Mantavor

Mantavors are a sapient species of arachnid-like aliens and one of the numerous races that make up a vast interstellar Empire.

Biology
Mantavors are an arthropod-like species with six spidery legs, a slouched posture, and a couple of arms ending in sharp chelae, which constitute their main weapons. They have tusks on their upper jaws that look like chelicerae. Their bulging eyes are either yellow or orange, depending on the individual, and their skin color may be red, tan, grey, or green.

Culture and society
Mantavors are one of the many species that make up the Empire, which also includes Aquanogs, Arcturians, Canids, Cragorians, Densadrons, Felinids, Geeories, Humans, Macriki, Optocs, Tuskrus and Zirrelians, among others.

Notable members
Scroop was a member of John Silver's gang of interstellar pirates recruited to serve aboard the spaceship RLS Legacy in her expedition to find the legendary treasure of Captain Flint.

By far the most devious and cruel of the pirates, Scroop challenged Silver's authority on more than one occasion by expressing his desire to start the mutiny far earlier than planned, and even taking the opportunity when the ship was going through an emergency captured by a black hole to kill Mr. Arrow, throwing him overboard, and blaming it on Jim Hawkins.

After the ship's arrival on Treasure Planet and the partially-successful mutiny, Scroop caught Hawkins on the ship attempting to disarm the cannons and fought him, but when the artificial gravity was accidentally turned off by B.E.N. he floated upwards into space. His fate is unknown but it is likely that he died asphyxiated in the upper stratosphere.

Appearances

 * Treasure Planet (2002)
 * Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon (2002)