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I checked the Fedmahn Kassad page and there is some stuff missing. There is equipment and feats that would upgrade his destructive potential, strength, speed, durability, range, and hax. This mostly refers to his FORCE equipment
FORCE ground forces carry around tactical nukes, with a 50 KT yield. This is not considered to be particularly strong.
For the last course the audience viewing pod was farcast to some godforsaken world … Armaghast, I think …and a FORCE:ground recon platoon fired a clean tactical nuke at a pretend adversary some nine klicks away. The viewing pod was shielded with a class ten containment field, polarized, the nuke only a fifty-kiloton field tactical, but I'll never forget the blast, the shock wave rocking the eighty-ton pod like a leaf on its repellers, the physical shock of light so obscenely bright that it polarized our field to midnight and still brought tears to our eyes and clamored to get in.
His FORCE multipurpose assault rifle has a range from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. The weapon also has an aimbot that never misses within a range of 10 kilometers.
Kassad also had been trained. He looked down at his cloth shirt and leather vest. The mallet was still in his hands, the knife in his broad belt. He had been trained to use high-energy weapons with a killing range of a few meters to thousands of kilometers. He had been rated in plasma grenades, hellwhips, fleschette rifles, sonics, recoilless zero-gravity weapons, deathwands, kinetic assault guns, and beam gauntlets. He now had a working knowledge of an English longbow. None of these objects—including the longbow—was on his person at the moment. They had used a standard pulse bolt, ignited by an 18-mm cartridge, and unless the shooter was ten or more kilometers away … there was no chance of a miss.
FORCE multipurpose assault rifle can fire high energy electrons that can pierce 14 cenitmeter wide and 500 meter deep holes into a mountain. Using a full barrage of the MPR blew 20-30 meters off of the crystal monolith.
Kassad fires bhees - beams of high-energy electrons - which rip through the monolith and plow perfectly cylindrical fourteen-centimeter-wide tunnels for half a kilometer through the rock of the valley wall
Lamia looked down the valley to where the Crystal Monolith stood. It once-gleaming surface was pocked and pitted. the upper twenty or thirty meters appeared to be missing, and the debris still smoked at its base. The half kilometer or so between the Sphinx and the Monolith were scorched and cratered.
His armor gives him supersonic+ movement and reaction speeds and strength to cut through a tree and half a meter of stone.
Kassad jumped the three meters that separated them, landed behind Moneta, and brought the killing gauntlet on his right hand around in an arc that broke the sound barrier, palm-edge rigid and sharp as carbon-carbon piezoelectric filaments could make it.
Moneta did not duck or attempt to block the attack. Kassad's gauntlet caught the base of her neck in a blow which would have severed a tree, carved through half a meter of stone.' On Bressia, in hand-to-hand combat in the capital of Buckminster, Kassad had killed an Ouster colonel so quickly—his gauntlet cutting through impact armor, helmet, personal forcefield, flesh and bone without pause—that the man's head had blinked up at his own body for twenty seconds before death claimed him.'The first shot misses Fedmahn Kassad by less than a meter, splitting a boulder he is passing, and he is moving before the blast strikes him; rolling for cover, his camouflage polymer fully activated, impact armor tensed, assault rifle ready, visor in full targeting mode. Kassad lies there for a long moment, feeling his heart pounding and searching the hills, valley, and Tombs for the slightest hint of heat or movement. Nothing. He begins to grin behind the black mirror of his visor. Whoever had shot at him had meant to miss, he is sure. They had used a standard pulse bolt, ignited by an 18-mm cartridge, and unless the shooter was ten or more kilometers away … there was no chance of a miss.
His armor gives him enough protection against lasers hot enough to metl the walls around him, get shot with high velocity slugs, and getting thrown through a 3 mter chunk of crystal.
His armor has an invisibility cloak that can give him camouflage good enough to make him invisible
Colonel Kassad returns to the fire and slides the night visor up onto the top of his helmet. Kassad is wearing full combat heart, and the activated chameleon plymer shows only his face, floating two meters above the ground. "nothing," he says. "No movement. No heat traces. No sound besides the wind" Kassad leans the FORCE multipurpose assault rifle against a rock and sits near the others, the fibers of his impact armor deactivating into a matte black not much more visible than before
Has heat sensors that can see footprints made by people a few minutes ago
Still no heat or movement on his sensors except for the red-and-yellow images of his fellow pilgrims' footsepts, rapidly cooling, where they had entered the Sphinx several minutes before.
Has night vision that can see through sandstorms and lightning storms.
He also is equipped with a deathwand. A weapon with a range of 50 meters that bypasses force fields, armor, and durability to kill enemies by destroying all of their synapses
The deathwand had been Web technology for centuries—designed by the Core and limited to FORCE personnel and a few specialized security forces such as Government House's and Gladstone's Praetorians. It did not burn, blast, shoot, slag, or incinerate. It made no sound and projected no visible ray or sonic footprit.
It simply made the target die.
If the target were human, that is. A deathwand's range was limited—no more than fifty meters—but within that range, a targeted human died, while other animals and property were totally safe. Autopsies showed scrambled synapses but no other damage. Deathwands merely made one cease to be. FORCE officers had carried them as short-range personal weapons and symbols of authority for generations
What does anyone else think?
FORCE ground forces carry around tactical nukes, with a 50 KT yield. This is not considered to be particularly strong.
For the last course the audience viewing pod was farcast to some godforsaken world … Armaghast, I think …and a FORCE:ground recon platoon fired a clean tactical nuke at a pretend adversary some nine klicks away. The viewing pod was shielded with a class ten containment field, polarized, the nuke only a fifty-kiloton field tactical, but I'll never forget the blast, the shock wave rocking the eighty-ton pod like a leaf on its repellers, the physical shock of light so obscenely bright that it polarized our field to midnight and still brought tears to our eyes and clamored to get in.
His FORCE multipurpose assault rifle has a range from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. The weapon also has an aimbot that never misses within a range of 10 kilometers.
Kassad also had been trained. He looked down at his cloth shirt and leather vest. The mallet was still in his hands, the knife in his broad belt. He had been trained to use high-energy weapons with a killing range of a few meters to thousands of kilometers. He had been rated in plasma grenades, hellwhips, fleschette rifles, sonics, recoilless zero-gravity weapons, deathwands, kinetic assault guns, and beam gauntlets. He now had a working knowledge of an English longbow. None of these objects—including the longbow—was on his person at the moment. They had used a standard pulse bolt, ignited by an 18-mm cartridge, and unless the shooter was ten or more kilometers away … there was no chance of a miss.
FORCE multipurpose assault rifle can fire high energy electrons that can pierce 14 cenitmeter wide and 500 meter deep holes into a mountain. Using a full barrage of the MPR blew 20-30 meters off of the crystal monolith.
Kassad fires bhees - beams of high-energy electrons - which rip through the monolith and plow perfectly cylindrical fourteen-centimeter-wide tunnels for half a kilometer through the rock of the valley wall
Lamia looked down the valley to where the Crystal Monolith stood. It once-gleaming surface was pocked and pitted. the upper twenty or thirty meters appeared to be missing, and the debris still smoked at its base. The half kilometer or so between the Sphinx and the Monolith were scorched and cratered.
Kassad jumped the three meters that separated them, landed behind Moneta, and brought the killing gauntlet on his right hand around in an arc that broke the sound barrier, palm-edge rigid and sharp as carbon-carbon piezoelectric filaments could make it.
Moneta did not duck or attempt to block the attack. Kassad's gauntlet caught the base of her neck in a blow which would have severed a tree, carved through half a meter of stone.' On Bressia, in hand-to-hand combat in the capital of Buckminster, Kassad had killed an Ouster colonel so quickly—his gauntlet cutting through impact armor, helmet, personal forcefield, flesh and bone without pause—that the man's head had blinked up at his own body for twenty seconds before death claimed him.'The first shot misses Fedmahn Kassad by less than a meter, splitting a boulder he is passing, and he is moving before the blast strikes him; rolling for cover, his camouflage polymer fully activated, impact armor tensed, assault rifle ready, visor in full targeting mode. Kassad lies there for a long moment, feeling his heart pounding and searching the hills, valley, and Tombs for the slightest hint of heat or movement. Nothing. He begins to grin behind the black mirror of his visor. Whoever had shot at him had meant to miss, he is sure. They had used a standard pulse bolt, ignited by an 18-mm cartridge, and unless the shooter was ten or more kilometers away … there was no chance of a miss.
His armor gives him enough protection against lasers hot enough to metl the walls around him, get shot with high velocity slugs, and getting thrown through a 3 mter chunk of crystal.
| Kassad feels pain sting his chest, and he looks down in time to see a five-centimeter circle of invulamror drip molten fibers onto the floor. Only the last layer has saved him. As it is, his body drips with sweat inside his suit, and he ca see the walls of the tomb literally glowing with heat his suit has discarded. Biomonitors clamor for attention but hold no serious news, his suit sensors report some circuit damage, but describe nothing irreplaceable, and his weapon is still charged, loaded, and operative. |
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| Kassad sent power to the servomechanisms in his suit leg and kicked at her head with full force. Moneta dodged the blow, caught his leg, twisted, and sent him crashing into the three-meter square of crystal, shattering it, tumbling him out into the sand and the night. Moneta touched her neck, her face flowed with quicksilver, and she stepped out after him. |
His armor has an invisibility cloak that can give him camouflage good enough to make him invisible
Colonel Kassad returns to the fire and slides the night visor up onto the top of his helmet. Kassad is wearing full combat heart, and the activated chameleon plymer shows only his face, floating two meters above the ground. "nothing," he says. "No movement. No heat traces. No sound besides the wind" Kassad leans the FORCE multipurpose assault rifle against a rock and sits near the others, the fibers of his impact armor deactivating into a matte black not much more visible than before
Has heat sensors that can see footprints made by people a few minutes ago
Still no heat or movement on his sensors except for the red-and-yellow images of his fellow pilgrims' footsepts, rapidly cooling, where they had entered the Sphinx several minutes before.
Has night vision that can see through sandstorms and lightning storms.
| Colonel Fedmahn Kassad follows Brawne Lamia and Father Hoyt through the dust storm toward the Jade Tomb. He had lied to Lamia; his night visor and sensors worked well despite the electrical discharge flickering around them. |
He has other sensors such as active radar, sonar, motion tracking, and can magnify his few by 100x. He can also trace back where incoming fire comes from. |
Kassad uses his tactical implants to switch displays, quickly running through VHF and optical comm channels. Nothing. He magnifies the valley a hundredfold, computes in wind and sand, and activates a moving-target indicator. Nothing larger than an insect is moving. He sends out radar, sonar, and lorfo pulses, daring the sniper to home in on them. Nothing. He calls up tactical displays of the first two shots; blue ballistic trails leap into existence. The first shot had come from the Poets' City, more than four klicks to the southwest. The second shot, less than ten seconds later, came from the crystal monolith,, almost a full klick down the valley to the northeast. Logic dictates that there have to be two snipers. Kassad is sure there is only one. He refines the display scale. The second shot had come from high up on the monolith, at least thirty meters up on the sheer face. |
The deathwand had been Web technology for centuries—designed by the Core and limited to FORCE personnel and a few specialized security forces such as Government House's and Gladstone's Praetorians. It did not burn, blast, shoot, slag, or incinerate. It made no sound and projected no visible ray or sonic footprit.
It simply made the target die.
If the target were human, that is. A deathwand's range was limited—no more than fifty meters—but within that range, a targeted human died, while other animals and property were totally safe. Autopsies showed scrambled synapses but no other damage. Deathwands merely made one cease to be. FORCE officers had carried them as short-range personal weapons and symbols of authority for generations
What does anyone else think?
