Mantis Exosuit Kur

No one ever glimpses this Kur apart from his exosuit. Since he belongs to the Kur race, observers assume his real body carries the octopus-like form common to his kind.

Like most of his race, this Kur holds little regard for other life in the universe. Sharp-eyed and merciless in a fight, he readily taunts any foe who shows fear. Combat in his exosuit delights him, all the more against a strong rival, since it lets him push the machine to its limits. Sure of that hardware, he brushed off whatever edge an enemy claimed to hold, and the swagger turned him careless. Even with his suit already cracked by a punch from Mantisian's transformed state, and even after a warning about his rival's underwater might, he swung again and fell to the return blow.

This Kur took part in his people's assault on Sumer, counted among the few set to watch over a throng of Sumerian captives offered up to a Big Mama. When the men revolted amid an intrusion by Bamora, Banga, Tome, and Aja, his squad reached the warp-gate pyramid only to see Banga send Bamora off to Earth. On Earth the Advance Unit hunts that target and turns on the Serpo, then splits up to corner Okarun and the others as energy sources for a warp gate. Riding with Hastur's group, he helps incapacitate Okarun and strip his kintama, but flees when Mantisian appears. During the later invasion he duels Mantisian with laser blades, chasing the fight into a river where he switches his suit to underwater mode and poisons his foe. The punch that cracks his armor stuns him, and Mantisian's fully shifted Jet Punch shatters the exosuit, leaving the Kur to die in its blast.