Fedmahn Kassad

==Summary==
Fedmahn Kassad is one of the seven chosen for the last Shrike Pilgrimage, and one of the main characters in the Hyperion Cantos. Kassad is a ex-colonel of FORCE, spearheading many of the greatest militry initiatives in the recent Post-Hegira history, and is infamous for his brutal campaign against the Ousters in South Bressia, which earned him the nickname of the Butcher of Bressia. Kassad has since then abandoned his combat duties and was even an anti-war activist for some time, before giving up on peace. Kassad has a history that closely ties to Hyperion, connected to it by his ghost lover, Moneta, and driven to a mad quest of vengeance against both Moneta and the Shrike.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , up to at least through weaponry | At least 
Key: FORCE Suit | Phase Suit
Name: Fedmahn Kassad; Butcher of Bressia.
Origin: Hyperion Cantos
Gender: Male.
Age: 50 to 60 years.
Classification: Human; Ex-FORCE Marine; Shrike Pilgrim.
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration (Low-Mid; FORCE Suits automatically suture small wounds), Enhanced Senses (Has a vision magnified over a thousand times, and his senses in general are sharpened by the FORCE Suit; Can see in infrared and highlight motion in his vision), Extrasensory Perception (The suit has radar, heat and motion-detection systems), Adaptation (His suit can adapt to low-gravity and hard vacuum environments), Self-Sustenance (Type 1; His suit has in-built respirators), Acrobatics (Can leap over obstacles larger than himself[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]), Transmutation (The suit can deconstruct and slightly alter its own shape, such as reforming visors and helmets into cowls), Invisibility (By reflecting surrounding light, it can become completely invisible), Forcefield Creation (Has passive, albeit weak, forcefields around itself at all times, and can create micrometer-thin fields around Kassad's skin in emergency), Light Manipulation (FORCE Rifles can project lasers), Density Manipulation (Grows more or less rigid to better protect him against damage, according to what is happening at the moment[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]), Explosion Manipulation (FORCE Rifles can cause explosions and shoot grenades and missiles), Plasma Manipulation (FORCE Rifles can project plasma beams), Death Manipulation (Deathwands can cause instantaneous death to humans by frying their synapses with neutrino beams) and Energy Manipulation (FORCE Rifles can shoot beams of coherent energy and electrons), Statistics Amplification (FORCE Suits amplifies the user's strength), Information Analysis (FORCE helmets shows information such as hazards, distances, tracing lines of projectiles, topological data, and others), Resistance to Temperature (Can resist heats capable of slagging sand into glass and making quartz glow brightly thanks to superconductors that radiate light, and lunar colds), Light (Has several systems to diffuse, reflect and weaken light), Extrasensory Perception (Can minimize heat emission to make heat detection much harder, and Kassad implied that there are systems to shield one from radars), Technology Manipulation (The FORCE Suit isolates any compromised part of its own armor), Status Effect Inducement (Can shield itself from blinding) and Analytical Prediction (As an essential part of the Hyperion variable, Kassad is utterly unpredictable to the MUI's calculations), Homing Attack (FORCE Rifles can shoot heat-seeking missiles[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]), Danmaku (Flechette projectiles explode into thousands of microflechettes at a time), Damage Reduction (Gets more or less rigid to better absorb different forms of damage, and when excessive damage is aplied, the suit explodes violently outwards, to minimize the kinectic energy absorved), Natural Weaponry (Can harden his arms into sharp blades[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]), Martial Arts (Excellent at fighting unarmed, has matched the Shrike), Weapon Mastery (Has been rated at, trained and mastered several different types of weapons, ranging from energy and solid slug ranged projectiles to unarmed and armed melee combat), Stealth Mastery (As one of, if not the best, Hegemony soldier in the series, he should be adept at ambushes, moving silently and stalking enemies)
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All previous abilities to much greater degrees, except Death Manipulation (Kassad lacks his deathwand in this form), with the addition of Time Manipulation (Kassad can accelerate and decelerate time, both actively and passively in a defensive manner, and can possibly travel across time, even to futures that even the Shrike cannot reach) and Spatial Manipulation (Displacement fields warp time around the user), Resistance to Time (Can move in stopped time, and can accelerate, decelerate and travel with any direction time takes) and Space (Displacement fields can block the warping capabilities of other fields)
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Psychometry (Can see the memories, feelings and the entire lives of anyone in the universe), Telepathy (Can directly contact with and see the thoughts and feelings of others in any point of the universe)
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Attack Potency: Wall level physically, from Small Building level to at least Large Building level with weaponry and energy amplification (FORCE Suits enhance strength to superhuman degrees, even at minimal energy output, which should be significantly above a Lusian, and through energy feeding, the FORCE Suit allowed Kassad to strike a blow capable of cutting through half a meter of rock, splitting trees in half and violently decapitating Ouster Commandos, which are at least comparable to FORCE Marines;[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 17] The FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle has several firing modes, each with different levels of power) | At least Small City level. (Even on the first time using a Phase Suit, Kassad easily massacred several Ousters, tearing apart even their combat vehicles without feeling any resistance,[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] and believed that, alone, he could turn the tide of a massive battle with Ousters, slaughtering thousands of them alone.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23] On his second battle of the Shrike, managed to stagger it with his blows and even knock it down,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36] and on the third battle, actively damaged it. On the final, future war, Kassad managed to defeat the Shrike at the cost of his own life[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40])
Speed: Superhuman, Supersonic combat and reaction speed through energy amplification, up to Speed of Light attack speed with weaponry (Kassad can move at incredible speeds, chasing after a windwagon even after it has started to move, reaching it when people stated it to be an impossible feat,[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale] and even out of a FORCE Suit, Kassad can kill two Ouster Commandos before they can react.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] The FORCE Suit can be fed power to achieve much higher speeds, allowing Kassad to dive behind cover after an explosion ocurred, but before the shockwave could hit him[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] and strike at supersonic speeds;[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 17] The FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle has multiple firing modes, each with their own speeds) | Superhuman movement speed, Relativistic+ combat and reaction speed. MFTL+ through his powers. (Should be at least comparable, if not superior, to the Noble Guard without Phase Suits. Considered Ousters slow even outside of fast-time; Even upon first entering into fast-time and thus inexperienced, Kassad had such a different perception of time that the entire world seemed frozen on his point of view, even things such as radar pulses, being purely a product of different perceptions of time, and if he waited for long enough, several minutes or hours, a person could finish blinking, noting that even a laser seemed to slowly crawl towards him, something remarked more than once, with missiles being so slow that Kassad could write his name on them mid-flight,[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] and grew increasingly quicker over time, managing to keep up with the Shrike by the second fight, although with difficulties, and by the third, fight with it equally and shifting in time at exactly the same level)
Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Even without his FORCE Suit, Kassad trained extensively in 1.3G to better prepare his strength for the military.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] Raul believed that a FORCE Rifle was impossible to use even for someone like him, without a FORCE Suit's strength amplification[Endymion, Ch. 25]) | At least Class 100 (While initially vastly weaker than the Shrike, Kassad grew increasingly stronger as he used the Phase Suit more and grew more used to it, managing to hold it off a bit during the second fight, and holding his own ground in strength far better in the third fight, albeit still being weaker; Even at his weakest, Kassad should still be far stronger than Nemes' non-Phase Shifted form)
Striking Strength: Wall level, Small Building level through energy amplification | Small City level
Durability: Small Building level (The FORCE Suit can take rifle shots from the FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle, which are capable of cracking boulders in half, and can take multiple, very large explosions that wrecked the area around himself.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] Endured a large, several dozen meters-long fall that cracked a ceramic floor followed by being thrown through a three-meter section of a crystal wall, all that while having a heavily damaged suit.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 17] Lamia, while using a mishmash suit of armor that should be inferior to Kassad's, could take on several missile explosions from a combat chopper, capable of sending her and Johnny flying for fifteen meters and reducing a whole pedestrian strip of ferroconcrete to molten slag[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale]) | At least Small City level. (Although with difficulties, Kassad could block the Shrike's blows that would completely butcher him otherwise,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36] and only grew more durable and adept at using the Phase Suit, which allowed him to better take blows from the Shrike and block them with less difficulties - albeit still not easily - than before)
Stamina: High. (Still fought efficiently even when tired after a week of marching, while suffering from malnutrition and travelling in bad terrain. Survived being unconscious for two days in the middle of nowhere, while severely hurt and exposed to the elements, thanks solely to his physical vigour.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] Stayed on his feet even after having his heel deeply cut[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36])
Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Tens of Kilometers[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] for most FORCE Rifle firing mods, Hundreds of Kilometers,[Endymion, Ch. 11] in theory Thousands of Kilometers[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] or even far higher, to extra-lunar distances[Endymion, Ch. 31] for the plasma and energy settings of the FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle
Standard Tactics: Kassad is a ruthless soldier, and fights at the best of his abilities, equipment and capabilities whenever he is threatened. He is fully willing to exploit the terrain, technological devices (even those not intended to military or combat applications) and whatever else he might have on his hands to defeat the enemy, although he doesn't typically sacrifice innocent lives to win.
Intelligence: Gifted (Kassad is an extremely experienced and talented soldier of the FORCE, who led many of the boldest and most successful military operations in the recent Hegira. He was one of the greatest students to graduate in FORCE officer training, trained in military history, maths and weapon usage. He is trained in the use of several futuristic weapons, and even in the longbow and unarmed combat, thanks to his FORCE simulations which prepared him even to medieval tactics and scenarios. Has been trained in the Hegemony's most intense training modules and has conceived plans using antiquated and forgotten resources of a planet to defeat a terrorist in the most creative way possible. Survived the entire ninety seven days of war in Bressia without a single significant wound, thanks to his superb fighting. Created a trap on the field with minimal help, using medical electrical devices and items, predicting the behaviour of his enemies.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] Alone, Kassad managed to gather the leadership of many, if not all, of Mars' tribes and keep the Pax out for five years, a feat he remarked as easy, despite being vastly outnumbered and with much less resources[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 28])
Weaknesses: Average human weaknesses to decreased degrees; His FORCE Suit has a limited supply of power to draw upon, and as it is damaged, the more its functions are compromised; After learning the language of the living and the dead, he feels all the pain and discomfort he inflicts upon others.
Standard Equipment:
*FORCE Marine Combat Suit: During most of his time as an operational soldier, Kassad used a FORCE Combat Suit to engage with his foes. Slick-black, form-fitting and lean, the FORCE suit has several technological applications to help him in combat. The FORCE Suit has several capabilities, such as enhancing the senses and body, protecting the user against the elements and damage, becoming invisible, providing vital combat and environmental data, helping close wounds and much more.
*FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles are the incredibly versatile, base weapons of any FORCE Marines. Its name is well-awarded; the rifle is designed to be incredibly tough and reliable, usable for any conceivable combat situation. It has multiple firing modes, each with their own uses and power level, being capable of firing 18mm plasma rifle, energy beams of variable shape, grenades, beams of high-energy electrons, flechette, blinding beams and heat-seeking darts,[Endymion, Ch. 25] apparently able to launch even heat-seeking, explosive missiles. Its exact range is not specified, but Kassad has noted that it is essentially impossible to miss anything with the FORCE Rifle at distances of ten kilometers and lower, and is said to be trained to use energy weapons in the range of thousands of kilometers, possibly indicating the Rifle's upper range,[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] at least for the energy and plasma-based weaponry.
*Military Supplies: Kassad has a supply of FORCE-grade supplies, which he carried around the Shrike Pilgrimage. Among said items, Kassad had military binoculars capable of automatically focusing, stabilizing and zooming images.[Hyperion, The Priest's Tale] He has unspecified instruments which allow him to measure the flow of the time tides, and he carries grenades as well.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 3]
*Deathwand: Deathwands are some of the deadliest weapons known to the Hegemony. Simple, unassuming devices that can be gun or wand-shaped, these weapons are quite simple: They project invisible[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 11] neutrino beams[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 42] that can reach up to half a meter of diameter and reaching up to ten meters in range[Hyperion, The Scholar's Tale] that fries the synapses of a target, causing instantaneous death[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 42] by reducing them to what is rougly radioactive slag,[Endymion, Ch. 3] and it can be adjusted to the specific, human brain wavelength, so nothing else would be affected,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 35] and it can be extremely precise, hitting a single target. However, it can be set to wider streams, with an accident being described as capable of frying the synapses of everyone within a room.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]
*Phase Suit: A mysterious, chrome and quicksilver-like skinsuit that perfectly molds to his body, given to him by Moneta, the Phase Suit is a marvel of technology that gives him immense powers, far greater than whatever he could bring from the FORCE.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27] The Phase Suit allows Kassad to use time itself as a weapon,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] which, coupled with vastly enhanced senses and physical abilities, makes it his deadliest weapon.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Phase Shifting: Phase Shifting is a process that involves two parts, the creation of a phase suit, and the dip into fast-time, with the phase suit acting as a vast enhancer to physical and sensorial abilities, and most importantly, allows one to survive when they undertake the second part of the process: The dip in fast-time, when the user perceives time much more slowly than others, allowing them to see even the movement of light as frozen in space-time, by dipping in an infinitely superficial part of the Void-Which-Binds.[Rise of Endymion, Ch. 11]
*Displacement Fields: Kassad, as someone with phase suits, can surround itself with displacement fields, personal forcefields that protects it 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]
*The Four Lessons: Kassad, close to what is chronologically the last point he appears in the series, started to learn with Aenea the Four Lessons of those attuned to the Void-Which-Binds. While it is unknown at what point he is, particularly if he ever learned the Music of the Spheres and to take a Step, he likely knows at least the Languages, as those effects are almost immediate and common.
**Language of the Dead: By learning the language of the dead, Kassad can access the memories and feelings of those who have died, essentially reliving their lives and their thoughts, from any point since their birth to their death, although the most emotional moments are the easiest to see and the most noticeable ones. One limitation of the Language of the Dead is that, the more different the minds of those one attempts to see, the more difficult it is to comprehend them.
**Language of the Living: After the language of the dead, one learns that of the living, which allows him to access the thoughts and feelings of those who are alive. There are certain limitations, as one is usually able to only access the memories of those they are connected with or has directly interacted with, and those who have emotional attachments with the user are by far the easiest to access. Also, the same limitation of different minds being difficult to read apply here.
==Feats==
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Density Manipulation: Kassad's FORCE Suit Grows more or less rigid to better protect him against damage, according to what is happening at the moment,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] changes its crystalline structure to better receive energy from its systems, allowing Kassad to harden his arm to the point that his gauntlet essentially became a blade.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 5]
Energy Manipulation: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles can project beams of high-energy electrons. Kassad's FORCE Suit can manipulate its inner flow of energy. Kassad's Phase Suit is made out of energy, with Kassad being able to coat his own fingers in energy.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36]
Explosion Manipulation: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles can shoot missiles and cause several explosions with its shots.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Light Manipulation: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles can project lasers with the heat of stars, capable of slagging sand into glass.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] The lasers change their frequencies at every microsecond, until the Rifle's sensors detect the most optimal one to breach the target's defenses.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 17]
Plasma Manipulation: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles can project plasma beams.
Spatial Manipulation: Kassad's Phase Suits are covered by displacement fields, which warp the space around the user as to avoid the side-effects at moving at what is essentially super speed, and can be used offensively, as applying the fields directly upon a target can warp them.[Endymion, Ch. 55]
Technology Manipulation: Kassad's FORCE Suit automatically seals itself off from damaged or compromised of itself as to not affect its own performance.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]
Time Manipulation: Through his Phase Suit, Kassad can manipulate time. Even on his first time using it, Kassad could accelerate and decelerate time, making people go slower 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] Kassad also likely scales to Moneta, who can, remarkably, travel to the far-off future when humanity created the Time Tombs, and 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] 
Resistance:
*Analytical Prediction: Kassad, as one of the Shrike Pilgrims and a central figure of the Hyperion history, is one of the biggest elements of the Hyperion variable, which even the MUI couldn't predict with its calculations.
*Extrasensory Perception: Kassad's FORCE Suit minimizes irradiated heat to make it more difficult for heat-based sensors to detect him.
*Light: Kassad's FORCE Suit has defenses against lasers, with Lamia's FORCE armor emitting reflecting gasses to better dissipate light, and FORCE helmets having light-deflecting properties,[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale] and his own suit changes its frequencies in microseconds to better disperse lasers, according to their intensity and light.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
*Pain: Kassad's Phase Suit can automatically inject painkillers into him upon being wounded, something that is remarked that the FORCE Suit does as well.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36]
*Radioactive: Kassad's Phase Suit blocks the terrible energies that covered the entire surface of a future Hyperion, that was fully exposed to cosmic radiation.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
*Space: Kassad's Phase Suit should have the same displacement fields shown during the series, which could block the effects of other displacement fields.
*Status Effect Inducement: Kassad's FORCE Suit has visors that grows darker to protect against blinding bursts of light[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale]]. Kassad's Phase Suit shields him fom a light blinding enough that normal humans would be completely unable to see anything, allowing him to see normally.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
*Technology Manipulation: Kassad's FORCE Suit can function well even under an electrical storm capable of disrupting technological devices[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 5] and when inside the Monolith, which completely disrupted even the FORCE Rifle.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 17]
*Temperature: Kassad's FORCE Suit has superconductors that allow him to irradiate absorbed heat outwards, even from a laser short from a FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle, although not without damage, with said heat making the Time Tomb - made of quartz - glow with even a fraction of it.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] Kassad's Phase Suit can shield him from a future Hyperion's lunar-like cold.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
*Time: Kassad's Phase Suit allowed him to fight in the area of the Tree of Pain of the far future of Hyperion, which was stopped in time,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 32] and can automatically shift alongside time acceleration and celeration, and travel alongside his target.
Acrobatics: Kassad's FORCE Suit amplifies his strength so much that he can leap over obstacles and debris taller than he is with ease, even with an immensely damaged suit.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Damage Reduction: Kassad's FORCE Suit is projected to explode outwards in response to excessive damage, violently breaking to dissipate the maximu amount of kinectic energy,[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale] and it gets rigid or flexible depending on what would better reduce the type of damage it is receiving at the moment.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Danmaku: FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifles can shoot flechette darts, which explode into thousands of miniscule projectiles, remarked as being almost impossible to miss[Endymion, Ch. 31] and utterly unfair to the target. Kassad's rifle was shown to actively shoot two thousand microflechettes at a time.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40]
Enhanced Senses: Kassad's suits vastly enhance his senses. His FORCE Suit, in general, magnifies his senses.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]
*Hearing: Kassad's FORCE Suit amplifies his hearing significantly, with Lamia managing to hear her own heartbeats clearly even in a very crowded and loud street when using a FORCE helmet. On his Phase Suit, Kassad can hear radio and encoded communication devices.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23]
*Vision: On his FORCE Suit, Kassad can see in infrared, and see through an electrical storm that completely blocked sight to normal people. His sight can capture motion and heat, and he can even see the latent, miniscule heat of someone's footsteps over an area. His FORCE Suit can amplify his vision thousands of times, even through a thick sandstorm.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] On his Phase Suit, Kassad's vision is drastically different. He can 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 can easily see even camouflaged, invisible dropships.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 23] He can see every single human impaled on the Shrike's Tree of Pain very clearly, despite having branches that extend beyond orbit, and he can further magnify his vision.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27] The suit, with minimal adjustments, allows 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]
Extrasensory Perception: Kassad's FORCE Suit has heat and motion sensors,[Hyperion, The Detective's Tale] and is implied to allow him to feel motion and heat. It also allows him to send sonars.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Forcefield Creation: Kassad's suits have different methods of activating forcefields. Kassad's FORCE Suit have passive amplification shields at all times,[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] and when needed creates micrometer-thin forcefields directly against his skin even when the power is failing, protecting him against direct contact with otherwise deadly heat.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] Kassad's Phase Suit creates a chrome forcefield which can be deactivated whenever he wants.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale]
Homing Attack: Kassad's FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle can shoot heat-seeking missiles.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Information Analysis: Kassad has unspecified instruments which allow him to measure the flow of the time tides. His FORCE Suit automatically scans itself, assessing its own damage and can inform him of exact distances between him and his targets. FORCE visors informs their users of fires and similar hazards,[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] and allows him to sinalize the path of recent projectiles, compute factors such as motion, the sand and wind of the area.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Invisibility: Kassad's FORCE Suit can make him invisible, thanks to the chamaleon polymers that reflect the light of the surrounding ambiance,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13] systems so refined that someone using a FORCE Suit is completely invisible even to someone less than a meter away from them.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 37]
Natural Weaponry: Kassad's FORCE Suit can harden his gauntlets into what are essentially sharp weapons. Kassad's FORCE Suit can transform its limbs into sharp blades.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
Regeneration: Kassad's Phase Suit automatically sutures and closes wounds, stopping the flow of blood,[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 36] more than once.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 40]
Self-Sustenance: Kassad's FORCE Suit has respirators and systems that allow him to function even in hard vacuum.[Hyperion, The Soldier's Tale] Kassad's Phase Suit can shield him from a future Hyperion's complete lack of atmosphere.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 27]
Statistics Amplification: Kassad's FORCE and Phase Suits both vastly increase his physical abilities. Remarkably, his Phase Suit allowed him to use his FORCE Rifle effectively against the Shrike, who is otherwise invulnerable to weaponry that, itself, is more powerful than FORCE Rifles, and is also usually far faster than it, while Kassad managed to hit it even with the flechette projectiles, the slowest of the rifle.
Status Effect Inducement: Kassad's FORCE Multipurpose Assault Rifle can project blinding lasers.[Fall of Hyperion, Ch. 13]
Stealth Mastery: Kassad, as a soldier of the Hegemony, should have intense stealth, ambush and stalking training.
Transmutation: Kassad's FORCE Suit can restructure itself to change its own shape slightly, such as making the suit's helmet deconstruct and reform as a cowl.
Notes: Kassad without his suit has barely any feats, even with scaling. Thus, his two keys will consider him in his FORCE and Phase Suit. Also, it is noteworthy that Kassad got exponentially better feats with the Phase Suit as he used it, implying that he got better and better using it, so that should be kept in mind whenever one attempts to scale him. Also, Kassad learnt the Lessons with Aenea, but said abilities do not affect his tier nor they appear in a timeframe fully inclusive of the phase suit, so they may be considered or not. Finally, take of note that concepts such as Phase Shifting and Displacement Fields weren't fully conceived of at the time of the first two books, so keep it in mind to avoid confusion.
==Notable Matchups==
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