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Combat Evaluation: Lady Warlord Yan T'Ravt
AIS record of a Nightwind assassination attempt and subsequent evaluation
Attempt Recap
...from the records we were given from RI, and the data our own agents discovered, the Nightwind still hasn't seemed to learn the lesson that T'Ravt isn't a typical member of the Asari aristocracy. They keep coming after her expecting her to fight like a Matriarch, volleys of raw biotic power backed up by powerful barriers, and vulnerable to close-in engagements. Instead they get a nasty gutter-fighter who learned how to kill in the Traverse during its chaotic century.
To summarize, within two minutes of entering the mall complex in which the Warlord was indulging herself, the entire team was eliminated despite managing to bypass the Talon team on bodyguard detail. Manners of death listed below.
Agent One: Killed three seconds after approaching too closely to her target, T'Ravt took her head off with a sword concealed within her dress.
Agent Two: Killed eight seconds later, vending machine was thrown biotically and crushed her against a wall.
Agent Three: Killed four seconds later, the Warlord threw her sword with biotic propulsion and embedded it into her skull.
Agent Four: Survived an additional thirty seconds by using a biotic charge to close to hand-to-hand range. Beheaded when the warlord disengaged long enough to draw a second sword (also concealed in her dress).
Agent Five: Attempted to corral the target with biotics. The Warlord used a biotic charge to leap directly upwards to land on a ledge five stories up. Agent followed and was greeted with a biotic nullification grenade, subsequently fell to her death.
Agent Six: Supervising agent pursued at a longer distance. Successfully dodged second sword throw. Did not anticipate being tackled into a store via a biotic charge. Subsequently strangled to death by a belt grabbed from a display.
Weapons Evaluation
Biotic Talent
As an Asari matron, T'Ravt is at a level above nearly any human biotic, but by the standards of her own species and age group, she is relatively weak. She had no known affinity for warpfire or its derivatives, and her singularities are rather low in duration. She has also never been noted to utilize more esoteric powers.
What she does have is an absolute talent for material redirection via biotic throws and pulls, to an almost obscene degree. Assume that any object weighing less than one metric ton that is not physically bolted into the ground is something that she can and absolutely will throw at an opponent if given any sort of opportunity.
Blades
This is the third noted occasion where T'Ravt has been seen utilizing multiple blades, and the second where they were concealed within the dress or robes that she was wearing at the time. Questioning Asari blades-mistress on the subject revealed that her swordplay is utterly lacking in any form of elegance or grace, but is brutally practical and exhibits very little wasteful motion.
It was likely self-taught by experience during her early mercenary years, and has only been moderately refined through further practice since. While she would likely be no match for an Asari expert in a raw blades duel, she would be more than any N7 operative could handle.
Ranged Weaponry
Aside from anything that happens to be nearby at the time, T'Ravt's preference seems to be for middle-weight pistols. This frees up her off-hand for a blade or for fine biotic control. RI data indicates that she visits shooting ranges bi-daily to keep in practice, and must be considered a crack-shot at most engagement ranges.
As someone who has spent most of her Matron stage fleeing from her own people, it is also prudent to assume that she will have numerous anti-biotic weapons on her person at any given time. Nullification grenades in particular are utilized to stutter enemy powers long enough for her to eliminate them as a threat or to flee.
Fighting Style
While she might call herself a 'Lady', and act with all of the same aristocratic pomp of an Asari elder, do not for a moment be fooled into thinking that this extends to any facet of her fighting style. For all of her claims to civility of bearing, when the gloves come off T'Ravt is as nasty as they come. Her goal in any fight is to kill or hideously harm her opponent as quickly as possible so that they are no longer a threat to her.
Further, she is an extremely prudent and intelligent being. If placed in a situation where she is disadvantaged, she has no hang-ups about fleeing in order to survive another day.
Fighting Style & Recommendations
If we are ever called upon to eliminate her, I must make the following recommendations based upon my observations. This is assuming that her bodyguards can either be eliminated or kept at bay prior to the attempt being made.
First, the longer the engagement range the better it will be. N7 operatives qualified as master snipers would be required as she is likely to break into biotic-assisted movement as soon as she realizes the threat. Her personal barriers and tendency to wear armor when in public make a single-shot kill highly unlikely, and would likely require her protections to be worn down by other units before the attempt is made.
Second, T'Ravt absolutely will retreat to a secure position if she is not confident of victory. Either our engagement team must be light enough to entice her to remain (dangerous as there is every likelihood that she will kill them all), or they must appear to be so overwhelming that they drive her to flee towards a predestined trap where she can be eliminated.
Three, we should utilize a team with minimal biotics. Most biotics are heavily over-reliant on their powers (especially N7 adepts). And with her extensive experience in eliminating Nightwind kill teams, any human biotic or group of biotics would be little more than practice for her. Any biotics included in the squad should primarily be concerned with ridding the battlefield of anything that she might utilize as a weapon, and harassing her from extreme distances.
End Report
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