Mantis Lords

The Mantis Lords are a group of human nobles who control 110 solar systems that formerly belonged to space controlled by the United Republic of Earth, the Horsehead Empire, and the Golems. Their politics are anti-democracy and human supremacist in nature. The Mantis Lords originated on the world of Severus Primus, a moon of a gas giant planet originally part of the United Republic of Earth over seven centuries ago. By military conquest and exploitation of human-supremacist sentinents, the nobles of the body of the Mantis Lords expanded. More recently (about 200 years ago), a rebellion by dissident Mantis Lords (who would become the nucleus of House Lionheart) who tired of the depotism and racism of their aristocratic body broke off a significant chunk of the Mantis Lords' imperium. Naturally, given their opposition to democracy, equality between humans and aliens, and artificial intelligence for computers and robots, the Mantis Lords have hostile relations with the United Republic of Earth, the Golems, and the Horsehead Empire.