end that can cause immediate death to humans up to fifty yards away; the globe of the weapon '''always''' emits strands of electricity within before it is about to fire. The Barbell’s energy-projection ability seems to be controlled mentally by the user to determine the direction and intensity of the pulse.