The Rhadamanth Nemes and her siblings Gyges, Scylla and Briareus (well there are more but they are never named) are cyborg assassins built by a group of A.I. known as the Technocore. They are merciless and sadistic killers, though they have a strong predatory instinct that can distract them from their true objectives.

Nemes appears to be a regular human, though she dose not bleed red and her skeleton looks like it is made of metal.

The Nemes can phase shift which is kind of a temporal acceleration but not exactly. This greatly boosts her speed, reaction time, strength and durability.

Special note about Shrike feats: When the Shrike wants to fuck up Nemes it does so almost instantaneously.

Most of the "fights" with the Nemes is merely the Shrike putting the minimum amount of effort it needs to to accomplish its objective.

The only ones where the Shrike actually might be trying are the Gyges fight and Rhadamanth Nemes round 2.

Strength

• Nemes shatters a metal door and stops herself falling in <3 milliseconds while at terminal velocity (>500 kph) by grabbing onto a steel girder.

  • She pulled >4724 gee to stop that quickly.

• Can casually stand while under two hundred and thirty gee.

  • Nemes weighs twice as much as Raul Endymion. So with that in mind her body probably weighed on the order of 27 tons.

Phase Shifted Strength

• Strikes the Shrike hard enough to send it flying 15 meters.

  • The Shrike has massed 1630 kilograms in the past but it might be able to change its mass at will (there is a spoilery reason why A. Bettik would be very knowledgeable about the specifics of the Shrike).
  • The Shrike later was able to stand on the Raul/Aenea/A. Bettik's raft without capsizing it so it definitely can become lighter.
  • This is from the cover of Endymion and is probably what their raft is supposed to look like.

• Hits the Shrike with a blow that Raul Endymion is "convinced would have split our ship in two."

• Breaks the Shrike's arm at the joint.

• After phase shifting just her forearm, a swat sends five people flying off a ledge.

• When striking something that is far more durable than they can deal with they will shatter their bones so it is pretty safe to say they are WELL beyond the 230 gee feat at that point.

Claws

• Her claws are ten centimeters long.

• Her claws are "not much duller" than her monofilament wire while phase shifted.

  • Her monofilament wire could cut a ship apart.

• Cuts a braided monofilament cable.

• Can cut through Swiss Guard combat armor.

  • Swiss Guard combat armor can withstand anything a FORCE Multipurpose Rifle can dish out.
  • Among other things, a FORCE Multipurpose Rifle can punch a hole through half a kilometer of rock.

• Penetrates the Shrike's armor and damages it

• Raul Endymion thinks the Nemes have sharper claws than the Shrike.

Speed

• Jogs at 30 kph.

• Reacts in a ten thousandth of a second.

• L I G H T N I N G B O L T S P E E D. (but seriously this is hyperbole. only sort of useful things are the somewhat faster than human reaction time and that she can expand the phase shift to include others.)

Phase Shifted Speed

• In "literally no time" Nemes leaves her dropship that was in the middle of the city, searches for and finds the house where her target was.

• Description of being phase shifted.

• With help from two of her siblings, they kill 500 people in a "timeless interlude."

• Fighting the Shrike causes the atmosphere to heat up 10 degrees Celsius and some ionization.

  • This effect is mitigated somewhat by the how the Phase Shifting works if they were actually moving that fast it would be turning the atmosphere into plasma.

• Two of Nemes' sibblings intercept the Shrike before it can attack Nemes.

• Without the effects of the Phase Shifting their speed would be shattering everything within a few kilometers and vacates a position in nanoseconds.

• While in a slower version of the Phase Shift she pulls out an anti-entropic device within a five nanosecond window.

• Here is a not really clear explanation as to why Phase Shifting dose not turn the atmosphere into plasma.

• A human observing the Nemes and the Shrike fight.

• Another instance of the human observing the fight.

Durability

• Can easily survive under two hundred and thirty gees of acceleration, in a vacuum.

• Survives being in a -162 degrees centigrade environment.

• Stops herself falling in <3 milliseconds while at terminal velocity (>500 kph) by grabbing onto a steel girder.

  • She pulled >4724 gee to stop that quickly.

• Survives Gideon Drive translation which turns regular humans into protein soup.

• Nemes can handle her own monofilament (possibly should be under the phase shift section).

• Survives an 80 gigawatt laser for several seconds, and getting immersed in molten lava rock. Four years later the rock is melted again and she is pulled out unharmed.

• Easily deals with getting hit by 400 kph ice shards and extreme winds.

Phase Shifted Durability

• Takes a hit from the Shrike and bends the Shrike's chest spike back on itself with her displacement field.

• Takes a hit from the Shrike that throws her through several stone walls and buries her deep into the stone itself.

  • Further description about the damage done by the Shrikes hit. She got knocked out for 20 minutes, her body will repair in a few days and the shift field is apparently "impenetrable".

• Still functional after being eviscerated.

• Still functional after being beheaded. If its body's receiver had not been damaged Gyges would have been able to control his body from his head.

• It would take a month to heal Gyges after he got beheaded and eviscerated.

Senses

• Can communicate with radio.

• Can do complex blood analysis >90 seconds.

• Olfactory sensors that are three times more sensitive than a gas chromatograph and somewhat above a blood hound.

  • This and the previous feat only took ~90 seconds.
  • Note: this is might be referring to a gas chromatograph in the stories current era which is over 800 years in the future. It also is a shitload faster than modern gas chromatographs but that is besides the point.

• Infrared vision, light amplification, sonar space finding, deep radar which can map kilometers of tunnels in a single pulse.

• Telescopic vision.

Equipment

• Nemes has a microfilament implanted in her finger that can let her read human minds.

• She has fiber-optic probes and microfilaments that can be used to interface with computers.

• She has a light inside her mouth.

Nemes does not normally carry this equipment but here are some interesting tools she could potentially be carrying.

• Several hundred meters of monofilament wire. Monofilament wire is invisible extremely thin, extremely durable wires. It can cut through military starships. It can survive in an environment for years and still be deadly.

  • The durability of ships in the Hyperion Cantos is extremely inconsistent as it is entirely based on their firepower which is extremely inconsistent. The range for ship firepower being from >exotons to ~80 gigawatts (though to be fair that 80 GW beam was from a courier ship). To really get into this subject would require a half a fucking page and a ton of numbers and is beyond the scope of what I am going for here.

• Hundreds of invisible miniclaymores capable of killing unarmored humans.

• "Earwigs" which are small explosives designed to burrow through its victim's skull before exploding. These can be disguised as tadpole eggs.

• An anti-entropic device that shifts a five meter diameter area, a few minutes into the future. This is speculation but due to its MASSIVE energy density it could likely be used as an explosive

Other

• The Technocore's thoughts on Nemes' battle with the Shrike.

• Raul's perspective on the Shrike vs Gyges fight.

• Phase shifting takes an enormous amount of energy.

• Can preform extremely precise operation like stabbing a needle into someone's brain so that it immobilizes them but does not kill them.

• Precise enough to cut a man's connective tissue with no risk of said man bleeding out.

• It takes less than a microsecond to phase shift.

• While phase shifted they can walk on water.

• Can be stopped from Phase Shifting by the Lions, Tigers and Bears.

• Her neck is very flexible.