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Archimedes has all the appearance of a praying mantis mixed with a tiny bit of centaur. What would be the equine body of a centaur is, on Archimedes, his equivalent of a true mantid's thorax and abdomen. He carries himself on four thin, insectoid legs, and bears two pairs of wings on this part of his body; the outer pair forms a hard shell to protect the fragile inner pair. He can fly with these wings, but with little to no grace or agility. His torso is perpendicular to his lower body, as a centaur's would be, and is of humanoid proportions rather than the thin prothorax of a true mantid. His arms end, not in hands, but in long, serrated, scythe-like blades. A long, stiff neck holds his wedge-shaped head above his shoulders. His eyes are huge and ovoid, unlike a true mantid's in that his "eyespots" are true pupils, with all the focusing ability of human eyes. He has two long antennae and powerful mandibles that prevent him from speaking any but insectoid tongues. His entire body is covered with thick, green-brown carapace.
The mantis has a respectable bit of cyborware to call his own. Cyborware hands have been grafted to his forearms at the 'wrist' joint of the scythes, usable when he folds his scythes to his forearms and holds them 'closed' that way. An entire second set of small arms are also joined to what passes as his lower ribcage. Though not visible, he has had not one, but three memory chips installed for the storage of all manner of robotics facts and diagrams.
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