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Combat Evaluation: Mistress of the Eclipse, Jona Sederis

Matriarch Lidanya,

As per your request, I have re-opened the evaluations our office compiled regarding Jona Sederis and have begun to update them based upon modern data. My additional comments will be noted.

Spectre Jaguraundi

Known Influences

Jona Sederis joined a huntress's cabal on Thessia at the age of fifty-two. Her initial instructors were severely impressed by her level of biotic power even as a maiden, but did note that her focus tended to wax and wane in a fashion that made control difficult. While they attempted to improve this, she additionally received specialized training to place her in a supporting role amidst her general team.

Known tactics distilled from official training:

- Specialized training in 'arcing' shockwaves that allowed her to act as biotic artillery

- Utilizing biotic-enhanced movement to keep enemies at a distance

- Extended training in rifles

She officially received the title of huntress at the age of sixty and joined one of Thessia's many cabals. Served with honor until electing to voluntarily resign at the age of one hundred and twenty seven. No official reason given. Update: Likely resigned due to boredom and disgust with her fellow huntresses, most of whom join simply for prestige rather than for any real desire to serve the Republics or enjoyment of battle.

At least one decade passed where she acted as an independent mercenary in the Traverse, after which she arrived at Aethyta T'Voth's complex to join her second attempt at reforming the Republics' military. There she trained heavily with Turian military experts and veteran Krogan warriors. Despite 'graduating' after a decade of training, she remained as an instructor for the following half-century, leaving when the Council of Matriarchs and Republics Leadership ordered the facility shuttered.

Known traits picked up during this time frame:

- Videos of training she lead shows distinct Krogan influence in terms of rapid, overwhelming attacks and a preference for short-range combat

- First known recorded instance of her managing multiple biotic attacks simultaneously

Update: This is quite likely when her anger-management issues began. Daily exposure to Krogan combined with her mentor's own rage towards the Republics likely began to expose a natural instability. Recordings of sparring matches during the last years show a maiden barely in control of herself or her biotic powers.

Records of her movements become sporadic over the following several centuries. She is believed to have served in Raik Vol's army on Omega for at least a few decades in the 1700s, but was seen with several different mercenary groups in the Terminus and Traverse across the latter half of that century and sporadically through the 1800s.

- A few surviving videos and reports indicate a woman who was little more than a functional psychopath with severe bipolar tendencies.

- She is believed to have stabilized thanks to bonding with a Xenthan Turian, having her first daughter with him, only to regress after his death.

Update: This was Sederis during her early Matron years, her combat techniques being groomed by experience. She is believed to have killed three Krogan Warlords, seven Batarian Ha'diq, five fellow Asari warlords, and uncountable numbers of lesser opponents.

By the time she arrived on Illium, and met the T'Laria family of mind-healers who began to work with her, her combat techniques had more or less stabilized in their current format.

Weaponry & Melee Capability

While Sederis is rated as lethal with shotguns, rifles, and pistols, she rarely uses them, preferring to rely on her biotics and hand-to-hand combat. The few occasions where she relies more on ranged weapons have universally been when temporarily deprived of her biotics due to nullification grenades, and only until her body recovers sufficiently to return to her preferred combat style.

In regards to unarmed techniques, she is rated as a Master Huntress in the Crushing Wind style. A combination of traditional Asari methodology and Turian military routine, it heavily emphasizes the deflection of incoming attacks, then retaliation with quick strikes and throws.

Update: Prior to her second mental collapse, she was known to bring in experts to train her in the latest updates to the style to ensure it was effective against most known species. However in the century since there is no known instance where this occurred. It is possible that her skills in this region have atrophied, but given her prodigious biotic power I can't imagine that it bothers her overmuch.

Biotic Talent

Jona Sederis is in the top percentile of Asari biotics, possessing more raw power and reserves as an elder Matron than even most Matriarchs. However, unlike most Asari she disdains the concepts of finesse and elegance, preferring to cause as much destruction as possible in order to shock and overwhelm her opponents. That is not to say that she is incapable of fine control. If the situation calls for it she is more than capable of focusing her power in almost surgical strikes.

Shockwave – Her most preferred attack, its is theorized that Warlord Raik Vol (Now Patriarch) personally instructed her in the Krogan methods of enhancing its power. When combined with her ability to 'arc' them (sharpest recorded turn is 40 degrees), and her unusual ability to throw more than one of them out at a single time, it makes it nearly impossible for enemies to remain in cover or close the distance upon her. Update: Video exists of her literally bringing buildings down and flipping tanks over with this power.

Singularities – Much like her shockwaves, her singularities are both massive in scope and highly unstable. She has somehow adapted the technique in a way that causes it to detonate rather than dissipate, even if it is not struck with other biotic energy.

Flares – While not at Aria T'Loak's level, Sederis has been recorded as utilizing biotic flares. She seems to enjoy the concussive blast more than the actual damage, and uses them as bright and noisy distractions to disrupt enemy positions rather than to outright kill opponents.

Warpfire – Sederis's sole finesse maneuver, she is capable of concentrating her warp attacks in needles of dark energy no thicker than a few centimeters wide. The resulting 'lance' is capable of breaching nearly any target's barriers thanks to its concentrated power, and has been recorded of ripping through a Krogan warlord's armor with ease. It's speed marks it as nearly unavoidable out to one hundred meters (depending on her aim). Update: While likely her most dangerous technique, especially given the deep reserves that allow her use this ability repeatedly and often, she has been quoted as describing it as 'boring' and thus only utilizes it if she is actually being forced to fight all out.

Throws – She has no real affinity for this technique, even though it is among the most basic. Her general lack of focus causes her throws to be more akin to a wide-area push. While capable of getting several enemies away from her rather rapidly thanks to her power, she is incapable of throwing specific objects without also hurling everything around them.

Biotic Movement – Her biotic 'charges' are unremarkable beyond her ability to utilize them to maneuver at speed. Update: After speaking with Tela Vasir, I believe this is grossly in error. While she lacks my fellow Spectre's obscene speed, the effort does not seem to tax her at all, allowing Sederis to control the battle by closing the distance or increasing the range as she desires.

End Report

And just to remind everyone that Sederis is a ludicrously powerful badass, even though we haven't seen her fight since AR Terminus. Next pair of chapters will go over the exact organization of the Eclipse and T'Ravt's empires. Might go into Aria's after that, or on another topic entirely. Not sure.

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