Phase Suit

==Summary==
The Phase Suit is one of Hyperion Cantos's most remarkable pieces of equipment. The suit's name isn't exactly given, being called by many names over the course of the series, and often more than not going unnamed, being simply called a "skinsuit", which is an umbrella term for a type of clothing in-universe.
It is a chrome and quicksilver-like suit that is 0.8 milimiter thick[Endymion, Ch. 45], closely adhering to one's body. The suit's exact origins are unknown, being created by one's process of phase shifting. It is known that is closely tied to the Void-Which-Binds, with its functions being heavily dependant on it and being impossible to activate without some way to channel its energy into the user. While it is mostly used by future humanity, with Moneta giving the suit to Kassad to fulfill his destiny, the TechnoCore, by unknown means, has managed to create or at least adopt the technology to themselves, although imperfectly, as their methods of using energy from the Void-Which-Binds is flawed. The Phase Suit is one of the very few things that allow one to stand before The Shrike and have a chance of winning.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least 
Name: Phase Suit; Skinsuit; Biomorphic Field; Phase Shift
Origin: Hyperion Cantos
Age: Impossible to measure; Its creation seems to be closely tied to the Void-Which-Binds and the far future, which makes it impossible to properly date it
Classification: Armor
Wielders: Fedmahn Kassad; Moneta; Rhadamanth Nemes; TechnoCore; Future Humanity
User(s): One
Prerequisite for use: None, albeit most of the suit's capabilities require experience and practice to be accessed
Power Source: Varies; One needs to have power from the Void-Which-Binds directly fed to the Suit, usually by the Void itself, but it is possible to foricbly extract the energy from there the TechnoCore 
Powers and Abilities:
<tabber>P&A=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration (Mid-Low; Automatically sutures and closes wounds, stopping the flow of blood[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36]), Enhanced Senses, Self-Sustenance (Type 1; Allows the user to stay perfectly well even on hard vacuum, with no air[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27], and would allow them to survive even in environments with almost no pressure and with a complete lack of atmosphere[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 5]), Energy Manipulation (The suit is composed of energy, and allows the user to clad their own flesh in energy), Time Manipulation (Can accelerate and decelerate time, time travel to the past and future and automatically shift across time with a target, and help others achieve similar feats), Spatial Manipulation (Displacement Fields passively warp space around the user, and when directed, they can warp their enemies by forcing the fields on them[Endymion, Ch. 55]), Light Manipulation (Displacement Fields can heavily distorty light, creating the illusion of bright flashes of light if the user so desires[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 11]) and Temperature Manipulation (Fighting while phase-shifted overheats the surrounding air considerably[Endymion, Ch. 55]), Forcefield Creation (Displacement Fields act as personal forcefields that shield the user from harm, regenerating in nanoseconds[Endymion, Ch. 55]), Statistics Amplification (The Phase Suit vastly increases the user's physical capabilities, and can enhance one's weaponry to similar levels, allowing Kassad to use his FORCE Rifle against the Shrike and damage it), Natural Weaponry (The suit can form sharp blades from one's limbs[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27], as hard as diamond[Endymion, Ch. 47] and sharper than the Shrike's thorns[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 22]), Surface Scaling (By hardening the fingers and toes of the suit, Nemes could scale the smooth ice walls of an iceberg[Endymion, Ch. 47])
|-|Resistances=Resistance to Temperature Manipulation (Can resist temperatures both far lower than -162°C by scaling, and far greater than that of lava), Pain Manipulation (Automatically injects painkillers on the body), Time Manipulation (Allows the user to fight in stopped time and accelerate/decelerate on the same rate as an enemy does), Spatial Manipulation (Displacement Fields protect the user from the effects of other Displacement Fields), Radiation Manipulation (Kassad, with the suit, was unnaffected by both cosmic radiation and the "terrible energies" that covered the far-future Hyperion), Electricity Manipulation (Displacement Fields can block vastly empowered and focused CPBs, where even considerably weaker lances of energy had charges on the billions of volts), possibly Extrasensory Perception (Makes the user undetectable even to an Archangel's and a FORCE Suit's detection systems, although that might be thanks to the sheer speed)
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Attack Potency: At least Small City level (Phase Suits are stated by Kassad as being vastly superior weapons to anything he had brought to Hyperion[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27], which included his FORCE Suit, grenades and FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle, and while clad on such a suit, had full confidence of singlehandedly turning around an entire battle by taking on the entirety of the Ousters' armies and equipment[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23]; The Suit is what allows people such as Kassad, Nemes and the Noble Guard to fight with The Shrike, and Moneta remarked that anyone from future humanity, users of phase suits, could fight with the Shrike, although such a task was considered extremely difficult[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 39]; A war between an army of Shrikes against an army of phase-shifted humans ended with what was implied to be many casualties on both sides[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 42]; While phase-shifted, Briareus could deliver blows capable of smashing civillian spaceships in half)
Speed: At least Superhuman movement speed with Relativistic+ combat and reaction speed, MFTL+ through fast-time (Should be far superior to FORCE Suits, with Ouster Commandos being considered slow even out of fast-time to someone who is phase-shifted, and should be comparable to those of the Noble Guard who wear Phase Suits, who can jog at 30 km/h and deliver blows in timeframes as small as a few nanoseconds[Endymion, Ch. 55]; Phase-shifting allows the user to dip into fast-time, which accelerates their perception of time so much that even light, radar pulses and motion sensors seem frozen in comparison to them, and they would only make a noticeable amount of movement if they waited what would be several minutes, if not hours, on their point of view, and the time rates can be further increased or decreased at the user's leisure, with experienced users managing to keep up with those who otherwise see them being as slow as humans would be in relation to the unexperienced phase-shifters[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale])
Durability: At least Small City level (Moneta, while clad on a Phase Suit, was completely unfazed neither by Kassad striking at her with enough strength to decapitate an Ouster Commando, nor by him unloading a burst of everything the FORCE Rifle could deliver on her[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]; Nemes' Displacement Fields fully blocked an Archangel's entire energy output, measured in the gigavolts[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 23], channeled into a CPB laser being focused on her for several minutes[Endymion, Ch. 55], although the energy was intense enough to immobilize her and clearly pressured the fields greatly[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 1], and even an inferior type of ship, dedicating only the normal amount of power into a CPB and applying it on a larger radius and for only a few seconds, could evaporate a very large section of a river and slag the surrounding steel and concrete structures[Endymion, Ch. 27])
Lifting Strength: At least Class 100 (Phase Suits allow the user to be far stronger than the Noble Guard; While phase-shifted, Nemes ignored decelerating from a terminal velocity fall in three hundreths of a second, casually tore out reinforced steel doors from their hinges and could lift a man with two fingers)
Range: Standard melee range physically
Weaknesses: None notable, usually; Depending on how the energy from the Void-Which-Binds is extracted, it is extremely energy-intensive to engage in fast-time and perform actions such as sending messages on a timely manner[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 11], and even regular phase shifting is a tiring thing to do[Endymion, Ch. 47].
Feats:
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Energy Manipulation: Phase Suits are made out of energy, with Kassad being able to coat his own fingers in energy while using one.
Enhanced Senses: The Phase Suit greatly enhances one's senses.
*Hearing: On his Phase Suit, Kassad could hear radio and encoded communication devices, fully translated from their encryption[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23].
*Vision: On his Phase Suit, Kassad's vision was drastically different. He could see energy fields, motion sensors, invisible antipersonnel mines and radars as brilliant flashes of light[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]. The Phase Suit acts as a much superior vision enhancer over the FORCE's own, with Kassad being able to recognize individual faces easily on a distance of five kilometers, despite being entrenched, with chamaleon polymers activated and radiating minimal heat, and he could easily see even camouflaged, invisible dropships[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23]. He could see every single human impaled on the Shrike's Tree of Pain very clearly, despite having branches that extend beyond orbit, and he could further magnify his vision[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]. The suit, with minimal adjustments, allowed Kassad to see the Shrike over a half kilometer away, through a sandstorm so furious that even Lamia and Sol, who were a few feet away from the Shrike, couldn't see it at all[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 39]
Forcefield Creation: Displacement Fields are personal, chrome[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] immensely protective forcefields, capable of protecting an user outside of fast-time to someone within it, that can regenerate from any breaches and breaks in nanoseconds[Endymion, Ch. 55].
Invisibility: Displacement Fields, supposedly due to how they warp space and light, allow the user to throw invisible strikes[Endymion, Ch. 55].
Regeneration: Phase Suits automatically sutures and closes wounds, stopping the flow of blood, more than once[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40].
Resistance: Phase Suits confer many resistances to the user, both by themselves and through their displacement fields. Note that Phase Suits naturally scale above everything a Noble Guard would scale to, as the suit is only used to allow them to survive something they wouldn't be able to.
*Electricity: Phase Suits allow the user to survive incredible amounts of electrical power. Nemes endured being struck by an Archangel's CPB with its entire power supply being directed on it for several minutes[Endymion, Ch. 55], and such weaponry are noted to have charges on the billions of volts[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 28].
*Extrasensory Perception: Although it is unknown if that is an effect of their sheer speed, those with Phase Suits are noted to be undetectable by normal radars and sensing equipment. Kassad could not detect anything when applying all of his FORCE Suit's detecting abilities, despite Moneta being within his reach. While phase-shifted, Nemes completely disappeared from an Archangel ship's radar[Endymion, Ch. 55].
*Pain: Phase Suits automatically inject painkillers into open wounds to allow the user to continue fighting well.
*Radiation: Phase Suits allow the user to stay on a future Hyperion after the atmosphere was completely purged, exposed to the cosmic radiation of space and filled with "terrible energies", without any problems[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27].
*Space: Displacement Fields can block the effects of other displacement fields, protecting the user from being spatially warped by them[Endymion, Ch. 55]. They also scale above the Noble Guard's resistance, who can tank space-time distorting so violently that a normal human would be completely torn apart.
*Status Effect Inducement: Kassad's Phase Suit shielded him from a light blinding enough that normal humans would be completely unable to see anything, allowing him to see normally[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
*Temperature: Kassad's Phase Suit shielded him from a future Hyperion's lunar-like cold[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27] and would allow Nemes to survive temperatures far lower than -30°C. On the other side of the coin, Nemes' displacement fields protected her from being struck by an Archangel's CPB with its entire power supply being directed on it for several minutes, which slagged the entire area of rock around her into a massive pool of lava[Endymion, Ch. 55] and allowed them to swim in lava for extended periods of time, unaffected[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 1].
*Time: Those with Phase Suits, such as Future Humanity's, Kassad's and Moneta's, can fight on the Valley of the Time Tombs in the Tree of Pain's vicinity, which was stopped in time[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 32]. Not only that, but an experienced user, like Kassad and Moneta, can automatically shift and flow alongside time with their opponent, travelling alongside them or accelerating/decelerating in the same rate as they do, as actively shown during the fight with the Shrike[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40]. They also scale above the Noble Guard's resistance, who can tank space-time distorting so violently that a normal human would be completely torn apart
Self-Sustenance: Phase Suits allow the user to stay perfectly well even on hard vacuum, with no air[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27], and to survive in environments with almost no pressure and with a complete lack of atmosphere[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 5]. 
Spatial Manipulation: Displacement Fields warp space around the user, allowing them to move in fast-time without causing sonic booms or physical damage to the environment, despite being at extremely high super-speed in relation to the environment, and warping space to the point of bending an opponent's own limbs' against them[Endymion, Ch. 55].
Temperature Manipulation: Using Phase Suits can overheat the air around the user, blasting everyone nearby in furnace-hot air[Endymion, Ch. 55].
Time Manipulation: The Phase Suit allows one to manipulate time; Even on his first time using it, Kassad could accelerate and decelerate time, making people go at 2/5th of their speed or quicker on his point of view as he desired[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]. By the third time Kassad used the Phase Suit, he managed to automatically shift alongside time with the Shrike, keeping up with it no matter how much it accelerated, and also through time, no matter to what point of time the Shrike traveled to[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40]. Moneta, with her suit, could travel to the far-off future when humanity created the Time Tombs, when even the Shrike can't go there[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 39], and help others to shift alongside time with the Shrike[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40]
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Displacement Fields: Displacement Fields are personal forcefields that protects the user immensely. Displacement Fields can warp space and block similar warping, with Nemes using it to turn the Shrike's own spikes back to it, and its fields being what protected itself afterwards, and allowed both it and Nemes to exchange invisible blows, with said fields regenerating in a few nanoseconds whenever they were broken. Displacement Fields are not only defensive, however. They also allow the user to move in fast-time without causing sonic booms or physical damage to the environment while they move in what is essentially super speed, by warping the space around which they move[Endymion, Ch. 55].
*Phase Shifting: While the Phase Suit is part of the process of Phase Shifting, it is vital and necessary for the second part of the Phase Shift: An user of the Suit, after being clad on it, can engage in fast-time by dipping in an infinitely superficial part of the Void-Which-Binds[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 11], which allows them to perceive time far, far faster than the natural flow of it. While, technically, they haven't sped up at all from their perspective, their flow of time is so different that even light is frozen in comparison to them, and the flow of time can be further modified by phase shifting into faster or slower time frames, with slower time frames being seemingly easier to use energy-wise, although that is not an obstacle to those who have power directly fed to them through the Void-Which-Binds. Dipping into fast-time is extremely costly energy-wise, with amplifying something like a communication device to do even the simplest of tasks requiring more energy than a futuristic, industrial planet uses in years. Unless the user is backed by the Void itself, phase shifting in fast-time can only be kept for a few dozen minutes on their perpsective at a time.
==References==
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