Menthars

Survey: I compile references that repeatedly name the Menthars as an ancient faction that fought the Promellians to mutual extinction and as the agents who conceal Aceton assimilators in floating debris to create lethal booby traps. Plan: Treat the Menthars as a single canonical entity combining a wartime civilization and a tactical booby-trap doctrine. Execute: The Menthars operate as an ancient militarized society whose strategic goal, as evidenced here, was battlefield denial and destructive attrition — they deploy Aceton assimilators hidden among wreckage to siphon ship energy and convert it into lethal radiation. Structure and methods remain largely inferential: no internal hierarchy appears in the current material, but actions imply organized engineering capability, deliberate concealment tactics, and knowledge of energy-harvesting/weaponized Aceton technology. Relationship: The Menthars stand as historical antagonists to the Promellians and function as the explanatory cause of the Promellian wreck's defensive systems encountered by the Enterprise crew. Validation and confidence: The corpus consistently ties the Menthars to both the extinction battle and the booby-trap mechanism; remaining uncertainties include their political structure, cultural motives beyond tactical denial, and whether 'Menthars' names a species, polity, or military faction (confidence ~0.85).